Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160214165601/@comment-24994749-20160215023929

Ok, meant to get online earlier, but I wounded up spending the whole day doing stuff for other people...

After seeing the episode proper, I have to say that what got me the most was the scene where Glynda is trying to fix the front of that building and it just falls back apart. Maybe it's because of all those "Glynda's semblance is put it back or so help me" and "why don't they just send Glynda to fix the Moon?" jokes that seeing Glynda so tired makes such an impact on me.

I wonder about Qrow asking Taiyang to leave the room before talking with Ruby. I suppose maybe Taiyang IS off the loop about all the magic shenanigans.

Speaking of Taiyang, I actually really likes the way he looks. Like, I already liked the way he looked in the team photo and his 3D model does look like a more mature version of the guy in that photo. I dunno, I just think all the shitte that has happened to his family and how he is this sweet dad that falls asleep waiting for his daughter to wake up and takes her breakfast to bed, and I want to hug him and take him away from Miles and Kerry. I actually expected him to be a sadder person, given what Yang had told us about after he lost Summer, but he came across as really warm and loving, the old Yang style.

Speaking of that scene, it sounds like Patch can't communicate with mainland without the CCT, even though we were told radio signals allowed in-kingdom communication. Also, Taiyang and Ruby speak of Vale as a separate thing of Patch. Finally, Ruby's house is just on the verge of the forest.

Is Patch an out-of-kingdom territory? Maybe relatively safer than other villages because of the hunters centralised in the Combat School? That would make sense with how there seemed to be Grimm infested territory at a walking distance during Yang's flashback in V2.

Totally loved Salem's design. Reminds me of some of Laura's work in Face Off.

All this people saying she is Ozpin's ex, a goddess of death to Ozpin's life powers and stuff remind me of the legend of Izanami and Izanagi... Also to that one-shot where two gods get a divorce so the husband goes walking the Earth with a giant sword that reaches to the core to split it in two.