Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160206155158/@comment-26206856-20160206172636

This episode felt ROUGH. The actions, the battles, the missing semblance sounds... you could tell it was rushed. The best part was Velvet's reveal which used mostly previous animations which was a bit cheap, but is understandable to get the point across.

Missing semblance sounds? Where? Neo managed to shatter herself in her fight, yet there was no sound effect to go with it. Her flying off to see us again in the future was nice though. Maybe if Roman doesn't make a comeback she'll be less held back on a leash.

Velvet's weapon is... decent. Yes, it's cool, yes, it's very effective, but it feels a litle cheap using the exact animations from previous fights... especially fights she never saw (penny and nora for example) We'll have to find out a little more about the constraints (time limit, charging, etc) to see if it's OP or not. Considering she's a mage I would've guessed something much cooler than physical weapons. (Battle mages unite!)

I'm sorry, but Ironwood is just Alucard from Hellsing. That was my first reaction last episode, and I think it's settled in even more. I do want to know how he got split in half... was it grimm or perhaps WF?

Adams weapon... since it slices through everything so well, I'm wondering if it's like the legendary muramasa that cuts through anything and hungers for blood/battle. That would explain the apparent lack of aura blocking and it's glow when absorbing attacks. If he was the forger, it would play to the myth as well for the smith to imbue his madness into his weapons.

Yang will be back, and though it sucks, this little stump will be quite handy when she creates a new weapon to take it's place. (And probably be super badass.)

Weiss gets kudos, but it didn't quite feel as rewarding as it probably should have. I do want to see her grow and this is the start of all of RWBY's upgrades along with Yang's.

Cinder bugged me a bit just letting Pyrrha and Jaune by, but Ozpins battle should be good. The fact that Amber was waking up when she was in a coma and should be dying in the first place kinda sucked, but made it more impactful. It looked like the transfer wasn't going to go too well in the first place.

Next week will be Cinder vs Oz, RWBY meeting up and probably retreating (maybe with or without Weiss and friends) Pyrrha and Jaune might be up against Merc and Em (Em might be having slight doubts right now). But I see the tower going down, and the dragon making a home/nest out of Beacon with us heading out on an adventure to other continents next season.