User blog:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E3 - "You're a Maiden, Oscar" - Impressions/Recap

So, exactly today 31 of October, Hallow Ween, at college we were told to spend the whole day decorating our classrooms's doors.

Which led to one of the most retarded things I've seen in my entire college life: The decorations? CHRISTMAS Decorations.

Yes. We were adornating our doors with Snowmen, Santas, stars and Christmas Trees....IN HALLOWEEN.

Why, is beyond me. And since we don't have the most resources, the results only got so far. Still, I'm quite satisfied with the adorable little Snowman.

I give you: Larry, the Adorable Snowman:

In other news, this thing.

For newcomers to this thing, this is basically me, making an informal recap of what happened in the episode, while giving my thoughts about what happens. It also includes fancy color speak. 2 are particularly notable:

Red means truth, fact , in the eyes of the user, le me.

Blue means a guess, an hypothesis, a theory.

Now, this thing was actually done prior to Tuesday, but even if I put a Spoiler Alert on the title, the images I use would show up on the Recent Activity page, and that makes the alert pointless. So for the sake of those voting with their wallets and deciding to not become FIRSTs, but are too Eddard Starky to go pirate, I decided to post this on Tuesday.

As for why it was posted hours after the episode? I got classes on tuesday from 10am to 5:30pm (RWBY episodes are released around 12pm on my timezone). And then I had to put all the images one by one. And there's a lot. A damn lot.

I also had college work. And that's a bit...prioritary.

But in any case, here we go.

FIRST thing we see today is....
....My face when I just started seeing this episode.

Seriously: WHY?

The increased episode length brought YYY nothing but bonuses. More time for development, for plot progression, for ANYTHING.

I seriously hope the following episodes have, at least, 19 minutes. Not a single second less. Remember Monty Oum's old quote: Keep Moving Forward. Not Keep Moving Backwards.

I know not everything in a Volume will be excellent or even great, but if you make improvements, at least try to maintain those improvements.

Now, onto the actual episode.

1) Soft Kitty, Warm Kitty, Little Ball of Fuuuuuuuur....
We start our day with the Bellabooties (and interested parties) in their home, in the butt of the world.

I'm pretty...disappointed in this crowd. I know that making a 2D crowd would be hideous at this point (and it was in V5E1), yet making a 3D crowd full of special unique snowflakes would be too expensive.

But there's way too much recycled stuff in here. The first reporter that appears is literally wearing just a big, green version of Blake's swimsuit-like black top. And on the second pic, if you look to the left you'll see ''someone who is completely identical to her: Same face, hair color, eye color, hairstyle, everything. '' The only difference is that she's wearing a literal swimsuit below some pants. And not even in a way that looks good.

In the 2nd pic, there are 2 more sets of clones. The first one is between the uncaring guy in the middle, and another guy on the left. The problem is their clothes: They are exactly the same, with not even a bit of difference beyond color.

And behind them, you can see a dark-skinned white-haired lady that looks...scared, for some reason. She's to the right. There's another lady in the background, more by the middle, behind and between the dude and right-lady at the front, who has different clothes and hairstyle but the exact same expression and hair color.

And there's another (more noticeable lady) more to the left who has literally just a palette swap of the clothes of the dark-skinned lady on the right, along with the same hair style and face and expression and everything, only real difference is that she has bunny ears.

Note: I used the Wiki's pic of that scene, where it's not particularly-easy to notice the "middle lady" that I mentioned. I got another version where she is more noticeable, but she's not important enough to bother "duplicating".

......I understand the monetary limitations, but this is just lazy. But, that's not the real problem here. The real problem is, most of the people here don't look like Faunus.

I assume, since it's Menagerie, the Faunusland, that everyone here is a Faunus. But if that's the case, then it was a horrible idea to give them a trait that's hard to notice at first glance, if at all. Most of the most noticeable people in this crowd look more like human tourists than anything resembling a Faunus.

This is Menagerie, the Faunusland. Most, if not all, of the people here should have traits that are so painfully obvious they would never pass for a human. Like the guy in Ilia's Character Short, who had rock-like scales all over his skin (By the way, there are some background joes with that same trait). Or even something like Kali, who has gigantic ears.

Speaking of gigantic ears....just a random thought, but, what if Kali is a bat (or something that's not a cat) and Ghira is not a cat at all? Meaning Blake was one of those "X + Y = Z" cases mentioned in the WoR: Faunus. Just a thought though.

The BellaSpeech
I just love Blake's face right there. She's like "did you just tell everyone on the island that I'm an ex-terrorist?".

Granted, she was WF before it went violent, but their acts of terrorism are far more recent and I imagine would ring more on people's minds. And Blake did remain with the White Fang after it went violent, and only returned to Menagerie recently.

Conclusion
Regarding Blake, Ghira and that whole speech............they are idiots.

Yes, the White Fang must be stopped, and yes, and pointing out that they are nothing more than petty terrorists that only make things worse for everyone is a good thing to do.

But telling them to get up and go to a different nation all of a sudden, to try to fight against terrorists who have far more advanced equipment and combat training than most of the people in Menagerie, is very stupid.

....Of course, Ilia's argument about doing that "to help Humans" is just fucking retarded and ignorant. FAUNUS STUDENTS EXIST, YOU BLIND ILITERATE MORON. Blake herself is a huge example, as is Sun.

Protecting Haven =/= "Protecting the Humans", it's protecting a fucking ACADEMY, including it's students, including it's FAUNUS students.

If I ever liked Ilia, I no longer do. She's dumb, she's ignorant, and all that yelling was only irritating. If she ever shows up again, she better not be so stupid and annoying again. Sun was enough.

Regarding Farmboi and the Power RNJRs, I love how we are getting more details about how "having 2 souls" works, and how we got an explanation for why it even happened. Though they could've told us a whole Volume earlier. At least have Ozpin say "I'm cursed. It's a long story".

I also found it interesting when he pointed out Ruby's horrible CQC. Why? Well, when only the V5Trailers were out, I threw a theory that <font style="color:#6495ED">maybe their main purpose was to show what Weiss, Blake's and Yang's plot arcs would be about. And so far, it seems I'm 2/3s right.

>Weiss Trailer had her getting her ass kicked when she was a serious noob. Winter tells her to git gud because she won't always be there to save her. And now we have Weiss trapped in a cage, surrounded by bandits, one of them being a profesional Huntress on Qrow's level, and the other being Obviously-Not-The Spring Maiden. Though I doubt Weiss even knows that.

>Blake's Trailer had a great focus on Ilia, to the point that calling it the Blake Character Short is inaccurate. Indeed, between Episode 1 and this one, it seems like Ilia will be a big element of Blake's plot arc, and in this ep she literally stole Blake's potential speech......In fact, Blake didn't say shit in this entire episode, she was even less of a character in this episode than Sun and Kali were. Just like in her V5 Trailer.

Now, Yang's trailer, when I saw it, I thought it'd be that her plot arc would have to do with how her familial love for Ruby is more important to her than finding her mother, and that her Nº1 objective is to find Ruby right now. Though V5E1 seems to imply it won't be the case so soon.........this ep makes me wonder if Yang's V5 Trailer didn't also imply something about Ruby's own Plot Arc.

Yang's V5 Trailer is literally her teaching Ruby CQC so she isn't trash without her weapon, shortly before she goes to Beacon IOW before the show even begins. And now we have Ozpin pointing out that Ruby is trash without Crescent Rose, and that she needs to get better in that regard.

This was all part of some machiavelical plan. The trailers worked as setup for the things to come in Volume 5, and not just in animation and graphics (that's, you know, what this is all about), but also Plot-wise, even if not in terms of the Major Overarching Plot. <font style="color:#DC143C">That's a good move, GMK.

Speaking of Vernal.....first of all, I know Vernal is quite the appropiate name for Spring, that isn't also obvious-stupid like "Cinder FALL", but it's one of those cases where I think <font style="color:#DC143C">the CNR gets silly. What kind of person would name their daughter VERNAL?

Name aside, <font style="color:#DC143C">she's Cinder. She's Volume 1-3 Cinder. Tries hard to make her every word sound "sexy", she dresses in an attractive manner, she moves in an attractive manner, she has a smug smile on her face for nearly her entire screentime....even the face looks similar (though granted, Only Six Faces).

The only difference is that Cinder dresses elegantly, while Vernal thinks this is Borderlands.

It makes me wonder how the 2 will interact. <font style="color:#6495ED">I bet Cinder would see her younger self in Vernal, and either make some "bond" with her as a result....or get angrier for being reminded of her weaker old self.

Also, I bet Weiss is gonna try to escape. There are many things that could happen if she did, but I got <font style="color:#6495ED">2 small ideas:

1) She fails to escape thanks to Raven. Probably be running away as fast as she can and then suddenly Raven comes out of the shadows, grabs her by the neck, and slams her into a tree

2) She manages to escape, without her weapon, so she at some point makes another weapon, probably an improved version of Myrtenaster. What would it's name be though....Myrtenaster Zwei? What language is Myrtenaster anyway...

I liked this ep, even if it wasn't filled with action that lasted almost the entire episode. Jaune will hopefully git gud, Ruby will hopefully get development .....not sure what Ren and Nora will do.

And with Oscar, I believe this: If you're gonna revert a character death cheaply, exploit whatever utility it could have to make the plot more interesting. I'm hopeful that this Volume will make Oscar.....well, relevant, and more than just a cheap Deus Ex Machina with a mega-rushed development.

FUNNY V5E3 PICS!!! :D
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