Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181208003742/@comment-25936766-20181212161625

Finally watched the episode. Wasn't feeling too motivated this time...and after watching the episode I don't feel too motivated to watch the next one either.

I mean, it wasn't bad. But it wasn't anything to write home about either. It was just fine, but so much that it doesn't really leave much of an impression on me :-/

1) Cinder and Neo's scene is way too long for what happens in it. Like 2 whole minutes just to say "And now you know! And Salem wants Ruby alive but you don't work for her so you can kill her for me Neo!".

Everything else is excessive padding. Padding which is isn't even fun to look at. Ever since she showed up this Volume, Neo's expressions have been nowhere close to what they were in the Beacon saga, and Cinder can only sound so interesting.

Honestly the only interesting thing in that scene is finding out Cinder passes the time by making and reshaping knives into all sorts of types. Including a cooking knife. Now I wanna see her cook.

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2) Maria, Silver Eyed Warrior who wields scythe(-like) weapons that are also guns. SEWs are being stereotyped already. Though I honestly liked the whole Gravity part.

3) Crocodile Faunus Girl is fucking ugly and as expected she has the 3rd ugliest accent I've ever heard on this show. Even at best, it is incredibly annoying to listen to.

But, only the 3rd ugliest, because I can at least understand clearly what she's saying, unlike Little Miss Manatee, and as annoying as her voice can be, she doesn't try to speak like Stitch every 5/6 lines unlike Nora.

4) I liked Maria's fight, both parts, but there was a moment where my suspension of disbelief was hit hard, and with it my enjoyment of the fight.

See, at one point we see clearly that Maria's fight was taken down, we saw it flash. And just a pair of seconds afterwards, she somehow activates the Gravity Dust on her weapons and makes them spin around her with no hands.

Now, we were told long ago that one needs to use Aura to use Dust like that. The part of pulling one of the kamas towards the other, I can see it being done with the press of a button, but having them float around her Jedi-style? Please.

So, how did she make them float around her if her Aura was down? Even if she made both of them pull towards the other, that would've just made them stab her in the chest, not float around her.

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5) When RWBY and RNJ reunited, I found it interesting that Yang and Ren inmediately went to hug each other, and not a particularly tiny hug. Blake just kinda put her hand on Jaune's waist, and Weiss didn't even say hello, just stood there in front of him.

So in conclusion, combined with Nora lunging at Oscar: Nora likes little boys, Ren likes strong women with big boobs, and Black Knight has better canon chances than White Knight.

6) I'll be honest, when I heard Argus was Atlesian, I was expecting walls made of steel or something. Not stone bricks. Sure, very very good stone bricks, but still stone. Also, did they upgrade the AKs? The guards at the top didn't look like the AKs we saw in V3.

7) "Argus Theater. The Fall of Beacon". Amazing. Just a single year and there's already a movie about it. I mean, sure, it could be a simple documentary, but even those don't usually come out so soon after the events they talk about.

8) And of course, one of Jaune's Rainbow Sisters is LGBT. I really should've seen it coming. What's next? Jaune's Taiyang-looking sister being transgender? Maybe one of the twins too. And his upside-down sister is a butch lesbian on top of it.

9) Speaking of Jaune's sister, I seriously seriously question RT's voice-casting choices. I mean, how the actual fuck, does one pronounce Terra Cota, as Tewrricada?!

10) It is now my headcanon that the reason Ruby was so socially-awkward in V1 was because of Qrow.

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11) You know, I wasn't expecting Argus to look so british and victorian. I was expecting something more russian. In fact the Argus we got makes me think of Vale (with far, far less holographic signs).

Also, what is that tram using to move? It's not using any tramway tracks since it looks to be floating, but then how does it "stay on the track"?