User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/Good Idea, Bad Idea~No Brakes/@comment-11188061-20141027143616

The fight ended too quickly for Yang to ever build up anything significant. Not to mention that it only makes her stronger, but not faster. It would've been just a waste of energy. I would speculate that Yang was waiting for a chance to make one massive counter attack, but Neo ended the fight way too quickly before she could ever try. Moreover, Neo had made sure that every real hit ''counts. ''She didn't allow Yang to parry almost any hits at all, which also helps building up a rage meter through frequency instead of power.

Neo is extremely smart. She probably realized Yang's powers from observing her fight with the Paladin (or Ruby's ever-so-helpful explanation) and did exactly what she intended to do. Don't let her hit, don't make pointless hits, hit only when it counts, rile her up to make Yang lose focus and end it quick without the enemy ever seeing it coming.

Point: How do you kill? Cut them all over the place? Beat them until they fall? Both can do it, but a pierce through the heart can do just the same. Neo knew exactly how to kill (if that so-called needle sword in her umbrella isn't a clear enough indicator), and how to make it happen. Yang was really unfortunate that she got knocked out by that surprise leg throw, but it was a chance Neo made to happen. She succeeded. That's all there is to it.

However, it is all speculation until the show or RT tells us more about the sequence.

By the way, anyone who takes Episode 1 too seriously needs to reconsider their stance. All I can say is this: People have survived weeks being deprived of food and water with terrible injuries, dragging themselves across barren wastelands until they finally found help with their last breath. There are also people who died because they slipped on the stairs and hit their head. Neo flung Yang at the end towards the ceiling, and the blonde rammed into it head first. Her Aura was still fine, but she was knocked out because we can deduce that her brain got jostled up bad.

In gaming logic we call that 'stunned'. She woke up quite quickly, no? I find the situation both reasonable and explainable.

And why does people assume that Yang doesn't have control over her own Semblance? She doesn't flash red because she chose not to use it, end of story. She can choose when to use it, and she couldn't even build up enough energy in that fight to lose control.

I've already explained it above, but one blow is all it takes. It could be a mistake, destiny, bad luck, anything. You can die this moment because your heart chose this exact moment to pop a vessel. A master swordsman can still die to a complete novice if he leaves an opening to pierce his heart. How many times have we seen stories where the dominant seems utterly in control of the situation, and yet got completely turned around the next minute? If you say its bullshit or unfair, then welcome to the real world, RWBY or not! EVERYTHING is unfair!

At least this one makes sense. It will actually make less sense if Chainsaw couldn't get in a solid blow, because the train compartment is really, really small. I don't see people complaining when the heroes get that '1 in a million chance to win an impossible fight', and they usually manages to get in a few hits and look cool while they're doing it. Chainsaw fought hard and with burning vengeance driving him. He's not even bad. His victory is justified.

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I'm sorry to say this, but I can't help but point out how bull it is that you point out these 'illogical' fights and not complain a squeak about the Oobleck-Zwei combo. Even then I could still explain those off logically, but out of all the fights that one is the most ridiculous of them all.

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Really, it should be obvious that if things had gone as planned, the breach would have been done in a much cleaner way. But shit happened and they got discovered, and Roman made a snap decision to start up the train immediately and instead of executing their plan - oh, something as simple as setting up a time bomb to blow up the seal just a few seconds before the train charges into the opening, while executing the 'other' plan to lure the Grimm just as in the show for example - to just drive the train right at the seal and let the impact and explosions do the rest.

How does he plan to escape? He's Roman. He always has a backup plan, although he got quite royally screwed in this particular one and probably would've died because of a slipup, and mind you, that happens to everyone. Nothing goes to plan perfectly, ever. So Cinder might frown at the breach earlier than expected - it was still only a minor inconvenience, she would have expected that not all things would go so smoothly, especially since the part where 'a shit tonne of bombs' 'a shit tonne of Grimm' and 'bloody terrorists everywhere' is involved. Wouldn't you?

In the end, the breach had happened. The plan had succeeded. End of story.