Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-148.253.184.233-20200128130653/@comment-4134422-20200202053153

90.206.57.232 wrote:

Neo vs JNPR was a bit fast I agree - it worked but I think she took them out a bit too easily. I get she's somewhat prodigious but still. I did like how the fight focused on misdirection, which works for Neo.

Penny is now the Winter Maiden. I wonder how that works in terms of the rules if she's a robot? Pfft, who cares. Glad it wasn't Weiss though too predictable.

Cinder's grimm arm seems to be spreading (if she goes full grimmified I don't mind if she gets all warped and mutated, that would be kind of cool, if she just turns into a mindless beast. Sort of a lesson there about power corrupts or something, I don't know). And once again we see the disadvantages it has.

Ironwood just straight up shoots Oscar. Stone cold. I like his characterisation, particularly his straight-forward utilitarianism - he dismisses the philosophical stuff and focuses on surviving, it fits well with his personality. Straight-laced soldier type, little time for metaphysical abstractions when there's a war to be won.

And Ozpin's staff does.....magic I guess? Makes sense since it is descended from a wand. Nice. - I also agree she took JNPR/JNOR rather easily, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt since they've never fought her before and she has grown stronger from V3.

- It's really ironic since Penny has arguably behaved more like a human than her superiors, she never lost her compassion towards others. Hell, she was the only one to actually mourn Fria.

- I keep hearing they should just get rid of Cinder, but I want her to have a fitting, poetic death. I want Cinder to go down as a monster with no shred of humanity, without anything that makes her "human" instead of... just an annoying bitch. I don't know, but there's something cathartic seeing how everything gets more uphill for her when it comes to the Maidens. I can only imagine what the Summer Maiden's power level will be compared to Fria.

- That really caught me off-guard, but it was indeed fitting for who (or what) James is becoming. And did anyone notice how the light of his eyes vanished right before he shoots? James really stared into the abyss long enough... Nietzsche would be proud.

- I wonder if the statement of "storing time" means Ozpin is actually keeping a "reserve of magic" for, so to say, emergencies. After all, he did said his magic was both finite and dwindling.

Now all I wanna know is... from whose POV "Fear" is? My money is on Ozpin given his speech.