Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181208003742/@comment-4010415-20181212192531

Skyyyyyyyyyy wrote:

Adam is Gaston. They said that back in volume 3. I could've sworn they said something about General Lagune being Gaston, though, not Adam.

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. "Argus Theater. The Fall of Beacon". Amazing. Just a single year and there's already a movie about it.

7. 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?!

8. 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).

9. 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"? 1. Neo's in serious mode, so it makes sense. She hasn't been feeling cocky or playful. She's hurt and upset that Roman is dead.

2. I noticed that the end of that knife's handle even had a blade on it, and watching her melt it down into molten glass was a pretty neat effect.

3. Loved the gravity part. But they're not exactly being stereotyped. Qrow said he "based" his weapon on hers (more like was inspired by, but whatever), and we know that Ruby was inspired by Qrow's weapon, so it makes sense that Ruby would end up with a gun scythe like how Maria had gun sickles.

4. Difference in tastes, I like Tock a lot. Though I recognize that that type of accent does come across as annoying for a lot of people. It's one of the less pleasant accents to listen to. It's a bit... harsh? Coarse? Though, I think that was the intention for her character. It's like having the gangster Englishman speak with a cockney accent, as opposed to the smoother, more sophisticated-sounding English accent that many Americans love to listen to.

5. Yeah, I wasn't expecting San Francisco. It's beautiful, though. Makes me wonder what Atlas itself looks like.

Though, come to think of it, steel walls aren't exactly the best for a cold environment. Metal takes in temperature too easily, to the point where metal itself can feel worse than ice when you touch it during freezing weather. I've had to take metal pans out of a -15 degree F freezer before, and I preferred to do so with something between my hands and the metal.

Granted, brick isn't a very good insulator either, but at least it doesn't suck in all that cold into itself the way that metal does.

And recall that the outside of the Schnee manor didn't look metal either. Military bases may be different, but residential and shop buildings are unlikely to be steel.

6. I know, right?!

7. I heard her say "Terra Cotta" just fine... In fact, that's all I could think about for a good chunk of that scene, that her wife's name was literally friggin' Terra Cotta, and how I was hoping so badly that they took the wordplay a step further in spelling her first name Tara instead of Terra. Slightly disappointed they went with Terra, but I suppose it makes sense.

8. It reminds me of San Francisco. One of the things San Francisco is known for here in the US is the Victorian style houses that are placed really close to each other, though they come in somewhat varying styles of architecture, such as this, this, and this.

Another thing San Francisco is known for is the fact that street trams are rather common there.

9. If you look closely at the streets, you'll see that there's a dip in the middle of each street. I think that dip keeps the tram from drifting off somewhere else. Also, there's an easy-to-miss purple glow underneath the tram. I noticed it when RNJRWBY got off. Seems it uses gravity Dust.

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

8.2) My headcanon is that Terra is bi and the baby's from her previous marriage, because it kind of looks nothing like Saphron. Except in vitro fertilization is a thing and only uses the DNA of one person in the couple, paired with the DNA of a donor of the opposite sex.

Thus, Saphron and Terra may have decided that Terra would be the one to be impregnated and carry the baby, then sought out a suitable donor, preferrably one with a family history of good health. Once they found that donor, they took an egg from Terra, placed it into a petri dish, added the donor's sperm to fertilize it, and then put the fertilized egg back inside Terra's uterus.

I'm starting to wonder how many people out there have 0-1% understanding of how in vitro works. Some people act as though they think in vitro somehow combines the eggs of two women or combines the sperm of two men to magically make a baby with DNA from both people in the couple. The basic understanding should be "Take egg from woman, take sperm from man, mix to make baby. If the couple is lesbians, then one woman in the relationship will be the one to get impregnated. If the couple is gay men, then one man in the relationship gives his sperm to be used to impregnate a woman who volunteers for it."

But yeah, if Saphron and Terra went with in vitro fertilization, then of course Adrian doesn't look like Saphron. It would be impossible for him to because he was made using Terra's egg and a stranger's sperm. Saphron's DNA had zero involvement here.

So basically, Adrian doesn't have to be from a past marriage. Gay couples tend to go with in vitro to have a baby of their own.