Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160206155158/@comment-3257939-20160208030530

Kecske wrote: I dont get all the hate for her weapon. Sure, it wasn't as badass as we hoped, but she's a side character who doesn't really play a huge role, so I think it's acceptable. Plus it could totaly lead into the emo Blake thing about "my Semblance is copying other things I'm so worthless D:" I'd rather have them "dissappoint" us with Velvet rather than any major character.

But I personally enjoyed the reveal. Although I do wonder why she has to "make it count", and I too feel that I May Fall was a bit out of place, even though they outnumbered and outgunned the paladins. Exactly. She's a side character who got to fight with a bad_ss theme song behind that was created even before she was. To me it feels like they were saving Velvet's weapon precisely for this moment to skip all the work that would come with having to animate the Students vs the Paladins. I was totally expecting an awesome strategy where everyone gets to do something and figths off the enemies together. Instead they used Velvet to take down the enemies and keep the plot moving while everyone else was standing in there watching.

Basically they went Dragon Ball-Naruto-Bleach-One Piece-like. They did hint it and there was build up but it still doesn't convince me. I keep feeling Velvet was as much of a deus ex machina as CFVY in Breach.

Or maybe I'm simply mad at her for stealing Ruby's and Jaune's theme song. I May Fall is an idealistic leadership song! Not a "I'm a bad_ss rabbit" song!