User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E13 - The Fall of the Fall Maiden - Impressions/Recap/@comment-34633327-20180118014040/@comment-25936766-20180118053359

1) "Suffered from the recoil"....ok. I know her Semblance doesn't absorb kinetic energy. But I know it absorbs electricity.

Did she convulse while Nolan shocked her? Did she convulse when A FREAKING LIGHTNING BOLT HIT HER?

That is the problem here.

2) I would imagine getting transported by the MPD.......but that does not answer the question.

There's the time that would take to contact the ship captain, there's the time it would take for him to arrive, there's the time it would take to transport all of the people in Menagerie that are going to fight (and in fact, in this episode we see more Menagerian Fighters than we've ever seen in any crowd in Menagerie before) to Anima.

And after arriving in Anima, there's the time it would take them to reach Mistral. In terms of getting help from the MPD, there's the question of how they even met up with the MPD.

If they did it after arriving in Mistral, the city, their presence makes sense. But how would they contact the MPD and get their help before reaching Mistral? Even if they found one roaming ship patrolling by luck, they couldn't transport all those people; the Mistralian ships don't seem big enough.

And do note: There's the time they spend training the people, and making the equipment. Even if it's basic training and weapons, that still takes time to get them to a competent level. And their time is extremely limited given all the aforementioned factors.

What irritates me though, isn't that they managed to do it in time in spite of all that, but instead that they just do. There's no explanation, no hand-waves of any sort, to help explain how they managed such an unbelievable feat. Like they say, something is better than nothing.

3) But then there's no point in putting so many so close to each other on the tower, instead of spreading them around on the campus itself.

It would be one hell of a blast, yes.....in one single spot. They probably would've hit Sun's side of the forces, but they definitely wouldn't have been caught in the blast.

And if the bombs's explosions had enough range to catch them.....then you don't really need that many bombs in one place.

4-1) Irrelevant.

See, intimidation would be one thing. But he also has all the skill, speed, reflex, that he showed back in the Black Trailer.

Intimidation would explain how he curb-stomped Blake so easily back in Vol.3. But intimidation has nothing to do with Adam's skill, speed, and reflex. And intimidation and lack thereof are both completely irrelevant to this as a result.

Because based on what we've seen of him, Adam should be perfectly capable of at least trying to counter Blake's counter of his attack. If he has enough speed to block multiple bullets, he has more than enough speed to block Blake's attack there.

This isn't a matter of Intimidation, this is a matter of Skill and Speed.

And more importantly, a matter of Climax, or better said, Anti-climax. Look at the Black Trailer, and look at his "fight" with Blake in Volume 3. You'd think he would get a fight, an actual fight, with Blake. It would be quite climatic, no? And yet, no, they reduce him to a joke in spite of all the stuff he's done.

Imagine the Raven and Cinder fight being replaced completely with an scene of Raven beating Cinder in one hit. Cinder, after all she's done, being defeated in one hit with no flash or anything. How would you feel? I would be throwing my chair at the nearest window.

It's pretty much the same here.

Also, Yang is irrelevant in that idea you have. She was not intimidated back when the two of them fought, and ever since then they haven't even seen each other again.

4-2) That's no fact, that's an hypothesis.

We have barely seen anything about Adam and all we know about the "old Adam" was from Blake's mouth. We know their relationship in the past was abusive, and victims of abusive relationships tend to cherry pick things related to the abuser, leading to shit like "they're not that bad" or "they are actually pretty good people", in spite of the facts.

The first time we saw Adam, he tried to blow up a train with no regard for the innocent people inside, potentially Faunus.

Next time we see him, he's helping Salem's group in exchange for them helping him with his personal agenda to bring "revolution" and shit, and as radical as it is his views (such as "Faunus are superior") are backed by historical events.

We never really see any progression. And Adam back then doesn't really feel different from the one today. If anything, Present Adam is just Past Adam but with these things called character and depth.

Yes, you can argue that B-Trailer Adam wasn't so "revolutionary" and didn't get so angry when things went wrong for him. But I can argue that WE HAD NOT SEEN SHIT OF ADAM BACK THEN, and in fact we never did for entire years.

You tell me he's going insane. I say he was always like that and we only see this side of him now because now Adam got his chance to actually be a character.

5) " Hazel was standing there since it was a moment of catharsis. He was pissed at Adam keeping him out of the business with Sienna, he wanted to see Adam try and fix his own mess ". 

So in other words, it was out of character just to make him stupid enough for him to get stinged? Glad that you agree.

He literally told Adam that it was none of his business and he should clean it himself. He had just put on Fire Dust to kick the heroes's asses again. And he only blocks out the pain thanks to his Semblance, and using Semblances costs Aura.

HE HAS NO REASON IN THE SLIGHTEST TO JUST STAND AROUND AND WATCH INSTEAD OF GOING BACK AND TRYING TO KILL OZPIN, ESPECIALLY IF HE KNOWS OZPIN IS TIRED AS HELL AT THE MOMENT.

6) I was expecting something that was more than:

>Blake enters and WBY sees her

>Ruby nods. Blake nods back

>She leaves

Back with Yang and Weiss, they were also pretty much ready for a fight back then, and yet they still had a better reunion.

>Yang shows real astonishment at Weiss being there. Weiss too to her, to a smaller extent.

>Yang asks Weiss about "that", the Knight, which she has never seen before.

>Weiss asks Yang what she's doing there.

>Weiss is surprised when Yang says that's her mom.

>Yang gets angry when Weiss says her mom kidnapped her.

Overall, both were in a "dire situation", and yet Weiss and Yang still had a far better exchange while in said dire situation. Surprise to see each other, questions are thrown, and more surprises are yelled when they realize the other's circumstances.

In this case, there's a lot of things Blake could've reacted to. Weiss of all people being present there, Weiss's giant bee, Yang's robotic arm, Ruby and Yang fighting Emerald and Mercury, a giant man with Dust in his arms, and so on.

AND YET SHE DOESN'T EVEN ASK "What's going on?"

7) Absolute bullshit. Why? 2 episodes back: The More The Merrier.

Ruby is going to launch herself at Cinder, attack her from the air while she's playing with Jaune.

Did you see Emerald panic? No. She just grabbed Ruby in the air with her chain, slammed her against the floor, and told her that she wouldn't get near Cinder. There's no fear, there's just confidence.

In this situation it would've been much easier. Yang just ran, she didn't launch herself anywhere like Ruby did. She passed right in front of both Emerald and Mercury on top of it, running straight at them. And as we saw just some minutes earlier, the heroes were all tired.

If Emerald was able to catch Ruby like that with her Chain-sickles with no panic, she should've been more than able to do the same with Yang, with even less panic.

8) Except when she aims at Cinder she's definitely not close to the Vault door, instead closer to the third blue circle of the floor, by the edge (which is where she was when Cinder had "killed" her in the previous episode).

So she would've been hit by at least some of the giant rocks that fell. And in any case, said rocks fell apart when they fell, and the fragments would definitely have hit her no matter where she was.

Considering she fell unconscious and was near-death, I seriously doubt her Aura was still working, since it wouldn't be in line with what Ren said about Aura.

9) Thematic choice my ass, it's a completely different thing.

>She threw an iceball at Cinder, only froze the feet.

>After the fight, she throws no balls. Her hand just glows blue, then it doesn't, and Cinder just freezes outright without anything hitting her.

IT'S BULLSHIT INCONSISTENCY.

Don't even say "dispersed", because it didn't. Otherwise we should've seen some sort of tiny wind with snowflakes at the very least to indicate it.

9-2) " As for why she didn't do it from the beginning, it was to make Cinder suffer, to teach this bitch for belittling her, attacking Vernal (With it clear Raven did indeed care for her), and acting all high and mighty. The entire point of the prolonged fight was to humiliate Cinder, show her just how weak she is" 

Absolute bullshit. You are assuming Raven is Cinder here. Why the hell are you assuming Raven is Cinder here?

Why are you assuming Raven is the kind of person that, with the amount of anger she showed inmediately before the fight and at the end of the previous episode, she would just "make her enemy suffer", "humilliate them"?

That is something Cinder would do, in fact that's what she did in the previous episodes. Now why the hell are you assuming Raven is the exact same kind of person, to do the exact same thing?

If anything, with the amount of anger Raven showed, she wouldn't have been playing around at all.

9-3) " Check the lyrics for the song and you'll see"

'I. Don't. Give. A. Damn.' About the lyrics. Especially those lyrics in relation to your point.

First of all, the songs don't need to have anything to do with the fight itself, even if they have to do with one of the characters. Otherwise, tell me:

>What does RLR pt.2, talking about how Summer died and Ruby's in despair over it, have to do with RWBY's fight with the Nevermore, or JNPR's fight with the Deathstalker?

>What does....basically anything in Die's Lyrics have to do with RWBY fighting the Paladin?

>What does Qrow being a Bad Luck Charm who brings death and ruin to everyone around him have to do with his fight with Tyrian? Especially since if we go by the events that happen, he's RNJR's Good Luck Charm and if anyone ends up screwed by chance, it's him.

Second of all, you say one thing and the lyrics say another. I read the lyrics and this is what I see:

"You're dead, bitch".

I see absolutely nothing that says or even implies humilliation, or wanting to make her suffer, or anything even close to what you said.

10) "A more optimistic interpretation is that his semblance reflects how he cares more for others than he does himself"

Which I can then spin into "he has little self-steem and doesn't think he's worth much, especially compared to the others". Which is in line with what he told Cinder.

"They are the ones that matter". Because apparently, Jaune doesn't matter.

10-2) " Also, it does match up with what was shown "

No, it doesn't, at all, because precisely of how Semblances work.

His Semblance, back in Volume 1, caused a flash, then Cardin acted as if his hand was hurting after he punched Jaune (as if he had just punched a wall or something). And that was, according to Monty Oum Himself, a Glimpse of his Semblance.

This time, he Amplifies others's Auras. But then the only person back then in Vol.1 he could've done that to, was Cardin. And if he amplified Cardin's Aura, why would Cardin react like he did? It makes no sense at all.

Meanwhile, there's the idea of him amplifying himself. Aside from the fact that this requires his Semblance to be able to be used on himself.....there's a problem.

Semblances cost Aura to use. This one is no exception, in fact Nora even mentions the possibility of Jaune's Aura running out.

So if Jaune's Aura is amplified by his Semblance, that means '''Jaune would've been spending Aura to amplify his own Aura while depleting his own Aura while amplifying it. '''

Result: IT NULLS ITSELF.

He would be spending energy to amplify the same energy that he is spending. Thus, he gets nothing.

Not to mention, his Semblance looked more like he was giving his Aura to Weiss, before and after her own Aura kicked back in. As such, what do you think would happen if Jaune tried to amplify his own Aura, IOW spent his own Aura to give himself his own Aura?