Talk:Welcome to Beacon/@comment-226878-20140801032326

It's surprising that it feels like so little happened in this episode's whole 12 minutes. Don't get me wrong, we learned a few things. Events:
 * 1) Ironwood arrives (we learn his title, his full name, his occupation, his territory, his personality, his ideology, and all within the span of a few words).
 * 2) RWBY plays a boardgame (we learn Atlas is part of Mantle/Mantel, its legionnaire fleet consists primarily of androids, Mistral Trade Route implies the region does very well for itself economically, Vacuo is apparently a desert region if the sandstorm card implies anything, and Jaune blurts out that JNPR knows Blake's secret)
 * 3) Neptune is introduced to RWBY and JNPR as an exchange student from Haven (later Mercury, Emerald, and Cinder would claim to be from Haven as well)
 * 4) A flashback to Blake's conversation with Ozpin, we learn that students at Beacon need to pass entrance exams and typically have extensive combat backgrounds. Blake passed the exams without having had official training. As had been guessed, Ozpin already knew that Blake was a Faunus but apparently he also knew she was White Fang, a fact he tries to get her to admit to but fails.
 * 5) During RWBY's conversation, the chronology of the "Yellow" Trailer events become officially set in stone as occurring prior to the events of the series.
 * 6) Finally, we see that Cinder, Mercury, and Emerald have rather abruptly infiltrated Beacon but are left to wonder exactly why (finally, something to wonder about).