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Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#25301: Feb 7th 2016 at 5:21:09 PM

Just getting to see the episode.

  • Like the "Guess who?" tagline on Roman's scroll when Ruby's picture comes up.
  • Neptune's still got a thing for Weiss.
  • Thought so - Ren does get upset when Nora gets injured.
  • Meh - power copying. It's what the fandom guessed and I'm surprisingly underwhelmed, except for where she uses Penny's weapons.
  • Weiss accidentally summons part of the Knight. No surprises. It seems to tire her out - and Velvet takes advantage to get a picture. That'll be an interesting copy to see at a later date (and probably a sign things will get darker still - this is only a Threat Level 9, after all).
  • Neo and Roman versus Ruby is pretty cool. Ruby asks the pertinent question, how can villains benefit from Grimm running wild. Roman's response is what I'd expect: he doesn't believe in Cinder's cause or even agree with it, but he's got no choice so he's going to be practical about it. Nice to see the parasol become a liability, but I could do without Ruby's hero lines - glad they got interrupted.
  • Nice timing by the Griffon, and bye bye ship.
  • Called it on the cockpit scene just being an excuse to reveal Ironwood's metal arm. Damn, he's pissed off, and his reaction to Qrow... guilty conscience much, Ironwood?
  • Yeah, Qrow deliberately let Ironwood think that just to mess with him. Gotta love Qrow.
  • Ironwood has a metal right leg as well. He's further along the Tin Man process than I thought.
  • Yeah, smack the girl then say you want her. That's not abusive much. He sounds like he's quoting from some kind of Bible. Bad timing Yang.
  • Still think there's something about this transfer Ozpin's hiding, he seems terribly wracked by guilt over it. A bad outcome is supposed to be only theoretical. He's acting like a terrible outcome is a certainty.
  • Jaune, dammit, haven't you read the stories? Don't get distracted! Sure enough... dead Maiden.
  • Stabbed Blake and disarmed Yang. Sorry, bad joke.
  • Power goes straight to Cinder. That was supposed to be a theory, but somehow I suspect Ozpin knew that was a certainty.
  • The tower cannot fall. I knew it. There's still something about the tower that we don't know.
  • Yeah, Adam definitely sounds like an abuser.
  • Nice use of Semblance there, Blake, and Adam was right... she did run.
  • Bet Cinder's "she was right about you" is referring to the Queen. Ozpin seems to recognise the reference judging by the cane toss.
  • Faint outline of the clock face forming a shadow behind Ozpin. Not an accident, I bet.

Well, we haven't seen the last of Neo. I'm not sure we've seen the last of Roman - Grimm disappear when they die, and Ruby killed it pretty quickly after it swallowed Roman, so I'm betting he either blasted his way out of the thing or Ruby just saved his life.

Has Cinder really got all of Amber's power? Something definitely transferred to Pyrrha, and didn't travel to Cinder when Amber died. I think there's more to come from this.

My guess is that we won't see Ozpin fight. We might end up being led to believe Ozpin is dead, however, because he's either decided he needs to become invisible (in which case Cinder will think he's dead as well as the protagonists) or kidnapped (in which case Cinder will want the protagonists to think he's dead). This will probably all be Volume 4 stuff though, rather than next episode.

While I do think Ozpin is marked for death before the end of the show, I really think it's too early for him to be killed off. Ever since Port's talk with Weiss, I've been waiting for some kind of Awful Truth to be revealed about Ozpin - that's the sort of thing his character type needs to be alive for. He gets isolated and alienated by everyone until the full truth comes out just in time for his moment of glory before he dies.

edited 7th Feb '16 6:19:49 PM by Wyldchyld

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#25302: Feb 7th 2016 at 5:28:54 PM

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#25303: Feb 7th 2016 at 5:28:58 PM

Again, he would have been caught in the explosion, fallen God knows how many meters onto solid ground, then have the wreckage fall right on top of his. Seriously, there's being in denial, then there's scuba-diving in it until you reach a 200 meter ravine.

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#25304: Feb 7th 2016 at 5:34:20 PM

Maybe Neo caught him?

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#25305: Feb 7th 2016 at 5:38:57 PM

[up][up]Meh, roman survived a full traint crash, he can survive a ship explotion.

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CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#25306: Feb 7th 2016 at 5:49:18 PM

@Gojira: If Roman doesn't make an appearance next episode, we can safely assume he's staying dead. Similarly, if Penny's remains don't make an appearance, we can (probably) conclude that Penny 1 is not being repaired. Of the two characters, I think Roman's death is more likely to stick. Particularly because Penny's arc didn't feel complete at all.

I was starting to think that Anyone Can Die was in effect when we had three apparent deaths in as many episodes, but with Ironwood's apparent death in the previous episode being a fake out, it seems like that's not going to be the case.

edited 7th Feb '16 5:57:24 PM by CaptainCapsase

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#25307: Feb 7th 2016 at 5:49:55 PM

In fairness, I could see Roman's situation going either way. On the one hand, he had his monologue, revealed his motives, and likely did his part in Cinder's plan.

On the other, aura's existence means he could theoretically have survived the crash given he hadn't really taken much damage so his aura was still pretty full, there's still things he can add to the story due to those previously mentioned motivations, his death was pretty anticlimactic (although as another point against it, that may have been the point since he was talking about being a survivor), and the actual impact likely wouldn't have effected him as much since the Grimm would have taken the brunt of it, including the explosion, and would then dissipate afterwards, leaving him an easy way to walk out. Plus, Ironwood seems to be heading for the ship, leaving an obvious means for Roman to make an appearance.

I could see it going either way, and don't really care which happens, but I like Roman. I wouldn't mind him being dead because I could totally see Neo becoming a vicious enemy for team RWBY once she finds out. She might then join Cinder's team directly if she wasn't already a part of them, in hopes of getting revenge.

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Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#25308: Feb 7th 2016 at 6:08:26 PM

Again, he would have been caught in the explosion, fallen God knows how many meters onto solid ground, then have the wreckage fall right on top of his. Seriously, there's being in denial, then there's scuba-diving in it until you reach a 200 meter ravine.

Judging by some of the abilities he displayed in this fight, he's got an active Aura and a Semblance.

I'm not the biggest Roman fan in the world and, like Alfric, I don't care whether he's alive or dead. However, I stand by my suspicions; I never believe a character is dead until it's been confirmed anyway and all we've seen in this episode is a situation that's little more than something we've seen other Aura-users survive (Ironwood, for example). That type of scene has so many examples in fiction of someone blasting their way out of the monster's gut that it's probably got its own trope. I see no point in trusting its face value.

edited 7th Feb '16 6:16:55 PM by Wyldchyld

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#25309: Feb 7th 2016 at 6:22:55 PM

The issue is that, if Roman is trule y dead, them he is just a walking plot divace in order to put the robots against hero and giving Velvet and Weiss something to do, that would be really bad writing.

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#25310: Feb 7th 2016 at 6:30:00 PM

He was little more than an Ascended Extra to begin with. If he's dead, he had a good run; if not, more fun times to be had.

edited 7th Feb '16 6:30:09 PM by TheAirman

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#25312: Feb 7th 2016 at 6:43:42 PM

[up]He have more participation that Adam, who stuck in off-screen land for two and half goddamn seasion, I think he deserved more that "got eaten by grimm" as death.

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#25313: Feb 7th 2016 at 6:48:32 PM

Sweet Jesus!

Also next week is the end of volume 3?

BlackSunNocturne Since: Aug, 2013
#25314: Feb 7th 2016 at 6:49:27 PM

Also: Is it bad that my main reason of wanting Roman to not die is because if he does, about 60% of the style in the show goes with him? (Adam is 30%. Everyone else makes up the remaining 10%) [lol]

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#25315: Feb 7th 2016 at 6:49:41 PM

[up][up]Unless there's a World of Remnant segment, yes.

edited 7th Feb '16 6:49:52 PM by Crinias

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#25316: Feb 7th 2016 at 6:50:32 PM

Finally found time to watch the episode. Yikes, for a few seconds there I thought they were about to kill Yang off. Then I thought that Blake had bought it as a "Hah, you though you could feel relieved?" thing.

In hindsight, I should have known they probably wouldn't remove the B or Y in RWBY, but still.

edited 7th Feb '16 6:50:55 PM by Gaunt88

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#25317: Feb 7th 2016 at 6:51:14 PM

[up][up][up]Adam drops a lot of cool factior in exchange for creepy one in this episode, granted that rumonori kenshi movement to disarmed yang? pretty cool.

edited 7th Feb '16 6:51:52 PM by unknowing

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#25318: Feb 7th 2016 at 6:53:05 PM

[up][up][up] Where's is this info coming from? RWBY doesn't seem to be the type of show t'hat reveals it episode titles before airing.

edited 7th Feb '16 6:53:25 PM by GarnetRebeller96

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#25319: Feb 7th 2016 at 6:59:42 PM

It's just a guess. In the past few weeks we've had some World of Remnant segments when we're not getting an episode.

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#25320: Feb 7th 2016 at 7:00:29 PM

Seriously though I checked out tumblr, and it seems a lot of people didn't want Adam to turn out like this. Mainly shipping stuff, but this episode really makes him feel like a threat. He's not so random joe to fuel parings he is out for revenge against someone he might love in a twisted way.

[down] Well it did not seem like he cares all that much about the group right now considering how much he wants to hurt Blake.

edited 7th Feb '16 7:08:46 PM by Mizerous

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#25321: Feb 7th 2016 at 7:03:49 PM

[up]I dont want him to turn this way...or a least not only in this way, I want him to be extremist leader, not just a mad ex-boyfriend.

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#25322: Feb 7th 2016 at 7:07:46 PM

He's leading the White Fang in a terrorist attack on Vale. I dare say that qualifies him as an extremist leader.

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#25323: Feb 7th 2016 at 7:13:01 PM

And how much of the white fang is show? almost everything is ether Grimm, turned robots and the rest is on torchwick and Cinder, when we see Adam is to fight Blake.

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#25324: Feb 7th 2016 at 7:13:30 PM

I don't think Adam is the leader of the white fang; during Blake's exposition segment on them, we see Adam standing to the side of someone else, which implies he's only a cell leader.

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#25325: Feb 7th 2016 at 7:16:23 PM

Or he is the just the head of field works, while the real head is more capable at logistics, administration, etc.

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