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TheAirman Brightness from The vicinity of an area adjacent to a location Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Historians will say we were good friends.
Brightness
#26601: Feb 13th 2016 at 1:16:47 PM

Watch your spoilers people.

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MalcolmBelmontS Since: May, 2015
#26602: Feb 13th 2016 at 1:17:06 PM

We can all agree that Ozpin fucked up. He got completely outplayed by Cinder

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#26603: Feb 13th 2016 at 1:20:29 PM

With blake we have to take acount that Adam pretty much reforce her inicial ideas at begning: that she should run away, that she is not strong enought to handle and because of her someone got hurt,

And with yang, there is even OTHER part: that Raven think she is weak and that battle confirmed to her, if her mother didnt come to her...what find her at all?

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#26604: Feb 13th 2016 at 1:38:43 PM

So trope question? Is there a particular reason there's no Fan Nickname entry in the shows YMMV? I'm asking because RNJR seems to be catching on as the (un)official way of referring to the current main cast arrangement.

On a tangent, in retrospect, the Anti-Climax of volume 2's ending is now a lot more acceptable for me because at a certain point I legitimately was wondering if Pyrrha was actually going to beat Cinder.

edited 13th Feb '16 1:41:52 PM by CaptainCapsase

TheAirman Brightness from The vicinity of an area adjacent to a location Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Historians will say we were good friends.
Brightness
#26605: Feb 13th 2016 at 1:41:13 PM

[up]Really? I've mostly been seeing RRNG

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MalcolmBelmontS Since: May, 2015
#26606: Feb 13th 2016 at 1:41:14 PM

It would be rather funny they changed the title in the V4 intro to RNJR instead of RWBY

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#26607: Feb 13th 2016 at 1:42:59 PM

[up] I doubt that, but I could see the current cast arrangement lasting for more than one volume. Yang in particular is probably going to be out of action for a long time.

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#26608: Feb 13th 2016 at 1:46:40 PM

[up]Yeah, if something, Yang should have a entire arc in order to be awsome again she should go to atlas, convience Weiss, get a metal arm, pratice until dominate said arm and them made a big damn hero to save ruby of something but overall that dosent seen like something temporary at all

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MalcolmBelmontS Since: May, 2015
#26609: Feb 13th 2016 at 1:46:47 PM

I think she is going to get over her depression in V4 but i doubt she will join Ruby and the others till end of Volume 4 or Volume 5

AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#26610: Feb 13th 2016 at 1:50:34 PM

I'm standing by that RWBY ends up getting back together at the end of Volume 4 and the cliffhanger is that they're ready to kick ass again

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#26611: Feb 13th 2016 at 1:54:10 PM

Seen the finale and I thought it was excellent. Also I rechecked and Port has both arms and hands, so I have no idea what people are going on about. Moving on.

The titbits of the Cinder/Ozpin fight were great. We got confirmation that Ozpin can hold his own in a fight, but it's ambiguous enough that we have no idea if Ozpin is dead, captured or missing.

Poor Jaune. Phyrra confirms her feelings for him right before sending him away for his own safety. Of course her fate was pretty much sealed by this scene.

The Cinder/Phyrra fight was awesome and showed that having the Maiden power isn't an automatic "I win" condition. Even with all that power it's glad to see that Cinder is not a straight-up fighter, needing a distraction from the Dragon and a trick arrow to defeat a more combat-focused character. And then she went and murdered another unarmed woman, that's cold.

So Ruby has some sort of hidden power. I thought it might have been one of the Maiden powers manifesting with the way it started from her eyes. Qrow mentioned it was something inherited from her mother, perhaps Summer was a Maiden like everybody's suspected, but she's in fact the Winter Maiden and part of her power is freezing people. I assume that Cinder's managed to escape or was recovered by her crew since they don't mention her being frozen up there as well.

Okay, now for the big thing with the breakup of team RWBY. Unlike what some people think (I'll get to you in a minute) it makes perfect sense. For those of you who don't like it go back to Volume 2, what were the things that Weis, Blake and Yang angsted about? Weiss was her family, Blake was running away, Yang was unsure of her conviction compared to Ruby. And what are all three doing now? Blake is running away to keep those she cares about safe, Weiss can't escape her family (and likely has little choice about it since she's not legally an adult yet), and Yang has to deal with the trauma of losing a limb (I'll get to you later), two of her friends being brutally murdered and two more of her friends abandoning her, one of them without so much as a word.

Wrapping the episode up, I like that we saw Ruby's dad as a real person and not a cutout. Nice to see Qrow being the cool uncle, love Ruby's dad being all like "Really? I have to leave my own daughter's room so you can have your cool uncle moment?" For the new team name I'd go with Team RNJR or Ranger as the most fitting one. We get a look at Cinder's boss and dear god Salem looks freaky. She seems to hate Ozpin with a burning passion and since she's addressing him in the present tense I assume he's alive. That Qrow has his cane doesn't bode well for his current state.

Lingering questions: What happened to Ironwood when he left to get his ship? What happened to the Atlas survivors, did they go back home? What happened to Penny's remains, we know they were knocked away from the Nevermore since we saw her head still intact and flying past Phyrra and Jaune. Even in the unlikely event that the project is abandoned and her father doesn't renact Astro Boy by rebuilding her in secret you'd think someone would go and retrieve the highly advanced technology.

Now, onto the thing and people here that have really pissed me off with their stupid comments. To all those people bitching about Yang getting depressed about losing her arm and not just picking herself out of her "self pity"....have you ever FUCKING had to deal with a loved one losing their limbs? Do you even have the slightest fucking idea what that does to a person? No? Because let me tell you, it's not fucking fun to see what it does to them. And I can't even imagine what it's like to actually go through losing a limb. So to just to dismiss what Yang is going through as her being a "mopey, whiny, selfish mess" is just so fu-I mean for fuck's sake she's lost her arm which alone is an incredibly traumatic experience (and don't try and compare her to another fictional character who wasn't all that phased by the same experience. Everybody handles things differently and saying that she shouldn't be affected because somebody else took it better is like saying that PTSD soldiers need to suck it up because there are soldiers who went through the same things and aren't showing visible signs), and on top of that she lost two of her best friends in the space of a few hours, her best friends have both abandoned her, one of them leaving without so much as a word after she literally gave her arm trying to protect her, and with the communication systems down she has no way to communicate with either of them. Her school and second home is now a Grimm-infested wasteland. With the combination of her missing her dominant arm, the destruction of Beacon and her reputation utterly shot making any attempt to go to another Hunter and Huntress academy impossible her career as a huntress seems well and truly impossible to reach now, along with all the dreams she associated with it. In short, just about everything in her life and dreams has been destroyed and you're criticising her for reacting like a normal human being instead of a sociopath?!

Yes, that hit a very sore spot for me.

As for the rest of the complaints: how did everything go right for Cinder when Ruby went full Nuclear in her face in an explosion that froze a fucking dragon? When she reacted in panicked disbelief before getting utterly consumed by the same white light that did the same to the dragon, which again was completely frozen solid. Something that obviously was not in Cinder's plan? I don't care if you criticise the show, just don't make shit up about it to justify your hatred/dislike.

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#26612: Feb 13th 2016 at 1:54:56 PM

[up][up] Depends on whether this is truly supposed to be the Darkest Hour for our heroes or if this is the start of a slow spiral into complete and utter despair, death and madness ala Puella Magi Madoka Magica. I would be happy with either, or the in third option of "Anyone Can Die now, so prepare your tear ducts."

edited 13th Feb '16 1:57:30 PM by CaptainCapsase

AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#26613: Feb 13th 2016 at 2:00:10 PM

I highly doubt things will go full Madoka dark, to be honest. This is marketed to kids too, after all.

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#26614: Feb 13th 2016 at 2:02:24 PM

No it isn't. It never was.

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TheAirman Brightness from The vicinity of an area adjacent to a location Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Historians will say we were good friends.
Brightness
#26615: Feb 13th 2016 at 2:02:56 PM

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CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#26616: Feb 13th 2016 at 2:03:43 PM

[up][up] It got a Periphery Demographic among children, that much is true, but it wasn't made with children in mind, and Monty's death presumably closed the door on major changes being made to the plot to accommodate that demographic.

edited 13th Feb '16 2:05:24 PM by CaptainCapsase

Psyga315 Since: Jan, 2001
#26617: Feb 13th 2016 at 2:06:30 PM

[up][up][up] Attack on Titan and Akame ga Kill are Shonen, marketed to young boys.

And need I mention Dragonball, Jojo, or Sailor Moon, which aren't hesitant to have people die off one by one?

Karxrida from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#26619: Feb 13th 2016 at 2:08:06 PM

[up][up] Dragonball at least is a very poor example because Death Is Cheap in that show. I think that also applied to Sailor Moon, and I have literally no idea about Jojo.

edited 13th Feb '16 2:08:34 PM by CaptainCapsase

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#26620: Feb 13th 2016 at 2:08:43 PM

About Ruby going nuclear...yeah Cinder didn see that because nobody fucking did, it was a blatant Deus ex machina and in the end just stoping everything for going directly to hell, Cinder win

Ehhhh Dragon ball kill people is tre but is one of the biggest provider for death is cheap...funny thing is, the only death that stick was #16, a robotevil grin

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EpicBleye drunk bunny from her bed being very eepy Since: Sep, 2014 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
drunk bunny
#26621: Feb 13th 2016 at 2:09:23 PM

[up][up][up][up]AOT and Jojo aren't marketed towards children first of all, and second of all none of those anime besides AOT and Jojo were ever dark. Yes, characters died, but it was never in the sense of bleakness that RWBY instilled.

That doesn't even include cultural differences.

edited 13th Feb '16 2:10:22 PM by EpicBleye

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Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Arashi Shigehito
#26622: Feb 13th 2016 at 2:10:50 PM

I'm sorry, but did that explosion from Ruby actually fucking do anything to set back any of Cinder's plans? No, it fucking didn't; all it did was freeze her and the dragon, and Cinder got better since she was able to meet with her boss. It was only a temporary set-back that got fixed within an hour. Seriously, don't make shit up as well if you don't want us to make shit up.

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CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#26623: Feb 13th 2016 at 2:11:42 PM

[up] Vale still stands, that much makes it a victory for our heroes, albeit (oh how appropriate) a Pyrrhic Victory.

Karxrida from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#26624: Feb 13th 2016 at 2:13:08 PM

We don't know the full extent of the plan yet or how it turned out, for all we know Ruby sent it Off the Rails. The dragon was clearly important, and it's out of the picture.

edited 13th Feb '16 2:13:51 PM by Karxrida

Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Arashi Shigehito
#26625: Feb 13th 2016 at 2:13:42 PM

Not really a victory, when Beacon is still destroyed, the communications tower is down, and Cinder managed to get all of Amber's power like she wanted. I really don't see that as much of a victory, as they only managed to lessen the overall destruction and death that happened.

edited 13th Feb '16 2:23:42 PM by Ssj3Gojira

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