My personal suspicion is that Cinder at least DID attend Haven academy in the past; it's not clear what her background is, but if "Sacrifice" is from her perspective, it definitely implies a Fallen Hero background of sorts, probably a former Haven Huntress. Though yeah, going into the system and changing her status from "graduated" to "current student" would definitely help.
Her "totally not Bane" speech also had her claiming to have been from Mistral, and do recall Monty once described her as "Asian", which matches Mistral due to it pretty much being fantasy China.
edited 6th Feb '17 8:42:56 PM by CaptainCapsase
I'm ninety nine percent sure that I am the one who made the "Bumblebee is canon" joke.
The bike, mind you. Not the ship, which, even though I do ship it, if they did write it in, I would probably be disappointed, due to how the writing has been as of late.
Besides, that's what fanfiction is for.
bro im literally a girlHonestly, I get the impression that they realized that they realized that "traveling to Mistral" plus "Haven shenanigans" was too much material for one season, so they decided to split it into two and stretch the "traveling to Mistral" thing into its own season by adding some time-wasting scenes and throwing in Ren and Nora's backstory since they hadn't gotten to that yet. That may have been their least bad option, but it still makes for a really weak season four.
Volume 2's finale is actually my favorite in the series so far. Volume 1's was serviceable but nothing earth-shattering, volume 3's was the plot bending over backwards in favor of the villains, and volume 4 was a giant meh.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
! don't really get why you're saying this all again, we've been over it before: a lot of the things you consider a "waste of time" or "nothing" I and others consider very important, or at least something that would have had to/was going to happen eventually. It's why I said either said you're the kind of person who's okay with this or not. Where you stand has been clear for awhile now.
edited 7th Feb '17 6:57:49 AM by LSBK
Because if someone says "I don't get why people think this way" and I'm one of the people who feels that way, trying to explain why I feel that way is kind of relevant to the discussion? I mean, we could all just sit here and not talk about RWBY instead, if you prefer.
And for the record, you said it depended on whether you were okay with "an entire season of character focused bits" or not. I'm completely okay with an entire season of character-focused bits. Blake's arc — the only one I actually liked — was nothing but character-focused bits. The problem I have with season four isn't that it was character-focused rather than plot-focused, it's that even the character bits were few and far between.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.I feel like it was fairly clear in the context "I can't understand" means "is not something I can agree with". I feel like that's a pretty standard thing. I'd prefer it if you didn't try and unfairly force implications on me like that. It wasn't an attempt to argue, just musing about what I think the general situation is.
I don't really think this is an issue of right or wrong, like how I just think your plainly wrong about a lot stuff with season 3. Well, there's still some of that, but that's not my main point. It also seems like we have pretty big differences on what we consider character focus.
edited 7th Feb '17 7:45:54 AM by LSBK
splitting up traveling and mistral shenanigans seems like a pretty good explanation for the pacing. i agree that volume 4 doesn't feel quite complete, but i also wonder how much of that is because the last half of volume 3 was packed af
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And for clarifications sake, just because I disagree with the premise of nothing going on, doesn't mean I think everything that that did go on or all the character moments were good. That seems like a more interesting and honest discussion than just going "nothing happened!" in a huff, while other people go "wrong!" back and forth.
edited 7th Feb '17 8:32:38 AM by LSBK
Honestly, I feel like a competent writer could condense everything that happened in Volume 4 into about half as many episodes as we got without really losing anything.
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Honestly I don't think it needed to be compressed as much as the volume needed to have a more coherent arc; the Nucklavee shouldn't have just shown up at the end, there should have been at least one or two encounters with the beast before our heroes finally figure out how to defeat it, and it should have been established as following them from the get go. Ren's flashback episode should have come earlier to establish this volume's central arc as focused on Ren and Nora. Give each of WBY an episode to get their plots where they need to be for the next season, and put the bit where Salem sends Tyrian after RNJR at the beginning of the episode when he attacks them. Oscars bits should either be longer and more densely packed to establish him as a character since he's clearly important, or alternatively he should show up in the stinger as people suggested, and have a flashback episode establishing him in volume 5. The former is preferable IMHO since him coming out of nowhere would raise way to many questions.
edited 7th Feb '17 9:23:41 AM by CaptainCapsase
I wish they had dropped the Spring Maiden tread, at least not as suddenly, because the way they did it and what happens blurs the situation a bit.
Like Nuckelavee was definitely at Shion, but Qrow apparently wasn't talking about Grimm destruction, so how did he know Raven had someone abnormally powerful with her?
edited 7th Feb '17 9:39:45 AM by LSBK
In regards to Jaune's transcripts I mostly assumed Ozpin was well aware it was fake and just let him in anyway. Considering what their first trial entails if you manage to survive that you probably earned a place at the school no matter how you got yourself in the door.
Qrow seemed to imply Raven has the spring maiden or possibly knows where she is.
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Errr... what line in Armed and Ready?