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V02C05 Extracurricular
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Wait, was the last Chapter name a pun on what Torchwick calls Ruby? (headdesks)
Pyrrha wipes the floor with Team CRDL, director's cut. There's a lot I could and probably should say here, but I was busy watching Pyrrha wipe the floor with Team CRDL. Go Pyrrha!
Ah, here's Professor Goodwitch to critique CRDL's (lack of) teamwork for me.
...she does not. The extent of critique on offer is Goodwitch saying Pyrrha will have no problem qualifying for that big tournament, and Cardin complaining that at least one of the many, many, many hits Pyrrha landed on him was a "lucky shot" (or perhaps he meant the time he hit his teammate in the face).
Beacon's architecture budget has apparently extended to remodelling the ampitheatre over semester break. Or maybe it's just a different one, because surely a school this size has multiple. On the other hand, the CCTS Tower apparently only has one communications room, and Jaune and Ruby implied Beacon only had one ampitheatre all the way back in V01E02 (but maybe they were wrong in-character...).
Goodwitch casts about for another fight to not critique, getting halfway through voluntelling Blake (whom she describes as having been "docile", which seems like dramatic-irony racism) before Mercury puts his hand up. He insists on fighting Pyrrha despite the latter having just finished being the 1 in a 4v1; Pyrrha accepts over Goodwitch's objections.
Mercury dramatically walks onto the stage. Hopefully this has given the manifestation of Pyrrha's soul that shields her heart etc. some time to recharge.
This seems like a much more evenly matched fight, which is probably at least somewhat due to Mercury's matching skill and seriousness rather than being entirely a scathing indictment of Team CRDL.
Meanwhile in the stands, Ruby is trying to make friends with Emerald, and maybe even succeeding.
Mercury manages to disarm Pyrrha of her weapon. In response, the sound effects imply she uses her Semblance to help dodge a kick.
And suddenly Mercury forfeits, to the surprise of rather a lot of people, including me. He seems to have realised that yes, he really did just pick a fight with the Pyrrha Nikos. Pyrrha just looks disappointed.
Goodwitch reckoned they had time for that fight, but there wasn't much margin for error. She's still wearing the timeskip-exposition hat, informing us that the dance is this weekend and their first missions will occur on Monday.
Blake's disengagement from classes is probably because she's busy reading. Goodwitch said it was a recent change, so my best guess is she's got main-character syndrome about researching something about the White Fang.
"Learning is so much fun!" says Mercury to Emerald as they leave. My new theory is that Mercury was just trying to learn Pyrrha's Semblance and bailed as soon as he did. We're talking about Mercury here, so I hate to think why.
Sun tries to ask Blake to accompany him to the dance. He fails, because Blake may have closed her book but her mind is still in it. Uh, yikes, I thought I was at least a quarter joking there but Blake just tore his heart out and crushed it underfoot.
Blake is no more receptive to Team RWY encouraging her to go to the dance. Then it gets worse. I can sympathise with not wanting to deal with dances, and I'm familiar with not being able to sleep well (they've even animated bags under her eyes); but holy cow, woman, eat food! Your brain consumes energy hilariously out of proportion to its relative mass. It won't work if you're hungry! (I think I read it's 2-3% of body mass but 20% of energy consumption; but I read that long enough ago that I'm not precisely certain.)
Weiss and Yang have apparently picked up event planning for the dance on short notice. Weiss and Yang planning the same social function. This will end in either rainbows or tears; no middle ground is possible.
"So what do you think?" Blake appears to have fallen asleep since anybody last looked at her (five seconds ago) and therefore to be thinking nothing much. ...no, she's just gone full antisocial because she thinks she can't stand it, which I can understand.
Blake leaves in a huff. Team RWY's rumination on her continuing fixation is interrupted by a knock at the door. Weiss answers it and is greeted by guitar chords. Jaune has a guitar. Don't do it Jaune. Jaune, don't do it. DON'T DO IT JAUNE
No matter how much I shout at my screen, Jaune does it anyway. I'm cringing so hard I might damage my back.
Weiss takes a beat to recover from the horror she has just witnessed, then slams the door and facepalms. I have sympathised with Weiss before, but never quite this much.
Jaune. Please reconsider every decision you have made to get to this moment, starting with lying to get Weiss to open the door again just now, and going at least as far back as being born.
Yang, you're not much better. If that performance was so palatable to you then you go with him!
"None of this will matter if we can't get Blake to go," says Ruby sadly, which is a touch more dramatic than I feel is necessary.
Dramatic camera dolly out the window into the cloudy night.
Suddenly, swordfight! Jaune and Pyrrha are continuing their rooftop training sessions. Jaune is actually okay at sword now. Not nearly as good as Pyrrha, but who is?
Jaune attempts to beg off Aura training, and then attempts not to tell Pyrrha why, but fails at both attempts. "It's Weiss," he says, to Pyrrha's surprise(/dismay?), and recounts his abysmal failure just earlier. "I believe the saying goes there's plenty of fish in the sea!" says Pyrrha, stumbling on those words so many times that my new theory is that she wants him to start fishing right there right then. Jaune, being Jaune, completely fails to detect or synthesise any such implication.
Meanwhile in the exchange student dorm, Team CEM meeting! Mercury validates my theory that he was flushing out Pyrrha's Semblance. I have no clue how Emerald learned the name of said Semblance, though. Cinder continues to be unsettling as all hell. She does not help this impression by wielding some small sharp thing while declaring "We have a fun weekend ahead of us.". The weekend of the dance. I don't like where this is going.
Today's credits art is Jaune and Pyrrha, and also has a concerning affliction of concept-art-face. Or possibly I'm being a bit harsh. Drawing is hard; drawing faces, doubly so.
Oh look, Rooster Teeth no longer has a little post-credits outro.
Next time: Good points (and pointers).
V02C05 Extracurricular
Pyrrha wipes the floor with Team CRDL, director's cut. There's a lot I could and probably should say here, but I was busy watching Pyrrha wipe the floor with Team CRDL. Go Pyrrha!
Ah, here's Professor Goodwitch to critique CRDL's (lack of) teamwork for me.
...she does not. The extent of critique on offer is Goodwitch saying Pyrrha will have no problem qualifying for that big tournament, and Cardin complaining that at least one of the many, many, many hits Pyrrha landed on him was a "lucky shot" (or perhaps he meant the time he hit his teammate in the face).
Beacon's architecture budget has apparently extended to remodelling the ampitheatre over semester break. Or maybe it's just a different one, because surely a school this size has multiple. On the other hand, the CCTS Tower apparently only has one communications room, and Jaune and Ruby implied Beacon only had one ampitheatre all the way back in V01E02 (but maybe they were wrong in-character...).
Goodwitch casts about for another fight to not critique, getting halfway through voluntelling Blake (whom she describes as having been "docile", which seems like dramatic-irony racism) before Mercury puts his hand up. He insists on fighting Pyrrha despite the latter having just finished being the 1 in a 4v1; Pyrrha accepts over Goodwitch's objections.
Mercury dramatically walks onto the stage. Hopefully this has given the manifestation of Pyrrha's soul that shields her heart etc. some time to recharge.
This seems like a much more evenly matched fight, which is probably at least somewhat due to Mercury's matching skill and seriousness rather than being entirely a scathing indictment of Team CRDL.
Meanwhile in the stands, Ruby is trying to make friends with Emerald, and maybe even succeeding.
Mercury manages to disarm Pyrrha of her weapon. In response, the sound effects imply she uses her Semblance to help dodge a kick.
Well that was a lie, because Mercury's shoes are also guns.
And suddenly Mercury forfeits, to the surprise of rather a lot of people, including me. He seems to have realised that yes, he really did just pick a fight with the Pyrrha Nikos. Pyrrha just looks disappointed.
Goodwitch reckoned they had time for that fight, but there wasn't much margin for error. She's still wearing the timeskip-exposition hat, informing us that the dance is this weekend and their first missions will occur on Monday.
Blake's disengagement from classes is probably because she's busy reading. Goodwitch said it was a recent change, so my best guess is she's got main-character syndrome about researching something about the White Fang.
"Learning is so much fun!" says Mercury to Emerald as they leave. My new theory is that Mercury was just trying to learn Pyrrha's Semblance and bailed as soon as he did. We're talking about Mercury here, so I hate to think why.
Sun tries to ask Blake to accompany him to the dance. He fails, because Blake may have closed her book but her mind is still in it. Uh, yikes, I thought I was at least a quarter joking there but Blake just tore his heart out and crushed it underfoot.
Blake is no more receptive to Team RWY encouraging her to go to the dance. Then it gets worse. I can sympathise with not wanting to deal with dances, and I'm familiar with not being able to sleep well (they've even animated bags under her eyes); but holy cow, woman, eat food! Your brain consumes energy hilariously out of proportion to its relative mass. It won't work if you're hungry! (I think I read it's 2-3% of body mass but 20% of energy consumption; but I read that long enough ago that I'm not precisely certain.)
Weiss and Yang have apparently picked up event planning for the dance on short notice. Weiss and Yang planning the same social function. This will end in either rainbows or tears; no middle ground is possible.
"So what do you think?" Blake appears to have fallen asleep since anybody last looked at her (five seconds ago) and therefore to be thinking nothing much. ...no, she's just gone full antisocial because she thinks she can't stand it, which I can understand.
Blake leaves in a huff. Team RWY's rumination on her continuing fixation is interrupted by a knock at the door. Weiss answers it and is greeted by guitar chords. Jaune has a guitar. Don't do it Jaune. Jaune, don't do it. DON'T DO IT JAUNE
No matter how much I shout at my screen, Jaune does it anyway. I'm cringing so hard I might damage my back.
Weiss takes a beat to recover from the horror she has just witnessed, then slams the door and facepalms. I have sympathised with Weiss before, but never quite this much.
Jaune. Please reconsider every decision you have made to get to this moment, starting with lying to get Weiss to open the door again just now, and going at least as far back as being born.
Yang, you're not much better. If that performance was so palatable to you then you go with him!
"None of this will matter if we can't get Blake to go," says Ruby sadly, which is a touch more dramatic than I feel is necessary.
Dramatic camera dolly out the window into the cloudy night.
Suddenly, swordfight! Jaune and Pyrrha are continuing their rooftop training sessions. Jaune is actually okay at sword now. Not nearly as good as Pyrrha, but who is?
Jaune attempts to beg off Aura training, and then attempts not to tell Pyrrha why, but fails at both attempts. "It's Weiss," he says, to Pyrrha's surprise(/dismay?), and recounts his abysmal failure just earlier. "I believe the saying goes there's plenty of fish in the sea!" says Pyrrha, stumbling on those words so many times that my new theory is that she wants him to start fishing right there right then. Jaune, being Jaune, completely fails to detect or synthesise any such implication.
Meanwhile in the exchange student dorm, Team CEM meeting! Mercury validates my theory that he was flushing out Pyrrha's Semblance. I have no clue how Emerald learned the name of said Semblance, though. Cinder continues to be unsettling as all hell. She does not help this impression by wielding some small sharp thing while declaring "We have a fun weekend ahead of us.". The weekend of the dance. I don't like where this is going.
Today's credits art is Jaune and Pyrrha, and also has a concerning affliction of concept-art-face. Or possibly I'm being a bit harsh. Drawing is hard; drawing faces, doubly so.
Oh look, Rooster Teeth no longer has a little post-credits outro.
Next time: Good points (and pointers).
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His lowest of low points.
Yeah, I dunno why Yang was encouraging this, except possibly preventing a White Rose ship.
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It's a needle, though I doubt that's reassuring.
Best guess is that Emerald just guessed a random magnet related word at random and got lucky.
Yeah, I really didn't like Jaune this episode.
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If you go back and look at the scene where Sun tries to ask Blake to the dance there's a wide shot where we can get our first look at the rest of Sun's team.
Probably guessed it or something, since there are only so many ways to describe a magnetic thing with one word.
Seemed mostly teasing in an environment that has little to no risk with a guy who acts more like a Labrador than anything.
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It's a two way thing in that episode. She calls Jaune a gold digger.
I recommend remembering how highly unlikely that isn't. Then there is him asking her out an episode or two ago. He doesn't ever focus on her name (he doesn't even know who Pyrrha was). Rather he focuses on the fact she is smarter than him and studying together is honestly pretty mundane.
Then there is Neptune.
Yeah. He is basically the opposite of a gold digger.
Ironically this period makes me question how Weiss managed to fall for Neptune. Because highly likely her experiences in Atlas would be similar. Suave, handsome and "intelligent" sounding people.
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He's just a wannabe fuckboy, so not a gold digger either.
We do get some implication later on that she finds maturity attractive, and if Neptune is able to pretend like he is long enough to give her an impression of it, she might be young enough to do a dumb and try it out. Jaune acts obviously immature, so not her type.
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Perhaps she assumes that's the only reason anyone would be so consistently persistent where they're clearly unwanted. Still, she was surprisingly polite to him, even if she misread his motives. But that bit where he lied to gain entry into her room, why did he think that would endear himself to anyone? Seriously, I'd probably have been a lot ruder than Weiss after that. Especially since, as you pointed out, she already turned him down a couple episodes ago-- when he was clearly bothering her during class. And kind of did again back at Initiation.
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The issue there is that an another example of him not focusing on her name. He focuses on how she is good in academics.
The first time he speaks to her is in initation.
But seriously it all started because she called him out in a way similar to Ruby failed to get as sarcasm. In fact she should know but doesn't.
Again calling Jaune a gold digger is just Weiss being pretty much a hypocrite or just blind in many ways.
Because Jaune never cares about Pyrrha's fame. In fact Weiss was looking for Pyrrha for a specific reason.. to use her to make the perfect team. I can say more, but that leads to Ice Queendom.
That isn't to say Jaune isn't wrong in someway, but frankly it's more likely she thinks Jaune has been a gold digger or in a making up ideas way.
You are failing to consider... Atlas. Which gets into spoilers. Again it's kind of funny how Weiss never had her Willow momment, because all it is faking a high class look.
Also on the topic of maturity it's kind of a mixed thing consider what we know of herself and her views of others. Like Pyrrha and Jaune are actually pretty mature even before volume 2. Specifically where Jaune helps Cardin when he shouldn't. Pyrrha for watching out for her teammate Jaune and handling the lockers scene pretty much like a champion.
If anything it kind of means Weiss has terrible taste in men or doesn't really understand maturity.
It's more about images, appearance than real maturity. Unfortunately I can't point out more than a few examples, but arguably Pyrrha and Jaune are two examples. Anybody else is touching future volumes or crossovers.
Because even Ruby can be argued for having more maturity than her.
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That is what I was trying to point out, but details on that would be spoilers so not really able to explain what happened.
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It's the first one. Your example isn't gold-digging per se. Wanting to recruit people with synergistic talents for your team is fairly natural, though she was foolish to not consider personality compatibility and friendships as well.
Yes, it did. So what? Where it's gone is far beyond reasonable even if she hadn't been being sarcastic.
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Weiss focuses on Pyrrha the Invicible Girl. The same way she doesn't want people to focus on Weiss Schnee the heiress. To use her.
Recruiting people is using people. It's not like Jacques, but her purpose is to recruit Pyrrha for her view of perfection.
Workers or employees or recruits give a service to the recruiter.
Weiss does nothing mutual in her offer.
She outright says everything in a way implying that as being who she is thus making her entitled to Pyrrha.
In a position implies Weiss is the only one fit to have Pyrrha in her team. Jaune is not fit is her implication.
Already thinking Pyrrha will accept and not thinking of Pyrrha giving a no.
...what I am brining up is that plenty of things Jaune says or does not fit the gold digger accusations. His partner is Pyrrha and he never uses her. He doesn't know either girl. And frankly as canon is there is a gap between volume 1 initation and volume 2.
Of which to get any idea of say harassment kind of requires taking fanon ideas. But again what I bring up is that there is very little that shows he uses people or cares about their fame.
Weiss can ask Jaune to stop but the gold digger accusations require huge leap.
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Her thoughts in that very scene were "we'll be the strongest team in Beacon" which she is assuming Pyrrha would also want and in said thoughts, she's assuming her mental contributions will also be valuable to said team. That's the definition of mutual benefit. Also, there's a difference between recruiting someone for a work team for a business relationship (which is what Weiss is viewing things as) and entering a personal relationship under false pretenses. And we don't know enough of her thoughts to know if she considered Pyrrha might say no, but we do know she didn't follow her around asking repeatedly after being turned down.
Weiss has no idea what his team dynamics are, so that's kind of irrelevant from her standpoint. She leapt to a false conclusion on little evidence but 'not recognizing a famous person on sight' is not really a counter-argument. From her perspective, she pointed out Pyrrha was someone famous and then shortly afterwards Jaune got on her team. Also, Jaune keeps bugging her after being turned down, which is something she probably associates with gold diggers from personal experience. Now, she's wildly wrong about Jaune but the viewers at home do see a lot more of him than she does.
Just the scenes on screen are sufficient to show him as extremely irritating without adding any fanon. The gold-digger thing and the "Jaune should have stopped pushing a long time ago" thing are completely unrelated and separate. Weiss being wrong about his motives doesn't make his actions right.
Yeah, Weiss just leapt to completely the wrong conclusion but has been fairly polite and patient in her refusals, all things considered. She's wrong in how she perceives events more than behavior.
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V02C06 Burning the Candle
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V02C06 Burning the Candle
Weiss takes that poorly. She leaves, and is replaced by Yang setting down a giant speaker. Suffice to say the event planning is going about as well as I expected.
Correction, it's going worse: Blake hasn't changed her mind, and Ruby has taken that personally.
Neptune walks in. Weiss's opinion on fog machines does a 180 along with most of the rest of her personality.
Sun is going to need to think a bit harder about suitable formal attire - even Yang thinks he's underdressed for it.
Yang has a plan to ensure Blake shows up. She says "trust me", so I'm automatically concerned.
Cut to Blake in the library, presumably studying something something White Fang. A red dot appears. It seems to be a laser pointer. You can't be serious.
(They're serious.)
Okay, how does a laser pointer on a partially-transparent holographic monitor not put half the dot through it instead of on it?
It is 0% surprising that Yang was wielding the laser pointer, and only about 5% surprising that it worked to lure Blake out. "We need to talk," says Yang, and yanks her away.
A wild Ren appears! "We need to talk," says suddenly Jaune, and yanks him away.
Ren is in the unique position of being the only other guy on Jaune's team, and they've gotten along okay over the past semester-and-a-bit, so that makes him Jaune's best source of advice on "girls". Which is going to be a pretty low bar because I don't think Ren has much advice on girls who aren't Nora, who is not the general case. This will end in disaster.
The painting on the wall behind Jaune and Ren is the same painting that was on the wall behind Cinder last episode, and I'd have to go and check but I think it's the same painting Weiss hung on Team RWBY's wall most of a season ago (checks yep). Clearly it's Beacon's standard-issue decorative painting.
Jaune eventually stumbles his way to "...how did you and Nora-". Okay, I was wrong: This will start in disaster.
Correction, it's going worse: Nora's right there.
Remember, Nora and Ren aren't "together-together", which has stopped nobody in any fandom at any time.
"NORA I SAID HEADPHONES ON!" says Jaune. Okay, so there was actually planning, rather than Nora just being the stealthiest she's probably ever been.
Ren recognises that Jaune is leading up to an actual point. "It's Weiss," says Jaune, and proceeds to expound on her many virtues. Dude's got it bad. I'm actually slightly sympathetic despite the guitar fiasco, but also I'm assured one cannot build a healthy relationship on the they-walk-on-air phase alone.
Jaune eventually builds to "...I wish I could tell her how I feel without messing it all up." Free tip: Fewer guitars.
"Then do it," says
That part of Pyrrha's advice verges on Yang's level of counterproductively concise. Or maybe I'm being a little uncharitable after the guitar fiasco.
"You're right," says Jaune after mulling that over, "thanks Pyrrha, good talk Ren!", and leaves to possibly go and do exactly that - it sounds like a very Jaune thing to strike while the iron is too hot. As soon as he leaves, Pyrrha loses her ever-present smile and wanders low-energy-ly over to a desk. Nora admonishes her to practice what she preaches. This matches one of my theories from last episode, and those ones have panned out pretty well so far, so I reckon Nora's on to something.
Meanwhile, Yang has co-opted a lecture theatre to lecture Blake, which probably isn't a good start. Blake remains supremely unconvinced by the idea of doing anything other than continuing to hunt down Roman Torchwick, but Yang eventually manages to bargain her down to 'listen to this first'.
What follows is a monologue on the Rose-Xiao Long family that kind of evokes the other half of the title song. They grew up on an island a bit off the coast, their parents were both hunters...
Her name was Summer Rose. She was Ruby and Yang's mother, and a pretty good one in between doing hunter missions all around Vale. Then she went on a mission and never came back. The worst part is that this was the second time their father got left behind (and technically Yang as well, but she was only a newborn when her birth mother h*cked off somewhere).
This hand-drawn flashback scares me. Imagine, if you will, 5±1-year-old Yang and two-younger-than-that Ruby venturing deep into a forest that looks positively Grimm-like even without any visible Grimm, on a severely ill-considered quest to find Yang's birth mother. Could be straight out of a horror movie.
Oh no oh h*ck, flashback Yang and Ruby have arrived at their destination, exhausted, and found only Grimm. I know full well they're both fine now but I'm still nearly shaking.
Very fortunately, Uncle Qrow saved the day.
The moral of the story is that fixation kills. I've watched enough Air Crash Investigations to know it's true.
Unfortunately, Blake is absolutely drowning in main-character syndrome and remains unreceptive.
Oh boy, now Yang's eyes are red.
Blake, pushed over onto the lecturer's desk, is forced to contemplate that Yang might be on to something.
Yang offers some carrot (a dance) to go with the stick, then leaves, trusting in Blake's inherently persuadable nature. To slightly paraphrase Weiss, they're doomed.
Jaune has a white flower. Jaune, no, they just told you no more zany schemes! Or maybe this isn't a zany scheme but just a regular scheme...
Jaune is about to see Weiss interacting with Neptune. The disaster rolls on. This will end in tears and/or death, I can feel it.
Weiss asks Neptune to the dance. Yep, Jaune has just died inside.
Fade from Jaune's dropped flower to a vase of same flowers, in a dance hall. Yang appears to be on greeting duty for arrivals. Behind her, many extras are dancing. The newest arrival is Ruby, who is not handling high heels well at all. Absolute mood, they are an acute and chronic health hazard and should not be required or officially encouraged in any context.
Sun has been convinced to wear a collared shirt and tie, and isn't liking the tie. Even more of a mood.
It's a miracle! Blake is attending! Also this is a callback to Sun finding her just after she took her bow off - same spot in the courtyard, even. Blake says they're "technically" going together,
Good dance, many extras. Sun cuts in with Blake, so Yang retires to the sidelines with Ruby and Weiss. Yang directs them to "Just have fun!" and she and Weiss leave to presumably do just that, leaving Ruby to wonder whether she can change out of her "stupid lady-stilts" yet. Cue Ozpin to deliver, in different wording, his prior pearl of wisdom that it's best to appreciate non-combat occasions when they're available because they tend to be few and far between in a combat-oriented profession. Also some commentary on the interplay of dance and violence.
Yang, back on greeting duty, greets Emerald and Mercury. Ugh, I'd just managed to forget about them.
Today's credits song has an irritatingly high chance of being Yet Another Stupid Love Song™. The art? Well, I apologise to last episode's credits art for saying it had concept-art-face, because by comparison it really doesn't.
Next time: The guards must be crazy; their leadership moreso.
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Honestly, I've been as sleep deprived as Blake here. Laser pointers, I'm slightly ashamed to say, can actually work, even without the comedy angle of catgirls.
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If it's partially transparent, shouldn't it do both? Partially.
Some of the credit art is concept art. However other times the art is fanart that was sent in to the Rooster Teeth offices. You can probably spot which is which now that you know that.
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That's my point - it seems to non-partially show up on the monitor.
I know it's all been fanart in Volume 2 (so far) because every single one has had a fanart credit, and I'm fairly sure it was all internal concept art in Volume 1 because none of it had a fanart credit and prior to release they couldn't quite count on having fans.
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I believe V2 is all fan art. The concept art starts back with V3.
V02C07 Dance Dance Infiltration
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V02C07 Dance Dance Infiltration
Cinder's scene in the titles also includes one of Atlas' bigger VTOLs.
Even Beacon's faculty appear to be having fun at the dance. Except Goodwitch, who has just realised she's run out of socially acceptable excuses to give Ironwood instead of dancing with him. I have decided I don't like Ironwood.
At the punchbowl with empty glasses (I didn't think punchbowls and glasses could coexist at the same event), Ruby and Jaune marinate in shared social awkwardness (mood). Or apparently the punch is just transparent, because Jaune nearly chokes on a sip of it when Ruby tells him that Weiss is attending alone by choice. Sure enough, there's Weiss near that vase of flowers; and over there are Blake, Sun, and Neptune (apparently the only guy cool enough to pull off blue hair) having a good time.
Jaune has just told Ruby to "hold my punch". The disaster rolls on. This will end in tears and/or death, again.
Ruby sips from Jaune's punch. Is this Comedy™?
Jaune gets most of the way to his objective - whatever it is - before Pyrrha walks past him, also solo, and so Jaune discards his old objective and heads for the same balcony. Most of Pyrrha's usual orange colour scheme is absent, leaving only red.
Jaune tells Pyrrha she looks good, then remembers to be worried about her date beating him up for it. Pyrrha assures him he's safe from that. Jaune, being Jaune, misses the implication, so Pyrrha has to spell out that her date doesn't exist, and why. Turns out that being a child celebrity-prodigy isn't great for having peers...
Oof ow ouch my heart. Pyrrha wanders dejectedly off; Neptune replaces her just as something or other finally clicks in Jaune's osmium-grade brain, energising Jaune to call out Neptune on thinking about nothing but "cute girls". Between that and remembered righteous indignation on Weiss' behalf, he proceeds to run so roughshod over Neptune's airs of coolness that they shatter.
The problem, apparently, is that Neptune can't dance. And that admitting it to the public is a fate worse than death or failure (shrugs).
Having broken Neptune, Jaune builds him back up, complete with passing on Pyrrha's advice on what to do to not crash out terribly at gaining the hand of Weiss Schnee, and also actual comedy.
Ruby finds Yang on an interior balcony, as opposed to the exterior balcony of which Jaune and company have been in and out.
Hey look, Penny can't dance either. Or perhaps that depends on how exactly one defines 'dance', because I'm nigh-certain somebody's called that one "the robot" at some point.
Yang acknowledges Weiss played an important role in the planning. Looks like that ended in rainbows instead of tears, fortunately. Exactly on cue, Neptune sits down to chat with Weiss.
Suddenly, a showstopper! Whatever it is (they're not showing us yet), Ruby clearly wasn't prepared for it at all. It eventually ripples to Pyrrha, who is even less prepared for it. ...So, about 1.5 episodes ago when Jaune told Pyrrha he'd attend the dance in a dress if she didn't attend with a date, I (along with Pyrrha, and maybe even Jaune) took that as hyperbole rather than the threat it evidently was. The more fool us, I guess.
"Now do you want to stand there and laugh at me, or do you want to dance?" asks Jaune. It is at this exact moment that Weiss' playlist runs out and Yang's begins.
Oh hey look it's Nora and Ren. I was just wondering whether they'd get screen time here.
Ren hasn't noticed any of that at all. Actual comedy.
Team JNPR proceed to tear up the dance floor.
How many sisters. I have one, and it was bad enough.
Neptune tells Weiss that he changed his mind on Jaune's advice. Weiss.exe has encountered an error and must restart.
Back on the interior balcony, Emerald and Mercury note that "all of the dancers have partners" - indeed, even Penny has convinced one of her guards/minders to join in. Cinder, over radio, wants to know how long she has to accomplish something. Given that that was the dance and that is the dance, this must be the infiltration. Sure enough, when Cinder gets on screen she's wearing what a steady diet of far too much Worm fanfiction tells me are a catsuit and a domino mask. (She is promptly spotted by Ruby, who wandered out to take a breather.) She's technically not in a fight scene right now, so her rooftop acrobatics look very jerky and unnatural - in other words, poorly animated.
There is one guard on duty out the front of the CCTS Tower. Cinder has no trouble getting the drop on them and dragging their unconscious body off into the bushes.
There are a more reasonable four guards in the lobby. In full accordance with conservation of ninjutsu, Cinder and her dual swords wipe the floor with them like they're Team CRDL.
There are two guards in the lift for some reason. The reason is the writers wanted to make a Wi-Fi security joke - and it definitely is a joke if the passphrase is only seven characters long. (Ah, the "pound symbol", bringing confusion to non-Americans since forever. "Hashtag" hadn't permeated that far into the public consciousness by 2014, I guess.) When Cinder opens the lift, they're smart enough to realise she's not meant to be there (aided by the visible unconscious bodies of the four outside), but not smart enough to engage before the doors close and they're locked in there with her.
Outside, Ruby spots the first guard out cold, and pauses to type a command into her Scroll. Remember rocket lockers? Well here's hers, delivering Crescent Rose.
Cinder exits the lift into the CCTS communications room, having pocketed a Scroll from one of the lift guards. Now I'm going to talk about the amateur circus of this guard posting. The one guard outside has nobody watching their back or even checking in with them. The four in the lobby all try to Zerg-rush any intruder once they prove hostile, which is theoretically a good idea except that none of them raised the alarm to anybody else. This left the guards in the lift to be taken by surprise when a competent operation should have at least given them some warning and some options, like locking the lifts - after all, it's not like throwing more guards at the problem helped in the lobby, so the next best option is to try to deny them access to the comms room, the one room of importance and so presumably the target. And presumably those two were deserting their posts in the first place, because despite the tower being closed to the public and the closure being enforced by armed guards, the comms room - the nexus of a crucial strategic asset that is also Atlas' PR crown jewel and the lynchpin of international neither-having-a-war-nor-getting-eaten-by-Grimm - is left completely unguarded. Not even the holographic receptionist is there, so Cinder can just sit down at their terminal (why does the holographic receptionist need a physically present terminal?) and do whatever she pleases. General Ironwood needs to spend less time harassing Glynda Goodwitch and more time fixing his utterly dysfunctional organisational culture.
As Cinder does whatever she pleases, Mercury and Emerald (still keeping up appearances at the dance) report by radio that Ironwood has wandered off. Cinder tells them not to worry, she's already done. The signs of her being done are briefly very obvious to anybody watching, so probably nobody's watching. Seven guards only. There are small-town police stations with better security than the keystone of Atlas' soft-power projection.
Enter Ruby, with the triple disadvantage of not knowing whether anybody hostile is there, not knowing whether anybody non-hostile is there, and being trapped in high heels. Probably should have taken them off in the lift. Cinder, concealed behind a pillar that might be structural or might be decorative, holds all the cards. She chooses instead to appear and try to silently bluff her way out. When Ruby orders her to take her mask off, she (Cinder) decides the bluff has failed and starts flinging obsidian shards around. Ruby opens fire, which accomplishes as much as last time she opened fire at Cinder - absolutely nothing.
Cinder's swords combine into a bow, from which she fires exploding arrows, three at a time. Firing multiple arrows per shot is one of those video game archery ideas that I feel can't possibly work outside a video game.
Suddenly, Ironwood! Maybe someone did get a silent alarm off. Or maybe not, given that he's here by himself, having not even brought either of the guards we saw with Penny. Think about it: if Ruby had tripped over her high heels a second ago and lost an ankle and/or her grip on Crescent Rose, Ironwood would have been a sitting duck for more exploding arrows, which we don't know wouldn't kill him. What a way for a C-in-C to go: made a solo surprise inspection of a theoretically secured and guarded area, got blown up by the intruder who took out all the guards. Anyway, for a moment neither we nor Ruby nor Ironwood can see Cinder, so of course she disappears.
Cinder passes through a service hallway and discards her catsuit (which she incinerates) and mask (which she doesn't) without ever stopping. Get your minds out of the gutter, she's wearing a formal dress underneath. The moment after she exits, two guards enter in pursuit. They don't notice the discarded mask, and pursuing through the exit only gets them to the dance hall - Cinder's disappeared again, and nobody ever knew it was her.
Weiss seems to have reasserted control of the playlist while we were gone. Also, it's true, Neptune can't dance.
Cinder cuts in with Mercury and sounds utterly confident that everything's going to plan. If I were in her shoes, I'd break both my ankles at once within five seconds, but also I'd be equally confident given the observed quality of the opposition. What's the plan? Well, I hate to think.
Jaune and Pyrrha are resting their feet. Blake and Sun are not. The other Tower guards commiserate out the front in their shared abject failure. So do Ironwood and Ruby, in the comms room. Meanwhile, whatever malware Cinder slipped in is entrenched, ready to do its part in Cinder's plan.
Roll credits. Boppy song (but now that I actually pay attention to it, might be Yet Another Stupid Love Song™); actually good art (probably helped that it didn't really try to draw any faces).
Next time: It's justified.
- Location
- Australia
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Teenagers.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
And now for something completely silly
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDiFZaO7z-4
(And yes, this was made by the crew, IIRC)
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDiFZaO7z-4
(And yes, this was made by the crew, IIRC)
SolipsistSerpent
Endlessly Devouring
You can do it, they just won't go very far or be very accurate. I suppose the fact Cinder's arrows explode and the fight is in a relatively small area helps with both those. I'd be worried about one going almost straight down and landing at my feet, though.
In real life, it's been a trick shot some archers try to show off (to mixed results) and there have been some suggestions that it was occasionally tried in history against massed lightly armored troops (where it doesn't matter if the arrows wander several feet to the side of where you're aiming, because there's a guy there too) but those seem to be the exception rather than the rule. If it happened, it was never very popular and the historic accounts may have been exaggerations.
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michaelb958
(Verified Michael)
- Location
- Wherever I am, there I am
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Having no sense of hearing - or just a faulty memory, who really knows - I missed that the credits song had previously appeared at this point in the episode.
(Verified very silly.)