V02C08 Field Trip
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There is apparently a theory going around that Yang's white dress last episode was an animation mistake, but reports of DVD commentary indicate it was a deliberate Marilyn Monroe reference.
Ironwood makes a start towards my good books by taking it extremely seriously that somebody got into the Tower. He, Goodwitch, and Ozpin have called Ruby to the latter's office for debriefing. (Vocabulary tip: Briefing is to debriefing as uploading is to downloading.) They all look unimpressed when Ruby tries to lighten the mood with her 0/3 bad-guy-catching record (Cinder just now, Torchwick at either end of Volume 1.)
Ironwood continues his march towards my good books by complimenting Ruby on her actions.
Goodwitch looks very serious standing there with her riding crop out. Does she expect the intruder to come in the window right now and try to finish what she started?
Ruby can only add what she's sure of: Cinder (not that any of them know it was Cinder) fought with glass shards, and had light-up clothing. Goodwitch correctly makes the connection to Her Volcanic Pilot-ness - not that any of them know that was Cinder, either - but Ironwood counters that Dust in clothing doesn't narrow it down at all. Ruby, her memory jogged by Goodwitch bringing up Her Volcanic Pilot-ness, recalls something about a hideout south-east of Vale. (I need my memory jogged - when did we learn this? As mentioned by Roman Torchwick shortly before the giant robot fight.) Goodwitch objects that this doesn't match Ruby's testimony moments prior that Cinder didn't say anything, but Ozpin mercilessly overrules her (the writers have forgotten again how to do naturally messy dialogue interruptions) and dismisses Ruby with a warning to be discreet. (Vocabulary tip: Discreet is to discrete as quiet is to broken.)
Ruby's discretion may not hold up in the face of Team WBY.
Meanwhile, Goodwitch and Ironwood get into an argument (as probably usual) about how to handle the south-east, with Ozpin stopping Goodwitch one syllable short of accusing Ironwood of "treat[ing] every situation like it's a contest of measuring di-", a sentence structure sufficiently tortured that I'm certain the writers did it deliberately to facilitate the curse-cut-short joke. The next thing I sorta wasn't expecting was Ozpin to then side with Goodwitch, counselling against playing their entire hand (and spreading panic) by sending the entire decently-sized air force to blast out the problem. They should scout first, he says. He has a point. (Somewhere in there, Ironwood says he's "served [Ozpin] faithfully for years", which is a weird thing for one Academy headmaster to say to another.)
Ruby's discretion has not held up in the face of Team WBY.
Ruby is pretty excited to get mail from home. I think this is the first time we clearly see Ruby's Semblance from an outside perspective. Yang cruelly denies her the opportunity to open the poster-tube. It contains ...another poster-tube? The inner tube bounces a couple of times of its own accord, then unfurls into a dog.
Ruby is so excited she just about starts her own Queen of the Castle-style musical number. Weiss has Objections to dogs, and to mailing dogs, but forgets every single one of them upon eye contact with said dog. I'm sure you can work out how Blake feels about a dog in her living space. Yang is unfazed by it all.
As Goodwitch calls all first-year students to the ampitheatre (sometimes I swear Ozpin just keeps her on as an A/V technician; does anybody actually respect her at all?), Weiss wonders what the plan is for taking care of Zwei (what a name for a dog) while they're off on their possibly-week-long mission. In response, Yang pulls out a letter which explains that Taiyang (what a name for a father) has also sent sufficient food. At the word "food", Zwei stops harassing Blake and runs over; in full accordance with the level of slapstick in this show, Zwei isn't killed when Yang turns the tube upside-down on top of him to reveal that it also contained more cans of dog food than could possibly have fit in there even if he hadn't also been crammed in there. When Weiss questions how that helps, Yang agitates the tube one more time and it produces a can-opener, which apparently solves that problem. Must be quite a dog.
Blake leaves without touching the floor.
(The cans are branded "Gentleman's Best Friend".)
Cut from Ruby's happy face (staring at Zwei) to Ruby's backpack as she wanders into the ampitheatre. Is she going to smuggle the dog with her.
"Professor Ozpin would like to share a few words before we begin," says Professor Goodwitch. Will these words be any better than the last ones he delivered here.
Ozpin's lecture explains to us that the war eighty years ago (so plausibly "the war" in which Jaune's great-great-grandfather fought with what is now Jaune's weapon) was about, among many other things, self-expression vs anti-art dystopia, and self-expression won. Apparently this is why folks have colour names. {{As the fandom said at the time, "IT'S JUSTIFIED?"}} While we listen, cut to Team JNPR,only one of whom has a colour name (please chide me in the comments for missing the colour etymologies of the others) (as usual, I am wrong, they all have colour names if you squint hard enough).
Yep, much better words.
Team RWBY attempts to sign up for a mission in the south-east, revealing that (1) Remnant uses QWERTY keyboards, and (2) that mission is considered too dangerous for first-year teams. Before Ruby can expand on her brilliant idea of mailing themselves there instead, Ozpin walks over and agrees that he's fairly sure they'll go there anyway; also what were they doing at the docks, how did they actually learn about Cinder's hideout, and what was this about "robots and rose petals in a dance club some time ago"? I don't remember that last one; might be a noodle incident™. Anyway, he'll never know (wink wink), and "instead of waiting for you to break the rules, how about we just bend them?" And so Team RWBY get that mission anyway, and a stern admonishment to bring their A-game. Of course, they'll never know that Ozpin had this planned since last time he saw Ruby.
Outside, an extra informs us of the much-delayed return of the team who were meant to be planning the dance. Among them is Miss Rabbit, actual name Velvet. I wait with bated breath to see how they spell "coffee" with four letters when two of those letters are probably V and Y. Velvet explains that nothing went spectacularly wrong, "there were just so many". But first-years aren't allowed on missions that dangerous, so they'll be fine! Dramatic irony! It is left to Ruby to bring her team's morale back up.
Team morale takes another hit when they learn that the genuine Hunter they'll be shadowing for the mission is none other than Doctor Oobleck. The animators even dug out the old no-pupils shocked eyes for them! (I'm not shocked, because at the end of each episode the video player presents thumbnails of the next twelve, and he's visible in two of the next three thumbnails.)
Roll credits. The art of Velvet is brilliant (finally, another fan who can draw faces), and the music has no lyrics (first time this Volume).
Next time: Any idiot can fight; fewer know why they fight.
V02C08 Field Trip
Ironwood makes a start towards my good books by taking it extremely seriously that somebody got into the Tower. He, Goodwitch, and Ozpin have called Ruby to the latter's office for debriefing. (Vocabulary tip: Briefing is to debriefing as uploading is to downloading.) They all look unimpressed when Ruby tries to lighten the mood with her 0/3 bad-guy-catching record (Cinder just now, Torchwick at either end of Volume 1.)
Ironwood continues his march towards my good books by complimenting Ruby on her actions.
Goodwitch looks very serious standing there with her riding crop out. Does she expect the intruder to come in the window right now and try to finish what she started?
Ruby can only add what she's sure of: Cinder (not that any of them know it was Cinder) fought with glass shards, and had light-up clothing. Goodwitch correctly makes the connection to Her Volcanic Pilot-ness - not that any of them know that was Cinder, either - but Ironwood counters that Dust in clothing doesn't narrow it down at all. Ruby, her memory jogged by Goodwitch bringing up Her Volcanic Pilot-ness, recalls something about a hideout south-east of Vale. (
Ruby's discretion may not hold up in the face of Team WBY.
Meanwhile, Goodwitch and Ironwood get into an argument (as probably usual) about how to handle the south-east, with Ozpin stopping Goodwitch one syllable short of accusing Ironwood of "treat[ing] every situation like it's a contest of measuring di-", a sentence structure sufficiently tortured that I'm certain the writers did it deliberately to facilitate the curse-cut-short joke. The next thing I sorta wasn't expecting was Ozpin to then side with Goodwitch, counselling against playing their entire hand (and spreading panic) by sending the entire decently-sized air force to blast out the problem. They should scout first, he says. He has a point. (Somewhere in there, Ironwood says he's "served [Ozpin] faithfully for years", which is a weird thing for one Academy headmaster to say to another.)
Ruby's discretion has not held up in the face of Team WBY.
Ruby is pretty excited to get mail from home. I think this is the first time we clearly see Ruby's Semblance from an outside perspective. Yang cruelly denies her the opportunity to open the poster-tube. It contains ...another poster-tube? The inner tube bounces a couple of times of its own accord, then unfurls into a dog.
Ruby is so excited she just about starts her own Queen of the Castle-style musical number. Weiss has Objections to dogs, and to mailing dogs, but forgets every single one of them upon eye contact with said dog. I'm sure you can work out how Blake feels about a dog in her living space. Yang is unfazed by it all.
As Goodwitch calls all first-year students to the ampitheatre (sometimes I swear Ozpin just keeps her on as an A/V technician; does anybody actually respect her at all?), Weiss wonders what the plan is for taking care of Zwei (what a name for a dog) while they're off on their possibly-week-long mission. In response, Yang pulls out a letter which explains that Taiyang (what a name for a father) has also sent sufficient food. At the word "food", Zwei stops harassing Blake and runs over; in full accordance with the level of slapstick in this show, Zwei isn't killed when Yang turns the tube upside-down on top of him to reveal that it also contained more cans of dog food than could possibly have fit in there even if he hadn't also been crammed in there. When Weiss questions how that helps, Yang agitates the tube one more time and it produces a can-opener, which apparently solves that problem. Must be quite a dog.
Blake leaves without touching the floor.
(The cans are branded "Gentleman's Best Friend".)
Cut from Ruby's happy face (staring at Zwei) to Ruby's backpack as she wanders into the ampitheatre. Is she going to smuggle the dog with her.
"Professor Ozpin would like to share a few words before we begin," says Professor Goodwitch. Will these words be any better than the last ones he delivered here.
Ozpin's lecture explains to us that the war eighty years ago (so plausibly "the war" in which Jaune's great-great-grandfather fought with what is now Jaune's weapon) was about, among many other things, self-expression vs anti-art dystopia, and self-expression won. Apparently this is why folks have colour names. {{As the fandom said at the time, "IT'S JUSTIFIED?"}} While we listen, cut to Team JNPR,
Yep, much better words.
Team RWBY attempts to sign up for a mission in the south-east, revealing that (1) Remnant uses QWERTY keyboards, and (2) that mission is considered too dangerous for first-year teams. Before Ruby can expand on her brilliant idea of mailing themselves there instead, Ozpin walks over and agrees that he's fairly sure they'll go there anyway; also what were they doing at the docks, how did they actually learn about Cinder's hideout, and what was this about "robots and rose petals in a dance club some time ago"? I don't remember that last one; might be a noodle incident™. Anyway, he'll never know (wink wink), and "instead of waiting for you to break the rules, how about we just bend them?" And so Team RWBY get that mission anyway, and a stern admonishment to bring their A-game. Of course, they'll never know that Ozpin had this planned since last time he saw Ruby.
Outside, an extra informs us of the much-delayed return of the team who were meant to be planning the dance. Among them is Miss Rabbit, actual name Velvet. I wait with bated breath to see how they spell "coffee" with four letters when two of those letters are probably V and Y. Velvet explains that nothing went spectacularly wrong, "there were just so many". But first-years aren't allowed on missions that dangerous, so they'll be fine! Dramatic irony! It is left to Ruby to bring her team's morale back up.
Team morale takes another hit when they learn that the genuine Hunter they'll be shadowing for the mission is none other than Doctor Oobleck. The animators even dug out the old no-pupils shocked eyes for them! (I'm not shocked, because at the end of each episode the video player presents thumbnails of the next twelve, and he's visible in two of the next three thumbnails.)
On second thought, I agree with Team RWBY on this one.
Roll credits. The art of Velvet is brilliant (finally, another fan who can draw faces), and the music has no lyrics (first time this Volume).
Next time: Any idiot can fight; fewer know why they fight.
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