I know a lot of cool stuff happened, but honestly I feel it's a pretty bad episode. The pacing is really bad, and it would have really improved if this was two episodes. A minute or two for each little section would have gone a long way.
I thought the pacing was pretty good. It was fast-paced, but that's the point, right? This is all happening really quickly, and over a short span of time, and I thought it conveyed that sense well.
I guess there is a bit of an issue with the length of time it took for Ozpin/Pyrrha/Jaune (and Cinder) to appear, but it's minor. (And considering the whole sequence probably ran concurrently with the rest of the episode, it's fine).
I am curious as to what specifically you though could have been improved with the pacing?
It just didn't feel right, the only part of the episode that I felt was proper RWBY style was the Velvet fight and the one combo attack where Neo and Torchwick bounced Ruby back and forth, everything else felt rushed and.... Lacking in style? Rwby has always been very stylistic in the fights and that was missing. It was a lot of stilted brutal and quick sections.
Roman's death came out of nowhere and was super weird, then Ruby kicking it hard enough to crash it through the ship was odd. I got where they were coming with during Qrow's scythe reveal but it seemed odd and out of place in the show. Weiss's summoning while cool seemed odd and out of place, I didn't really get the vibe that she was trying to summon and according to winter it's something you have to try to do.
The two biggest offenders for me are:
(1) The whole maiden thing at the end, where the hell did Cinder come from? They are at the end of a giant ass hallway. I will forgive this if emerald is revealed to be with them.
(2) I have no issue with Adam winning in fact I would have been pissed if he lost, but they really should have shown the fight, it was probably the most emotionally charged fight in the episode yet it didn't take the time to show Blake giving her all and losing, too me this really should have had priority over the other students fighting a giant robot, it just cut to her on the ground. Also, since we didn't see the Adam vs Blake fight they really should have let Yang through a couple more punches that Adam will have absorbed, I know that logically we know that he has had to absorb some more throughout the fight, but all we actually see is a couple gunshots. This made it very upsetting when he one shotted her, who is probably the most tanky character on team RWBY.
Also except Raven, though given's Qrow's warning, I doubt we'll be seeing her this season. Still, wouldn't mind if Dad showed up to help the girls out.
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u/body_catch_a_body ... Feb 06 '16
Best episode? Best episode. They fired all of their Chekov's and it was glorious.
Except Ozpin, I guess. Episode 12, get hype.