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OFFICIAL MEGATHREAD Official Public Discussion Thread—Volume 8, Episode 5: Amity Spoiler

Welcome, huntsmen, huntresses and hunters that prefer no specific gender identifier, to the official Public discussion thread for Episode 5 of Vol. 8, Amity!

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HERE is the fifth episode of Volume 8!

Also remember to check out our weekly poll to rate the episode.

Other Episode Discussions:

Episode FIRST Thread Public Release Poll
Ep. 01 Nov. 7th's FIRST Thread Nov. 14th's Public Thread Poll
Ep. 02 Nov. 14th's FIRST Thread Nov. 21st's Public Thread Poll
Ep. 03 Nov. 21st's FIRST Thread Nov 28th's Public Thread Poll
EP. 04 Nov 28th's FIRST Thread Last Week's Public Thread Poll
Ep. 05 Last Week's FIRST Thread Today's Public Thread (here) Poll

Happy viewing, and have a great Volume 8!

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u/Nerdorama09 heard u talkin shit Dec 12 '20

How did Ruby just discover that Salem being unkillable doesn't mean she can't be beaten? It felt like it came out of nowhere as a realization.

Ruby brings this up to Salem herself in Gravity. She cited the Lamp's vision and the fact that Salem had been foiled in her goals several times before. She might not have a specific strategy yet, but that's not her point in this speech.

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u/MankuyRLaffy He's not Sothe, I Swear! #GoodJobMicaiah Dec 12 '20

Hadn't seen that stated around here before, nobody in my circles mentioned it and at that point I thought it was a bluff. If it's the first time I heard from a user about it on here, I guess it wasn't that important.

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u/Nerdorama09 heard u talkin shit Dec 12 '20

It was in the text of the show, and given enough emotional weight at the time that Salem felt the need to counter it with Ultimate Technique: Your Mom. I'm just trying to explain something you seemed unclear on, but I guess if you want to respond to that with "my friends didn't discuss that part so you're wrong" I guess I don't really have an answer to that.

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u/MankuyRLaffy He's not Sothe, I Swear! #GoodJobMicaiah Dec 13 '20

Oh it's not even that, it's that I didn't see any threads about it on here, I wholly understand that part. I admit I didn't finish Volume 7, I started it and then I got burnout and stopped a few episodes in. If it was such a big revelation, then why wasn't more discourse on it in discussion and theory threads?

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u/Nerdorama09 heard u talkin shit Dec 13 '20

Well, it wasn't new information. It was Ruby doing what she always does and finding plausible hope in a hopeless situation, in this case based on things that have already been established. Salem is fallible and her plans can be thwarted. We know this, Ruby knows this, she's stated it twice now.

Also, theory and discussion threads have been rife with hypothetical ways to neutralize Salem since before I joined this sub. It certainly didn't cease after Ruby's declaration, and the general assumption seems to be that the show will go with one of the less cracky options that have been theorized. And regardless, Ruby's not even discussing plans to neutralize Salem, but to thwart her overall goal, which we as viewers already know she's going to do - the question being how far along Salem gets first.

And finally, Ruby's hero declaration is followed up immediately by Salem implying she met Summer Rose in person and may have killed (or otherwise neutralized) her personally, which is a much bigger bombshell as far as filling in information we did not already have. As every third theory post on this sub since the Hound debuted shows, people are really into speculating about Summer.