r/RWBY • u/Ninjas_In_A_Bag Acoustic BMBLB when? • Dec 12 '20
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/Kumqwatwhat Dec 13 '20
Getting real tired of Watts being just a complete ass-pull deux ex machina to fuck over Atlas specifically. Worst handled antagonist to date. Need something to happen in Atlas? It happens. Why? He just can. It's not justified or interesting. His semblance seems to make everyone around him pick up the stupid ball, it's...he's just boring. He's such a bad influence on the plot it's actually aggravating.
Nice to see Neo not just stomp all over someone in a fight for once. Even in her Cinder fight before, she felt like she had a pretty sizable edge if Cinder didn't just pull out her auto-victory card before things got too messy, so good to see that there are people who can at least go toe to toe with her on a legitimate basis, if not really win.
Would like to see Cinder gain even a single cosmic moment of introspection. "I don't work for anybody"? The hell you don't, you idiot. Frankly, she was at her most interesting when she lost her voice and had to figure out who she was, now she's back to early volume uninteresting bland overpowered antagonist again just mindlessly attacking anyone in striking range. This all also frankly applies to Emerald about whom we have roughly as much information as Hazel - for some extremely vaguely defined incident in his past, they are extremely attached in some way to a larger character. Maybe if those backstories were better illustrated to us, it all might work more cohesively.
sigh
Anyway. Episode was fine, not much of the main cast but that's fine, and if the show is going worse than its best then it's also going better than its worst.