This is one of my favorite episodes in the series. We don't see a lot of the characters' routine lives: training, working, and bonding together. It's a welcome change of pace from always risking their lives and facing world-shadowing problems.
18:14 This has very "celebrities saying "We're all in the same boat" energy xD This was like 3 months before COVID lockdowns started, so perfect timing for it as well.
Lol! About Winter's eyebrows, there is actually an old fan theory that winter dyes her hair white, to more resemble her Shnee heritage. Jacques had black hair when he was younger, you can see it in a portrait of him in the Shnee manor.
Fun facts Fact 1: Most of the names on the mission board are people that worked on RWBY. Fact 2: According to the Volume 7 Crew Commentary, the penguins seen in the Solitas tundra were possibly going to be a Grimm species. Fact 3: Originally, the scene featuring Weiss and Winter visiting Fria was going to be Winter getting an alert from Ironwood and having to leave, and Weiss following her suspiciously. However, it worked better as Winter revealing a secret while Weiss was still keeping one. Fact 4: After this episode came out and featured penguins, Miles explained that they wish to show more animals in RWBY, but did not have the budget and time to do so. Fact 5: The fight between Weiss and Winter with them both using their summons is a callback to them training together in Lessons Learned. Fact 6: The writers originally were not sure about having a montage in this episode. Originally, there was no montage in the episode with the team instead sitting around a table talking about what they did. Fact 7: The encounter with Robyn Hill was a late addition to the outline for the episode. She originally was not going to be introduced until A Night Off during her election rally, but they wanted to put the two factions head to head earlier on.
May Merrigold is voiced by a former RT employee named Kdin Jenzen. There are a lot of similarities between the character and her voice actress that you will find out later. I like how Winter pointed out to Weiss that despite the faults Weiss had in her technique she managed to learn how to own them and use them to her advantage.
Quite like that scene with Winter and Weiss, with Winter saying she can own a choice even if it wasn't her idea. If it fits with her own ambitions, or can be shaped to fit, that's the most important thing, not who makes the offer, who sets up the possibility. But you need to be super clear about what you do want to be and do, so you can be confident that you're not being exploited. Which isn't easy, as Weiss knows. Separately, Yang's semblance started as her hair just glowing brightly. It's gotten more fiery since then, but I think that's more to look better than actual flames.
So there is a funny joke of why the moms are flirting over Jaune during the scene when he's safely getting the kids across the street. So during the RWBY Panel at RTX, the cast were tasked on giving a simple 3 words answer on what the viewers would expect in Volume 7. So when it was Miles' turn, he got a text from Eddy Rivas for an answer. The answer that Eddy gave to Miles were the words "Real Thirsty Moms"
Neon’s black eye; Not a semblance. Her rainbows are her semblance. Aura lets everyone heal faster, but I think it vanishing as fast as Jaune’s would is just a comedic beat.
Winter's eyebrows, it's actually genetic from her father, Jacques dyes his eyebrows and had black hair when he was younger, whitley and weiss both take after their mother for the Happy Huntresses Robyn Hill - Robin Hood - the leader, her semblance will come up in a bit, its not mind reading tho May Marigold, with the blue hair (yes she's related to Henry Marigold, cousin iirc, and HATES her family, for a variety of reasons) - maid marian - she's the one with the stealth semblance that cloaked her and Joanna Joanna Greenleaf - Little John - the big tough bruiser of the group, her semblance is currently unknown and Fiona Thyme, the cute lamb of the group - Friar Tuck - she has a great semblance that i refuse to spoil, it will come up soon as well and its bonkers and cool
The card game between Qrow and Clover is fun to think about... at first you might presume Qrow will lose, Clover will win, and they are just playing out of boredom/interest to see how the cards fall. But if their semblances are areas of effect, and overlap in some way, then it may create a neutral zone between them! If so, that means it is likely the first fair card game either of them have ever played! Qrow probably avoids games of chance like this, Clover too (where's the fun if you always win?) so it was pretty heart-warming to see these two bros find a moment to experience something so simple but yet denied to them their whole lives. And even funnier then that Clover still wins, and explains why Qrow was extra salty about still losing under fair conditions! That or Clover's semblance is just slightly stronger. As I said, fun to think about and more than meets the eye on first watch.
I completely agree! It's actually really funny because there is also the arguement for another layer deeper than that. Qrow has definitively shown that he *does* know how to use his semblance *on other people* (just that it's hard to control). So there is a version of this where Qrow is trying to use his semblance to "Give Clover Bad Luck". On the other hand, there is also the possibility that Clover, being the gentlemen he is that knows "Qrow has bad luck", might actually be trying to use his semblance to give Qrow better luck. And despite that, Qrow still loses, because he has less control of his semblance than clover (This part is well known). Very fun thought experiment to consider.
I love the irony of Jaune who hasn't been able to get the girl for nearly 7 volumes, now having a lot of thirsty (presumably single) Mom's to contend with.
so I will just say the montage is supposed to convey a lot of time has past, at least several weeks if not months. So if you wanted to watch the justice league x rwby movie it takes place during the montage. Not part 2 though, part 2 takes place after season 9
14:36 thats how the Faunus of the White Fang started and that went... bad. Loved that ep, even if just for the scene at 2:51, showing off bbs teamwork ^^
Masterful discussion as always. These relationships are very interesting and so varied. With more interest and variety to come D: I never caught on about Winter's eyebrows!
Much as I hate Jacques...he's got a point. Ironwood has had his embargo and martial law in place for far longer than the fall of Vale warrants, and he is refusing to do anything to stop his actions from harming the populace. For all Jacques is a self-serving weasel...I can't deny that his public reasoning has merit.
Let's not give Jacques THAT much credit...... You can bet that 'Doctor' Watts gave Jacques that public viewpoint. 🤣 Clip on tie doesn't strike me as ever being 'down to Earth's enough to care about ppl outside Schnee Manor.
At the risk of sounding too pro Ironwood, the embargo and their paranoia makes sense. The last time the Towers were up and allowing communication was the Fall of Beacon. And, the entire world was tuned in and watching the Games. And what they saw was Ironwood appearing so helpless and useless that he couldn't stop what was happening. Suspiciously helpless, especially when thousands of Ironwood's own robots turned on the entirety of the Beacon populace and started helping the Grimm. So, Ironwood pulling all of his soldiers and ships back until he can reassure the world that he was not involved makes sense. He's also taking the most expensive thing Atlas owns, something the world has viewed forever as a symbol of friendship, and transforming it into a satellite to reestablish communications worldwide. If trade remained consistent without interruption, no one would trust Atlas. "Who knows if the extra half dozen or so Atlas ships in port at Shade are filled with robotic soldiers ready to pull another Beacon instead of trade? Better to strike first and start bombing Atlas before they get us!" Salem is smart. The perfect way to alienate the number one military power from the rest of the world is by making it seem as if they are trying to take over, and will even stoop to using Grimm to do so.
@@highlander31527 The problem with this is that Mantle is suffering. So for the sake of his PR, he is sentencing them to increasingly difficult lives while doing nothing to reassure them he's got their interests at heart. He only cares about Atlas as his priority. The irony being he has far more in common, and probably would be much more fond of, Mantle if he only went down and actually interacted with the people there. He's so convinced that this is the only way forward that he isn't listening to the voices he should be listening to. Schnee isn't the one with good arguments, but there's others raising good questions. The problem isn't his plan, it's how he's carrying it out and the fact that he also isn't trusting anyone enough to listen to their input or let Mantle in on the plan. He's too paranoid about potential security breaches, and rather than focusing on resolving those and bringing in more people he can trust, he's letting that paranoia leave Mantle out in the (kind of literal) cold. I don't want to give too much away, but it's pretty neat how well Rwby repeats themes across volumes and characters.
There is also the point of fatigue and keeping your resources combined before a major engagement. They are about to set off a nation wide panic; they don't need to be scrambling troops back to Atlas just before releasing the info. Further, having foreign traders in port when the info released would cause a corrupted, panicked spread of information rather than a precise, full disclosure to the other nations after the army has had time to defend Atlas from the upcoming Grimm invasion due to panic.
@@bulletsandbracelets4140 I get what you are saying, but you are remarkably shortsighted and hopeful. In politics and espionage, everything leaks. It always leaks. Ironwood brings Robyn Hill in on his plan to assure her and Mantle's cooperation. Then, you have the Happy Huntresses demanding to know why Robyn changed her stance on Ironwood, and why she is helping him. Robyn tells a few to ensure their cooperation, who then cooperate, and in turn tell a few key high profile Mantle citizens to ensure their cooperation, who then tell a few friends, and then it just becomes an open secret among all of the Mantle and Atlas citizens that Amity arena is being turned into a comms tower for the betterment of the world, and factions arise that don't care about that. Those factions then look for ways to sabotage the project, because they are more concerned with what their priorities rather than reestablishing global communication. You seem to think that everyone is nice, polite, and will just go along as long as they are in on the plan. That is not human nature. If the White Fang had caught wind of this project, they'd be all over it in a second. Granted, Adam is now dead, but that will do nothing to assuage the belief of Ironwood or even the average citizen of Atlas or Mantle that the White Fang is no longer a threat. To say nothing of the forces largely unknown to Ironwood that Salem possesses. As of right now, Ironwood knows of Hazel, Cinder, Mercury, and Emerald. He thinks Torchwick and Neo are dead, and knew they weren't the brains of the operation. He knows next to nothing of who or what is arrayed against him, only that they treated his security and tech as a joke, which as Dr. Polendina put it, means that there is someone really, really, tech smart on the enemy side, or that Ironwood has a mole in his security actively working with Salem to undermine him. We all know it is Watts, but Ironwood doesn't know that. People throwing a trash can through a billboard is far more manageable than an armed terrorist group with explosives and a plan showing up at your super secret project at a dust mine that has already blown up once.
I would love to see you guys react to Gildedguy Stories from Gildedguy. He's an animator who makes completely hand drawn animations with no spoken dialogue with only music and visuals to tell the stories he wants to tell. I think you two would love to watch him and his work. In fact, you may have seen a hint of his work in one of your previous reactions over on your Games channel.
I'd like to recommend reacting to RWBY Chibi at this time, because it's something of a comical relief series of 3 or 4 seasons. Secondly I'd say part 1 of the DC crossover movie(btw there's a RWBY Justice League crossover if you didn't know)should be watched around the end of volume 7 or maybe even during 8, part 2 should be after 9. I'm basing this off of the shows timeline. P.s. Hope I didn't spoil anything or cause any problems.
Ken & Beth, you made some great points in the post-chapter discussion. But, there's one thing I believe must be said about trust. It is a risk. And without that, life has a lack of a spark, I think. That chance to trust, to believe, to love, or to make a choice. It makes us human, for good or bad. Okay... .. that's too deep even for me!! LoL Well, let's see what 'riot control' looks like there next chapter. Til then, Happy Memorial Day weekend. Be safe & STAY GOLDEN!! 🫡🌹❄️🖤🔥
The blue haired character called "May" who is with the happy huntresses is the first trans character in RWBY btw. Also I think discussing Irondwoods character is a bit complicated without his semblence which for some reason is not in the actual show and has to be looked up through other sources.
@@highlander31527 pretty sure Ken and Bethany would be happy to know that there is a trans character in the show if anything. It's cool to have representation in media.
@@wavemoon No one but your own kind likes you. And even then, most of you hate each other for passing better in some way. Lip service. You ruined RWBY, and still unhappy, ruined Rooster Teeth. Congratulations. Your kind destroy everything they touch. Especially children. Stop touching things.
@@derykjames620 That is such a vague and obscure reference. You might as well use "BOOB" as something for Wiess, since her sister called her that ONCE.
I think Weiss is aware of the "hypocrisy" at play. She said EVERYONE thinks what they're doing is right. She doesn't believe herself or her friends to be exempt from that observation.
How is it hypocritical? She isn’t claiming to have all the answers. Even Ruby herself is immediately conflicted by her actions. Rwby haters always call them hypocrites when the characters point out the exact same grievances the haters make. You’d think these would be moments where you would see the nuance and be glad they they are addressing these concerns. If only you were aware enough.
She is extremely aware of how hypocritical it is. That's actually half of the point of this scene (the other half being that she wants to make sure Winter isn't misplacing her trust). Shes literally vocally acknowledging that *Everyone* thinks what they are doing is right. This was actually them trying to show you that *Weiss is also conflicted about not telling Ironwood* without her actually spelling it out verbatim (since it wouldn't make sense to, she can't actually tell Winter without her informing Ironwood potentially, after all). Please, try to give the show some credit. I know it isn't perfect. But please.
Him shutting down non-essentials was an inevitability. Money is not infinite and without being able to properly export and import he is bleeding dry. Hell they can't even import essentials like food so that resource is being limited as well. Few countries can self-sustain their whole populace and others rely on imports, especially in places where the environment is bad for plant life like a snowy wasteland. So he will eventually have to choose to shut down or enforce slave labor. Those precious gems, a palace, etc won't do any good when the economy is screwed. Nobody is going to buy gems when food costs more and more as the supply lowers. You think people can live off eating pretty rocks? The part that makes him bad is that he didn't need to do this now. He exacerbated the issue by acting before he needed to and timed it to gain votes and political sway. This would have never of happened if Ironwood didn't force an embargo, which everybody except Ironwood's group sees it as a bad thing.
To be fair, not even all of Ironwoods group agrees with it (Winter vocalized this during this episode!). But they trust him and believe he has more information and reason to do it.
Let them guess, it's more fun this way. If they are right then they get the satisfaction of being right at the reveal. If they are wrong, then we get the satisfaction of finding out their surprise at the reveal. :)
3:23
I've noticed the little girl getting embarrassed about her mom trying to give Jaune another casserole before.
3:19 I belive during a convention pannel when asked what to expect from volume 7, one the cast said "Real. Thirsty. Moms." And here we are
This is actually exactly what they said.
This is one of my favorite episodes in the series. We don't see a lot of the characters' routine lives: training, working, and bonding together. It's a welcome change of pace from always risking their lives and facing world-shadowing problems.
Also has a cute moment between Clover and Qrow.
18:14 This has very "celebrities saying "We're all in the same boat" energy xD This was like 3 months before COVID lockdowns started, so perfect timing for it as well.
Ship Names:
Ren and Nora: "Flower Power"
Ruby and Penny: "Nuts and Dolts"
Qrow and Clover: "Fair Game"
Blake and Yang: "Bumblebee"
ya mean renora, nuts and doltz, lucky charms, and bmblby.
I'm just picking its the same ships but different name variants .
Lol! About Winter's eyebrows, there is actually an old fan theory that winter dyes her hair white, to more resemble her Shnee heritage. Jacques had black hair when he was younger, you can see it in a portrait of him in the Shnee manor.
Its funny cuz I dont think I ever noticed until they mentioned it here that her eyebrows are black xD
Damn she got dad's hair color. But why didn't she dye her brows like him? Maybe it symbolizes her accepting a part of who she is?
I dont think he dyed his brows. I think he just got old and salty enough to go full colonel@@allanguevara87
My theory is she dyes them Black because subconsciously Ironwood is her replacement father figure and it’s a way to identify with him and not Jacques.
Fun facts
Fact 1: Most of the names on the mission board are people that worked on RWBY.
Fact 2: According to the Volume 7 Crew Commentary, the penguins seen in the Solitas tundra were possibly going to be a Grimm species.
Fact 3: Originally, the scene featuring Weiss and Winter visiting Fria was going to be Winter getting an alert from Ironwood and having to leave, and Weiss following her suspiciously. However, it worked better as Winter revealing a secret while Weiss was still keeping one.
Fact 4: After this episode came out and featured penguins, Miles explained that they wish to show more animals in RWBY, but did not have the budget and time to do so.
Fact 5: The fight between Weiss and Winter with them both using their summons is a callback to them training together in Lessons Learned.
Fact 6: The writers originally were not sure about having a montage in this episode. Originally, there was no montage in the episode with the team instead sitting around a table talking about what they did.
Fact 7: The encounter with Robyn Hill was a late addition to the outline for the episode. She originally was not going to be introduced until A Night Off during her election rally, but they wanted to put the two factions head to head earlier on.
May Merrigold is voiced by a former RT employee named Kdin Jenzen. There are a lot of similarities between the character and her voice actress that you will find out later. I like how Winter pointed out to Weiss that despite the faults Weiss had in her technique she managed to learn how to own them and use them to her advantage.
4:50, anybody notice Nora was RIDING her Granade Luancher?
She's literally been doing that since V1, in one form or another.
Quite like that scene with Winter and Weiss, with Winter saying she can own a choice even if it wasn't her idea. If it fits with her own ambitions, or can be shaped to fit, that's the most important thing, not who makes the offer, who sets up the possibility. But you need to be super clear about what you do want to be and do, so you can be confident that you're not being exploited. Which isn't easy, as Weiss knows.
Separately, Yang's semblance started as her hair just glowing brightly. It's gotten more fiery since then, but I think that's more to look better than actual flames.
So there is a funny joke of why the moms are flirting over Jaune during the scene when he's safely getting the kids across the street. So during the RWBY Panel at RTX, the cast were tasked on giving a simple 3 words answer on what the viewers would expect in Volume 7. So when it was Miles' turn, he got a text from Eddy Rivas for an answer. The answer that Eddy gave to Miles were the words "Real Thirsty Moms"
Fun fact...the producers mentioned something real before the volume was out....real thirsty mom's. 😜 And now you know
'Don't worry, Jaune...... Think of it as "Public Service". 🤣🤣🤣
And this is the episode where we get to see the other members of Flynt and Neon from the Weiss and Yang tournament fight's team, Kobalt and Ivori.
Neon’s black eye;
Not a semblance. Her rainbows are her semblance. Aura lets everyone heal faster, but I think it vanishing as fast as Jaune’s would is just a comedic beat.
It makes her look like a cat.
You know, how some cats have a patch of different coloured fur around one eye.
Yang always turn super saiyan when she uses her semblance
Winter's eyebrows, it's actually genetic from her father, Jacques dyes his eyebrows and had black hair when he was younger, whitley and weiss both take after their mother
for the Happy Huntresses
Robyn Hill - Robin Hood - the leader, her semblance will come up in a bit, its not mind reading tho
May Marigold, with the blue hair (yes she's related to Henry Marigold, cousin iirc, and HATES her family, for a variety of reasons) - maid marian - she's the one with the stealth semblance that cloaked her and Joanna
Joanna Greenleaf - Little John - the big tough bruiser of the group, her semblance is currently unknown
and Fiona Thyme, the cute lamb of the group - Friar Tuck - she has a great semblance that i refuse to spoil, it will come up soon as well and its bonkers and cool
Robin hill and happy huntress = Robin hood and his merrymen..women version
The card game between Qrow and Clover is fun to think about... at first you might presume Qrow will lose, Clover will win, and they are just playing out of boredom/interest to see how the cards fall. But if their semblances are areas of effect, and overlap in some way, then it may create a neutral zone between them! If so, that means it is likely the first fair card game either of them have ever played!
Qrow probably avoids games of chance like this, Clover too (where's the fun if you always win?) so it was pretty heart-warming to see these two bros find a moment to experience something so simple but yet denied to them their whole lives. And even funnier then that Clover still wins, and explains why Qrow was extra salty about still losing under fair conditions! That or Clover's semblance is just slightly stronger. As I said, fun to think about and more than meets the eye on first watch.
I completely agree! It's actually really funny because there is also the arguement for another layer deeper than that.
Qrow has definitively shown that he *does* know how to use his semblance *on other people* (just that it's hard to control). So there is a version of this where Qrow is trying to use his semblance to "Give Clover Bad Luck".
On the other hand, there is also the possibility that Clover, being the gentlemen he is that knows "Qrow has bad luck", might actually be trying to use his semblance to give Qrow better luck.
And despite that, Qrow still loses, because he has less control of his semblance than clover (This part is well known).
Very fun thought experiment to consider.
4:05, all she does is ROOT herself in place. You wouldn't think of that as a super power, but, she REALLY makes it work.
I love the irony of Jaune who hasn't been able to get the girl for nearly 7 volumes, now having a lot of thirsty (presumably single) Mom's to contend with.
8:22 you missed qrow saying he quit drinking
so I will just say the montage is supposed to convey a lot of time has past, at least several weeks if not months. So if you wanted to watch the justice league x rwby movie it takes place during the montage. Not part 2 though, part 2 takes place after season 9
14:36 thats how the Faunus of the White Fang started and that went... bad. Loved that ep, even if just for the scene at 2:51, showing off bbs teamwork ^^
Touch her and read mind....nope...but your close
One thing to keep in mind is during the montage is roughly a one year time skip happens which is also when the RWBY game Arrowfell takes place.
Was it really a whole year? I don’t remember the time skip being that long.
I think it was just a few months
@@SaintMarianneyeah i know there is a time skip, but id be hard pressed to believe its that long unless i see that confirmed somewhere official.
And also part 1 of justice league/RWBY crossover
That and part 1 of the justice league movie
The scene with Winter and Weiss actually triggered me. Remember it when you get to season 8.
Joana based on little John, may based on maid Marion and the cute lamb fanaus who's name escapes me... friar tuck
Fiona Thyme :)
@@peritia5703 thanks for reminding
Exactly you gotta put yourself out there or you'll never make meaningful connections.
The last kid crossing the pedestrian 🤣😂
The ONLY reason Jock, how ever your dapposed to pronunciation his name, wants in on the Council, is to LIFT the embargo.
Y'all's discussion: 👀
Masterful discussion as always. These relationships are very interesting and so varied. With more interest and variety to come D:
I never caught on about Winter's eyebrows!
Much as I hate Jacques...he's got a point. Ironwood has had his embargo and martial law in place for far longer than the fall of Vale warrants, and he is refusing to do anything to stop his actions from harming the populace. For all Jacques is a self-serving weasel...I can't deny that his public reasoning has merit.
Let's not give Jacques THAT much credit...... You can bet that 'Doctor' Watts gave Jacques that public viewpoint. 🤣 Clip on tie doesn't strike me as ever being 'down to Earth's enough to care about ppl outside Schnee Manor.
At the risk of sounding too pro Ironwood, the embargo and their paranoia makes sense.
The last time the Towers were up and allowing communication was the Fall of Beacon. And, the entire world was tuned in and watching the Games. And what they saw was Ironwood appearing so helpless and useless that he couldn't stop what was happening. Suspiciously helpless, especially when thousands of Ironwood's own robots turned on the entirety of the Beacon populace and started helping the Grimm.
So, Ironwood pulling all of his soldiers and ships back until he can reassure the world that he was not involved makes sense. He's also taking the most expensive thing Atlas owns, something the world has viewed forever as a symbol of friendship, and transforming it into a satellite to reestablish communications worldwide.
If trade remained consistent without interruption, no one would trust Atlas. "Who knows if the extra half dozen or so Atlas ships in port at Shade are filled with robotic soldiers ready to pull another Beacon instead of trade? Better to strike first and start bombing Atlas before they get us!"
Salem is smart. The perfect way to alienate the number one military power from the rest of the world is by making it seem as if they are trying to take over, and will even stoop to using Grimm to do so.
@@highlander31527 The problem with this is that Mantle is suffering. So for the sake of his PR, he is sentencing them to increasingly difficult lives while doing nothing to reassure them he's got their interests at heart. He only cares about Atlas as his priority. The irony being he has far more in common, and probably would be much more fond of, Mantle if he only went down and actually interacted with the people there.
He's so convinced that this is the only way forward that he isn't listening to the voices he should be listening to. Schnee isn't the one with good arguments, but there's others raising good questions. The problem isn't his plan, it's how he's carrying it out and the fact that he also isn't trusting anyone enough to listen to their input or let Mantle in on the plan. He's too paranoid about potential security breaches, and rather than focusing on resolving those and bringing in more people he can trust, he's letting that paranoia leave Mantle out in the (kind of literal) cold.
I don't want to give too much away, but it's pretty neat how well Rwby repeats themes across volumes and characters.
There is also the point of fatigue and keeping your resources combined before a major engagement. They are about to set off a nation wide panic; they don't need to be scrambling troops back to Atlas just before releasing the info.
Further, having foreign traders in port when the info released would cause a corrupted, panicked spread of information rather than a precise, full disclosure to the other nations after the army has had time to defend Atlas from the upcoming Grimm invasion due to panic.
@@bulletsandbracelets4140 I get what you are saying, but you are remarkably shortsighted and hopeful.
In politics and espionage, everything leaks. It always leaks. Ironwood brings Robyn Hill in on his plan to assure her and Mantle's cooperation. Then, you have the Happy Huntresses demanding to know why Robyn changed her stance on Ironwood, and why she is helping him. Robyn tells a few to ensure their cooperation, who then cooperate, and in turn tell a few key high profile Mantle citizens to ensure their cooperation, who then tell a few friends, and then it just becomes an open secret among all of the Mantle and Atlas citizens that Amity arena is being turned into a comms tower for the betterment of the world, and factions arise that don't care about that. Those factions then look for ways to sabotage the project, because they are more concerned with what their priorities rather than reestablishing global communication.
You seem to think that everyone is nice, polite, and will just go along as long as they are in on the plan. That is not human nature.
If the White Fang had caught wind of this project, they'd be all over it in a second. Granted, Adam is now dead, but that will do nothing to assuage the belief of Ironwood or even the average citizen of Atlas or Mantle that the White Fang is no longer a threat. To say nothing of the forces largely unknown to Ironwood that Salem possesses. As of right now, Ironwood knows of Hazel, Cinder, Mercury, and Emerald. He thinks Torchwick and Neo are dead, and knew they weren't the brains of the operation. He knows next to nothing of who or what is arrayed against him, only that they treated his security and tech as a joke, which as Dr. Polendina put it, means that there is someone really, really, tech smart on the enemy side, or that Ironwood has a mole in his security actively working with Salem to undermine him. We all know it is Watts, but Ironwood doesn't know that.
People throwing a trash can through a billboard is far more manageable than an armed terrorist group with explosives and a plan showing up at your super secret project at a dust mine that has already blown up once.
This episode houses one my favorite RWBY songs.
This reliving is something I've loved has been a balm on the end of RT. I hope RWBY survives because she and they deserve to
The single moms are coming for Jaune! XD
lol, the eyebrow comment is so true. I need answers!
Robin Hill and Happy Huntresses = Robin HOOD and Marrey Men.
10:50, VERY CLOSE. 😮
I would love to see you guys react to Gildedguy Stories from Gildedguy. He's an animator who makes completely hand drawn animations with no spoken dialogue with only music and visuals to tell the stories he wants to tell. I think you two would love to watch him and his work. In fact, you may have seen a hint of his work in one of your previous reactions over on your Games channel.
I'd like to recommend reacting to RWBY Chibi at this time, because it's something of a comical relief series of 3 or 4 seasons. Secondly I'd say part 1 of the DC crossover movie(btw there's a RWBY Justice League crossover if you didn't know)should be watched around the end of volume 7 or maybe even during 8, part 2 should be after 9. I'm basing this off of the shows timeline.
P.s. Hope I didn't spoil anything or cause any problems.
Let the negativity roll in, let the hate call the grim
I really love the montage this episode.
Ken & Beth, you made some great points in the post-chapter discussion. But, there's one thing I believe must be said about trust. It is a risk. And without that, life has a lack of a spark, I think. That chance to trust, to believe, to love, or to make a choice. It makes us human, for good or bad. Okay...
.. that's too deep even for me!! LoL
Well, let's see what 'riot control' looks like there next chapter. Til then, Happy Memorial Day weekend. Be safe & STAY GOLDEN!! 🫡🌹❄️🖤🔥
I am such a Nuts 'n' Dolts shipper.
Any one shooing Clover and Qrow or am I the only one
The blue haired character called "May" who is with the happy huntresses is the first trans character in RWBY btw.
Also I think discussing Irondwoods character is a bit complicated without his semblence which for some reason is not in the actual show and has to be looked up through other sources.
Your kind are what destroyed this show with your agendas. Knock it off, and don't ruin it for Ken and Bethany too.
@@highlander31527 pretty sure Ken and Bethany would be happy to know that there is a trans character in the show if anything.
It's cool to have representation in media.
@@wavemoon No one but your own kind likes you. And even then, most of you hate each other for passing better in some way. Lip service. You ruined RWBY, and still unhappy, ruined Rooster Teeth. Congratulations. Your kind destroy everything they touch. Especially children. Stop touching things.
@@highlander31527 based on the language may uses at one point it is made extremely obvious that she's trans
@@highlander31527 "your kind" ok talk like a supervillain more its very convincing
these episode are so good
❤ or 👍 if you would SHIP Ruby and Penny?
Ru-Ny?
Pe-By?
"Red Thread of Fate", becouse RUBY, and Penny is based on an actual puppet?
It's "Nuts and Dolts"
@@derykjames620 ???
What's the reference? The Nuts I get, but why dolts?
@jdogx211 Because it rhymes with "bolts" and Weiss called Ruby a "dolt" once
@@derykjames620 That is such a vague and obscure reference. You might as well use "BOOB" as something for Wiess, since her sister called her that ONCE.
Not cake! 😆
14:33 If only Weiss was aware enough to see the hypocrisy of her one statement with Ruby Lying to Ironwood.
I think Weiss is aware of the "hypocrisy" at play. She said EVERYONE thinks what they're doing is right. She doesn't believe herself or her friends to be exempt from that observation.
How is it hypocritical? She isn’t claiming to have all the answers. Even Ruby herself is immediately conflicted by her actions. Rwby haters always call them hypocrites when the characters point out the exact same grievances the haters make. You’d think these would be moments where you would see the nuance and be glad they they are addressing these concerns. If only you were aware enough.
She is extremely aware of how hypocritical it is. That's actually half of the point of this scene (the other half being that she wants to make sure Winter isn't misplacing her trust). Shes literally vocally acknowledging that *Everyone* thinks what they are doing is right. This was actually them trying to show you that *Weiss is also conflicted about not telling Ironwood* without her actually spelling it out verbatim (since it wouldn't make sense to, she can't actually tell Winter without her informing Ironwood potentially, after all). Please, try to give the show some credit. I know it isn't perfect. But please.
Him shutting down non-essentials was an inevitability. Money is not infinite and without being able to properly export and import he is bleeding dry. Hell they can't even import essentials like food so that resource is being limited as well. Few countries can self-sustain their whole populace and others rely on imports, especially in places where the environment is bad for plant life like a snowy wasteland.
So he will eventually have to choose to shut down or enforce slave labor. Those precious gems, a palace, etc won't do any good when the economy is screwed. Nobody is going to buy gems when food costs more and more as the supply lowers. You think people can live off eating pretty rocks?
The part that makes him bad is that he didn't need to do this now. He exacerbated the issue by acting before he needed to and timed it to gain votes and political sway. This would have never of happened if Ironwood didn't force an embargo, which everybody except Ironwood's group sees it as a bad thing.
To be fair, not even all of Ironwoods group agrees with it (Winter vocalized this during this episode!). But they trust him and believe he has more information and reason to do it.
It's not mind reading but you will learn about Robyns semblance later
Let them guess, it's more fun this way. If they are right then they get the satisfaction of being right at the reveal. If they are wrong, then we get the satisfaction of finding out their surprise at the reveal. :)
Well there she is. The trans rep character that does nothing for two seasons.
Penny is better trans rep.