Volume 3 Chapter 6 Quick Review

Sorry that this is the first post in a while, it's been a busy week.

Anyway - RWBY. asifahdasihdasiodhas.

Animation: 

From the preview, I thought this episode would be another badass fight, but was actually treated to some crazy plot twists that I'll talk about later. The fight itself was awesome and well paced. Again, I love Mercury's tornado ammo things.

Face animation were on point as always, especially with Pyrrha's constant wide eyed "so this is a thing" faces. We also had Yang looking believably worried at her situation at the end.

One final point is that the Grimm were looking awesome at the end there.

Dialogue:

So we have the whole "Four Maidens" plot line now. I think that eventually we'll have team RWBY being the new Four Maidens eventually. Something will probably go wrong with Pyrhha's change, making Ruby the most viable option. Before then, we've got to have Cinder become all powerful of course.

Another thing that we may get to learn is who the "Old Man" who granted this ridiculous power is. We also got to hear a bit about Ozpin being immortal again with the whole "you're not that old", "Well..." bit.

Also, I believe that there make have been another power of magic out there, the same one bringing Grimm to the world, which is now held by Raven. But hey, that's just me :P

Worryingly, Cinder seems to have already stolen some of Amber's power, and obviously, she seems like she might be getting more powerful quite soon. 

Scenes:

Firstly - fight. Ngyahdahs. Awesome. We also know that Cinder seems to be capable of affecting what people in the arena see (Yatsuhashi behind Coco in chapter 4, and now Mercury attacking Yang in Chapter 6). Speaking of, Yang is royally screwed. Additionally she barely survived that fight, and something tells me that Merc hadn't been giving it his all.

There is also the fact that we got to see the final contestants there. A lot of familiar faces that were good to see, and some new, extremely dapper looking guys as well.

Finally, the Grimm are coming back, and oh boy does it look like they've felt a lot of unhappy people nearby...

Music:

Fight music was great as always. There was also a nice bit of forbodinginess in the first two thirds, but the best bit was undoubtedly in the scenes following Yang's "uncalled for" attack on Mercury. Hnng. Dat stuff was good.

Overall, I am loving this volume more and more. Bring best gurl Raven back, and I'm going to die of hype.

The Moon and Summer

Just a quick thought for today. Whilst watching the openings to find screenshots for other theories, I noticed that Summer crumbles away in the same way that the moon does, and in the exact same shot. This reminded me of part of an older theory I had in which I noticed how the moon seems to be in different stages of destruction in the different trailers.

In the "Red" Trailer, it is entirely unbroken, whereas, in the "White" Trailer, it shows signs of being slightly chipped. Only in the last two trailers is it in the same state as is shown in the series.

From this, I decided that unless this was an continuity error, the moon must have been destroyed quite recently, and will have likely have been due to team STRQ, and be directly linked to Summer's death. However, it only begins to shatter after she has died, implying that STRQ may have occidentally released something that began to destroy the moon, and killed Summer. What was released was likely related to Raven's disappearance, meaning that Summer will have died whilst the remainder of STRQ attempted to track down Raven.

Even if this were not the case, the fact that the moon was destroyed so recently would mean that it is likely to be unrelated to the creation of Dust and/or Grimm.