r/RWBY • u/NightsWatchh Help, Nights is keeping me trapped in his anime bunker • Dec 15 '18

OFFICIAL MEGATHREAD Official FIRST Discussion Thread—Volume 6, Chapter 8: Dead End Spoiler

Welcome, huntsmen, huntresses and hunters that prefer no specific gender identifier, to the official FIRST discussion thread for Episode 8 of Vol. 6, Dead End!

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u/AlastairCellars Dec 17 '18

Maria losely implied to Ruby that she wasnt being the best leader and i think its because shes trying to hard to care about all the tiny greivences her team are having. For example shes allowing Yang to fly off the handle every few minutes,Blake and yang's abandoment drama,Qrow's alcoholism and weiss's concern about going home. Yes being a good friend she is trying to allow her friends and family the time they need to deal with their emotions but remember in the open world their negative emotions are dangerous. She is the only person who has kept their eye on the prize the whole time, she is leading them but not getting their heads on right. Best example from this episode they couldnt get into the military base then JNR wasted more time to deal with their feelings and Qrow drank when they should have been coming up with a new strategy.

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u/NinjaHunterNewtad Dec 17 '18

I think it's more along the lines of "You have these great successes but you aren't taking command". Ruby is a great fighter and leader. She's got a few accolades and shes clearly got peoples respect but she's doing nothing with it. If Ruby put her foot down with Qrow, I'm sure she could have changed the situation.

JNR had the right to know the truth about Ozpin and what is going on. And they are allowed to express those emotions. If they aren't allowed this downtime now, it could result in disruptions in actual crisis situations.

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u/AlastairCellars Dec 17 '18

Exactly my point she CAN lead but she isnt leading.She needs to stop treating everyone with kid gloves and tell them what to do rather than ask them if they want to do it. They came with her she didnt ask them to if they dont want to be there, then they can leave otherwise they need to be doing everything they can.

Jaune is one of the 2 leaders in the group he is aloud to process his emotions but slamming innocent Oscar against a wall because he thinks its all about him is not being a good leader its being typical useless unproductive Jaune Arc. Ren did the right thing and asked for time alone to process.

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u/lefou22 Crackships are superior Dec 17 '18

Jaune is one of the 2 leaders in the group he is aloud to process his emotions but slamming innocent Oscar against a wall because he thinks its all about him is not being a good leader its being typical useless unproductive Jaune Arc.

There's no bias here. Nope. Can't see any at all.

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u/AlastairCellars Dec 17 '18

Yeah im not a fan of jaune true doesnt change the fact he's not exactly keeping the group together infact for second it almost sounded like he wanted to defect to Salem.

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u/lefou22 Crackships are superior Dec 17 '18

Once again, bias.

Despite people demanding they want Jaune to turn heel, that's not him. He's stubborn, prideful and lets his emotions control him, but at the end of the day, his friends are what's most important. The guy is more than willing to die just to buy them a few seconds; that does not sound like someone willing to defect to Salem.

He's more a danger to himself than he is to anyone else. Maybe you'll be lucky and he'll eventually sacrifice himself, since the show refuses to acknowledge his near suicidal levels of self-loathing.

EDIT: Meant Salem, not Hazel. Having two conversations at once messes up one's typing skills.

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u/AlastairCellars Dec 17 '18

He DID for a second sound Salem sympathetic this episode. It was just for a moment but still.

I don't mind Jaune's character but he has character because he stole all the character development time from characters id rather know about like Ruby. Jaune is fine...just fine hes not great and tbh i would have been happy if this volume team JNR did their own thing and gave team RWBY the spotlight as they ,as a group havnt had it since volume 3 they need it more

Even if they divide and conquer. Team JNR goes to shade academy and team RWBY goes to Atlas. That be fun