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First Impressions of RWBY v8e13, “Worthy”

"Worthy", huh. From Watts' impassioned rant. So will this be Cinder's ultimate attack, and fall?

The tagline certainly suggests the plan is going to fail horribly; I just hope it doesn't take the population with it...

Oh, we're skipping back in time a bit! JNRE grappling with the problem of how to tell people to enter the portals.

Portal-space certainly looks cool. It reminds me of jewelry, the disks of the portals linked by golden strands, strewn across space. Specifically, it reminds me of the chain-jewelry that Ambrosius wears.

Most of them going ahead to warn Vacuo, smart. They're convinced the Academy there is "armed to the teeth" (how do they know, though?) , which helps explain why they chose it as a destination. And I'd thought about the major problem of feeding and housing X thousand refugees, but not the big honking wave of Grimm that will be coming their way with all the feelings.

Ren looks so proud of Nora there. And yeah, she and Jaune are the right choices to persuade crowds of people to walk into mysterious portals.

Emerald: oh my god, it's like a mandatory corporate morale-boosting meeting with you people EVERY FIVE MINUTES. Oscar: Yes and you signed up for it, so look perky.

That was a very bossy little silent display for someone half Emerald's height, Oscar. Like a headmaster to a student.

Question that will probably never be answered; how do they know where each of all those portals goes? They aren't labeled or even color coded.

Atlesian prairie dogs.

Whoa, and we're in Vacuo already! That was quick.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh crap. I'll take "Obvious-in-hindsight things I did not see coming" for 200, Alex.

Can't they just have them wait inside portal space? That's horribly dangerous, with the risk of falling off the edge, but probably better than a sandstorm.

OH NO. No, no they can't. When Ambrosius said "Do. Not. Fall." I didn't think it was foreshadowing random civilians!

They left Penny alone with the staff????

"Your little friend Oscar was right" about what? She's taunting them about having bugged all their scroll discussion, presumably. Which means she knows just about everything.

I don't know what I'm more surprised by - the prospect of the lamp question being used, or a sincere-sounding apology from Cinder.

Roman would've been tickled to know what his hat was being used for, I bet.

Watts looks more stunned by Jinn than anything else so far.

Jinn has to answer, but she doesn't seem at all happy about it. No small talk from her this time.

Cinder looks momentarily distressed at the sight of Emerald, but it's only a flicker.

....Uh. That's dark. I hope Bill called in sick today.

A happy Watts is not a good thing. And I'm impressed by how Cinder has bounced back and changed her tactics to be more diplomatic. Is any of it sincere? Doubtful, but it does the job.

oh my god, is Watts eating an apple as a deliberate reference to Death Note? That's hilarious. (Okay, it's not a potato chip. But I can't be the only one who instantly made the connection, and eating apples *was* a thing in that anime...)

ohhh no, this is bad. Shades of Beacon.

Kamikazebot. Elegant.

Annd Elm and Vine make a flying exit. They're going to be surprised by the state of the world outside.

Oh, shut up Jacques. Even Ironwood doesn't - well, maybe he does deserve to be stuck with you, but what a punishment.

Watts really is clever. I don't know what Ironwood will do, but it's reasonable to assume it'll be something awful. Will he really sabotage the evacuation out of spite? I know every time I've asked "but would he REALLY" the answer has been "Yup!", but this time.... this time I think we're approaching a classic Star Wars style atone-for-my-sins-with-my-heroic-death scene. Will the writers roll with the cliche or surprise me again?

They just left his guns on the floor outside his cell? I suppose they were in a tearing hurry and it seemed safe, but geez-

uh. what.

what

I'm certainly surprised, writers. But not in a good way. *cough* Moving on for now -

That's a very fetching disguise, Neo. And a nice fire tornado.

ohshitohshitohshitohshit

YANG!!

You can't do that. I mean, they can't do that. Can they? No.

So volume 9 will be the rescue mission?

Penny, you're not staying on task. That's bad. Get the effing relic to effing Vacuo.

Where *is* the staff? She must've done something with it.

Harriet is as crazy as her boss. Please don't let them join forces again.

Annnd all Watts has to do is autopilot the ship to the most damaging place possible. Which will be...I dunno. The Mantle crater, with lots of people still in it?

Winter, out of the loop. That must be so terrifying.

...oh. Now that's a showdown I hadn't expected. I don't know that she can solo him.

What on earth is the point of getting the staff now, Ironwo- oh nevermind. Completely insane villains are boring. I liked him so much more when he had a logical but diametrically opposed perspective.

"Oh dear"? I suppose Oz has been through too many catastrophes not to stay calm, but that seems excessive. (Also Ozpin never actually volunteers any plans or ideas anymore. He must’ve vowed to stay quiet and let Oscar handle everything, but also I suspect he’s lost all confidence in himself. And possibly was never all that good at crisis plans in this incarnation.)

They did clearly say one-way. I don't think this can be blamed on Ambrosius.

And here come the Grimm. Flying monkeys, your moment has arrived at last!

Er. ...Housing the refugees won't be nearly as big a problem if most of them are dead? I'm still totally unclear on how many people were in Atlas and Mantle, never mind how many have come through the portal vs. are in gatespace vs. are still back in the frozen north. The sandstorm conveniently obscures everything, so we could be looking at hundreds or thousands of casualties. Not much of a survival rate unless the Vacuo cavalry is right around the corner.

Oh duh, Watts is sending the bomb to the Vault. Which no longer strategically matters with the staff gone, but Ironwood is there, and who could resist the ultimate fuck-you of blowing him up with his own bomb?

Yep. That there was some penultimate-episode doom. It's going to take a bit for all this to sink in.

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