Qrow is fucking bi-polar. I swear he changed his stance three times in the course of one sentence. He starts off blaming Ironwood, then Tyrian was just too much, and then Qrow's semblance, but then Clover was an idiot who just wouldn't listen and finally back to Tyrian again.
Why is Robyn constantly talking about the fight like she wasn't knocked out cold for the majority of it? "He didn't kill him to do anything wrong. I know because I didn't witness jack shit."
And Robyn tries to compare her semblance to Qrows in how it isolates her. I'm sorry, shithead, they're not comparable. Qrow has an uncontrollable super power that forces misfortune on anyone around him all the time, even when his aura is broken. Your super power is being good at telling if someone's lying when they hold your hand. A lot of people can do that without super powers and it doesn't isolate them much.
I'll give this episode one thing, the action scene was actually pretty good, some nice camera work, good pacing, characters actually try to use their abilities creatively and I'm just a sucker for vehicle fight scenes.
Okay, so after a couple of days, the auraless citizens of Mantle are treating the cold as a gentle breeze. About an hour max after Oscar had his aura broken, he's already feeling the effects of the cold.
Ruby and Co go to hide out in Schnee mansion because... Uh... Why are they hiding there? It's not like Ironwood is on their ass, they made a clean escape and haven't been followed, just go back to amity.
And of course, Weiss immediately threatens her brother with bodily harm for not reacting happily that he's being forced to harbor fugitives after she already sunk their family name down the drain.
Oscar is adorably hanging from the Hound's jaws like a chewtoy and Salem has her "At last we meet again for the first time!" speech. Oscar pretends to be Ozpin for some reason and Salem ain't buying it.
Then we just have a rather repetitive scene of Salem asking a question, Oscar saying he don't know shit and then Salem complaining about Ozpin being a liar liar pants on fire before doing rainbow force lighting on Oscar. Scene ends with Hazel coming in to mercilessly beat the little boy to near death for beating him at Haven. "HOw mANy cHIldREn mUSt dIE beCAusE Of yOU!?"
Cinder waits for Salem in a giant hallway that seems like a really weird place to wait for someone, and she wants to go after the Winter Maiden. Salem just repeats that she doesn't care and that Cinder should stay put, still refusing to explain why she hasn't just invaded Haven yet because I don't think even the writers know.
Cinder says fuck it and leaves anyway with Emerald and Neo.
Ren, Yang and Jaune are stuck in the snow with no working transportation and Yang gets pissed that Ren has the audacity to not be happy with this situation and doesn't want to tell Yang (who at this point might as well be a stranger to Ren) about all his issues. There's an argument where Ren kinda agrees with Ironwood and basically repeats points made by critics, including that he doesn't think they should be making such important decisions when they're just some kids who have never grasped what they're doing. Of course, since he's criticising the perfect pure protagonists, this is treated like him being a grade A douchebag who's just trying to bright down the mood, especially when he has the audacity to bring up that Jaune cheated his way into Beacon.
Funny thing about the Jaune cheating mention is that at first I assumed that Jaune had told everyone off screen, but the way they talk about it later makes me think that Jaune sucked so badly that Ren just assumed Jaune cheated his way in.
Best part of this episode is when they're having a heart to heart in the nearest outpost to shelter from the cold. Ren storms out to sulk after Jaune tells him that he doesn't need to 'be strong for yourself' (which sounds like the show dismissing Ren's point even further by implying that his earlier outburst wasn't what he was actually worried about) and then Yang asks Jaune if he thinks 'She' might think less of her due to her deciding to help mantle instead of helping with the Amity plan (which in retrospect really only needed one or two people to infiltrate instead of a group). Jaune responds that Ruby would never think less of Yang... Only for Yang to go "That's right, Ruby.", which is to say she was actually talking about Blake. Because Yang and Blake can't have any worries outside of their fucking love interest.