long time lurker- apologies ahead of time for any word salad.
wanted to say the last episode was very.. jarring? Weiss seemingly can't emote. The fights were very janky. I'm one of those people who was pretty oblivious to a lot of the plotholes going on because I'm in the "enjoyed the fight scenes" camp, but even this episode just seemed weird.
The anticlimatic fight with the winged-wolf-grimm thing, silver eyes don't do shit, which was presented like "eh, ok, sure I'll just laserbeam the dude." and can apparently be OK from that, but a statue fucks them up. What is the deal with these weird strengths and weaknesses of these monsters? I can't comprehend if somethings insanely strong and intimidating, if they just kill it so poorly.
The zerg fight was fucking awful. From the forced dialogue to the action, I got more enjoyment from the Edd Ed n Eddy version posted here, it even fit better like holy shit.
I think what I realize post writing this is that this episode seemed to really fuck up tone and emotions. Nobody sounds like the world is REALLY being fucked up by this evil, unstoppable witch lady, it just feels like another mediocre quest at beacon.
Also the opening feels very boring and static. It's just poses, being frozen, and characters walking a few steps and then making some face that supposed to say they're a hero or a bad guy, I should probably rewatch the old openings but this one just feels super poor.