Speaking of which, Team RWBY had little onscreen time this chapter, and they’ve been pushed aside for the rest of the cast this whole volume. Plus this part of the episode makes Oscar more of a front-and-center protagonist, which is not what I’m looking for. Ironwood already embodies what happens when you let yourself get engulfed by fear, and I didn’t need a heavy-handed monologue beating me over the head about it. But we also have this pointless segment about Oscar falling from the bottom of Atlas and Ozpin soliloquizing on fear and its effects on humanity, which pretty much destroys all the momentum we’ve been building up.
As I’ve said before, the production is spot-on. The fights are spectacular, Penny is the Winter Maiden, Salem is going to unleash her great whale against Mantle, the two excellent Casey Lee Williams tracks, “Until The End” and “Fear”, have me anticipating the release of the Volume 7 soundtrack, the animation is impeccable, and Jessica Nigri gives a solid vocal performance as Cinder. I think? Anyhoo, this is a very okay finale. Now, I’ll offer my general thoughts on the finale, “The Enemy of Trust,” which is supposed to be fear. Why did Oscar let himself get cornered like that? And what’s up with the dialogue this volume? I’ve asked this before, and I’ll ask it again-are the writers leaning into the corniness on purpose, or do they really believe these are profound one-liners? To you, it’s General.” Then he draws his gun and shoots Oscar off the ledge, which feels like it’s going too far for Ironwood, even as his arc keeps growing darker. But it’s Oscar who comes down the elevator, and he attempts to talk Ironwood down and regain his trust, but the general meme-ably shouts, “That’s easy for you to say!” He goes on to rant about how he’s “done letting others’ inability to see the big picture get in the way of doing what’s right.” As Oscar gets backed up against the ledge, he calls Ironwood by his first name, and he replies, “James is what my friends call me.
General James Ironwood is in the cavern outside the Staff of Creation’s Vault, waiting for Winter to arrive as the Winter Maiden so she can open the Vault and he can use the Staff to launch Atlas into the atmosphere.
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