So can we just (continue to) say that the plot to this series makes absolutely no sense? Salem's "big plan" was to send Watts and Tyrian into Mantle to stir up trouble and attract Grimm. They plan to do this by staging what I thought would be an assassination attempt on Robyn Hill and pin the blame on Ironwood somehow. There are several reasons why this confuses me and shouldn't and wouldn't work:
1. Are you telling me there were no other eyewitnesses at that party besides Ruby and Penny? Correct me if I'm wrong but there were a couple of Faunesses there, right? Don't they have animal-like abilities like, I dunno, being able to see in the dark?
2. Penny's blades, in no way, match the type of wounds Tyrian's tail can inflict. Maybe the blades on his guns could pass, but he stabbed plenty of people with his tail. As soon as someone puts it together that multiple people were stabbed with a tail, no one will believe Penny did that.
3. Don't know how vote reporting in Mantle works, but Watts changed several of those districts from yellow to blue with a wave of his hand. They'll be at least several districts in Mantle crying voter fraud if their district suddenly changed hands after they'd submitted all their votes.
4. At the beginning of the episode Ruby is shown using her Semblance (which in a previous episode was classified as a speed-type) in a new, never-before-seen way. In this episode she is one of the slowest ones to react to anything: she doesn't try and tackle Robyn off the stage and she doesn't try to go after Tyrian at all.
5. Penny, who can see in the dark, also does not give pursuit to Tyrian. She just stands over Robyn until the lights come back on.
6. Why doesn't anyone make the obvious connection that if Ironwood wanted Robyn dead, why didn't Penny kill her? The lights come back on and she's just standing over her in a defensive position over Robyn after what looks like someone carved a bloody path from the stage right through the middle of the crowd. Which makes no sense because at the beginning of this scene Penny is standing guard at the foot of the stage so if she wanted to kill Robyn she could've just turned around and done it? Why kill a bunch of people in the crowd first and then kill Robyn?
7. Doesn't Mantle have a bunch of great defenses against Grimm? How are they suddenly in the kingdom, flying around in swarms, after this one little incident? Don't you have robots or turrets or that shield thing from the Amity Colosseum?
Gotta give it to the writing team of RWBY for consistently fumbling good ideas with Fridge Logic. The most obvious and straightforward way to go about writing this scene is to have Watts use his Semblance to control Penny directly and have her try to kill Robyn while Ruby tearfully restrains her. Maybe I'm just miffed that the writers continue to pick on one of my favorite characters, but this is clearly just artificial drama that will be cleared up by the end of the season in a very predictable fashion. I'm glad RenNora got canonized but the feeling is tinged with trepidation. If something bad happens to one of those two I'm officially calling Miles and Kerry out for being bigoted towards gingers.
If I'm not mistaken it's also the first confirmed ship. Arkos btw doesn't count since it's not a ship but a sunken wreck.
