RWBY VIII: Well, THAT escalated quickly

[Lethologica]

Spoiler: v4e10 wobner

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Its fine that their mindset is they can't appreciate the danger they are in, or are putting on a happy face. Whats not fine is that the reality seems to agree with that mindset while we are constantly told thats just not how things are.

...No, like, the narrative clearly shows that the only reason they could maintain that mindset as long as they did is because someone else was doing a lot of work to make that possible. That's the opposite of reality validating their mindset.

That he could clear their entire path, and more over do so without alerting them to his presence is exactly my point. Mountain Glenn got sacked years ago and was still crawling with grim. Qrow isn't even breaking a sweat here.

What does Mountain Glenn have to do with anything? Qrow is an established super-badass and we have no reason to expect him to have a lot of trouble with ordinary Grimm threats.

See, i admittedly, despite reading it here, missed Ravens monster and Shione connections, so thank you for that. But that aside, it didn't need to be Qrow, any hunter alive at the time would do.
And on the subject of Raven's monster, since Qrow knows She and her band are here, and if as you say he can't take them on, why the heck is he letting Ruby and company trapse around the area? He hasn't even warned them has he? did i miss that? i mean no, that wouldn't make sense with whats happened since... so he's letting them blindly walk into danger.

The previously destroyed towns may not have had hunters. Oniyuri most likely had hunters, but was explicitly a Mountain Glenn parallel where the Grimm that showed up were too much even for that. Similarly unlikely that even a hunter at Shione would have stood up to Raven.

We don't know in full why Qrow decided to point RNJR at Mistral in the first place. Until we know that, we can't judge his reasons for letting them run loose. Qrow didn't know (or wasn't sure) Raven's tribe was an issue until he met her. After that, he was in a bind, but he chose to keep away from RNJR and trust that Raven wouldn't actually bring her tribe in his direction. We also don't know what Qrow was going to say the next morning, before the poison made a hash of that.

All in all, I have trouble faulting his reasoning as far as I know his reasoning, and I can't analyze the reasoning I don't know about.

I agree it easily could have gone bad, but again, they encountered only one. A big one, sure, but only one.

Making a lot of assumptions here. Any more attacks shown and there would have been pacing complaints.

I mean that this lone ship, with what armorments it had, could be reasonably confident it could tangle with whatever was out there that they don't even bother deploying those guns until they are already under attack.

The deployment of defensive armament was pretty rapid. Exposing weapons to weathering is a problem of its own. I would have been fine with the weapons being permanently deployed, but I don't think it's clear that not permanently deploying them is a narrative problem.

In a world of flying ships, robots and various guns, Little Rens' village feels protected because his dad has... a bow? Really, the richest members of mistral built a city and didn't bother to install a gun turret or two?

I think you're mixing up Ren's home village Kuroyuri with the Mountain Glenn parallel Oniyuri. Ren's village wasn't built by the richest members of Mistral.

We also don't know what their defensive position was like, just that it was insufficient to keep Raven's tribe from overrunning them. Ren's dad is not their first line of defense--he's a bureaucrat.

Military escort aside, a convoy still makes sense, and that a ship could be built to take out these grim? that a civilian ship could be this heavily armed but a city is relying on swords... ? And i can't believe that its expense, given the weapons they all have and the amount of dust they blow through.

You may not believe it, but it may still be that. I'm honestly not sure which city you're talking about here, though. Vale didn't rely on swords, we don't know that Oniyuri relied on swords, and the various villages in between could be forgiven for having money troubles.

First, Qrow is completely mopping the floor with everything he encountered, it doesn't seem like it should matter how common Hunters are. Second, all the more reason Qrow following ruby and company makes little sense to me. He has nothing better to do? they can afford to let him run around like this? Ofcourse, he was using them as bait... and couldn't come up with a better plan than this? a better place to spring the trap? He's dying now. He aimed to not only take out everything they might happen on, but the people trying to kidnap/kill them... He obviously doesn't think much of the threat either. And they are headed right towards his murderous sister... Its all so completely scattered to me.

Hunters can't be everywhere. Also, *gestures at Qrow currently dying on a stretcher*.

I don't see what was obviously wrong about Oniyuri as a place to spring the trap, but it's not like Qrow had the choice of location anyway.

At the end of the day, the most you can argue here is that Qrow is overconfident. A character flaw is not always a narrative flaw.

I hope you are right, cause honestly if they do take it out, even if ruby and jaune show up in the nick of time to help, i think i'm done. If two to four kids could wipe out that thing, and its killing hundreds of people(i think two villages so far, shione, and that one where the met the dying guy), and Qrow knew it was here, and noone is doing a thing to stop them when the wee tikes are able to take it out... thats too much of a stretch.
But the two of them, standing out in the open, not bothering to hide, or anything of the nature, I get the feeling they are atleast gonna try.

*shrug* There isn't anything for me to say except "we'll see."