RWBY Ep 2: Shining Beacon

This episode did have a bit of a teaser at RTX but as I previously said it was not finished, also it was a tad hard to make some things out with the sound effects at the time.

I would see this one as in introduction to the other half of the trailer MCs and Beacon a bit as well.  Ruby and Yang exit the airship onto the main courtyard, which looks awesome.  We see more of the style Monty and crew are employing for this show.

Mainly that if we see the full details of a character they will be involved, as in Vomit Boy right off the bat.  Motion sickness never has a dull moment.  But first the next intro of an MC.

Weiss gets a rather spectacular and searing intro as Ruby is left on her own after Yang rushes off with a group of friends.

Ruby is left a little dizzy and scatters the luggage of hour heiress to be here.  She understandably explodes as her Dust is in one of the totes and Ruby accidentally sets off several minor explosions on Weiss herself.

A vial of what I take to be fire Dust is sent rolling to the other MC from the trailers.  Blake keeps the cool and calm she had in the trailers as she snips at Weiss in a kind of defense of Ruby.  It more seems like she is really against Weiss' family and their possibly less then impeccable work methods for mining the Dust.

Ruby quickly says she will try to make up her accident to Weiss as she leaves in a huff and then tries to thank Blake, but she also is leaving without a glance.  Less than plussed, Ruby collapses in a bit of a depression, only to have the aforementioned Vomit Boy offer a hand up.

He is actually Jean (?) and we get a bit of background to him as a family guy who has enthusiasm but not a lot of social grace, or luck with flying.  We get a good look at Ruby's skill as well when she reveals her weapon, Crescent Rose, was designed and built by her.  Jean has a standard sword, thus far, and a sheath that becomes his shield.

We are left with the two hapless characters lost in Beacon grounds and looking for any guide posts they could find.

Overall this episode serves as a showcase for the characters I know we will get to know more of as time goes on, but really light on progress forward, compared to the premiere that hurtled a lot of concepts and swift jump to Ruby going to Beacon 2 years early.

Still it serves a point as the main course of Weiss and Blake entering the series and the before now unknown Jean begins his reveal as well.  The intro played before the episode shows a few more characters to come aside from the villains and heroes we have already met.  Now I am as in the dark as the rest of what is to come, but I look forward to it!