It is with this that ‘So That’s How It Is’ turns to the villains, where Emerald, Mercury and Hazel are returning to Salem’s castle after their defeat at the end of Volume five. Also, as Maria gets more lines, it is easy to question how she is going to fit into the story, and given her frailty and age, whether she’ll live to see the end at all. Much like the winter setting the volume seems to be set in, it’s looking like a cold harsh time for our heroes. While a turn for the worst, it also provides some interesting changes in character, providing room for development in the future: Ozpin, who once so sagely and wise, is now basically on the ropes with no idea what to do, the girls who had reason to doubt him before just about turned on him, Oscar now fears that he will just end up like one of Ozpin’s previous lives and Qrow, a pillar of support for the team and especially his nieces, finds his faith in the one man he truly believed in shaken to its very core. As they bicker amongst themselves, it is only Maria Calavera – the elderly woman who the group picked up at the start of the Volume – who rallies them together, reminding them that their negativity will attract the Grimm and they have to keep moving. Though it feels like a teaser to the rest of the volume and perhaps could have done with a little more meat to the bare-boned plot, this short episode still fits into the advancing storyline of RWBY.Īfter the revelation that Ozpin doesn’t have a plan to defeat Salem, he locks himself in Oscar’s mind and the group’s morale hits an all-time low.
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It may be a bit of a shock jumping from ‘The Lost Fable’ to ‘So That’s How It Is’, going from a twenty-six-minute episode jampacked full of story to a thirteen-minute episode. After the events of ‘The Lost Fable’, where do RWBY’s heroes and villains go from here?