aloooot of big shit happened in this episode!
Here's a recap!
Roman Torchwick gets eaten by a FUCKING BIRD. NO NO HE DOESNT DIE A VILLAIN'S DEATH, HE GETS EATEN OUT OF NOWHERE. OKAY.
Oh and Scarlet's weapon was revealed and is probably the most OP one out of em all, she can replicate ANY of the Huntsmen's other weapons perfectly, she was seen copying team RWBY's, Coco's and Penny's signature weapons with absolute grace. Totally worth the wait.
They didn't really show Adam and Blake's fight, they cut it off just as they are about to fight and they cut back to it after Adam beats Blake to the ground. And fucking stabs her. Oh and Yang shows up, and loses her arm. HER ARM.
We get to FINALLY see Qrow's fully-developed Scythe mode and we get to see the General be a fuckin BADASS. Turns out he's a cyborg and has a rockin robot arm.
Cinder kills Amber on-screen which causes her powers to go to Cinder Fall, now Ozpin and her will face off. Im so giddy about this

although the memes for armless yang are hilarious heh

*Given Emerald's reaction to the carnage of the Battle of Beacon, many people (including me) think she might leave Cinder's faction.
*You'd also expect there to be a bigger amount of huntsmen, since many other schools were spectating the tournament. I hope I'm not the only one to notice.
*Feb 30th?
*It's also worth mentioning that Neo gets blown away, but there's a consensus that she's definitely not dead.
*Cinder is definitely the worst villain of the bunch. Torchwick is pretty much a tool that can barely fight, getting others to do his stuff, and I'm not mentioning why he joined Adam and Cinder. Adam is what TV Tropes would call a very misguided Well-Intentioned Extremist, plus his abusive relationship to Blake. Cinder, like Adam, is abusive (V3 EP7 anyone?) almost omnipotent at this point and seemingly a more competent fighter. Plus, her motives are the least clear out of everyone else's, so world domination or sadistic pleasure is way too plausible.
*One of my friends is doubting Penny's death, since her head was left intact.
*Adam threatens to kill everything Blake loves, starting with Yang (he only got her hand :/). Welp, RT knows.
*Weiss forever.
*I think Rubles will kill Adam after finding out what happened to Yang. More or less, she'll think her sister is dead.
*She'll also face off with Merc (who wasn't filming the battle, but was on Remnant's equivalent of Tinder looking at Emerald's Emeralds *Lenny*).
*Weiss will fight Emerald. If it was teased for two volumes, they can't let us down. Bonus points if she reforms her.
*Last but not least, this was how I envisioned many Jaune fans reacting to Amber's death.

RIP Pyrhha and Penny

It seems that the next volume will focus on the new Team JNPR's voyage to Haven

Yang won't be the same ever again will she?

oh and lol Qrow can literally be a crow, which means he was watching RWBY since the first episode in his crow form

yes you do, there's a post-credits scene at the end which shows him turning into a literal crow