rwbyOS X: Even the Thread Gets a Costume Change!

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Spoiler: Volume 7 Episode 3

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I predict that things will fall apart when it comes to the implementation of Watts' plan. It will probably be something ridiculous and involving a whole bunch of plotholes, since even his rather brief appearance in this episode shows an extremely cavalier attitude to the security protocols of Atlas/Mantle. Notably, if you just randomly shut down a couple dozen security cameras and drone eyes, someone is going to notice that such a thing happened, and they'll be on the lookout for it next time, and if it keeps happening they'll eventually take action.

RWBY has never been good at handling institutional actions as opposed to personal actions (and to be fair their story isn't about institutions for the most part). I expect we'll get another scenario like how all of Mystral's huntsmen/huntresses of any competence got killed off in a rather short period of time and no one locally appeared to notice or do anything about it, and sure Lionheart was turning a blind eye, but he didn't run the academy by himself.

The obvious failure point in Ironwood's big plan is the Atlas army, and its almost certainly going to be the Atlas army, possibly with the addition of an Ace Op traitor. That's par for the shounen course, as it goes, since institutions must fail so that the heroes can triumph, but it's a tricky thing to handle without making an entire population look stupid - which is what happened in the big climax of the last volume - so I imagine it will happen again.

Spoiler: V7 Ch3

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I'm not sure how cavalier it really is. Watts points out that the whole reason they're in Mantle is because they haven't updated any of the software since he wrote it for them, likely because Mantle is a slum and no one cares enough to do it that has the capacity to do it. Meanwhile Watts has clearly kept his skills up to snuff because he is very obviously the source of the Black Queen virus from back in the first 3 volumes which completely over-ruled Atlas' state of the art tech. More importantly, aside from the cameras which could have their footage/times altered to account for his actions, all the rest of what happened can be ascribed to mechanical failure.

In other words, they point out Watts likely couldn't pull this kind of stunt in Atlas itself but because Mantle is..well..Mantle, he can do what he wants and cover his tracks sufficiently to not worry about anyone catching on to him. More importantly, they've been relatively restrained with how they've presented Watts crackign skills considering how schizo RWBY's technology is. Even just the detail that he couldn't just hack into Ironwood's scroll and such was a surprisingly simple detail. It took Ironwood's scroll accidentally being infected by coming into contact with a compromised computer for them to find out about Penny and breaking into one of the Atlas airships in order to assume direct control of the knights. Which is not a detail I've seen a LOT of other shows care about.