I think RWBY is doing a great job of illustrating why dictatorships never can work, no matter well-intentioned the leader, because it's just too much power for one person to have. Especially since this is a show about teams and working together. There's a great scene in Fullmetal Alchemist Mangahood about well-intentioned dictators that this episode absolutely made me think of.
Honestly I’m SO happy that this is the angle we’re going with, it’s what I thought at the beginning of this season but then they made me doubt it with Ironwood seemingly pulling back from the brink and I wasn’t sure how I felt about that but then in this episode they just proved once again why this show is so incredible.










