god i’ve been waiting for the entire volume to finish airing before i binge watch it and now i’m even more hyped because HOLY FUCK BEES (and now that there’s explicit confirmation i can finally stop fighting people who keep saying it’s queerbait/never going to happen even though it was clearly a slow burn romance)
Omg yeah! I genuinely don't even have the words for how absolutely perfect it was as a whole entire scene, you are in for such a treat when you see it in real time.
People have been saying this in various posts already, but I really feel like people just didn't believe that Blake and Yang's relationship was actually a slow burn all along. We're so used to characters only being implied, or only getting together at the very end of the series, so they thought that RWBY would just drag this on until then, in the same way. More than anything, this episode proved that it was a slow burn, (and in my humble opinion-) in the best way possible.
There's so much I wanna say about Blake and Yang, but what I love the most is how every single point of growth and change and acceptance that continually happened in their relationship over nine volumes truly mattered when it came down to it. The buildup, the confessions as they slowly walked across the bridge, the kiss- it just wouldn't have had the same impact without all of that groundwork that was laid out from the beginning. Every single moment that Blake and Yang had together, was brought up in some way- in every admittance, in every hesitant smile and small blush- as they worked through their feelings and came to this conclusion. And I genuinely feel like it was so much more meaningful because we've seen everything they've been through to get to this point, and in the end it was all important- again, it all mattered.
To say nothing of the animation and the lighting and the music and just the whole concept of the way they had to cross a bridge to finally meet each other in the middle with their true feelings realized, the flowers, the expressions... CRWBY really did Blake and Yang so much justice, I'm absolutely floored by how genuinely true this was to Blake and Yang's characters. It really was something special.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go watch the scene five more times at least :3