RWBY Volume 9 Chapter 8 Reaction: Tea Amidst Terrible Trouble

[@sonicboomkj]

Katie sitting there speechless, and Megan just eating up all the Curious Cat horror..................worth the watch. Dead Like Me was one of my favorite shows.

[@ecyor0]

"Katie leans away in horror while Megan leans in enthusiastically" really does encapsulate why they're one of my favourite watchalong duos.

[@shadowangel3995]

Guys, Dead Like Me is an awesome show and an awesome movie. Loved both of them. It was hilarious and very poignant with lots of life lessons.

[@dre1426]

The synchronized two nickels bit had me cackling. You two are always a joy to watch-whether you’ve got Saturday or Tuesday energy lol.

[@paularonald8626]

It's great that Taylor McNee and Jen Brown are still getting VO work from RWBY but WOOF, am I right?

[@SirAdamusGames]

the layered voice for the Cat possessing Neo is just Robbie and the same track pitched up

[@Polymathically]

This is one of my favorite episodes. And as much as I love seeing Pyrrha and Torchwick again, my favorite part is at 10:30, when Penny does her "Salutations." It's the same word, but the emphasis and tone are so off. Pyrrha's is somewhat believable, but Penny's just sounds _wrong._ It underscores just how disturbing the scene is, and how vile Neo could get.

[@chippercorgi2247]

32:00 "I can't blame the cat for wanting to f*** up god" is a line that's gonna be stuck in my brain for a while 😀

[@marysemichel6595]

Remember both the brother gods can use creation and destruction it just that they prefer one over the other

[@mikechicago6200]

Sad Romans VA passed and this was his return....in a way...man so depressing....i still think Ironwood is still alive!

[@sqxbarto9229]

CRWBY confirmed somewhere, Ironwood and Watts are dead.

[@emanymton713]

Ironwood was literally at ground zero of Atlas colliding with Mantle. I seriously doubt he survived…before CRWBY confirmed him dead.

[@sqxbarto9229]

@@emanymton713 If they wanted him alive for some plot, they could have done it, like, he crawled into the Vault or something.

[@emanymton713]

@@sqxbarto9229 sure they could have, but at this point I think it’s more about hammering in that “ no body, no death” is not a rule in the RWBY universe.

[@Jason_Singe]

Love the 'Dead Like Me' reference. Highly underrated show.

[@Thatskeybladelover]

Which scenes?

[@johnmattson8280]

I have been waiting for you two to get to this ep. Mostly as I knew you'd be savoring it like a fine wine.

[@MadKingParadoxS]

i love how you've been spoiler free for the most part and crunchyroll was like season finally, everyone watch it now

[@inspectorwhoreacts]

I hope the spoiler blooper recording is part of the future reaction a little bit lol

[@Kiaxet]

It's gonna be available on the Patreon $5 tier - I'm rendering it tonight.

[@polyzawa3618]

One of my favorite details is that the sound effects for the possession and Neo's movement afterwards are distorted meows.

[@GeminiRosche]

3:22 a LITTLE unhinged?

[@paularonald8626]

Neo-Cat....or....The Cat in the Hat? (Dr. Seuss)

[@shadowangel3995]

Katie, props for the D&D reference. 🙌🙌🙌 It’s a Winter. Hi, Winter. 🫶🫶🫶 Episodes 8 and 9 Ruby just gets straight up mind screwed with nothing to make it feel nice either. Awesome job putting it together but yikes and ouch.

[@mattiekarwin3667]

FOR FUCK SAKE can ANYONE get to and through this episode without fucking spoilers from the website itself?! I was so excited because it's been long enough that the Roman thumbnail had been changed ^^U

[@greyworld6242]

This was a good episode. Don’t know how to feel about the aftermath in the next episode though. Also little got green miled!

[@Ozara13]

I need someone to make a meme of the good place with the cactus but it's crunchyroll and episode 8

[@GeminiRosche]

Katie it’s 2:45 in the morning, I can’t do this now… but I will soon

[@destroyerofnirn3537]

Eyyyy Doofenshmirtz reference

[@JamesCPotter13]

Also the gremlins from Dead Like Me remind me ALOT of the ones from Odd Thomas.

[@mikechicago6200]

Finally Neo is here for her vengeance

[@thegneech]

Also! Put the fanversations link in like you said you would. ;P

[@Kiaxet]

It's in the video summary.

[@thegneech]

@@Kiaxet Huzzah! Thankee. :)

[@RectPropagation]

Not y'all getting spoiled by Crunchyroll itself, good lord!

[@davidlitsky8488]

If they cant get Josh Grelle back for Tyrian, I think Robbie could do an excellent job in Volumes 10+.

[@BGTitanAvatar]

Oh Neo. Was this everything you ever wanted? Huh? Was revenge all it was cracked up to be? Didn’t think about what came after, did you? Spent a year or so with nothing but vengeance keeping you moving forward… And now, you’re being controlled by a being with more malice than even you were capable of mustering. Not that she certainly didn’t give it the old college try, holy shit. That was one of the most visceral physical and mental beat downs of a character I have ever seen and the nonchalance with which Neo did it? Having all of Ruby’s perceived failures take literal and figurative shots at her? Having her cut down Oscar before watching Little get crushed? The fact that Yang watched her sister, the person she loves most in this world, the person she practically raised and spent the majority of her life protecting, just… disappear? I mean, just look at her after Ruby drops into the ground she’s completely catatonic. Blake actually steps in front of her when the Cat blasts them because Yang doesn’t make a move at all. I never trusted the Cat entirely but I never expected this of them, holy hell. That is some nightmare fuel.

[@TheMhalpern]

You know there's a detail I just realized, Neo only showed the people she knew or could easily infer were dead, so she probably saw Ironwood was in lockup, when everything went down, but she didn't know about Vine, and so he wasn't there.

[@andrewlevin7586]

Spoilers for this episode: Ruby chooses to die, Little gets curbstomped, an evil cat jumps into Neo through her mouth, and there is psychological horror everywhere. Megan: THIS. IS. FUN!!!!

[@Pablo360able]

you need one more line break to hide spoilers on mobile

[@othergrimm6592]

*NOVEL SPOILERS* If I remember correctly, the novel makes it ambiguous about whether or not Neo/Trivia's mother is alive. Her father, on the other hand...yeah. He dies, and while it wasn't by Neo's hand, it WAS caused by her pretty directly. Though to be fair, both of her parents were pretty awful people...

[@sonicboomkj]

It wasn't your fault, the Crunchyroll site itself is a little wonky. That's just from my brief experience.

[@arekschneyer3802]

Yay!

[@JamesCPotter13]

There's ALSO Neo's clones transforming into those also affected by them. Penny -> Yang, who was framed for assault and lost her arm that day Clover -> Qrow, the man partially responsible for his death. Leo -> Blake, another faunus who's White Fang past wrecked his school. Ironwood -> Weiss, an Atlesian who COMPLETELY lost her home. Pyrrha-> Jaune and the rest of her team.

[@zdiegi5493]

Spoilers: Me watching this the first time: *everyone beats up Ruby* "Oh, man, poor thing, this is horrible😥" *Ruby slices Oscar* "Uff, how much are you going to break her? Stop it!" *Little dies* "Wait, what? No, nonononono....this was not part of the deal! This didn't jus happen! I though we were breaking Ruby's heart not mine!?"

[@thegneech]

Every other reaction video: D: D: D: D: D: ... you guys: :D :D :D :D :D

[@StephanieMaireFaith]

Your not the only ones to get spoiled lol crunchyroll SPOILED this chapter, in the thumbnail it showed torchwick and tons of ppl got spoiled qnd anger and after 2 day's they fixed kt to something else,

[@MaxusFox23]

And instead of Roman, we got Penny, Pyrrha and Leo before CR said "...wait"

[@pahaho5197]

Girl on the left can sing, please post something showing your voice

[@TenebrousFilms]

I assumed it was a different voice for Roman, though I did consider the original might simply be out of practice. Regardless... "But we all know how that turned out." No, actually, *no one* knows how that turned out, except Ruby. Now would've been the perfect opporunity for her to tell Neo that Roman got eaten because he went on a negative rant in the middle of a flock of nevermores. I guess the writers were too distracted by the crossover to remember that. Of course, Neo was never part of the plan to begin with. It seems painfully obvious that Ruby was originally the one to be possessed. But, to be fair, this volume has finally made the most of Neo.

[@wiredjerk]

Sooo I’m guessing they skipped spring and saw the next season before they were supposed to.