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saltwukong · 2 years

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My rankings of each volume from best to worst: 3, 2, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. The quality of the Monty volumes were top notch despite the lower production values. 4 was meh. 5 suffered from bad fights due to Gray forcing animators to genlock but we got to see Sun and his gunchucks one last time. 6 was great in the first half and awful in the second so it cancelled out. 7 looked like it was going somewhere but the outfits were hideous and character bloat returned. 8 was bad. Volumes got worse over time.

My own ranking:

Volume 7

Volume 4

Volume 2

Volume 1

Volume 3

Volume 6

Volume 5

Volume 7 is nothing but Kiersi Burkhart running goddamn rings around Miles and Kerry. Even with the last-minute twists that feel like trying to railroad it back onto M&K-style garbage, it stands out as by far the best RWBY volume in terms of plot. Everything works, all the characters get screentime (except Maria, R.I.P. Latina grandma), and Burkhart's obvious experience with writing self-contained plots shows through. It is actually hilarious how much better this volume's story is than the standard RWBY fare.

Volume 4 has frustrating points, but overall has the cleanest plot with the best framing, with the four separate arcs for each heroine allowing a better balance of main characters supported by side cast without everything feeling too crowded. Also had the best emotional charge.

Volume 1 doesn't really have a plot at all--first time writer antics, mostly focused on building the world via 'arc'-style vignettes. Hard to hold it against them.

Volume 2 had the plot actually written beforehand, and although it's not great, it does have a start point, an end point, and several subplots inbetween. The pacing sucks, but they know where they want to go.

Volume 3 had a more ambitious plot, but was bogged down by really bad ideas (maidens and silver eyes) that only showed up at the halfway and end points, and utterly disastrous swerves like Adam Taurus the Evil Ex-Boyfriend. Much of these were clearly written in on the fly.

Volume 6's first half was not good. Volume 6 was utter garbage for three episodes, then utterly delightful for the next three episodes, and then straight garbage again for eight more episodes. And it's as sucky as it is because it had to follow in the wake of Volume 5...

Volume 5 was not where Gray diverted resources to Gen:Lock--that was Volume 6. Never assume these guys work on anything that far in advance.

Volume 5 looks as bad as it does because they stopped caring. Miles and Kerry scripted fights that obviously weren't going to look good even if the animators hadn't been crunched half to death, and they just...gave up on several plot points fans had wanted to see, choosing to toss them in the trash rather than fulfill them properly. This after almost eight straight episodes of characters sitting in a house and talking, and everything that wasn't talking being obvious filler all the same. Weiss' and Raven's fights in the early and late stages of the volume clearly took up most of the budget, and Rooster Teeth steamrolled ahead rather than push the volume back and funnel more money into it. No one liked Hazel, no one liked the racism subplot's resolution or the Adam fight, no one liked Jaune or his semblance reveal... Volume 5 is where RWBY died.

Volume 8 is shaping up to be another Volume 3, or worse, another Volume 5. The results in full remain to be seen.

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kob131 · 4 years

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Hey remember when Soku said he was gonna stop talking about RWBY?

Guess who got caught lying?

https://sokumotanaka.tumblr.com/post/184748210112/phazonfire-the-rwde-tag-is-so-fucking

I don’t know what tag you’re looking through about the homophobia thing considering the majority of the people seem to be gay and would probably call you out if they saw this.

I don’t remember you guys ever calling anyone out for calling Illa a ‘psycho lesbian’ because villain + gay = psycho lesbian apparently.

Oh wait, which tag is it that says that? hm...

Look people doing rewrites on the series is a non problem, and the dumbest gripe.

so is 99% of what you fuckers pull. Like bitching that a catgirl was put into a catsuit.

But rwby isn’t well written some is allowed to watch it to fix it to reconstruct or deconstruct it there is no harm to this and the series could benefit from a rewrite.

Too bad you assholes break the show EVEN FURTHER when you do rewrite shit *cough* RE:RWBY *cough*.

If you don’t like it don’t go through the constructive criticism tag just to cry cause someone doesn’t wanna kiss rwby’s butt like you do.

Last time constructive criticism existed in the RWDE tag: 900 BC.

Yeah sure.

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I don't know how to tell some of ya'll that just because you constantly argue against criticism and the other person gets tried to talking to a brick wall doesn't mean you win.

This ain't your preschool, this requires critical thinking skills which some of ya'll clearly lack.

And just because you reject facts and demand that your delusions are true doesn’t make the other person a brick wall. You just don’t understand how to debate.

Your idea of nit picking is not the correct use of the term. Nor do whoever you are know what is and isn’t criticism on a subject.

Nit picking. Noun. “looking for small or unimportant errors or faults, especially in order to criticize unnecessarily.“

Literally all you do.

Also I’m only an asshole to people who are assholes back. So don’t pretend like you know me and mind your own? Deal? Deal.

Sorry Soku, that makes you a sexist, racist, transphobic Nazi. You know, since that’s MY Modius Operandi.

Also your blog is FILLED with bad political takes so you’re the LAST person I wanna hear tall about “not picking”

“Can white people approiate basic human decency?”

Remember that take on your old blog?

Now what were you saying about politics...

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I didn’t watch vol 7 thank god,-

So you have no idea what you’re about to say? Got it.

but a friend of mine on my discord mentioned flynt and neon returning (with Ik finally) and boy they really gave the catgirl a hoodie with cat ears on it? And Blake has a catsuit? Miles, Kerry, Shane and Monty always talked about how “subtle” they are with things like scenes and designs and they put both the catgirls in outfits that are so on the nose it might as well be a part of your skin.

Where was that said again?

Also that;s not were the term catsuits come from. It comes from cat burglars using them.

Isn’t that like going “Hey black guy put these big lips on over your other lips? Or the black guy having a fucking basketball printed on their jacket?” Good lord, in a world where people can be born with cat ears, and tails don’t you think it’s kinda freaking disgusting that these exist where humans can wear them?

And before you say that’s the point, in a world where none of the faunus get to say how they feel about these things and don’t have real life minority reactions to things like white dudes walking around with grills and fros and crap it kinda isn’t when the faunus girl wears a hoodie depicting one of the features of her own race that they were hunted down and slaughtered for.

Considering that it’d be no different than a white person getting cornrows-

Also it kind of is since black people walk around emphasizing their DARK SKIN, which is the basis of their discrimination.

You’re just race obsessed.

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Hmm funny that the rich white girl who was racist gets an overpowered semblance that shares alot of feats like her team like being able to make runes that increase speed, Platforms, Remove gravity, shoot projectiles, Make people stick to them etc etc. Oh and she has the ability to summon monsters that show feats of strength that rivals one of her partners.

Meanwhile the minority character is shown to fuck up alot, gets treated like shit and never gets an apology from said racist, get nerfed constantly, have her weapon poorly sautared back together while the rest of her team gets upgrades and has the weakest semblance of the three.

Seems alittle off white writers.

And who has the better fight record than the other?

... The minority?

Hm, seems off black complainer.

Oh did that sound racist? Hm, dunno why it sound considering you said the SAME THING

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So Let me get this straight, vol 7 has ended and apparently they lost the one relic they had, still haven’t found the newer one or did but still have to deal with Ironwood and several others. Cinder is still alive, Neo is siding with her out of fear? When she wanted vengeance and could team up with rwby.

this is volume 7 of supposedly 10 so three more seasons and they still haven’t sat down and talked about what they’re supposed to to against the immortal grimm lady, they don’t know where the relic at beacon is and ozpin’s still ghosting them, and they’re foolishly gathering them all in one spot instead of taking the maiden and the relic and putting both of them on the farest corners of the planet? I thought they were going to atlas to meet with someone Weiss knew as the Anton Sokolov Play dishonored! of their world to build a rocket and send at least one rocket into a black hole and never have an issue with Salem again.

three more seasons and a plan hasn’t even been formed to deal with her or the relics, Emerald and Mercury are doing nothing, Cinder has no goal except to be the new adam and chase the heros and get her ass kicked, Hazel’s doing nothing, The comms are down and we haven’t heard a peep from whoever runs Vacuo, Blake and Ruby have still had barely any interaction, Weiss hasn’t apologized for her racism, We never addressed how and why did Raven appear in Yang’s dreams, Why did ren from shields over his hands and show off feats of strength that rival yangs or his weird ability to sense tyrian? Neo’s eyes changed color when she saw Raven and her teleport ability. Lore Like how semblance, Lien (the money that looks like credit cards but has zero numbers on it work) The examples of agriculture, Flora and Fauna, dust and so on.

A. Haven’t they said it’s more like twelve?

B. Nope, Ozpin’s back. But hey, who needs to actually KNOW what you’re talking about?

C. Can’t do that, don’t know where the Spring Maiden is. Would have known this if you watched Volume 6.

D. They never said that and expressly said they were meeting with Ironwood to get the relic somewhere secure. Gee, that’s the THIRD thing you’ve gotten wrong. Hm...

E.So Soku, how does Quirks affect agiculture? What were the original Quirks like? Who had the first Quirk? What was life like for people when Quirks were uncommon? Hm? Nothing is said?

MHA is shit, SOku said so.

But sure, three more seasons to cram that all in AND a plan and character interaction/Growth and so on, this is a lovely mess of a show.

And as you have shown, you paid attention to 0% of it so how would you know?

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So how’s that tar and feather treatment treating you Soku? Because I have so many more ways of humiliating you, happy showcase them as long as you open that bitchy little mouth of yours.

So go ahead and keep posting. It just lets me indulge my sadism without remorse.

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calliecat93 · 4 years

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Top 5 Things I Disliked About RWBY Volume 6

(Top 5 Likes)

Well everyone… we made it. I started doing this Likes/Dislikes series on Monday, hoping to get it done before Saturday. The lesson here is to do better about pre-planning. Nevertheless… I did it. Volume 6. The most recent volume. My favorite volume of the entire series. I am so ready to gush about everything that I love about this! But we gotta do Dislikes first, and there are a few. Unlike the others though where nearly all of them are outdated or irrelevant, whether these will be improved on or not remains to be seen. So let’s not waste any time and get to the Top 5 Dislikes of RWBY Volume 6.

#5. Neo Fanservice

This is Number 5 because it more annoys me than anything else, but it doesn’t ruin anything. I’m not a fan of Neo. I find her to be a pointless addition who only exists because of her design. Which she does have a fantastic design, and her being mute is interesting. But otherwise? She was just… there. I didn’t care about the character then, and I don’t care now. I knew that she was gonna come back for CInder’s head, and this feels like the right time. But by the writers own admission, shes there just to flare up CIndr’s plotline. Which… why not use this to flesh out Cinder? Tell us her backstory or at least hint at it. Explain her motivations. Have us understand why she’s as horrible and power-hungry as she is. Explain what the heck happened when Ruby Silver Eyes blasted her in Volume 3 already!

I know that they’re likely waiting for the right moment, but like with V4 it just feels like they’re dodging it and people are running out of patience. So I feel like there were other ways to make CInder’s plot more interesting. Throwing in Neo feels… well… I hate to say it, but lazy. Which I know isn’t true. Miles and Kerry are insanely hard-working and devoted to this show and away as far from lazy as it gets. I guess they just hit writers’ block? Knew that people wanted to see Neo again and felt like this was the right time? I don’t know. It wasn’t badly written or executed and sets the stage for the future. But still, I do wish that they took a more creative route and let us actually get to know Cinder when they had the chance. It’s disappointing.

Again, this is on here because I know I’m in the minority. A lot of people really like Neo and want to see more of her character. And I can’t lie, with Roman gone, there is some motivation for her and now there’s room to flesh her out. So while I don’t care about her, I am interested in seeing what they do with her. To see what she’s planning because there is now ay that she’s not going t give up on making CInder suffer. But I can absolutely see her still wanting payback on Ruby who was both involved with Roman’s death and knocked Neo off the plane and prevented her from helping him. We’ve got a classic revenge story in the making people. Let’s hope that it’s a good one.

#4. The Reaction to Jinn’s Story

This one is… complicated. Why? Because I don’t hate this. At all. You might think that I’m about to get mad that RWBYQ were all angry at Oz. But… no, I’m not. I fully sympathize with Oz. I don’t think that he’s this horrible monster who did all that he did because he’s horrible. Oz is just a man. A man who has been through so much pain for so long, all because he tried to do the right thing and be with his wife again. He has so much guilt and self-loathing and I just feel terrible for him and all that he’s been through. But it doesn’t change the fact that he’s lied and used people, even if it was because he had to. People got hurt. People have died. All because of him and his cause. He isn’t as horrible as Salem or the Gods, but RWBYQ has every right to be angry at him for what, in their eyes, is leading them on a suicide mission. So no, I don’t have a problem with their reactions.

My problem is that they all have the same reaction.

There is no diversity in how they all take this, nor with JNR. I guess that Jaune, Yang, and Qrow took it worst than everyone else, but all of their reactions are pretty much being angry at Oz and feeling hopeless. The only person who keeps nay sense is Maria because this doesn’t personally affect her, but still. It’s boring to watch and offers no true exploration into the characters’ feelings outside hopelessness. We don’t see them talk about the story or try to debate about it. Whether Oz can ever be trusted again or not. Whether they feel like there are some legit points both for and against Oz. They don’t talk about finding out the origin of the world or about Salem. There was so much room for so much perspective and maybe V7 will go into that. But here? It just feels like a wasted opportunity.

IDK. I still enjoy the plot and it adds a lot of moral conflicts. Oz was wrong, but he also had his reasons. There is no right or wrong answer I don’t think to any of Ozpin’s choices. He’s trying to do the right thing, and that’s not always the best thing or even the moral thing. It’s complex stuff that can cause a lot of complex emotions. But it feels like it’s all meant to say that Oz was bad and there is no resolution or discussion about it by the end outside Oz helping Oscar land the jet. Can V7 fix that? Maybe, especially since the trailer hinted at the right thing vs best thing dilemma. But as far as this volume goes, it was good, but could have been better.

#3. Caroline Cordovin

Cordovin sucks. Big time. I admit she was amusing in her debut episode, but that was it. Cordo os, overall, just a stingy and arrogant old woman. She isn’t funny. She isn’t interesting. She pretty much exists to be another ‘Atlas people suck’ character, especially with her remark at Blake. Now I know that she was meant to be a minor antagonist, and that’s fine. But she went overboard and got the mech out when there were probably better ways of dealing with the heist peacefully. In fairness to her, the good guys can’t explain why they need to go to Atlas so I don’t blame her for trying to stop them. But with a huge-sized mech meant to deal with large Grimm? Really?

But really, none of this would have mattered to me… if it weren’t for the ending. Cordovin’s shift is out of nowhere. She has no epiphany. She never really accepts that this is her fault. We never see her viewpoint shift. And as such, her turn was utterly unprovoked. But most of all… she gets away with it. She gets away with endangering Argu. She gets away with her reckless endangerment. She gets away with escalating the situation unecesarially. She’s going to fudge her report, so Atlas won’t ever know about it. That is what I hate the most, she didn’t get punished for her actions whatsoever.

Still, unlike Cardin, she had a purpose and unlike him and the Fennec Twins, she wasn’t around for very long. As such, she isn’t the worst villain. But unless it’s to show that she’s been stripped of her rank, I don’t really ever want to see or hear from her again… her and Maria’s bickering was funny though. I’ll give them that.

#2. Lack of Oscar Development

I talked about this in V4, but this was the boiling point for people I think. Oscar is, sadly, underdeveloped. V4 had to rush through his intro and getting him to Mistral, which is a consequence of the separate plotline. V5 was better as he gelled well with the cast, got some training and learned to sue his AUra, and we learned a bit more about how his and Oz’s bonding worked. It’s still rushed, but hey unlike Ruby he got an actual payoff. Plus there’s an emphasis that he made a choice to be there both in his talk with Ruby and when he was faced with Hazel. It’s not a lot, but better than V4 and again, we had a payoff that felt earned,

V6 though… not so much. We see Oscar struggling with keeping control and his growing fear of not being the same after the merger is complete. It’ super understandable and when he nears having a panic attack in Chapter 4, you really feel for him. They do a very good job of getting you to feel bad for this kid, especially in CHapter 8 when Jaune loses it and slams him into the wall out of anger at Ozpin. He snaps out of it and is immediately remorseful, but it was still utterly wrong to do that to Oscar. Qrow was also pretty horrible, but I’ll get to that later. Point is, this kid is scared, being unfairly punished for things that he didn’t do, and is probably about to have an identity crisis. So him going missing? It makes perfect sense.

But there lies the issue. He goes missing… and when we see him again, that’s the end of his arc. We don’t see him sort through his emotions. We don’t see him talk with anyone or with Oz. I’m glad that Oscar made his choice to stay committed and I love his new look. But we don’t get to experience it with him. He feels alienated from the main cast and I think that’s because we have so many characters. Some are gonna have to be shafted, but Oscar had an on-going arc and shouldn’t have been. It’s the same thing with Grif in RvB17, where his character arc was ongoing but got shafted due to both episode count and character amount. But with Oscar, it’s even worse as he’s still fairly new and is Oz’s host. He should be more important than he is. Not more than RWBY, ut he’s pretty much just a tagalong out of there because he has Oz in his brain. Not because of his own character.

This has been a pretty vocal complaint. I’m hoping that CRWBY is going to try more in V7. Maybe have Oscar enroll at Atlas or something and get some Huntsman training. I’m not sure what they can do, but I think it’s time that they do at least something. Because next to Nora, Oscar is the most under-developed character, and he really should not be.

But hey, at least I still liked Oscar during the volume. Unlike a certain little birdie... on that note!

#1. Qrow’s Development

I did not like Qrow in this volume. At all. Now his attitude after the Oz reveal? Understandable. I think that Qrow is gonna be what Blake was to me in V4. Me hating how the character acted, but when I go back I’ll feel better about it since they’ll bounce back now that they’re past the lowest point. And to be fair in the final few episodes, Qrow got better and I felt more sympathetic when he was clearly having a Summer flashback. Plus, again, I get it. He trusted Oz for so long and found out that he was lied to all along. Everything that he worked for? Amounted to nothing. Any worth that it gave him after being marked as unlucky? That amounted to nothing. Him turning to drink himself stupid? Makes sense and it was good to finally delve into the negative parts of his drinking. Everything with Qrow makes sense.

The problem is very simple. It’ all due to one scene. Had they cut this out, I would be able to look past it. What scene is that?

“Don’t lie to him Ruby, We’re better than that.”

That killed any chance of me sympathizing with Qrow that the volume had. Ruby is trying to comfort Oscar, telling him that he isn’t just some vessel for Ozpin. I know that Qrow was upset. I mean he outright punched Oscar, which yeah it was aimed at Oz, but that also didn’t help. But that just felt unnecessarily cruel. Worst? He never apologizes for it like Jaune did with how he acted. Qrow is just overall useless, drinking himself stupid in Brunswick and just angrily giving up after Cordo refused them entry. Again, I get why. But I just cannot feel bad for him when he’s being such a downer and an asshole. Not even Ruby calling him out did anything until he began to flip out when the plan started to not go according to plan. Which by then… it felt too little, too late.

I don’t know. It’s like I said, I get it. But anytime that Qrow was on screen, it brought things down for me. I think that maybe they went a little too far with it, especially with the jab at Oscar. I’m glad that he’s on the right path now, and I assume that V7 will help make me like him again. But for now? I really did not like it, and it is my least favorite thing about V6.

And with that, the Dislikes posts are all done! Yay! One more post to go: the Likes post! I hope that you all enjoyed this post, and thank you for reading~!

#rwby #rwby reviews #top likes/dislikes

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helihi · 5 years

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The Good, the Bad and the Dirty: RWBY Vol 6 Ch 4

#SaveEmerald2kGayTeen #HazelDadOfTheYear

This episode might contain one of my favorite scenes of the season.

This episode is also 4 scenes.

Overall rating on the episode: 4/10.

I share my thoughts and opinions after the cut:

The Good:

Branwens are going to be the death of Ozpin. The sheer amount of anger in Qrow and Yang accounts for everyone else in the world and I’m totally here for it.

Clrealy our beloved drunkle Qrow steals the show in the first scene of the episode and confirms what many believed in the last two episodes: he blindly followed Ozpin and believed in his ideal without knowing everything behind the man. It was heartbreaking to watch him in such a vulnerable state, but Vic, you nailed that scene.

If his Semblance wasn’t angsty enough, you have his self hatred amplified after realizing he had been following a man that had lied to him for years, and if you, like me, believe that Summer died because of Ozpin, he saw his team being torn by the influence of this man.

Guess no one can shit on Raven from not following an aimless man anymore.

Good job, Grandma Katara, someone had to take the reins of the group before everyone got mauled by Grimm. Qrow and Yang’s negativity alone is enough to bring a horde their way, but don’t forget Oscar’s desperation because boi, it’s the FNDM’s second favorite boy in pain (the first one is Ren).

I had stopped being interested in Oscar since volume 4 because his character development seemed to be stuck. Finally, it looks like Miles and Kerry bring his struggle to the front: he has a parasite inside his head whose will will eventually take over.

“Don’t like to him, we’re better than that.”

I feel really sorry for Oscar, but hopefully the fact that Ozpin shut himself down will help him regain his independence and to start thinking and action on his own volition.

Emerald, my girl, my baby, my lost ray of sunshine who should have abandoned the bad guys the moment she met Salem. It seems that the second and third scene established her as the audience surrogate in Salem’s place.

I cannot explain how much I don’t care about Tyrian. What I thought was weird is how he can state the obvious “Cinder’s not here to protect you” and laugh about how Hazel’s team is gonna get thrashed, and immediately look scared in the next scene.

Hazel is now Emerald’s legal guardian, and once again he becomes my favorite out of team WTCH (I don’t consider Em and Merc part of the official team).

So, Salem reveals to everyone that Cinder is alive, but that she cannot return until she has redeemed herself. This may set up:

Cinder killing Raven.

Cinder one of Ruby’s eyes.

Cinder getting one of the relics.

If you have any other suggestions of what it may foreshadow, please do share your thoughts.

Her statement and Emeralds overall reaction to her freakout hopefully sets up something I’ve been waiting for years:

Emerald will run away from team Witch, hopefully in a desperate attempt find Cinder.

The last scene was there to set up the next episode, unless we switch to tea JN_R. I miss those kids, but the whole abandoned place to think over what he just saw screams tea and I want it.

give me the angst.

The Bad:

This episode was 4 scenes.

It proves, once again that the only way to enjoy RWBY is by binge watching it, which SHOULDN’T BE A THING SINCE THIS SERIES GETS RELEASED WEEKLY.

Listen for a second: if Netflix releases 1 whole season on 1 go it’s because it acknowledges that the way the shows are written is for it to be bing weatched. Think The Haunting of Hill House as an example. You can, as I did, watch an episode a day, but the way the show is structured with the cliffhangers makes you want to immediately watch the next.

Now think of a show like AtlA. This show aired weekly, and though it was so good you wanted to watch all the episodes in a row. You can watch 1 and be satisfied to wait long enough to watch the next one. RWBY doesn’t have that.

This episode felt like an unfinished product. Like the CRWBY writes and animates everything and chops everything together afterwards. Though the run time of 13 minutes should already be concerning, it’s the content of the episode which make it feel disgruntled and poorly jumbled together.

You can have an 11 minute episode and have the narrative be tied together and well thought out (watch adventure time for that).

Last week’s episode told a whole story, the episode had a sense of completion, of unit. This one didn’t, there’s a poor theme: Ozpin is lost, Salem is pissed. This transition episode was a fart, if it wasn't for the first scene of the episode.

I’d rather have waited 2 weeks and get this episode with next week’s.

The Dirty:

Exposition genie is gone and I’m pissed that Jinn’s character has been relegated to that. The freaking relics are alive and the character the CRWBY was so “proud” to create served as an exposition dump character.

Which proves again my point of last week’s review: SHOW DON’T FUCKING TELL. You didn’t really need Jinn’s narration except for the start. The writers are using basic and bad tools to say something very simply, and it’s kind of frustrating.

Grandma Katara, are u going to tell the other’s who u are or are u literally just an old lady who stumbled with the plot?

Overall rating on the episode: 4/10.

A.N.: Needs more meat.

#rwby #rwby6 #me

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valkyrieelysia18 · 6 years

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My RWBY Volume 6(and beyond) Wish List

Hello everyone! Sorry to both my Tumblr followers and any who might read my stories. My personal laptop has technical issues and I’m currently doing everything on the home computer. Added to that I do have a college class I have to do work for. Anyway, I decided to do something smaller for this post.

RWBY Volume 5 wrapped up quite a while ago and it was....something. Seriously guys, I’m enjoying reading the fan fiction than I am watching the actual show. Now Miles and Kerry have responded that they are looking at the fans’ responses and are moving with that going forward, but that still doesn’t change what they’ve already done. So, I decided to throw in my two cents, or rather ten points, of what I want to see in Volume 6 and beyond. These aren’t ranked in any particular order and keep in mind these are my personal opinions. If you agree that’s great, if you don’t be polite about it. Common courtesy, you know.

1. Show, Don’t Tell; Less Exposition Please.

One of the biggest complaints of Volume 5 is the overabundance exposition, often with the same information being repeated with little to no visuals to go along with it. I understand exposition is often necessary, but in a visual medium it’s incredibly important to show these things. Show us Faunus discrimination in Remnant, show us the mines of Mantle and how dangerous it can be, show us the devastation of the battles of The Great War and how it still affects the present. DON’T just talk about it and leave it at that.

2. More Care in the Writing and the Fight Scenes

You know it makes sense that I would complain the former, but the fact that I’m complaining about the later is kind of a bad sign. Anyone who has read my writing would know that I SUCK at writing fight scenes and the fact that I find the Battle of Haven’s fights terrible is just sad. I’m not asking for Monty levels of quality (that will never happen), just some more polish and improvement. Also, with Rooster Teeth’s other shows and its new ones, I’m concerned over whether Miles and Kerry can really give RWBY the quality care it deserves. Perhaps they should think getting a professional fantasy/sci-fi writer to help.

3. More World Building

Whatever you feel about Volume 4, the one thing it definitely has over 5 is the world building and that was not just confined to the World of Remnant videos. We were introduced to Menagerie, saw the upper crust of Atlesian society, touched on religion, and we saw how life was like outside of the kingdoms. As for World of Remnant, I actually rather like the series as its a way to give exposition without grounding the show to a halt to tell it to the audience. Volume 5.....not so much. Which is a same because the city of Mistral could have been amazing location to explore and interact with so a lot of missed potential there. For example, most of Mistral we’ve seen seems to based on Central Asia, but Pyrrha was more Greco Roman and explaining this would have made Mistral a bit more complex than Vale is. Or perhaps the group could have taken a break from training to do some shopping, sightseeing, or take in a show and perhaps run into some familiar faces like the rest of team SSSN or team ABRN. It would have allowed us to care more about this city and be more concerned with protecting it. I really didn't care so much about the city so it was hard for me to really get invested in the Battle of Haven. Any good fantasy writer will tell you that your world is just as much of a character as its inhabitants.

4. Give Ruby More to Do

For being the main character, Ruby really hasn’t been doing much to live up to the role. In fact, her adversaries have been getting more development than she has. I mean, she got a small scene with her and Oscar discussing how she’s handling losing Pyrrha and Penny, but we need more than that. She needs to do more than simply going along with things. Have her develop her silver eye powers, let her learn more about her mother and her past role in the conflict, put her in a situation that makes her question if what she is doing is the right thing to do. While the show is technically named after the team, that doesn't change the fact that Ruby is the focus character and needs some serious development.

5. More Oscar, Less Ozcar

Another complaint I have with Volume 5 is how Oscar really wasn’t given much time to be himself bar that one scene with Ruby, mostly serving as Ozpin’s mouthpiece to the group. Which is a shame because it would have been great to see him interact with Jaune, Nora, and Ren. It would definitely allow Oscar to grow and be his own character that way, showing that while he and Ozpin may be like minded souls, they are not exactly the same and they won’t always agree. I’m looking forward to how the aftermath of Ozpin taking over against the farm boy’s will is handled. That is not something that can be just brushed aside and never talk about again.

6. No Backtracking on Renora

For all the issues with shipping in the RWBY community, no one can deny that Ren and Nora are absolutely adorable together. Which is why I want to see their relationship continue to grow and develop. Have them go on dates so they can just be cute or offer relationship advice to the other members with their own possible developing romances Though another thing I feel that needs to be touched on with these two is Nora’s backstory. It was noted in the flashback in Kuroyuri that Nora didn’t look like a native of the town, so how did she get there? Was she orphaned or abandoned? How did she go from a scared quiet girl to the exuberant pancake loving hammer wielder we know today? Also, if the two were originally from Anima, why did they enroll at Beacon? All good questions I hope will be answered in due time.

7. Jaune and Ozpin Talk

This is a talk that feels like a long time coming. While Cinder may have been the one to kill Pyrrha, it’s very clear that Jaune still holds Ozpin and his inner circle partly responsible for his partner's death. As a result, I feel like a talk with him and Ozpin would be a good way for Jaune to be able to vent his frustrations in a much more healthy manner as well as allow him to understand what really happened those last few days before everything went wrong. Perhaps it would lead to a talk on how a leader’s duty is to help as many people as he can and sometimes that means sacrifice. I think that’s a good lesson for our blond to learn as he is the tactician and semi healer of the group. The other thing that I feel needs to be addressed is Jaune’s transcripts. I covered in a previous post on how there’s no way Ozpin didn’t know about it and this would be a great way to address why Ozpin let him into Beacon in the first place as well as reassure that what happened with Pyrrha was not his fault.

8. More on the Schnees

Since we’re going back to Atlas, I’d like to see more from Weiss’ family. Whitely could use some more development beyond “Jacques’ faithful little follower” and I would really like to see their mother make an appearance. Heck, it would nice to hear more about Nicolaus. Winter as a subordinate of Ironwood would play a role in the affairs in Atlas as would Jacques’ position as the head of the Schnee Dust Company. If anything, I would like to see Jacques realize that there is nothing he can do to make Weiss fall in line and have his actions come back to bite him. HARD.

9. More on the Villains

The thing about villains is that it is just as important to develop them as the heroes. While RWBY’s villains have been very good at messing things up for our good guys, their motivations haven’t been as well fleshed out. Now some villains like Roman Torchwick and Tyrion which are delightfully evil don’t need much of an explanation for why they do what they do, but the others do need some development. I have no problem with Hazel’s motivation being a personal one so much as it being a WEAK personal motivation. I mean, a training accident at Beacon doesn’t really translate to it being completely Ozpin’s fault and him being “evil.” I really hope there’s more to this situation. And then there’s the other questions to answer. What led to Watts being “disgraced?” Why did Cinder have such a fixation on power, acting as if she deserved said power by right? What does Adam want to make humanity pay for? Above all, what happened between Salem and Ozpin to cause this all in the first place?

10. Team STRQ

There’s so much on this team that I really want to know. What were their dynamics back before Raven left and everything went wrong? What were Tai and Summer’s weapons? Their semblances? What’s Tai’s feelings on all of this? If Team STRQ was what interested Ozpin, what was Tai’s role? What was the nature of Tai and Summer’s relationship? Is Ruby really just like Summer or are there some notable differences that haven‘t been discussed yet? I feel like we’re due for a Team STRQ flashback some time in the future.

Well, that’s all for me. If you got anything add, don’t be shy. Next time, I hope to do a drabble that involves a head canon of mine.

#rwby #wish list #please Rooster Teeth

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The Problems With V6E9, in a more coherent post.

Alright, so the latest episode was...a string of problems, one after the other. In the order they were introduced, the episode brings up:

Emerald and Mercury

Mercury’s backstory

Tyrian

Pyrrha’s “pointless” death. Jaune speaks with what is obviously Pyrrha’s mom.

Oscar

Qrow

Ruby

The “adrift” plot status.

I’m...gonna have to admit to being overwhelmed by this, so let’s just take it one at a time.

Emerald’s character is an extremely dissatisfying one. More and more, the writing is pushing her towards being a tragic villain, a sympathetic one. Every time she opens her mouth, she expounds how much Cinder matters to her and oh, whatever will she do. Aside from the fact that I’ve posted before about how Emerald being so dependent on Cinder doesn’t make sense, there’s also the fact that Emerald is every bit the monster that Cinder is. She is a predator, an assassin, a remorseless killer. Cinder's orders did not put Emerald under an irresistable hypnosis and force her to kill Penny Polendina--Emerald chose to do that. There is simply no way to reconcile what Emerald has done with a tragic villain. Period.

The best way to summarize Mercury’s backstory and semblance reveal is “he doesn’t have one”. This seems to have been another area where the “fix it” train of Volume 6 went off the rails. They’re still trying to fill in blank semblance spaces when they don’t need to, and we’re never going to know how or why Marcus “stole” Mercury’s semblance because he’s dead. This is a pointless scene. Only Mercury fans will gain anything out of this scene, and they won’t gain much. Mercury was interesting enough, there was no use in trying to give an in-story explanation for why he hasn’t shown off any semblance (the out-of-story explanation being that Monty never gave him one).

Then, Tyrian comes along. I have to say, this is one of the most aggravating characters to listen to. Gleeful violent psychosis is a personality trait, not an entire personality. If that’s all we ever see of Tyrian, it’s going to get stale, and it got stale a while ago. The persistence in playing him up as a creepy, “laughing mad” villain just annoys me because Tyrian never does anything particularly villainous. He goes after Ruby only on Salem’s orders. He does laugh and show obvious hysterical glee at the idea of injuring other people, but never actually does so and his actions never impose any long-term effects on anyone. Hazel has had more of a lasting effect on the heroes, and he nosedived in Volume 5. There’s the fact that he harasses and offers thinly veiled threats even towards other villains to make him stand out...

...Except for the fact that there is no reason for Emerald and Mercury (his chosen targets) to be afraid of him, least of all Emerald. As I pointed out in this post, it’s like if Bellatrix Lestrange cowered in fear of Fenrir Grayback. It doesn’t make sense. Tyrian could not threaten Emerald in a thousand years.

Ah, yes, the random Pyrrha statue in the middle of Argus which no one knew up until now was Pyrrha’s hometown and where Sanctum is, and where she trained. Hoooooo, boy, do we have a problem here. The first problem is that they are finally addressing the “pointlessness” of Pyrrha’s death....from an in-story perspective. Which is destined to fail; there just isn’t a reason for Pyrrha to have gone into a fight she knew would end with her death, even though Jaune and her mom try so hard to make it seem like there wasn’t a choice. Pyrrha’s actions had absolutely no effect in slowing down Cinder and thus there was no point in trying. She had no plan, no hope of winning, and nothing to gain by fighting--and the only difference made was, out-of-story, confirmed to be a last-minute decision not even cleared by Kerry, and in-story, was only even discovered once she was already dead. In-story, Pyrrha wasn’t ‘fighting the good fight’, she was just throwing herself onto a sword. Jaune and Mama Nikos (and by extension Miles and Kerry) in this scene aren’t fixing anything, they’re just telling the audience of how a visible problem isn’t a problem. I really hate scenes like this because they reek of a show trying to be way more deep than it actually is.

Oh, yes, and Mama Nikos herself. This is the clearest evidence that the writing staff are making honest attempts at fixing things fans have complained about without actually knowing what the complaints are. People that have brought up the Nikos parents in the past did so in the process of saying that Pyrrha’s shield and circlet should’ve gone to them, not been melted down into an addition to Jaune’s gear. The important part of that complaint revolved around the gear, not the parents. Nobody was really clamoring to see the Nikos parents just like nobody was really clamoring to see Jaune’s sister--they were aggravated that Pyrrha’s personal effects went to Jaune over their rightful inheritors.

One thing that instantly enraged me was that, despite every flag pointing towards Volume 6 being the “fix it” volume, the mistakes of the past are still being repeated as though they haven’t been yelled about thousands of times. The scene above only happens immediately after Ren and Nora leave, so that the focus can be on Jaune’s feelings about Pyrrha.

But, you cry, that doesn’t remain the case for long. They come back, they see the statue, and Jaune spills about how terrible a leader he’s been. And yes, he has been a shit leader, it’s nice to hear him acknowledge it. But Ren and Nora immediately comfort Jaune and tell him that they love him and that he can’t keep angsting like this. And while I agree (Jaune’s angst has been grinding my last nerve for a while now), that wasn’t what fans had been complaining about. The fans had been complaining that Jaune was the only one to show his distress over Pyrrha’s death, not that he did so at all. What we’d been waiting two years for was some sign that Ren and Nora, two teammates and presumably friends of Pyrrha’s, were mourning her death the way they seemingly should be. Instead, this scene is merely them comforting Jaune over it.

Oscar comes back and everything is fine. And that’s it. Well, that’s not entirely it. Jaune shocks me yet again when yet another pattern of his is shattered--he actually apologizes for his shitty behavior. And of course, it’s totally fine. But...Oscar wasn’t even in this episode before it came time for him to forgive Jaune. We don’t see any of his actual resentment or distress at being treated so horribly for the simple crime of being a victim of Ozpin. We only see him when it’s time for him to sweep under the rug Jaune’s bad behavior. This pattern--the one of the writers trying desperately to fix past issues and missing entirely--remains unbroken.

Qrow is finally called out for his own shitty behavior....except that he isn’t, at all. Ruby finally does something we’ve been waiting for her to do since Volume 6 established Qrow as being drunk off his ass and as unhelpful as humanly possible--she puts her foot down. But she only puts her foot down with Qrow’s pessimistic attitude, not the actual problems, which are his sorry, shitty attitude towards everyone around him, his refusal to actually lift a finger to help when it’s needed, and the fact that his alcoholism is proving to be a serious liability to the rest of the team. Qrow’s myriad of personal flaws are seemingly just answered by Ruby as a particularly brusque “stop being such a downer, dude”. The actual problems aren’t addressed even though the somber music and look on Qrow’s face seem to imply that they were.

And in the process, Ruby gives yet another tiresome speech, to ill effects regarding the people they’re supposedly about. In Volume 5, Ruby preached to Raven about how she and her friends have accomplished seemingly impossible things by working together, which I pointed out was completely untrue and this show has never set up any such impossibilities in the first place. This time, she preaches to Qrow about two particularly bothersome and untrue things:

“Oz hasn’t been here to tell us what to do but we’ve managed to get this far anyway.” Ozpin has been gone for six episodes. In that time, the team has survived a Grimm attack, gotten to Argus, met Jaune’s lesbian sister, and...that’s it. They have accomplished no goals or objectives whatsoever. They have “gone far” only in the sense that Yang drove them a few dozen miles. They haven’t actually “gotten” anywhere at all.

“We’ve been in bad situations before, and we didn’t need adults to save us or tell us what to do.” This one reeks with falsehood. The team’s efforts have been directed entirely by Ozpin since he died and became the de facto leader of the heroes. Ozpin’s directives have controlled the flow of Volume 5, in which he directly intervened to keep Hazel from killing Oscar via possession. Before that, RNJR absolutely needed Qrow’s help in keeping Tyrian from wrecking their shit. By comparison, the Nuckelavee was handled relatively with some difficulty, but was also an isolated incident that stood in their way rather than chasing them down as Tyrian did. In Volume 6, the team would’ve died if Maria hadn’t helped Ruby trigger her silver eyes properly. The team has always depended on adults for help and advice, seemingly to highlight the very tiresome and annoying tract of “this is the real world now, a few kids aren’t as prepared as they think” that’s been going on since Volume 3.

Finally, it bears repeating that Qrow’s pessimism is absolutely logical and as far as this show goes, he is still presenting a very valid course of action. And that’s because the “hopelessness” of RWBY’s plot is fundamentally different from the “hopelessness” of other plots. In other series, there would be a general course of action aiming towards an overall goal that would be marred by the loss of a valued team member (such as Pyrrha or, in this case, Ozpin). The group wonders if they should give up, but opt to power on instead, refusing to give in to despair even though things look bleak. But RWBY adds in the fact that the overall goal has been confirmed impossible and the process towards getting there has been confirmed to be pulled out of a dude’s ass with no real coherency or structure to secure a chance at making the goal possible to pull off. In short, there was no plan. There was no process towards the goal to begin with. The heroes not only have no idea what to do, they have no idea what to do about something that can’t be done! In the face of such a mire of pointlessness, there is literally no reason for them not to abandon the quest. This has been pointed out several times by several characters: just leaving the relics to rot and letting Salem bang her fists against Ozpin’s doors is a valid option. Ruby’s rejection of Qrow’s desire to quit doesn’t inspire me or make me root for her to win, it just makes me tired. She’s being the designated “heart” of the team without any semblance of brain...just like her uncle before her.

#rwde #qrow branwen #ruby rose #emerald sustrai #mercury black #tyrian callows #been a while since i got this analytical

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