Anime & Manga RWBY General discussion thread.
- Thread starter Zachowon
- Start date
Honestly did not expect it. I got death flags from Clover but thought it would be figbting alongside Qrow not against
I'm in the same boat. Elm and Harriet and marrow were the Aceops members I like.
Shipmaster Sane
You have been weighed
Having read the fables, they really missed an opportunity to make the token Faunus literally dog uncle-ruckus. I mean he's already a hilarious caricature of his own people, being a brown dingo with a boomerang who yells dog puns at people to fight.
Aesop was basically the greek version of Samuel L Jackson's character from Django Unchained.
Aesop was basically the greek version of Samuel L Jackson's character from Django Unchained.
Shipmaster Sane
You have been weighed
Do you know Aesop?
It sounds like it was. And it does sound like something that would have worked better. I stopped watching the show when it went from mediocre to awful enough that fights didn't justify watching it..and also the fights started to be really really sub-par.
Is it wrong that the first Aesop myth that came to mind in this situation was the one about Apples and Horse Dung?
Shipmaster Sane
You have been weighed
They "planned" two or three more.
"Planned" here means "Did not plan but want to fumble their way through"
CarlManvers2019
Writers Blocked Douchebag
You know, I heard once that RWBY was supposed to continue or end at the girls' adulthood
Then again, it was supposed to just be a sisterhood than full of sudden Yuri-pairings, I mean Blake & Sun had more in-universe shipping than Blake & Yang
Shipmaster Sane
You have been weighed
See thats the secret to great pandering. Endlessly promise, rarely deliver. It's all about hype, you want to keep that train going until it runs out of steam on the tracks and breaks down, then pointlessly flop the big moment on randomly at the end.
Since we are already talking about stuff from the lastest season, what's your opinion about the conflict between Team RWBY and Ironwood? I believe the team was extremely hypocritical and using Ironwood for resources and training while denying him critical information up to the point where things could do no other than spiral out of control.
And yet the narrative treats him as the villain.
And yet the narrative treats him as the villain.
Shipmaster Sane
You have been weighed
How come Ironwood has a blast door on his office that a teenager can easily ram their head through without injury?
No idea. Maybe the actual defense was Ironwood kicking the ass of whoever broke in.
Alaric Volta
Active member
They are clearly making it up as they go.
It is not crashing and burning just yet, but almost.
Seems like they were just trying to make forced conflict between heros.
But they could not come up with a good reason for the characters to not trust each other, so they just had the team be stupid about it.
prinCZess
Warrior, Writer, Performer, Perv
I've not seen past...Yang meeting her mother, whatever that season was...But the writers do seem to consistently suffer from having an endpoint in mind, maybe even a broad theme or idea, but having no clue how to reach it or demonstrate it properly--while getting distracted by the shiny object of 'flashy' fights, the latest macguffin or fan-question (Pyrrha and the maidens was one, Yang's mom another) or--more often as I've heard for recent seasons (and even in earlier days) the need to throw LOOK LESBIANS!! fetishization into things to hold interest and attention through the eye-rolling and blunt-instrument writing. Their attempts at doing conflict between different heroic characters suffered from one person or persons being stupid to maintain drama even early-on--the Blake-Weiss stuff is cringe-worthy until its basically dropped, as is the Sun-Blake 'conflict' during the Menagerie arc and the Pyrrha-whats-his-name-I-actually-forgot-it-blondie bits at Beacon.
Whether its just time-constraints* or lack of skill/ability, the writers always seem to have this wall that prevents them from presenting antiheroes in any kind of positive light, and perpetual need to reinforce the heroes being justified or right--even when/if it doesn't actually make sense, just because that's what they need for the story.
*Contradicting this, it looked like there was some interesting butting-heads developing within the villains with Cinder and the other council-of-evil folks, maybe.
The villains butting heads is a major part of 4 through 7. They each have their own ways of doing things.
You mean Jaune and Pyrrha.
Also, I fully agree they should not have done the LOOK LESBIANS! with Jaunes sister or with Yang and Blake. Even though Blake and Sun have more moments. The show has very visible ups and downs. It isn't for everyone, and doesnt have to be
Alaric Volta
Active member
The 5th volume really dragged on long. While you say they get distracted along the way, that was just the main characters sitting around doing nothing or walking back and forth to have nothing conversations over and over again.
Probably both.
But for time limits, could they just not publish a volume a year and spend 2 years on a volume so it is better?
Agreed on all this.
Blake and Yang could have worked I guess. If it was not shoved in the face of the audience and the fight scene grinded to a hault just for it.
Volume 5 is considered on of thier worst because of how long it dragged on for. Few good scenes in it, but it dragged on too long.
They usually start working on the next volume after they finish the first, at least for scripting.
Bumblebee would have been better had they made a better build up and did not give us the whole Black sun vibes alone the way. Like seriously. I still am an avid shipper of Lancaster and white knight as they both have a semblance of reality behind them
Shipmaster Sane
You have been weighed
Bumblebee would be better if they weren't lesbians.
I wouldn't go that far. I get it, you haten LGBTQ being forced down your throat. I hope it only feels like that for you in fiction an not IRL. it needed more build up and moments for it to become a real relationship