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That RT was based in Texas in no way guarantees that they're libertarians of any stripe. They're from Austin after all, the bluest city in that state, and besides the various individual members ranting about their support for left-wing causes and hatred of right-wing ones from time to time, the...

The worldbuilding in RWBY is pretty bad, yeah. I notice that some fics & rewrite projects tend to focus waaaay too much on it to the point where they're basically creating a whole new Remnant and forget to actually do characters or the story, like uh...RWBY Alternate I believe? (Aside from the...

Yeah I know, but even so I don't remember RWBY being that much of a juggernaut on Tumblr. I was on Reddit when Shane's letter first broke in like 2016, and thought the reaction & fights over it on there were far more severe than the reaction I saw on Tumblr (the most notable thing I remember...

Ehh, I don't know about that one. To my knowledge, while RWBY did have a strong following on Tumblr back in the day, it never quite got giga-popular there like Steven Universe or Undertale. Both examples which, incidentally, also had even more psychotic fanbases than RWBY - I don't think even...

This is true. But even back then it should have been apparent that pandering to Tumblr would be a bad idea that would cost RWBY (and RT) more than they could hope to gain in the long run. I recall (that was the Gamergate 1.0 era) that even in 2015 or so, Tumblr was already known as a containment...

I think even the most cursory examination of what things were like behind the scenes during the production of the early seasons will amply demonstrate that the story was most certainly Monty Oum's, not M&K's, so long as he lived. I don't believe he had some epic full-length 12+ season vision for...

I did throw in a 'probably' qualifier in my previous statement. But in any case, personally I think that not only is it still unlikely had the show miraculously gotten V10 greenlit somehow, but it's for the best that that never happens. Even if RT were to bring Glynda back, I have full...

My counterpoint is that CRWBY has a really bad track record with misusing & screwing up the potential of their characters, as well as bringing those they know/think are fan-favorites back out of the blue to pander for views. Raven is probably the best example of this and certainly the first that...

Oh wonderful, so Salem actually destroyed two kingdoms back-to-back, the latter of which was the one the story started in. Any hope represented by that airfleet at the end of V9 has been dashed, Vacuo & Mistral are looking pretty boned. They also took some time to crap on Ironwood('s grave)...

The business with Sheena Oum is one of the big unanswered mysteries behind the scenes at RT/RWBY. Sheena herself seems to have kept an extremely low profile after Monty's death and her being cut out of RT (even moving to the other side of the country as Shane notes, the last remotely notable...

Where to begin...the workplace abuses first came to light with a bunch of ex-RT people airing their grievances by way of a wave of negative Glassdoor reviews around 2019 or so, a compilation of which was archived here. Tl;dr management crunched the hell out of the workers, pushing for 70-80 hour...

Yeah, generally I didn't pay much attention to the people working behind the scenes on RWBY even after the bombshell that was Shane's letter (that just got me to tune out of RWBY entirely for some time), but it became pretty much impossible for me to not start seriously looking behind the...

I've seen an interesting argument that even more-so than Jaune for Miles Luna, Blake and Yang were self-inserts for their respective VAs (Arryn Zech and Barbara Dunkelman). Didn't pay it too much attention when I first saw it years ago, but it does seem to ring more true now. Arryn is bisexual...

Yeah that's definitely some bullshit too. One would think Yang should actually be the member of Team RWBY most opposed to undermining & backstabbing Ironwood out of sheer gratitude after he gifted her that arm and that they could've bonded (or at least come to sympathize a lot with one another)...

Tbh there's actually a good chunk of characterization for Ruby early on that's just gone poof in the later seasons. Aside from her being a yuge weapons nerd, remember back when she loved milk & cookies? Or how, far from being a beatific saintly/messianic figure willing to bear the weight of the...

Fair enough. If we must have a darker & grittier RWBY with a grander & longer 'save the world from Salem' plot, splitting its reboot into two series makes the most sense. As is, RWBY V1-(early)3 and V3-9 already feel like two very different shows smushed together IMO, with the last episodes of 3...

That's 100% true. Among the many lessons it can impart about how not to write/produce a series, I think it's safe to say that 'this is what happens if you pander excessively to the loud minority among your fans, who know what they want but don't really care about how to get there or if it even...

Yeah, I don't see that happening at all. Volume 10 was never greenlit, and now RT itself is dead, precisely because they had blown all their chances and could never find 'potential partners' to invest in it & keep them afloat any longer - not Crunchyroll, not anyone else. If somebody were to buy...

As far as Bumblebee goes, I think the problem was with both the ship itself (in that it jammed together two of the most personality-incompatible members of Team RWBY, the conflict-averse Blake who's supposed to have escaped an abusive relationship with another hothead and is prone to running...

Pretty much inevitable if they manage it, I believe. Setting aside how they parted with RT on very bad terms and how that has likely affected their opinion of CRWBY's work without them, the writers have written themselves into a corner. It makes literally no sense to try to pick things up where...