RWBY - The Hindenburg on which Rooster Teeth rests its hopes, dreams and future

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I think the music used during the episodes is kinda weak and that one scene at episode 3 with Penny walking towards the camera while shit's on fire looked like she was poorly cropped and greenscreened in imo. But I'm intrigued now. Filler cut out? Screentime being used properly? SHAFT animation? I'm living for it.
 
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he, like alot of people, really ride Monty's dick a little too hard, yeah, Miles and Karry are bad writers, but Monty was a glorified but talented self-taught animator/choreographer
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Having rewatched the video, I can’t say I necessarily agree. Even if it's not because he doesn't want to go in too hard on a dead man, so what? When talking about the Volume 2 finale, he says that it may have been M&K’s fault for not developing Team CVFY enough, or Monty’s fault for dropping this new team's fight scene on them without warning, or everyone's fault for being idiots, but it ultimately doesn't matter. The show isn’t very good because of poor decisions, and saying "blame Monty" doesn‘t exactly change that.
 
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You know, I’ve always wondered why do all these woke idiots have basic bitch taste?
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If I had to take a wild guess I'd say it's the combination of two things:

1) They aren't actually into the things that they're into, or at least they're mostly into it for the image/scene and so they only consume what's popular/well known.

2) They're scared of things that push the envelope and want all the rough and sharp edges sanded off of their entertainment since they don't want to question things or think. They might come to the wrong conclusions if they did.
 
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Grumpy Pickle Rick said:
You know, I’ve always wondered why do all these woke idiots have basic bitch taste?
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They effectively are just a different form of "normie" IME, they know just enough to pretend they're not at face value but they effectively are. You see this a lot with major franchises in many spheres especially with video games and anime where people effectively only live in one maybe two spaces and they're all the ultra popular ones.

It is like being a "JRPG fan" when all you've played is a couple of Final Fantasy games, but you know just about nothing about anything lesser known then that such as Tales Of or Xenoblade except that you've heard of them once because Xenoblade 2 had too much big anime tiddy. More cult classic things that only someone genuinely interested in that gaming genre would actively seek for will likely just fly over your head such as The World Ends with You, the Ys series, Eternal Sonata, or the Trails/Kieski series etc because they aren't the big popular thing everyone talks about constantly.

To put it another way, IME with the anime sphere most people who really really like RWBY unironically and claim to be anime fans have probably no idea what a long running Shonen anime truly is beyond maybe MHA, because MHA also has this sort of cult of popularity and it is newer. I noticed this with Attack on Titan where for some reason AoT managed to garner non-anime people to be 'anime fans' for a little while but they don't know what the hell anime is besides maybe Dragon Ball Z and the big 3 shonens from the 2000s (Bleach, Naruto, One Piece) but they've likely never seen those either. As another example just about no one in this sort of sphere would know what Berserk, Ghost in the Shell, or Trigun even is beyond that they might have vaguely heard about it once.
 
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I just saw all 3 episodes, & honestly, even if it's got some issues & sacrifices some things from the OG web-series, it's objectively better in multiple aspects, & I don't use that word lightly.

>The voice-acting is much better than the OG. It's not done by amateurs or just e-clout hires (Jessica Nigri as Cinder), but well known seiyuus & said seiyuus actually give a shit about doing their jobs well.

>I like the animation much more, but that's a given compared to the bad 3DCG this show was originally made on (due to Monty's stern autism on not changing softwares), obviously it'll look better in comparison.. That said, there are some weird times in animation consistency, characters look very weird at times. I've heard SHAFT has some animation inconsistencies since a while due to some of their best animators leaving a while ago.

>The pacing is great in comparison, the OG likes to dilly-dally a lot around filler, school life & other, almost unnecessary shit. The show does feels a bit rushed, but it got across all the important information. Actual interaction between characters, actual personalities, actual world building & lore foundation right off the bat.

It combined separated scenes together with a more honed in focus on the show's title characters and helped a lot of characterization feel more consistent. We got the Silver Eyes foreshadowed (did this happen in the OG?), & we even got the Schnee family (specially Willow) in the beginning too. They even adapted/partially reinterpreted 2 of the original trailers (those had scenes which are not in the original show) with additional info. They also added some updates of how dust & semblance work - they took those from the later RWBY seasons, helping the show not feel like the incoherent mess it becomes later on. A big problem with RWBY as a whole is how half-assed & hastily built the overarching plot elements are. The pileup & focus on those leads to the post-V3 seasons getting bogged down in shit & needless characters that only weighs it down. This being a separate character story I think could be one of the series highlights, much like how the Apathy storyline in Volume 6 is probably the only thing I heard actual applaud for that doesn't stem out of fanboyism & shilling. The original story was trash anyway.

If there's one thing you can say about this show, it's the fact that it may be rushed, but it still feels more planned than OG RWBY ever did.

I'm genuinely sad some fights are cut, like the port one, but IMO, some of the filler being shredded is for the greater good of pacing, & the fights are a sacrifice that don't disappoint me. It's possible that we may have rushed through Vol 1&2 to go straight to Vol 3 cause the show is becoming it's own storyline. Also, compared to the 3D fights, it's harder to do them on a 2D format.

>Some of the new story elements I kinda like too. It deviates from the OG from 3rd episode, like the Witch (whose design I like & the new Nightmare Grimm which seems like a cool way of exploring characters' internal struggles in new ways & revealing new ones. I like how there is actual drama & conflict between the main girls. Weiss acting like a sheltered, slightly bratty rich girl was something I felt was glossed over too quickly in the OG series. Yang being more protective of Ruby & standing up to Weiss was also a nice touch (She almost forgets is her sister in the later Volumes). We also see more of Ruby second guessing herself with more than just a few lines, giving her character, I also like that they include that whole bullying thing with Jaune, the anime version makes his struggles feel less forced than OG. In fact, if I'm being honest, the show was mediocre to begin with. Monty was responsible for animating the fight scenes & those were the only good parts. Meanwhile, the rest of the show was terrible cause not only the 2 writers had to keep inserting in fighting scenes that Monty came up out of nowhere (with new characters even), but also these writers were bad to begin with & they even decided to insert themselves into the plot (they even dubbed their own characters) for stupid reasons instead of advancing the plot.

That said, the anime did have some things I didn't like either, like the whole "But even the most brilliant lights eventually flicker and die" with Pyrrha on screen, talk about subtlety of a sledgehammer. Or how there's no build-up for Weiss not being a Faunus bigot out of nowhere with Blake. There's some inconsistencies like Weiss changing her school uniform out of nowhere.
 
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It is like being a "JRPG fan" when all you've played is a couple of Final Fantasy games, but you know just about nothing about anything lesser known then that such as Tales Of or Xenoblade except that you've heard of them once because Xenoblade 2 had too much big anime tiddy. More cult classic things that only someone genuinely interested in that gaming genre would actively seek for will likely just fly over your head such as The World Ends with You, the Ys series, Eternal Sonata, or the Trails/Kieski series etc because they aren't the big popular thing everyone talks about constantly.

To put it another way, IME with the anime sphere most people who really really like RWBY unironically and claim to be anime fans have probably no idea what a long running Shonen anime truly is beyond maybe MHA, because MHA also has this sort of cult of popularity and it is newer. I noticed this with Attack on Titan where for some reason AoT managed to garner non-anime people to be 'anime fans' for a little while but they don't know what the hell anime is besides maybe Dragon Ball Z and the big 3 shonens from the 2000s (Bleach, Naruto, One Piece) but they've likely never seen those either. As another example just about no one in this sort of sphere would know what Berserk, Ghost in the Shell, or Trigun even is beyond that they might have vaguely heard about it once.
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I agree with your statement here but you need to replace Final Fantasy with Persona lol. That series has taken over as the normie jrpg and its unfortunate because I love Persona and SMT in general but I do not like the normie interest in it.

But this is genuinely the thing. Animu has surged in popularity to the point where it now has consoom product status so now everybody considers themselves an animu fan. I had this realization myself when I went convention hopping and after chatting up some people who, while they knew the big stuff like MHA and DBZ, had no idea what Yu Yu Hakusho was.

Yu Yu fucking Hakusho. How do you not know one of the GOATS?

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lmao. The women are written like shit, the LGBT characters are forcibly crammed in with no regards to the plot and the characters being fuckable is the only thing that's kept it relevant.

The LGBT stuff too is also kind of a lolworthy thing considering how forced Bumblebee was. Not to mention you have these weird bits in their history like an overly long discussion about whether or not to make a random pilot character gay and would that be bad because he ends up dying a scene later. There was also the time when some rando on Cameo asked MIles if Jaune could be bi and he said yes, the fans took it as canon and Mile very quickly had to issue a statement saying "No, my self insert isn't a faggot."

Good ratio though.
 
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