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

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

No I don’t.

I envy you.

 

[Random Internet Person]

I envy you.

I've only ever read "Old Man and The Sea", so whatever Celtic sees in Hemingway and how he could apply it to RWBY, I'm missing it.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

I've only ever read "Old Man and The Sea", so whatever Celtic sees in Hemingway and how he could apply it to RWBY, I'm missing it.

My little rant wasn't about Hemingway so much so as it was about American public schools teaching his writing. Every single time Hemingway was brought up in school the teacher would talk about how there was so much more meaning to it than what is written due to symbolism and inference. Ray's writing style makes me think he's trying to emulate that style of writing, he's just trying to pack so much extraneous shit into so little but he's really bad at it.

 

[A Very Big Fish]

I can't think of Hemmingway without thinking of Silver Linings Playbook.

As for what Celtic means by it, I'm not sure what he means, but I'm pretty sure that its a good sign that his head is wedged firmly up his own ass.

 

[Tom Honks]

My little rant wasn't about Hemingway so much so as it was about American public schools teaching his writing. Every single time Hemingway was brought up in school the teacher would talk about how there was so much more meaning to it than what is written due to symbolism and inference. Ray's writing style makes me think he's trying to emulate that style of writing, he's just trying to pack so much extraneous shit into so little but he's really bad at it.

Yea i read celtics response and all the little detail he put about how or what its supposed to represent or mean beyond what he is showing. Wouldve went right over my retard brain and i wouldve never put that together. He just comes off as a literary snob. But thats my opinion

 

[Registration]

Those JL designs are so bad

 

[Mega Black]

This is Celtic’s response regarding Episodes 6 and 7:

Make that as you will.

Morally dubious? Nigger that's straight up evil lmao. Leave it to the autistic wannabe potato to have a screwed concept of morality.

All Raymond literally does different is he adds even more unnecessary and convuluted shit to the growing trash heap.

To him, the solution has always been to add more shit on top of the shit sundae that is RWBY. He thinks he's giving things time to expand and be more developed but all it winds up being is useless bloat, usually repetitive if not outright pointless, that pads the length of a story that's still too much like the original show in all the worse ways.

Lets look at what the show is infamous for that Celtic still does arguably just as bad if not worse.

>Bloated cast

Here in spades, he thinks he fixes this by cutting characters like Oscar and making others stick around while expanding on them, but with shit heels like Vernal all it turns into is Celtic Phoenix's OC pity party. In some cases it's even worse. We still have JNPR with RWBY plus Torchwick, plus Neo now. All these characters get extra screentime at the expense of the main squad.

>Self inserts hogging screentime and development

Holy fuck yeah. Celtic and his ilk love to shit on Jaune for being Miles' blatant self insert but as soon as Celtic got his hands on Torchwick he decided to do the exact same shit, except this time it had the knock on effect of ruining one of the only genuinely genius bits of writing the show has ever had.

>Bizarro race war plotline

Celtic brought back another favorite of his, Cardin, and had him dating the bunny girl he was extremely racist and cruel too in school. Not to sound like a socjus fag but come on lmao.

>Protagonists are inactive, incompetent, and feel like secondary characters in their own show.

Now that Torchwick and Neo are here even the few scenes where the protagonists are doing things get overridden by Celtic's favorites. Yang can't even punch a guy without someone stealing the spotlight for a second.

>Poor pacing

Celtic took one episode's worth of action and stretched it out into three.

I could go on. The guy hasn't fixed shit, and that's not even getting into how he certainly doesn't have the moral high ground when it comes to exploiting artists.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Will summarize soon if nobody else does.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Will summarize soon if nobody else does.

"Following a string of episodes which were padded to a frankly disgusting degree we ended on a minimally passable cliffhanger which leaves our protagonists in a precarious situation and reveals some very disturbing truths about their world which they most likely were not ready for yet. So naturally we're going to immediately and violently break our tone and suspense by giving you a total filler episode following around the jobbers as they have bullshit boring things happen to them."

 

[Random Internet Person]

"Following a string of episodes which were padded to a frankly disgusting degree we ended on a minimally passable cliffhanger which leaves our protagonists in a precarious situation and reveals some very disturbing truths about their world which they most likely were not ready for yet. So naturally we're going to immediately and violently break our tone and suspense by giving you a total filler episode following around the jobbers as they have bullshit boring things happen to them."

Thanks. At the very least, they do the red haired woman thing, but here they make it clear that the woman is Phyrra’s mother. Her name is Helen.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Thanks. At the very least, they do the red haired woman thing, but here they make it clear that the woman is Phyrra’s mother. Her name is Helen.

It's atrosious really. Like, FRWBY is already bad but this episode really cranks that up to eleven. Beyond just the fact that he fucks his own already dodgy pacing right up the ass with a filler episode right as the volume gets going. It's bad in and of itself.

 

[Random Internet Person]

So we got the V9 OP now.

And we have Episode 1 as well.

https://www2.kickassanime.ro/watch/rwby-volume-9-ep1

Along with the poster.

 

[Tism the Return II]

Who's gonna take the bullet and watch it to report to the rest of us?

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

Who's gonna take the bullet and watch it to report to the rest of us?

I MIGHT do it. Just to see how this dumpster fire goes on. Don't surely expect reports tho. I might get brain-damage from it.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Who's gonna take the bullet and watch it to report to the rest of us?

I’ll be honest, I was thinking of doing it, but the episode I watched was so uninspiring that I thought it wasn’t worth it.

 

[Chilson]

Who's gonna take the bullet and watch it to report to the rest of us?

I MIGHT do it. Just to see how this dumpster fire goes on. Don't surely expect reports tho. I might get brain-damage from it.

I’ll be honest, I was thinking of doing it, but the episode I watched was so uninspiring that I thought it wasn’t worth it.

I was going to mention that despite this being a thread dedicated to cataloguing RWBY and its autism, pretty much no one is actually talking about the episode. Which just says so much about how truly done everyone is with this IP.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Who's gonna take the bullet and watch it to report to the rest of us?

Pray for me as I embark on this gay and retarded voyage through a shitty web cartoon for retarded weeaboos. My ladyfriend had to cancel our date for today and so i have literally nothing better to do:

Spoiler: Episode Synopsis

>"This is the story of a girl. Who had a lot of problems." Seriously? That's the best you could come up with for an opening line?
>Episode opens on black screen, sound of a heartbeat and rushing wind, broken flashbacks to the end of previous episode but from Ruby's first person POV.
>There's a brief fight between Ruby and Neopolitan as they fall through a seemingly endless void space full of strange glowing orange spheres, the camera continues to be Ruby's first person POV.
>So far the animation has been smooth enough but the shading and coloring makes it really obvious they're using Maya, it has that distinct Maya look to it where everything is really bright and plasticy.
>Ruby pushes Neo away and we fade to white as she seemingly stops falling
>Ruby wakes up on a beach full of strange fauna and a weirdly orange color scale. She is alone and without her weapon. The beach looks like a PS2 game, or a Unity asset flip. Seriously the textures haven't improved since the trailers.
>Have you seen the V9 announcement trailer? The first three minutes or so of this episode is pretty much just that.
>We see a shot of a massive tree far away inland from wherever Ruby currently is, she starts to walk, presumably towards the tree. There really is a lack of emotion or reaction from Ruby to this strange development.
>Ruby continues to walk through the plastic looking trees and shrubs and gets squawked at by a plastic looking bird, it's obvious she's walking in circles althuogh she's clearly going straight.
>We see our first glimpse of emotion from Ruby as her body language clearly becomes more and more agitated as she continues to walk in circles and get squawked at. The animation is predictably stiff and the facial expressions aren't very emotive.
>This continues for about another minute and a half.
>Ruby takes shelter under a tree, clearly frustrated and exhausted, and begins to cry. Just as she does a rainstorm starts.
>Ruby notices a small mouse desperately trying to pull a tuber out of the ground, she picks the mouse up and pulls the tuber out of the ground for it. It looks like a turnip made out of cheese. The mouse happily devours the strange flora.
>Ruby remarks "Now only if you could help me." The mouse responds "I could try." in flawless English.
>Ruby stares at the mouse for a second and then starts to scream in shock and surprise, the mouse screams back. The audio is pretty bad on this one, the scream seems to seriously lack any sort of intensity or volume, I don't know whether to blame this on Lindsay's subpar voice acting talent or on RT's subpar audio mixing. I thought loud was funny?
>We are nearly five minutes in and we've had our first dialogue of the episode, but unlike a show such as Primal that can pull that off by building atmosphere through visual storytelling, RWBY cannot.
>The episode is seventeen minutes long, and just under a third of it's runtime has been effectively wasted so far. The setup for this plot and setting is very ineficient, should have taken half this time.
>Ruby and the mouse have a conversation, this conversation eats up about two minutes of runtime and accomplishes very little. Ruby finds out that the mouse has no name, the mouse has no idea what humans or huntresses are, that the mouse is scared of cats, that the mouse has no name, that the mouse has not seen any other humans recently, and that the mouse comes from a village so they're going to go to the village and see if any of the foragers have seen humans.
>Hard cut, Weiss and Blake are walking together through the strange forest having a conversation. Weiss has Myrtenaster but Blake is missing Gamboul Shroud, they're out looking for both it and Yang.
>They find Gamboul Shroud but it's tangled up at the top of a large thorn bush, frankly these were girls who in V1 were ninja running on walls and leaping fifty feet in the air with no issue, this bush shouldn't be a problem but for some reason it is.
>The thorny vine bush comes to life and traps Weiss and Blake with it's thorny tentacle vines. I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going.
>A large horde of mice come running out and talk about how the trap has been sprung and justice for their prey.
>Ruby comes along just in time to save Weiss and Blake from being killed by mice, Ruby's mouse friend explains that they are friendly and the mice let them go and apologize. The animation is really bad this Volume and the VAs seem to be phoning it in worse than usual.
>Ruby Blake and Weiss set out to find Yang. Ruby's mouse friend tags along. Makes a comment about how she? has nothing else to do "yet" and this combined with the earlier comment about her not having a name yet because she's too young is probably important.
>We are ten minutes into our seventeen minute episode
>Weiss keeps being asked what happened after the other girls fell, she keeps being cagey and changing the topic.
>There's a very scary roar and the team comes across a strange creature that looks like a harlequin clown and Nightcrawler from the X-Men had sex.
>It speaks in a very scary voice saying things like "Seeking, searching, tracking" and then when it notices them it changes to "detecting, listening"
>Weiss and Blake draw their weapons to fight it, Ruby still does not have her weapon back.
>The creature attacks, screaming things like "danger rip tear!"
>Yang appears and it looks like she's been fighting this thing previously, she's also missing her prosthetic.
>The creature runs away but from what it was saying it'll be back.
>Yang is angry about Ruby being in the weird world, Ruby tells her that of course she was going to come and save her.
>Bumblebee confirmed
>Weiss breaks down crying and reveals what happened after the other three fell, Ruby faints when she finds out that Penny died again.
>We're fifteen minutes into the episode and the four are back together.
>The line "What if we're dead?" is floated by Yang. I really hope that isn't foreshadowing.
>The other four laugh it off.
>With renewed vigor the four members of Team RWBY and their little mouse friend set off to escape from whacko world.
>They also find out that they are literally in a fairy tale they even see Candy Land.
>Cut to title screen and opening credits.

TL;DR: It was seventeen minutes of almost literally nothing, the animation is even worse than it has been, the VAs seem to be phoning it in more than usual, and the pacing in this one was FRWBY levels of bad. You can do a lot with seventeen minutes of episode.

Edit to add: The opening is the worst one yet.

 

[Mega Black]

I watched it, they already uploaded half of it on YouTube. It's a dull episode.

 

[Random Internet Person]

I watched it, they already uploaded half of it on YouTube. It's a dull episode.

Let’s hope next week is something other than mid.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Let’s hope next week is something other than mid.

I don't think this episode counts as mid. Sure by the standards of RWBY maybe but by any other standard it was bad.