It’s very hard for me to watch RWBY for me at this point because I watch it less because I expect something good and more because I don't want them to ruin the few good memories when it was just dumb fun under Monty.
Yes my expectations are that low.
I am not even fazed by all the woke virtue signal anymore. Retconing the gods to be less important than a strong tree woman? Of course they are. They are toxic males after all.
I will even give them points for handling the lesbian shipping better than Korrasami. I mean It was also a retcon to appease fetishist shippers and virtue signal. And also a desperate attempt to save a sinking ship, a franchise that gets more irrelevant each passing second.
But, unlike Korrasami, at least they bothered to set it up a few volumes back. So there's that.
The way they solved the depression arch was particularly terrible for me. Rooster Teeth thinks depression is just wanting to be someone else. And that wanting to be yourself magically solves depression? That's not how depression works.
It's frustrating seeing Rooster Teeth always trying to touch deep and mature themes, but then butchering them because the writers have all lived pampered live styles so they have no idea what's it actually like. That is to be depressed, having abusive parents, mourning a loved one, racism etc. But they could've at least bothered to research it.
If you ever liked RWBY or want it to be good you should root against Rooster Teeth and their Crunchyroll plan. The IP has value, it truly can be something great. Or at the very least junk food fun. Just not under the same hack writers.
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