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

[WitchOfDarkness]

So, I am guessing RWBY's participation in multiversus was canceled, wasn't it? There were some leaked lines of them reacting to Ruby, but WB doesn't own them anymore.

The RWBY brand must be very damaged if WB thought Steven Universe, of all things, is more valuable than it. Mind you, SU is a kids show that ended years ago, and The Iron Giant, as good as it was, is from an old movie that failed financially. And they still preferred to keep them over RT's crown jewel.

They had so little faith on RWBY that they didn't even kept it for their crossover videogame, or to brag about how much IPs they had, as they did in space jam 2.

Viz might turn things around, but all signs point out RWBY was in a worse situation than we all thought if WB decided to give up on it that easily.

 

[Gorillion others]

So, I am guessing RWBY's participation in multiversus was canceled, wasn't it? There were some leaked lines of them reacting to Ruby, but WB doesn't own them anymore.

The RWBY brand must be very damaged if WB thought Steven Universe, of all things, is more valuable than it. Mind you, SU is a kids show that ended years ago, and The Iron Giant, as good as it was, is from an old movie that failed financially. And they still preferred to keep them over RT's crown jewel.

They had so little faith on RWBY that they didn't even kept it for their crossover videogame, or to brag about how much IPs they had, as they did in space jam 2.

Viz might turn things around, but all signs point out RWBY was in a worse situation than we all thought if WB decided to give up on it that easily.

You should see the massive levels of cope for it.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

You should see the massive levels of cope for it.

Naw man, rwbys saved. The new company is gonna save it and make it so much better because they're totally keeping 100% of the people involved and RWBY is more popular than ever. More gay catgirls for all.

 

[Smith Wesson]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RWBY/s/2rj0QXYU6O

Any other reasons as to why heat cycles for Faunus are dumb?

 

[Gorillion others]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RWBY/s/2rj0QXYU6O

Any other reasons as to why heat cycles for Faunus are dumb?

LMAO! If I was a Faunus, that would seriously offend me. Who are the racists again? They always do this. They find something curious and look at it like some spectacle at the zoo. At least white people back then were more honest that they didn't see minorities as people. Nowadays, they put on airs that they're all for equality, but refuse to even live in the same neighborhoods as those they claim to accept and love. Priceless.

 

[Tism the Return II]

So, I am guessing RWBY's participation in multiversus was canceled, wasn't it? There were some leaked lines of them reacting to Ruby, but WB doesn't own them anymore.

The RWBY brand must be very damaged if WB thought Steven Universe, of all things, is more valuable than it. Mind you, SU is a kids show that ended years ago, and The Iron Giant, as good as it was, is from an old movie that failed financially. And they still preferred to keep them over RT's crown jewel.

They had so little faith on RWBY that they didn't even kept it for their crossover videogame, or to brag about how much IPs they had, as they did in space jam 2.

Viz might turn things around, but all signs point out RWBY was in a worse situation than we all thought if WB decided to give up on it that easily.

That's because SU as shit as it was it and as astroturfed as its popularity was at least aired worldwide and was watched occasionally by real human kids. RWBY was a terrible web animation seen by anime dorks online and anime dorks online only. It's much more niche.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Any other reasons as to why heat cycles for Faunus are dumb?

Because it's blatant fetish bait.

 

[winderson_silva]

I think the best example of how the writing is meh is Vol 7 and 8

What the heroines could had done, really, if Ironwood wasnt an idiot and let Watts hack Penny instead of dropping the fucker on the lava after winning the fight? They couldnt just evacuate through the tundra, they couldnt say because either the cold or the grimm would take them, standing and fighting isnt an option when the enemy is literally infinite and they didnt had a way to kill the whale until Ozpin took his pimp cane.

So you got the heros doing "whats right", and that would just kill them all. Like legit, they had no plan until first Whitley and them their actual enemy gave an idea.

Guess thats just the problem when you got an unkillable villain that can move, if Salem show up in Vacuo when vol 10 happen in 2050, they also cant stay and fight

While I was late to the convo, I watched it all thanks to a friend and I still think the series really is only alive because of fanart and fanfics lol

 

[Tom Bombodildo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohqEv1gEVoo

Just listened to Ironwood's song again and it still blows my mind how one of the best character arcs the show ever dared to write was obliterated by their need for an easy villain.

 

[Random Internet Person]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohqEv1gEVoo

Just listened to Ironwood's song again and it still blows my mind how one of the best character arcs the show ever dared to write was obliterated by their need for an easy villain.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohqEv1gEVoo

Just listened to Ironwood's song again and it still blows my mind how one of the best character arcs the show ever dared to write was obliterated by their need for an easy villain.

My boi Ironwood dindu nuffin wrong

 

[LecherousGranolaBar]

So, I am guessing RWBY's participation in multiversus was canceled, wasn't it? There were some leaked lines of them reacting to Ruby, but WB doesn't own them anymore.

The RWBY brand must be very damaged if WB thought Steven Universe, of all things, is more valuable than it. Mind you, SU is a kids show that ended years ago, and The Iron Giant, as good as it was, is from an old movie that failed financially. And they still preferred to keep them over RT's crown jewel.

They had so little faith on RWBY that they didn't even kept it for their crossover videogame, or to brag about how much IPs they had, as they did in space jam 2.

Viz might turn things around, but all signs point out RWBY was in a worse situation than we all thought if WB decided to give up on it that easily.

I can't even believe it was considered in the first place, truthfully. To the point where literal lines were recorded for Ruby interactions. This show is not popular, especially not compared to a lot of properties that WB owns. (Mortal Kombat, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, all of DC comics etc)

Then again though, Multiversus has been pretty strange with its character selection. I mean, Nubia? Who the fuck is that? I love Gremlins but Gizmo and Stripe are such bizarre characters to pick. When was the last time Gremlins was relevant again? I'd say marvin the martian making it in first before Daffy Duck is strange too.

 

[Tanner Glass]

I can't even believe it was considered in the first place, truthfully. To the point where literal lines were recorded for Ruby interactions. This show is not popular, especially not compared to a lot of properties that WB owns. (Mortal Kombat, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, all of DC comics etc)

It was considered because Ruby (and company) were marginally popular in BBTAG for the few weeks when BBTAG was marginally popular.

 

[WitchOfDarkness]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohqEv1gEVoo

Just listened to Ironwood's song again and it still blows my mind how one of the best character arcs the show ever dared to write was obliterated by their need for an easy villain.

Tbh, the only genuinely good writing the show ever had is their song lyrics. Sometimes it feels as if they were written for much better written show that never was.

I can't even believe it was considered in the first place, truthfully. To the point where literal lines were recorded for Ruby interactions. This show is not popular, especially not compared to a lot of properties that WB owns. (Mortal Kombat, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, all of DC comics etc)

And it's not even for a lack of trying. WB lent them their DC comics IP to try to boost them ( both for a comic run and two movies), financed an anime, and they even gave them a last season as a hail mary. RT still managed to squander it and fail.

Then again though, Multiversus has been pretty strange with its character selection. I mean, Nubia?

To be fair, she is just an alt costume for Wonder Woman. You can afford to be more obscure that way, and it's not like anyone was expecting Nubia to carry interest on her own.

 

[Crescent Fresh]

To be fair, she is just an alt costume for Wonder Woman. You can afford to be more obscure that way, and it's not like anyone was expecting Nubia to carry interest on her own.

She’s not.

 

[WitchOfDarkness]

She’s not.

My mistake. I was going by memory and misremembered that.

She is an odd choice, but she is also likely there for the DEI quota. So I still doubt she is meant to be a draw on her own.

Still, it's very telling they think an obscure wonder woman side character is more valuable than RWBY.

 

[Sneed (formerly ﷽)]

I haven't seen much discourse about yet another RWBY rewrite video. Maybe it was discussed somewhat already in this thread but I'm too lazy to fucking check it all. Anyway, I'm curious what others here think of it. It's the one by Calxiyn A.K.A. the most bland-toast RWBY-tard I've seen apart from MurderofBirds. Because of that, I was genuinely surprised that her rewrite wasn't god-awful and at the very least, has an interesting, and personally for me, a profoundly much better, structured, and entertaining narrative layout. Obviously I have many issues with it, but I was just shocked that she actually did something that 100% surpasses Phoenix's lazy excuse of a rewrite.

Or you know, maybe RWBY is just so fucking terrible that anything mediocre related to it has somehow made my brain into thinking it's much cleverer than it is.

 

[Random Internet Person]

I haven't seen much discourse about yet another RWBY rewrite video. Maybe it was discussed somewhat already in this thread but I'm too lazy to fucking check it all. Anyway, I'm curious what others here think of it. It's the one by Calxiyn A.K.A. the most bland-toast RWBY-tard I've seen apart from MurderofBirds. Because of that, I was genuinely surprised that her rewrite wasn't god-awful and at the very least, has an interesting, and personally for me, a profoundly much better, structured, and entertaining narrative layout. Obviously I have many issues with it, but I was just shocked that she actually did something that 100% surpasses Phoenix's lazy excuse of a rewrite.

Or you know, maybe RWBY is just so fucking terrible that anything mediocre related to it has somehow made my brain into thinking it's much cleverer than it is.

So the idea Cal had is basically what Soarel said was really going on the whole damn time if you listened to the soundtracks before Monty died? What a great idea!

 

[Deus Exica]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohqEv1gEVoo

Just listened to Ironwood's song again and it still blows my mind how one of the best character arcs the show ever dared to write was obliterated by their need for an easy villain.

I'll never forgive them for what they did to Ironwood. The entire show building up this threatening and intimidating idea that Ironwood might be taking things too far, that he has become a tyrant, that he may no longer be an ally or have his kingdom's best interest in mind, only for it to be revealed that... Actually he was doing a great job, and is kind, and does want to do the right thing, and has only done what any reasonable person would given his situation, was one of the best pieces of subversive writing I have ever seen in a show of this nature.

Then you get to the end of the volume and, nope, that was all completely accidental and he is actually just a psychotic despot threatening to nuke his own people. Fucking retarded.

 

[WitchOfDarkness]

I'll never forgive them for what they did to Ironwood. The entire show building up this threatening and intimidating idea that Ironwood might be taking things too far, that he has become a tyrant, that he may no longer be an ally or have his kingdom's best interest in mind, only for it to be revealed that... Actually he was doing a great job, and is kind, and does want to do the right thing, and has only done what any reasonable person would given his situation, was one of the best pieces of subversive writing I have ever seen in a show of this nature.

Then you get to the end of the volume and, nope, that was all completely accidental and he is actually just a psychotic despot threatening to nuke his own people. Fucking retarded.

I can't confirm it, but there's a rumor that they backtracked after people started to sympathyze with him online, because you weren't supposed to agree with him at all. Ironwood was very likely supposed to be a Trump allegory. Yes, really. Don't forget, there was also an election subplot with an obvious Hillary Clinton stand in: Robyn.

There was a season break, so I don't think it's imposible. This is RT, so they likely hadn't finished work on it anyway. And it would've only requiere some tweaks to the dialogue and minor scenes of the finale. Turn him from sympathethic, and complex to childishly evil.

In other words, they wrote a nuanced story by mere chance, but they destroyed it because, you enjoyed it wrong.