I actually liked the angle they were starting with Yang having lost her arm in a fight. They set up a nice slow burn of her being depressed and angry about it, and learning that she can't rely on her berserker semblance to carry her through fights. Then season 5 said "lol, PTSD isn't real, here she goes kicking ass" like nothing happened.
I watched the first season when it came out (since I was an RvB fan) and thought it was a fun indie project. I stopped watching and didn't pick it up again until a year or two ago. So I watched straight through all 9 seasons. I do love how you could watch the evolution of a small indie project from the RvB people turn into a fully flushed out, high production value animated toon. I did not follow any of the drama or know anything about Monty, so it was nice to be able to just enjoy it. I did think all the world building was neat and the show held my interest. I didn't start looking at it critically until after season 9 and started watching all the videos and background on the production.
I liked that scene where her dad calls her out about the arm and two of her professors look absolutely horrified before both Yang and her dad started laughing. I know it's a silly comedy cliche, but I thought that was a fun part and showed how close she was to her dad. There were a lot of interesting relationships that could have really been neat, but none of them were really followed through. Son and Blake should have been close, but their entire growth arc was totally discarded at the beginning of the next season and then they end up Lesbo-dyking her and Yang (a relationship with zero buildup or foreshadowing unlike Blake/Son). I also hate how Ruby had no real connections to other leaders or potential love interests. The deeper parts of her character were always missing, and then they made her emo depressed to fill in those spots.
I started watching from the Red trailer and I've always liked most core elements and aesthetics of the show. Characters loosely based on fairy tales, myths, and works of literature, the color rule, anime rule of cool, every weapon is also a gun, stuff like that. Monty Oum's fights are just fantastic and I first dropped the show because the fights in V4 & V5 were so obviously bad compared to the stuff Monty had made for V1-3. I got back into the show right after V7 finished and that was when I really dove into the plot and worldbuilding and saw a lot of individual things I liked, but were poorly executed. And theory-crafting how to fix media with good ideas but poor execution is like crack to me, so no matter how bad the show becomes, I'm hooked.
I think Blake's speech in volume 4 is actually a decent commentary on bigotry and tension between communities. That, no matter how unfair it is, sitting back and letting the worst of your people be the only one speaking for you isn't going to do anything to improve the situation. If you want things to get better, you can't just wait for someone else to make it better for you or for the hateful people to just suddenly have a come-to-god moment.
And you had that moment in Volume 4 where Tyrian, out of nowhere, has a specified interest in Jaune after only just meeting him and Jaune doing nothing to attract attention, implying that there's some hidden connection there.
I recently rewatched Volume 9 and ended up liking it even more than I did the first time around. It's much better on a binge since it's more like a movie than the other volumes are, and it follows a smaller cast and has a single linear story that really favors that smaller cast. The volume ends up much more cohesive than most other volumes because of that. Most of the problems I had when I watched it while it was airing didn't come off nearly as bad to me either upon rewatch and I now believe Volume 9 to be either the second or third best volume of the show.
Really? Because I can only see a show degenerating more and more into woke shitfest with every season, to the point I had to drop it because it was too stupid and painful to watch.
Like this one: It felt weird that the strong, cybernetically enhanced general used a pair of lame, weak-sounding guns as a weapon (that's also a cheap copy of Ruby's shtick to boot), and he has such trouble against a skinny scientist who can keep up with him even with no Aura, while Tyrian, the alleged professional assassin, is always owned in 2-3 punches tops. That season is where I dropped it as writers dropped the ball, by having Ruby behave like a complete moron, betraying Ironwood and justifying his paranoia, then having the nerve to prove him right again in front of his fucking face. Another funny thing is how that scientist pretty much betrayed humanity and joined she-Satan because a black dude stole his job and/or his woman, it was unclear, talk about being petty.
No fucking way, hahaha. I guess all that fucking homophobic Ruby fanart really got to her and made her troon out?
Hey now, her arms shook a couple times after the fight. That means it's still lingering, you see. Then she and Blake killed Adam and somehow this helped her PTSD go away rather than made it worse.
Season 4 is basically a full reboot, complete with art style change. The show shares almost nothing in common with the first 3 volumes by the time 4 roles around. The writing, tone, characters, structure, and overall goal of the show is completely different.
They had copious amounts of "trust me bro" energy. Or Zazlav, being a Disney plant, didn't bother.
"How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?"
As true as that is, it’s still pretty funny RWBY of all things was able to get a Justice League crossover.
Is it though? DC has a long and storied history of making crossovers with many different IP's, some of which aren't even owned by WB and are even smaller than RWBY in terms of cultural impact. Its not a high bar.
I think it is, if you see RWBY as this web show that the suits didn’t care about until IP cancelling time came around.
Crossovers are not a high bar. They're probably the absolute lowest bar.
I'm not a shipper myself but Weiss/Ruby is literally the only Team RWBY lesbian ship that even remotely makes sense.
It's messy and it tangles up the Adam/Blake/Weiss thread by adding in a previously unaffiliated third party. The person who should have been crippled in that fight is Weiss, not Yang. Yang being crippled by Adam really robs Weiss and Blake of serious narrative capital, there were better ways for Yang to have a personal crisis due to the Fall of Beacon and better ways to tell her that maybe just going berserker and brute forcing your way through everything isn't the best thing to do.
