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

[A Watchful Ghost]

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[Jewelsmakerguy]

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I'll admit, just from the trailer alone the animation's miles better than anything RT could do in-house, but for Polygon Pictures, it's b-tier at best, even more so when compared to their other work on the franchise.

 

[Random Internet Person]

An interesting video I found worth sharing, with some Death Battle thrown in.

 

[Grumbo]

An interesting video I found worth sharing, with some Death Battle thrown in.

Man, I'm having a really hard time with his "Power Scaling doesn't exist in a visual medium" thing after he showed off power scaling in a visual medium.

 

[Roland Daggett]

An interesting video I found worth sharing, with some Death Battle thrown in.

I can answer the question of "How did RWBY beat the Ass Ops?" with a simple "Because the plot demanded it"

Team RWBY still haven't done much of any training since Volume 2 of the show. Yang has barely recovered from having an arm chopped off and Blake has sat on her ass for several seasons until coming back to magically be better than Adam in a fight. This guy is trying to overcomplicate this and make it sound more meaningful than it really is. I have no doubt that Miles and his merry band of idiot writers intended for this to be some huge upset where the students surpass the masters... but what we got was a joke.

Plenty of people have already pointed out that the Ace Ops jobbed HARD in this fight for no reason other than that the writers needed RWBY to win. The Ace Ops had a guy who could freeze everyone in front of him yet he didn't do it when RWBY were all in front of him. He only does this later when he's fighting Weiss and only when her knight thing is off to the side. The Ace Ops make blatantly stupid mistakes that put them at a disadvantage solely cause they need to be. It's been Miles' MO since Volume 3. Look at how Coco went from being able to take on multiple Grimm in close quarters as well as take down huge Grimm in Volume 2 to being a stupid immobile fool in Volume 3 just cause they needed her and Yatsuhashi to lose to Mercury and Emerald. Fans will try to spin the Ace Ops loss as much as they can but the bottom line is that they lost cause the plot demanded it. This idiocy about how they're actually pathetic and only stooges for the government is just an excuse they're making up. The Ace Ops were portrayed as being an elite squad and to try to downplay them as not being that good makes the entire point of them losing pointless. How can you frame this as the best of the best getting beaten in a massive upset while also trying to downplay the Ace Ops entirely to make them all sound completely pathetic?

This video is damage control and fanfiction but I will agree somewhat on his last point that power scaling characters with numbers is not something I'm a fan of. HOWEVER there should still be some understandable hierarchy in terms of who's better (ie Glynda > Ruby, Qrow > Blake). This can change of course due to circumstances but those changes should still be able to understood, like how Obi Wan beat Anakin in the Mustafar duel due to experience and being really good at his form despite Anakin being overall stronger. I don't like it being boiled down to plain numbers where someone who's got a 10,000 power level will always beat someone with a 9,000 power level cause that's not interesting. But if you can have rookie Huntresses in training who never finished their Huntress education beat supposed elite soldiers, or have a whiny catgirl who sat on her ass for like a year come back and casually body one of the most dangerous antagonists in the show with zero training then the show has no way of saying which character is more powerful because anyone will lose or win fights merely to service the crappy plot the writers want.

 

[linchan]

It's great being a person who doesn't follow the show and only exclusively watch the fight scenes. Now I get to just watch the highlights and not get distracted by the main plot. So far the season feels like a 8/10 with only fights. Man, it's rewarding to not give a shit about the characters or the rest of the show

 

[BroccoliBrain]

They really left it off on a cliff hanger? That was beyond anti-climactic, this season was shit (as always) but I thought they'd at least give us a crap kaiju fight with RWBY against the big grimm whale.
I have no idea why Salem is here, it feels like she appeared out of nowhere after doing diddly dick for two seasons. Did anything Watts and Tyrian do have any actual effect or benefit to her? Because she seems so powerful and her supply of Grimm so infinite that she can just mob rush Atlas or any other target of her choosing whenever she wants. It's like she told them to fuck around with Atlas for the sake of drama then she shows up because she wanted to. Ozpin coming back feels completely unwarranted, I'm not feeling any story beats here that tell me why exactly he's back now, I'm guessing OOC it's because they need ratings and they're desperate (again). Sure, Oscar was on the road to merging with the Ozglomorate but that was cut short when Ozpin fucked off and I thought then we were on the path where Oscar now has to deal with being successor to all this shit without his previous Oz-lives. But he's back to talking to Ozpin? I do not like being tugged around back and forth as a viewer like this.

Rate me autistic but I'm going to write a list of some things we've lost over the volumes (and other shit I have problems with):

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1. Ruby's nerdy passion for weapons and the implication she is good with tools (because she built Crescent Rose). This never comes up, even when they got upgrades multiple times where she should be excited and trying to insert herself into the process because it's her passion.
2. Ruby's "I just wanna be a normal girl" thing. This is admittedly a shit stock trait that feels tacked on, even in early V1, because nobody in this show is normal. Still, a skilled writer could've done something with the fact that her backstory kind of paints her as a naive, isolated girl who was then having trouble adjusting socially to her new school, settling in with peers much older than her. When you're 15, people just two grades above you seem a lot older and intimidating, and that's the exact grade they put her in. Ruby getting into a famous school two years early never gets brought up again even as trivia.
3. Blake and Ruby's shared love of stories. I'm pretty sure that book Blake had in V1 was implied yaoi or some other genre with spicy scenes in it. I don't recall Ruby bonding with Blake personally like this ever again and neither of them talk about books at all either. When Ruby was fucking up her first steps into making friends at Beacon, this was the moment she got Blake to open up (even just a little) simply by relating to her through a hobby in a very sincere way. Could that be the 'simple soul' I see from the OP lyrics? Too bad all she does now is fucking screech and make generic anime hero speeches that could come from any one of the main cast because they're the good guys.
4. Recently covered in previous posts, Yang's boy craziness. She doesn't even check out other girls for more gay points.
5. And Yang's hotheadedness. She used to pick fights and slip into clubs underage just to beat the shit out of people and win, look at her now. She was the 'fun' character in a then lighthearted show. But no, RWBY wants to be anime GoT and forced her through unneeded development, now she's gay and boring. We are told her temper and rashness is a negative trait she's since grown out of but I don't agree at all that it was bad or needed improvement at all. Going through the PTSD no arm arc only rounded off the unique aspects of her character and now Yang is just as serious and broody as Weiss and Blake are, now we have 3/4 of the main cast behaving the same fucking way. I'm supposed to believe she had some sort of 'problem' relying on her rage based semblance too much even though she's only ever used it perfectly, never lost her temper even when losing against Neo, and ACKCHUALLY it's been shown way too many times that her semblance's main focus is tanking hits (which she already did strategically and needed no practice with), she doesn't get stronger based on how pissed off she is. The mistake here is retconning the animation itself when you can't lie about what I saw with my own two eyes, and what I saw was Monty using Yang's semblance as the perfect flashy finisher to the end of fight, the drops to his music dance battles. Trying to twist that into "wah Yang overuses her semblance das bad" just doesn't work when it was previously a good thing. She never comments on the pain of tanking so it's not even that it's masochistic and possibly unhealthy for her in that way, she really is just good at dealing with hits. If anything it's a metaphor for how strong she must be (yeah I love Yang before they fucked her up). She still uses her semblance the same way as before (but without the pacing of a Monty animated battle so it feels lame) so I don't even know what she's supposed to have improved upon.
6. Ruby's survivor guilt with the weird dreams about Pyrrha as late as V4 and all her trauma with Penny's death all is gone.
7. We still don't know how Summer died, if we knew that then it would be possible to show Salem taunting Ruby over it this volume, or maybe Ruby doesn't know and this was a missed opportunity to shock the audience with a reveal. Yang says she died early enough that Ruby wouldn't understand what happened (I take this to mean "why mom won't come home"), the animation sequence they used makes me think it was before Ruby could even walk (because Yang pulls her around in a cart and she's only two years older). I think it's extremely unrealistic that Ruby has enough of a relationship with Summer that her death is a point of trauma for her, or that she would feel the need to speak to her grave each year. My mother died before I was old enough to remember her and when I mourn it's more over what could have been, the things I missed out that 'normal families' get to have. She's like a mythical figure people would have wanted me to know rather than someone once in my life. Salem basically goes "haha ur mom ded" and Ruby shuts down over it like it happened yesterday, and RT orders me to feel sorry for her. That's not how it works, fuck off. It's like how they write racism when they clearly have never been discriminated against in their whole lives.
8. Qrow was a ladies man, a teacher, and an expert with a very unique weapon type. Maybe I'm misremembering that last point but scythes were speshul to Qrow and Ruby, enough so that Ruby having one was enough to identify her as a student of Qrow's before she clarified he's her uncle. He does absolutely nothing teacher-like in the actual show (I think they could've woven some bits in to flesh him out more) and of course he's no longer a devil-may-care funny drunk who gets all the pussy because that's chauvinistic and NOT cool, kids!!! You'd think an ex-teacher, veteran hunter would be more effective at disciplining RWBY when he was trying to wrangle them in V4 or 5 but they clearly forgot about that and would rather make him a spineless doormat to make him a gay soft boi for the fangirls.

I don't even know why I'm writing so much about Ruby when she's one of my most disliked characters. She's the title character so she deserves it, I guess.

And just because I can't resist shitting on the fandom, they're monkeys who won't stop shrieking about representation and validation which are big fancy words to mean "I'm a loser who lives through cartoon characters they MUST be like me and the life I wish I had". If you're using a cartoon as a manual on how to solve your personal problems, using RWBY to show you how not to be a drunkard or a racist, then you are most likely a huge man/womanchild who needs more moms in your life than Ruby and Yang.

 

[OddEyes]

This video is damage control and fanfiction but I will agree somewhat on his last point that power scaling characters with numbers is not something I'm a fan of. HOWEVER there should still be some understandable hierarchy in terms of who's better (ie Glynda > Ruby, Qrow > Blake). This can change of course due to circumstances but those changes should still be able to understood, like how Obi Wan beat Anakin in the Mustafar duel due to experience and being really good at his form despite Anakin being overall stronger. I don't like it being boiled down to plain numbers where someone who's got a 10,000 power level will always beat someone with a 9,000 power level cause that's not interesting. But if you can have rookie Huntresses in training who never finished their Huntress education beat supposed elite soldiers, or have a whiny catgirl who sat on her ass for like a year come back and casually body one of the most dangerous antagonists in the show with zero training then the show has no way of saying which character is more powerful because anyone will lose or win fights merely to service the crappy plot the writers want.

I think this is a good video to answer this:

Although I think people take Stan a little to literal here, because yes, while the writer does have power over who would win, that doesn't mean you get to forgo logical sense and progression.

Best example? Weiss, remember at the end of Volume 5? Where she would stand around trying to summon while Vernal was taking potshots at her? You're telling me in a few months, this prim princess who for some reason decided to rely on her summons against a faster opponent, when her glyphs (which, originally when the show premiered was what I though her semblance was initially) are obviously a better choice? Also, remember, it was her sister who told her to do that... And now all of a sudden, she's able to do all that?

Even then, there are ways to actually make it so weaker characters can win against stronger ones, since I have the Stan Lee clip, let's take Spiderman as a prime example and against his Rogue Gallery. Most of the time, despite his agility and strength, Spiderman is at a disadvantage against most of his enemies - Take Shocker for example.

Spidey is definitely faster more agile than Shocker, but Shocker has considerable strength - With Shocker being more akin to that of longrange attacks which while Spidey does have, aren't exactly all the prominent or good against the Shocker. So what does Spidey do? He uses his brain. One of my favorite examples of this is Spectacular Spiderman.

Not only is Spidey distracting Shocker from his actual plan, but he's getting under Shocker's Skin by delivering quips and causing the villain to not notice that Spidey's taking down the entire building with Shocker's attacks.

They attempted to do this with Yang against Elm, but "They're only following orders" doesn't really have the same punch nor does it really explain why Elm would give up their hostage. Now, if they were straight up insulting the Aceops while fighting, that'd be a different story, hell, call them dogs of the military (even show a little racism towards Marrow, that surprising line from some people he called friend could've even been used as a means of explaining why he didn't use his semblance because he was shocked what he just heard, better than what we got). Or hell, maybe even have a scene where RWBY plays on the characters of the Ace Ops, lord knows we didn't get a lot of character development from the Ace Ops, and that could've been used to establish some humanization and capitalize on it.

Yes, the writer has control over who wins what fight, but that fight needs to be able to have some logical sense to it.

 

[Roland Daggett]

I think this is a good video to answer this:

Although I think people take Stan a little to literal here, because yes, while the writer does have power over who would win, that doesn't mean you get to forgo logical sense and progression.

Best example? Weiss, remember at the end of Volume 5? Where she would stand around trying to summon while Vernal was taking potshots at her? You're telling me in a few months, this prim princess who for some reason decided to rely on her summons against a faster opponent, when her glyphs (which, originally when the show premiered was what I though her semblance was initially) are obviously a better choice? Also, remember, it was her sister who told her to do that... And now all of a sudden, she's able to do all that?

Even then, there are ways to actually make it so weaker characters can win against stronger ones, since I have the Stan Lee clip, let's take Spiderman as a prime example and against his Rogue Gallery. Most of the time, despite his agility and strength, Spiderman is at a disadvantage against most of his enemies - Take Shocker for example.

Spidey is definitely faster more agile than Shocker, but Shocker has considerable strength - With Shocker being more akin to that of longrange attacks which while Spidey does have, aren't exactly all the prominent or good against the Shocker. So what does Spidey do? He uses his brain. One of my favorite examples of this is Spectacular Spiderman.

Not only is Spidey distracting Shocker from his actual plan, but he's getting under Shocker's Skin by delivering quips and causing the villain to not notice that Spidey's taking down the entire building with Shocker's attacks.

They attempted to do this with Yang against Elm, but "They're only following orders" doesn't really have the same punch nor does it really explain why Elm would give up their hostage. Now, if they were straight up insulting the Aceops while fighting, that'd be a different story, hell, call them dogs of the military (even show a little racism towards Marrow, that surprising line from some people he called friend could've even been used as a means of explaining why he didn't use his semblance because he was shocked what he just heard, better than what we got). Or hell, maybe even have a scene where RWBY plays on the characters of the Ace Ops, lord knows we didn't get a lot of character development from the Ace Ops, and that could've been used to establish some humanization and capitalize on it.

Yes, the writer has control over who wins what fight, but that fight needs to be able to have some logical sense to it.

Oh yeah I agree. Different characters have different abilities and match up differently. It was Monty's philosophy when making a fight scene to take characters, their fighting styles, their abilities, the location, and determine how they would fight and then who would win. Yang is physically more powerful than Neo but Neo used speed and strategy to beat Yang in Volume 2 and used the enclosed location to her advantage. These types of curveballs make the fights interesting. A character who might be technically weaker than another can still win depending on how they fight. Had RWBY used actual strategy mixed with their powers to fight the Ace Ops I could believe that they could beat them, but the problem is that you can see the hands of the writers pushing everyone into position. A decent writer could set up the fights so that RWBY winning feels natural, but the people in charge of RWBY lack any skill or talent for it. They're doing the narrative equivalent of mashing toys together and going "Okay they win!". Even if they need certain characters to win for the sake of the plot they should at least try to make it feel like it makes sense, and if they can't have characters win certain fights without breaking all logic to do so then they should rethink what they're writing.

 

[Grumbo]

I think this is a good video to answer this:

Although I think people take Stan a little to literal here, because yes, while the writer does have power over who would win, that doesn't mean you get to forgo logical sense and progression.

Best example? Weiss, remember at the end of Volume 5? Where she would stand around trying to summon while Vernal was taking potshots at her? You're telling me in a few months, this prim princess who for some reason decided to rely on her summons against a faster opponent, when her glyphs (which, originally when the show premiered was what I though her semblance was initially) are obviously a better choice? Also, remember, it was her sister who told her to do that... And now all of a sudden, she's able to do all that?

Even then, there are ways to actually make it so weaker characters can win against stronger ones, since I have the Stan Lee clip, let's take Spiderman as a prime example and against his Rogue Gallery. Most of the time, despite his agility and strength, Spiderman is at a disadvantage against most of his enemies - Take Shocker for example.

Spidey is definitely faster more agile than Shocker, but Shocker has considerable strength - With Shocker being more akin to that of longrange attacks which while Spidey does have, aren't exactly all the prominent or good against the Shocker. So what does Spidey do? He uses his brain. One of my favorite examples of this is Spectacular Spiderman.

Not only is Spidey distracting Shocker from his actual plan, but he's getting under Shocker's Skin by delivering quips and causing the villain to not notice that Spidey's taking down the entire building with Shocker's attacks.

They attempted to do this with Yang against Elm, but "They're only following orders" doesn't really have the same punch nor does it really explain why Elm would give up their hostage. Now, if they were straight up insulting the Aceops while fighting, that'd be a different story, hell, call them dogs of the military (even show a little racism towards Marrow, that surprising line from some people he called friend could've even been used as a means of explaining why he didn't use his semblance because he was shocked what he just heard, better than what we got). Or hell, maybe even have a scene where RWBY plays on the characters of the Ace Ops, lord knows we didn't get a lot of character development from the Ace Ops, and that could've been used to establish some humanization and capitalize on it.

Yes, the writer has control over who wins what fight, but that fight needs to be able to have some logical sense to it.

If there was ever a time to take more from the stories they're based on, it's the Ace Ops. Like just having them all them having those Aesop character flaws and then be undone by their fable's moral would have been something. The rabbit chick loses because she's a prideful braggart, Marrow loses because he gets greedy (like wanting to keep RWBY's friendship while capturing them or something), etc.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

If there was ever a time to take more from the stories they're based on, it's the Ace Ops. Like just having them all them having those Aesop character flaws and then be undone by their fable's moral would have been something. The rabbit chick loses because she's a prideful braggart, Marrow loses because he gets greedy (like wanting to keep RWBY's friendship while capturing them or something), etc.

It could have worked if Miles and Kerry actually were good writers (or got decent writers instead). But nope, let's have two guys try to be pacifists and the two girls be bloodthirsty to the point of wanting to murder their intended prisoners and getting them in trouble with an unhinged Ironwood.

I get the idea, but it's executed in a way that there was no way but for Team RWBY to job them as hard as they did. And the fact we never see them after said fight raises its own set of questions.

 

[Random Internet Person]

If there was ever a time to take more from the stories they're based on, it's the Ace Ops. Like just having them all them having those Aesop character flaws and then be undone by their fable's moral would have been something. The rabbit chick loses because she's a prideful braggart, Marrow loses because he gets greedy (like wanting to keep RWBY's friendship while capturing them or something), etc.

Funny, because someone argued that.

 

[Roland Daggett]

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To be honest this just makes the Ace Ops all come off as braindead idiots more than anything, which makes them completely moot as a threat. Also Clover's death was the result of Qrow deciding to team up with the mass murdering psychopath who literally tried to murder him and Ruby and is fanatically loyal to their mortal enemy instead of working with Clover. They may have tried to implement this idea but they still failed to make this come off as anything other than a joke. This also requires knowing about each of these stories specifically to justify each of their horridly stupid decisions. It's a big problem that the writers made them an elite squad of soldiers instead of just average Huntsmen cause you can't justify them being so immensely stupid if you want anyone to believe they're credible threats in a fight.

 

[Rondo Richter Belmont]

To be honest this just makes the Ace Ops all come off as braindead idiots more than anything, which makes them completely moot as a threat. Also Clover's death was the result of Qrow deciding to team up with the mass murdering psychopath who literally tried to murder him and Ruby and is fanatically loyal to their mortal enemy instead of working with Clover. They may have tried to implement this idea but they still failed to make this come off as anything other than a joke. This also requires knowing about each of these stories specifically to justify each of their horridly stupid decisions. It's a big problem that the writers made them an elite squad of soldiers instead of just average Huntsmen cause you can't justify them being so immensely stupid if you want anyone to believe they're credible threats in a fight.

Clover's death was avoidable if Qrow didn't act exceptional, but Robyn Hill is the one who decided to BUTT IN something that even Clover flat out states Robyn isn't under arrest (Not for her past transgressions or anything else) but she decides to act like a hot-headed child and insert herself into this situation.

Remember that THIS woman wanted to run for a position of leadership, but her temper would butt heads with the Council more than what Ironwood noted Jacques Schnee would have done.

 

[AverageAnimeWatcher]

I have no idea why Salem is here, it feels like she appeared out of nowhere after doing diddly dick for two seasons. Did anything Watts and Tyrian do have any actual effect or benefit to her? Because she seems so powerful and her supply of Grimm so infinite that she can just mob rush Atlas or any other target of her choosing whenever she wants

Speaking of power levels, usually making a villain stronger than the hero raises the stakes and makes things very exciting. It's simple really, the hero is thrown into an impossible situation with barely any hope of winning, and it becomes very satisfying once they do find a way.

That's why something like, say destroying the Death Star or the One ring, are so memorable. But for some reason, that's not the case with Salem.

Salem is a bit weird in that they clearly tried to make her seem cool and philosophical with her spouting lines like "there will be no victory in strength". And she clearly has enough power to just win because she is basically unbeatable, so I question why she just doesn't do that.

....Yet she isn't that threatening in the slightest. If anything reading her origin story on the wiki made her far less threatening. Learning her motivations made me lose all respect I had of her, as now I know she isn't even that smart given that her motive is just a millennia old tantrum

The World of RWBY: The Official Companion states that Salem's goal is to possess all four Relics and absorb the powers of the Maidens, in order to crush Ozpin's forces and rule Remnant as its dark queen

Oh, and she has a cliche conquer the world motivation that even comic book villains don't use anymore.

You would think it's the fact that she is so overpowered that makes her boring, but, I've seen heroes attempting to win in situations that outright seemed unwinnable and even depressing, like Madoka, and to a lesser extent Endgame. Heck in the former, while it was airing, people were expecting a far more hopeless ending, but everyone was invested nonetheless.

I can't explain why she just doesn't work, but she simply isn't a villain that memorable or threatening. And in fact, she is just a big deal because she is very overpowered.

 

[BroccoliBrain]

That is a lot of material that should be in the show itself. Lol no way am I shelling out for a guide book of a series I don't care for. The only thing I got from the show itself is that she wants to destroy humanity which used to make sense back when the only thing we knew about her was that she was Grimm aligned. Now we've seen her backstory revealing she was human and I think it warrants a more sophisticated... everything, not "beat da gud guys and rule 4eva".

Oh, and she has a cliche conquer the world motivation that even comic book villains don't use anymore.

Assuming that wasn't paraphrasing, I smell another retcon. Or maybe at this point it's not even deliberate and they're blatantly losing control over the story.

I thought she wanted to destroy humanity as in commit genocide, 'crushing Ozpin's forces and ruling Remnant' is not the same. Since when has she ever said, in the show itself, that she wanted the power of the Maidens for herself? Why does she even want or need their power when she's already a literal goddess capable of magic? Why can't she do a Cinder and travel around killing Maidens if she wants it so badly? And why does she want to rule over Remnant at all? She has nothing to gain from it and that runs counter to what was previously (sort of) established (not sure how much of this is headcanon trying to repair plotholes); she wants the Relics to summon the two God brothers so that they fail humanity with a big F and destroy all of creation (...again) as part of their bargain with Oz.

Can someone please explain this one detail about her backstory that I've been wondering about? So Salem amassed an army back when humans were capable of magic but got btfo, yeah? It says that all of humanity got wiped out, apart from herself. How exactly can humanity 'return' if all of them are dead and it wasn't because her and Ozpin had a ton of incest babies? It's not possible for her to set up shack "on the edge of a village" and "become known as The Witch" if there's nobody else fucking left to do these things. It's the same episode too, not Volumes apart, how can anyone not see how flawed this is? Did they just write one draft and go by that first pass without any editing?

 

[Random Internet Person]

Meanwhile, in the Windy City.... https://hearticho.tumblr.com/post/611267685392826368/highlights-from-the-rwby-panel-at-c2e2

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

Meanwhile, in the Windy City.... https://hearticho.tumblr.com/post/611267685392826368/highlights-from-the-rwby-panel-at-c2e2

Spoiler: Personal Sperg

>1. They’re going to start writing chapters 11, 12, 13 soon! Almost done with V8. It’ll be more complex than V7 apparently? Miles said the aim is to make it more bite sized and approachable since V7 felt so BIG. All the writers wished there were more character moments in V7 too, so it seemed like they’ll try to insert more in V8. “More pairing stuff” (Idk if he meant romantic specifically or just one on one convos, but probably both)

It's just agony inducing at this point. Seriously, who needs "More Pairing Stuff"? That shit already ruined multiple characters

>2. V7C3 got too long, so a convo about faunus between Marrow and Blake on comms was cut (when Blake goes alone to the other side in the abandoned Schnee dust mine). A convo about faunus still might happen in V8 tho??? Miles’ wording was Vague

Meh, don't care tbh

>3. Someone’s backstory has been pushed three volumes, which made Miles REALLY frustrated, but I think it’ll happen in V8??? (Nora? )

Won't mind it, but I know they'll ruin it

>4. Miles admitted that maybe being 22 years old and having two white men did not help with writing a complicated race storyline when RWBY began. It was probably “overly ambitious”

This is basically Miles gaslighting his shit writing skills onto being "22 y/o" & having "2 white man" in writing.

>5. Someone asked “What’s the biggest aspect that you share with your character?” Arryn answered last and was like, “I can’t say the thing I want to say!!! ……….. I like books ” (JUST TELL US BLAKE’S BI PLS)

How does that connect with Bland being Bi? Am I missing something here?

>6. (Paraphrasing here)
Moderator: “What’s the heart of the show?”
Dunkelman: “Well obvi since Yang has a flaming heart as a symbol. It’s me”
Arryn: Okay but I think someone already has Yang’s heart

Thus one made me metaphorically vomit & is a goddamn proof that Sun may be getting a worsened Jaune & Neptune treatment.

>7. Arryn forgot Marrow’s name (and had trouble remembering what the ace-ops were called? ) and was like, “What’s his name! The hot dog???” LMAO. And apparently she has a crush on Neptune and Marrow? She brought up how good Ironwood’s butt looks lmao

Imagine only having & working 1 role (which she doesn't have to work on that often either) & not even knowing about the shit you worked on. Also, I'm surprised she remembers Neptune, cause the sgow definitely didn't.

>8. All of crwby calls Ironwood “Irondaddy”

That's just cause of the beard

>9. Dunkelman knew from the v beginning, right before voice acting for RWBY, that Yang’s arm would be cut off later on. Even the Yellow trailer foreshadows it and there’s a quote that mentions asymmetry !!!

This one has to be a retcon, I refuse to believe it's not a retcon.

>10. (Idk if I remember the exact question bc it was a long one) I think someone asked about whether there will be an exploration of Penny (since she’s not human) being marginalized like the faunus are? It was confirmed that they won’t go into that

This is just proving that her only worth is as the tin-can waifu.

 

[XtrmGamr719]

Meanwhile, in the Windy City.... https://hearticho.tumblr.com/post/611267685392826368/highlights-from-the-rwby-panel-at-c2e2

I hate the fact that the large reason for me hating this whole Bumbleby thing is because I'm a BlackSun shipper at heart (I mean it's Sun and Adam as polar opposites, that's just too easy), while it has no establishment or foundation of a good romance.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Meanwhile, in the Windy City.... https://hearticho.tumblr.com/post/611267685392826368/highlights-from-the-rwby-panel-at-c2e2

Okay, so:

Spoiler

1. No more pairs, for the love of god. It's bad enough we got Bumblebee and the Ren/Nora stuff going on. And even if it's just exposition crap, we already have enough of that going on too.
2. As long as it isn't plodding like V5 or rushed as hell like V6, fuck if I care.
3. Didn't we already get an explanation for Nora back in Vol. 4? If it's about her, then I'm curious to know how she got abandoned. If not, then I'm hoping it's finally about Ruby and how she even has the silver eyes. Because they got to do something with their lead character, and she's done next to nothing since the switch to Maya.
4. Not surprised, but not really an excuse either when the alternative would be to not do it in the first place.
5. Again, don't care, Blake worst character anyway.
6. I reiterate point no. 1, thank you.
7. Keep it in your pants Arryn. No need for you to cream in front of all the fangirls.
8. Why would anyone ask that, let along bring it up?
9. If it's about the arm, it already got cut off in Vol. 3. If that's not what they're talking about, then I'm curious- Will it not be just the forearm this time?
10. At least they know when not to shove politics into a plotline, but it's also a bad thing given Penny's notoriety outside of Atlas too.

Little annoyed they didn't talk about Vol. 8 a lot though.