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I think one of the biggest problems is that they sat on Salem for YEARS without doing anything with her. We didn't learn much of anything about her and Salem sat on her pale white ass doing nothing in her evil castle while her lackies walked around twirling their mustaches. She also comes out of nowhere and replaces Cinder immediately after Cinder made the first major move in attacking Beacon rendering the three years of (admittedly lackluster) build up to Cinder actually doing something feel like they didn't really mean much. Then after that Salem sits on her throne and pretends to be scary. And since it took several years for us to learn anything about her people weren't that interested. They should have struck with Salem when she was new to do something to make an impression. To make matters worse when we do find out her backstory it's.... awful. Salem, who many were hoping would have some kind of depth to her and not just be Ozpin's ex turned out to just be Ozpin's very angry ex who is monumentally stupid. So stupid that she got all of humanity wiped out. And in what feels like an explanation that came straight out of LOST Salem was.... made immortal by the gods? The whole thing feels so slapdash and when Salem is supposed to be THE main antagonist and the center of basically the entire plot having her be so poorly handled screws with a lot of things. Miles and the other writers seriously don't know what they're doing with this and it feels like things are meandering no matter what happens. RT seem to have tried to make up for Salem's lack of character by hiring a talented VA (Jen Taylor voice of Cortana in Halo) and relying entirely on her performance. They may have gotten away with that with Qrow but trying to rely on a good actor to make up for a badly written character is a very poor choice.
I wish writers would finally learn that supplementary materials should not be required for understanding the main story. If they can't spend five minutes to discuss the main villain's motivations in a show that's been around for the better part of a decade that's just pure in competence. It can be a simple motivation but actually develop something for the love of god just give SOMETHING. Like you said there's no reason we've been given why Salem can't just storm everyone in Remnant with a zerg rush of powerful Grimm. I mean it seemed to work to take down Beacon so shouldn't that work everywhere? Why didn't she do that years ago? She's immortal so she can't be killed in an attack. She's got powerful magic AND control of a seemingly endless amount of man eating monsters. I'm sure this all boils down to "for the sake of the plot" like everything in this show is. Salem doesn't just stomp all over Remnant because that would end the story. God how do they not see how easily they painted themselves into a corner with their choices? Don't make Salem immortal, just make her really hard to kill. Or have them find some way to seal her if she IS immortal. Don't make Salem control Grimm if you don't want to actually deal with the ramifications of that choice. Give some real explanations why she can't just walk in an defeat everyone with a snap of her finger or don't make her that powerful in the first place.
Unfortunately this is just more of Miles and Kerry trying to use tropes they don't understand. The ancient powerful villain, the quirky miniboss squad who serve the villain, the tragic backstory of the villain, all of these are thrown in without any real thought and it's frustrating.
>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.
And none of this inspires any confidence.
