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When was the last time RvB was good?

  • Before RWBY

    Votes: 61 62.9%

  • Season 10

    Votes: 22 22.7%

  • Season 11

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Season 12

    Votes: 1 1.0%

  • Season 13

    Votes: 10 10.3%

  • Season 14

    Votes: 2 2.1%

  • Before RvB Zero

    Votes: 1 1.0%
  • Total voters
    97
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ToddleDoddle said:
I thought the "protests" were because of police racism? What does Trump have to do with that? As far as I am aware he didn't make any changes to enable more racism among the police.
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See, that's were you're wrong. If the American people can successfully elect someone that isn't Trump, world peace will be achieved, racism/sexism will be forever ended, and GamerGate will finally conclude.
 
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King Dead said:
Toonami aired Gen:Lock sometime in the past year because they could air it for peanuts due to all the corporate mergers, so I decided to watch it since it happened to be on before shows I actually cared about. It was laughably bad on just about every level. Cliche doesn't even begin to describe it, really. In the episode where all the multiculti pilots show up to see who's going to pilot the mechs, there's a single white guy in the group.

Guess which one turns out to be working for the bad guys?

They also tried to do the whole "make it look like anime" thing where they gave the dialogue scenes a low frame rate, which only made it look awful. If the entire show had the smooth animation of the action scenes, it would be a little better, but not much. Still wouldn't compensate for all the other problems it had.

About the only good part of the show was David Tennant, who did a fine job hamming it up throughout the show's run; his was the only character I could actually tolerate. Everyone else was either barely emoting (cough cough Michael B. Jordan) or giving a passable performance.

At this point, I really can't remember anything from the show. Nothing's stuck in my head about it at all, almost like it never existed in the first place. Even if they have that deal to produce a second season, it wouldn't surprise me if that got axed in some kind of overall company shakeup. It's a nothing property.
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I thought that there was something to the world building of Gen:lock with there being a global revolution that was poised to take over the world. There’s a lot to use in explaining why the revolution took place and why it was successful.

If only there was someone competent with the plot.
 
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Imperial Citizen said:
I thought that there was something to the world building of Gen:lock with there being a global revolution that was poised to take over the world. There’s a lot to use in explaining why the revolution took place and why it was successful.

If only there was someone competent with the plot.
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It seems like they didn't really care about silly things like world building and basic storytelling, they just wanted to get to the big robot battles because dood explosions. It goes to show how little I remember of that show when it's only just now that I remembered how they did an absolutely terrible job at explaining why these two sides were fighting each other in the first place. Like not even a basic exposition dump to tell the audience who's the bad guys and why they're bad.

It's hilarious how terrible Gen:Lock's story is. They couldn't even bother going through the motions, they just forgot to actually write anything.
 
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King Dead said:
It seems like they didn't really care about silly things like world building and basic storytelling, they just wanted to get to the big robot battles because dood explosions. It goes to show how little I remember of that show when it's only just now that I remembered how they did an absolutely terrible job at explaining why these two sides were fighting each other in the first place. Like not even a basic exposition dump to tell the audience who's the bad guys and why they're bad.

It's hilarious how terrible Gen:Lock's story is. They couldn't even bother going through the motions, they just forgot to actually write anything.
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Sounds like RWBY to be honest, except with more high profile VAs.
 
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ANTIFA is a terrorist organization? Protesting groups with nefarious causes? People fighting "the status quo"? Texans who fail to see the irony in their bullshit speak? Happens more often then you think. By the end of the day I just see Elite Squad as the modern day take on what we'd fight, just like how Ubisoft used White Masks as a metaphor for the great unknown groups of terrorists in R6: Seige.

Or in layman's terms: same old shit we did last week, now with a new name and face.
 
ToddleDoddle said:
I thought the "protests" were because of police racism? What does Trump have to do with that? As far as I am aware he didn't make any changes to enable more racism among the police.
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At this point they are just rioting. That one jackass got shot in fucking Austin where RT is located.

The virtue signalling annoys me because half of RT would get the rope if the SJW's get power.

Imperial Citizen said:
I thought that there was something to the world building of Gen:lock with there being a global revolution that was poised to take over the world. There’s a lot to use in explaining why the revolution took place and why it was successful.

If only there was someone competent with the plot.
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The bad guys are supposedly Gray Haddocks vision of what "Trump's America would look like."

So giant stompy robots, nanotech clouds and black clad stormtroopers marching through the city are coming soon!

Problem is there was one character (well, two) from that faction that was introduced. It wound up being a clone of the main character who had been tortured during his imprisonment.

The bad guys were supposed to be this omnipresent threat but we didn't know anything about them. We didn't know what they were about. They just show up and wreck shit.

I recall Miles on the Season 15 commentary saying "after the 2016 election, a lot of stuff got rewritten for being too political." I bring this up because it seems like Gen:LOCK was in development for forever. I'm guessing Gen:LOCK was a mess because the writers couldn't be even more blatent about their politics.
 
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Garm said:
The bad guys are supposedly Gray Haddocks vision of what "Trump's America would look like."

So giant stompy robots, nanotech clouds and black clad stormtroopers marching through the city are coming soon!

Problem is there was one character (well, two) from that faction that was introduced. It wound up being a clone of the main character who had been tortured during his imprisonment.

The bad guys were supposed to be this omnipresent threat but we didn't know anything about them. We didn't know what they were about. They just show up and wreck shit.

I recall Miles on the Season 15 commentary saying "after the 2016 election, a lot of stuff got rewritten for being too political." I bring this up because it seems like Gen:LOCK was in development for forever. I'm guessing Gen:LOCK was a mess because the writers couldn't be even more blatent about their politics.
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Which beguiles me because I remember a globe in one of the trailers showing that the bad guys started in eastern europe, parts of africa, and southeast asia. And the Iranian character who was a former bad guy only used a hijab in the digital world, I believe out of past persecution.

If so, then the villains are an international atheistic military, more akin to a revolutionary communist organization. There could be something to play off of that, with the good guys being from a diversity of nations yet are plagued by disagreement on what to do while the bad guys are all in agreement on their goals but at the cost of rigid uniformity. That would definitely be a twist that RoosterTeeth's audience would not expect. But RT's writers don't understand words like nuance and complexity.

Like that non-binary character that is a woman in real life but in the digital world looks male. Val, I believe? That would have been another interesting side plot. Was that character constantly switching genders in real life? If so, what are the consequences on their identity? But we know that the inclusion of that character was just to say that there is queer representation and probably to make the bad guys transphobic.

And this is all such a disappointment because I thought that the writing in Miles's and Gray's seasons of Red Vs Blue very good in terms of plot. The fact that Locus and Felix were working with each other was something that I wasn't expecting. Especially when they made the government forces look like Star Wars stormtroopers while making the rebels colorful, tricking the audience into thinking that the government forces are evil. How bad did 2016 fuck these people up?
 
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Imperial Citizen said:
Which beguiles me because I remember a globe in one of the trailers showing that the bad guys started in eastern europe, parts of africa, and southeast asia. And the Iranian character who was a former bad guy only used a hijab in the digital world, I believe out of past persecution.

If so, then the villains are an international atheistic military, more akin to a revolutionary communist organization. There could be something to play off of that, with the good guys being from a diversity of nations yet are plagued by disagreement on what to do while the bad guys are all in agreement on their goals but at the cost of rigid uniformity. That would definitely be a twist that RoosterTeeth's audience would not expect. But RT's writers don't understand words like nuance and complexity.

Like that non-binary character that is a woman in real life but in the digital world looks male. Val, I believe? That would have been another interesting side plot. Was that character constantly switching genders in real life? If so, what are the consequences on their identity? But we know that the inclusion of that character was just to say that there is queer representation and probably to make the bad guys transphobic.

And this is all such a disappointment because I thought that the writing in Miles's and Gray's seasons of Red Vs Blue very good in terms of plot. The fact that Locus and Felix were working with each other was something that I wasn't expecting. Especially when they made the government forces look like Star Wars stormtroopers while making the rebels colorful, tricking the audience into thinking that the government forces are evil. How bad did 2016 fuck these people up?
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It fucked them up fierce.

As you pointed out that the villains would sound like revolutionary communist organization which they would probably support.

Also Weiss threw a normal human in a garbage can during volume 7 when he said something "racist."

I think Rooster Teeth has simply lived long enough to become the villain. The writers don't realize how extreme their behavior is and it is bleeding into their work.

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Val in Gen:Lock was implied to have switched genders several times. That she could "feel" the change coming on again.

RT was very good at being clever with the tools they had.
 
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Pizdec said:
ANTIFA is a terrorist organization? Protesting groups with nefarious causes? People fighting "the status quo"? Texans who fail to see the irony in their bullshit speak? Happens more often then you think. By the end of the day I just see Elite Squad as the modern day take on what we'd fight, just like how Ubisoft used White Masks as a metaphor for the great unknown groups of terrorists in R6: Seige.

Or in layman's terms: same old shit we did last week, now with a new name and face.
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The game could have earned the Tom Clancy name, unlike most of what Ubisoft has done recently under the Tom Clancy licence.
 
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