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

[Dumpster dived waifu]

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The people most concerned with being anti-racist are often the most unintentionally/subconsciously racist.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

The people most concerned with being anti-racist are often the most unintentionally/subconsciously racist.

It may not even be race, many Americans

Spoiler: Disclaimer

and this could possibly be the case in many other countries but I don't live in them so I don't know

have allowed a dislike or hatred for the GWOT and the military industrial complex morph into a hatred for soldiers and the military. This has become more and more common especially over the past decade or so. CRWBY may consciously or subconsciously have that bias and that's why the military has always been The Bad Guys™ in RWBY.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

It may not even be race, many Americans

Spoiler: Disclaimer

and this could possibly be the case in many other countries but I don't live in them so I don't know

have allowed a dislike or hatred for the GWOT and the military industrial complex morph into a hatred for soldiers and the military. This has become more and more common especially over the past decade or so. CRWBY may consciously or subconsciously have that bias and that's why the military has always been The Bad Guys™ in RWBY.

I was aiming more at the shouting down Ren into going along with their stupid fucking plans part. But it also doesn't shock me that RT hate military because ArMy BaD

 

[Juan's Sombrero]

And fans are circlejerking because they think this means RWBY isn't dead.

They really think this will keep the ball rolling? Direct to video is dead on arrival.

 

[Random Internet Person]

They really think this will keep the ball rolling? Direct to video is dead on arrival.

Anything to have RWBY come across as bigger than it really is.

 

[TheClorax]

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To be fair, Adam (and the WF subplot as a whole) is the equivalent to making a racial issues story, having the most unequivocally evil villain be a black man with whiplash scars running all across his back, and then resolving the conflict by telling all the black people in a slum that it’s their fault they’re oppressed because they don’t police themselves enough.

 

[Random Internet Person]

To be fair, Adam (and the WF subplot as a whole) is the equivalent to making a racial issues story, having the most unequivocally evil villain be a black man with whiplash scars running all across his back, and then resolving the conflict by telling all the black people in a slum that it’s their fault they’re oppressed because they don’t police themselves enough.

You’re right on that point. My issue with that is the point of Adam is how he went off the deep end and lost any strain of moral high ground he had, and people think that part doesn’t mean anything because he fights for a noble cause.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Does Adam fight for a noble cause though? We never really see systemic anti-faunus racism in the show. We hear about it sure, but most instances of people being racist against faunus are either individual people/groups being assholes or people who are racist because they fear the White Fang.

 

[Decepticon Spy]

Does Adam fight for a noble cause though? We never really see systemic anti-faunus racism in the show. We hear about it sure, but most instances of people being racist against faunus are either individual people/groups being assholes or people who are racist because they fear the White Fang.

Aside from Cardin, who is an asshole to everybody, Faunus opression is as real as fat opression. Atlas, the city which is notorious for faunus opression, do not have signs of faunus opression at all, for fucks sake they let a known criminal with a faunus associate run a political campaign. They kept telling this place is dystopian USA, only to show us late 1700s Netherlands.


This is the best they can do to show faunus opression, and this is the place where they had a faunus for a headmaster in a school dedicated to training huntsmen.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Exactly. Adam is a terrorist who is using the made up faunus oppression to whip his supporters up into a lather because he's a misanthrope with a victim complex.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Does Adam fight for a noble cause though? We never really see systemic anti-faunus racism in the show. We hear about it sure, but most instances of people being racist against faunus are either individual people/groups being assholes or people who are racist because they fear the White Fang.

Exactly. Adam is a terrorist who is using the made up faunus oppression to whip his supporters up into a lather because he's a misanthrope with a victim complex.

Tell that to people like Unicorn of War who see the White Fang as people like the Black Panthers and BLM who are vilified by their ideological opponents.

And even then, you got people who said Adam was character assassinated to make that hater of humanity because it’s easier to complement with his Blake obsession.

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/rwby.62189/post-7468805

 

[Decepticon Spy]

Tell that to people like Unicorn of War who see the White Fang as people like the Black Panthers and BLM who are vilified by their ideological opponents.

And even then, you got people who said Adam was character assassinated to make that hater of humanity because it’s easier to complement with his Blake obsession.

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/rwby.62189/post-7468805

That cocksucker's videos are a real pain in the ass to sit through, specially if the video is titled like "is x a good y?" "is x a bad y?". Faggot really makes 10 minutes of boring commentary feel like an hour longer only to end it on a neutral stance that add nothing to the topic. I vividly remember a video where he discussed if Ruby is a bad character only to say "it depends on your perspective really".

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Tell that to people like Unicorn of War who see the White Fang as people like the Black Panthers and BLM who are vilified by their ideological opponents.

And even then, you got people who said Adam was character assassinated to make that hater of humanity because it’s easier to complement with his Blake obsession.

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/rwby.62189/post-7468805

I don't have the patience to sit through one of his videos, the guy is a personality void.

 

[Juan's Sombrero]

Aside from Cardin, who is an asshole to everybody, Faunus opression is as real as fat opression. Atlas, the city which is notorious for faunus opression, do not have signs of faunus opression at all, for fucks sake they let a known criminal with a faunus associate run a political campaign. They kept telling this place is dystopian USA, only to show us late 1700s Netherlands.

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This is the best they can do to show faunus opression, and this is the place where they had a faunus for a headmaster in a school dedicated to training huntsmen.

I've mentioned this here before. Had they actually shown Faunus being seriously oppressed or subjected to racism, they would have been canceled for depiction of actual racism. In a plot that's supposed to tackle the topic. They likely didn't have the budget for it, either.

Imagine a faunus being beaten in broad daylight in the middle of the street without anyone around caring or too afraid to even intervene.

"No, minorities have to be strong, perfect and cool. We can't show them being victims. They have to be better than their supposed oppressors."

See the conundrum here? They put themselves under this safe, risk free bubble that just glosses over the themes they were supposed to showcase but seemed to operate under this overbearing positive discrimination spin to give themselves pats on the back and clout.

They overdid it with the positive shit, while failing to balance it out with the main reason why this bullshit excuse of "plot" was even conceived.

Code Geass did it phenomenally better and without holding back that it often bordered to exaggeration, but it drove the point home that; yes, Britannia's colonies were oppressed with a ton of shit to the point that ghettos of citizens were massacred with the casualness of a 9-5 job.

The MAIN selling point of this cartoon was just awesome fights that get boring after a while, "cool weapons", "cool clothes" and tons of faggotry.

 

[Tism the Return]

Jestream Adam was only interesting for about as long as the Blake trailer lasted. The first thing he does afterwards is spout some of the worst lines in RWBY further ruined by the whiny, laughable delivery. And then, only then once the shitty ship gains way too much traction they portray him as the worst guy ever™.

If anything his character is a macrocosm of RWBY itself, he looked cool for a minute and it worked because you didn't know jack shit about him. So as soon as this proverbial honey moon phase/mystery is gone people start thinking "man, Adam was ruined! Adam was the shit! Adam could've been so good!" and never ever bother to look back and think...wait, maybe that's not true at all because edgeman at this point has spent more time being dogshit than memory's broken, the truth goes unspokening as he should.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

"man, Adam was ruined! Adam was the shit! Adam could've been so good!"

I think "It could have been so good!" is the crux of most RWBY criticism.

 

[Captain Marvelous]

I've never read the book, but what little of the movie I saw came off as "references: the movie"

The most I know about the movie is this ProZD sketch.

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Don't forget the traumatized man who gets shamed for not wanting to talk about his past with a bunch of teenagers and is unintentionally proven right with how they take the news.

Imagine a faunus being beaten in broad daylight in the middle of the street without anyone around caring or too afraid to even intervene.

"No, minorities have to be strong, perfect and cool. We can't show them being victims. They have to be better than their supposed oppressors."

See the conundrum here? They put themselves under this safe, risk free bubble that just glosses over the themes they were supposed to showcase but seemed to operate under this overbearing positive discrimination spin to give themselves pats on the back and clout.

They overdid it with the positive shit, while failing to balance it out with the main reason why this bullshit excuse of "plot" was even conceived.

The most we got was the revelation that Adam's face was branded by the SDC (how and why was never explained), and then he was killed a few minutes later.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Some thoughts on fights.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

The most we got was the revelation that Adam's face was branded by the SDC (how and why was never explained), and then he was killed a few minutes later.

See, given the way that Jacque was talking about how he doesn't hate faunus and bragging about how he payed faunus exactly the same for the same jobs and does not take safety of his workers lightly, and doing all of this in the middle of a high society event full of high society people, which Jacque was hosting no less. If Jacque and the rest of his hoity toity clique really were mega racists then why would he feel the need to talk about how equitable he was towards the faunus in private company at an event he was hosting? Wouldn't at least one of his associates accuse him of being a fur-nigger lover? What I'm getting at is this; taking into account what we've seen of the Schnee patriarch, do we really believe that this was ordered or condoned by him? I don't think it would be.

Some thoughts on fights.

Season 1-2 had the best fights, season 3 and onwards the fights get stale, especially in seasons 3-4. One thing that I despise RLM for is the whole "a fight needs to tell a story" thing that the Prequel reviews popularized, yeah it's nice if the script isn't just [They fight] but an action scene doesn't need emotional stakes to be satisfying to watch or serve the plot.

EDIT: I forgot to add the conclusion to the point I was making on the Jacque comment.

 

[Decepticon Spy]

See, given the way that Jacque was talking about how he doesn't hate faunus and bragging about how he payed faunus exactly the same for the same jobs and does not take safety of his workers lightly, and doing all of this in the middle of a high society event full of high society people, which Jacque was hosting no less. If Jacque and the rest of his hoity toity clique really were mega racists then why would he feel the need to talk about how equitable he was towards the faunus in private company at an event he was hosting? Wouldn't at least one of his associates accuse him of being a fur-nigger lover? What I'm getting at is this; taking into account what we've seen of the Schnee patriarch, do we really believe that this was ordered or condoned by him? I don't think it would be.

Season 1-2 had the best fights, season 3 and onwards the fights get stale, especially in seasons 3-4. One thing that I despise RLM for is the whole "a fight needs to tell a story" thing that the Prequel reviews popularized, yeah it's nice if the script isn't just [They fight] but an action scene doesn't need emotional stakes to be satisfying to watch or serve the plot.

EDIT: I forgot to add the conclusion to the point I was making on the Jacque comment.

They want Jacques Schnee to be the Trump Expy who married for the sake of the company, yet somehow they managed to show him being a super progressive man who, despite having a really dysfunctional family, loved his wife (if he really married only for the company name, he wouldn't have been insulted to the point of slapping Weiss.) and did more for faunus rights before he became a politician. They tell something only to show the opposite.