That makes the team's claims of having all sorts of fun behind the scenes feel so insincere. I feel like these projects always have that, where they all say they're having such a party making the product, with nothing to show for it. I mean, just look at that stream. All they have is (supposed, behind the scenes) character dumps and worldbuilding. I'm sure they spent hours designing those kingdom logos.
I mean, all we have to compare to in terms of communities is Celtic Phoenix, which was able to get things done but get trashed ITT, and Jerry Freeman, which fell into anarchy almost immediately after the project was announced.
Rhymes also got shafted by SYTO's team. According to her nothing really happened and when she started to criticise SYTO's songwriting (really fucking tryhard) she got radio silence for a month and then she got booted because she "didn't fit in" despite there being nothing to actually fit into. Allegedly. It's nothing more than vague drama rather than the Celtic weirdness but it's what it is.
Sometimes you just can't win.
Jerry's problem was that he had zero control over that server, just let anybody in and they could post anything and had no command structure whatsoever. Then one of his mods went on a powertrip and basically tried to hijack the server, if you watch his follow up streams where him and the other retards go through the RWBY: Alt documents and talk about shit they go a little more in depth about what an absolute shotshow that whole project was.
How much discussion do you think we could have with this captain at the helm?
I won't lie, it was fun. I really enjoy this kind of analysis-fixing thing.
I consider it a win in the end by being removed from the RWBY fandom.
How hard is it to only discuss spoiler things with just the people who need to know it? If anything, it also comes with knowing who leaked shit if things DO go public when you don’t want them to.
I think I've said it before, but my favorite genre of writer will always be "please listen to this complex and mature tale" and then it's something that's been covered in Pokemon.
Pokémon huh? How often does this shit happen? I’ve never really been TOO into the games or the anime.
The games don't get too terribly deep or complex, and I haven't watched the anime since the Johto league back in the very early 2000's, but the manga actually can get pretty dark. Character deaths, serious mortal peril, political and societal friction between disparate factions, it has it all depending on which arc you're reading and some of it can get mildly graphic.
Oh yeah, I forgot there’s a manga. Have they done any of the things RWBY has tried to cover?
Yes actually, quite a bit of it. You'd have to ask someone who reads it more regularly then I do, I've only read like three of the arcs but I have some second hand knowledge of some of the other arcs. Most of them are available on Mangareader.
It hasn't tried a racism or a The Big Wealth Gap plot, thankfully.
They're going to have to do something with it, they spent money on it and be damned if it's going to be shelved.
Twiin's entire channel lives and dies on RWBY, none of her other stuff gets any traction. She, and other channels like hers, probably care a lot.
Honestly i doubt Warner has much of anything to do with RT, at least not directly. From what I recall reading RT is actually part of a Warner subsidiary called Otter Media or something like that, it's highly unlikely a project as small and cheap as RWBY would go that far up the chain. I think it's more that RT is in the shitter right now and probably doesn't have enough office space pr talent pool for a studio since they're being forced to rent out progressively smaller and smaller buildings and get rid of more and more (talented) people as time goes on. I stand by my call that V9 is not ever going to release. If it does release it'll probably be one of those "this is what we had done and we've decided to release it for you the fans" things.
Let’s just hope RT and CRWBY have the chance to display that amount of decency to give closure. And if they don’t, they gave the rewriters like Celtic and SYTO the green light to go crazy.
I just don't know, it's also fully possible that V9 wasn't supposed to be the ending and then they were told "too bad it's the last season you're getting".
Honestly, I think that’s a mercy kill at this point. And then I can write everything after v3 as some kind of Ruby having a dream or being in a coma ending.