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

[Mega Black]

I think the issue is that literally everything else in RWBY lets down that simple hook, you can't make every episode one big fight scene.

I'd argue you could if you look at shit like Samurai Jack and Primal. There are episodes that aren't that but it is mostly action in a fun setting, something RWBY easily could have been if they didn't decide to make the show a serious serialized mess.

That's basically why all attempts to fix RWBY all look so drastically different. Plus all the bloat and clutter of the cast and storyline means everybody wants to keep and throw away different things.

What retards like Celtic don't get is that the answer to fixing RWBY isn't to add more shit, it's that you need to pare it down. RWBY only started to get insufferable when they tried to grow up the formula and make Avatar rather than lighthearted action with a nugget of darkness.

Ten to twenty minute relatively episodic adventures with the occasional character arc for the main and extended cast. There I fixed it.

Plus there are a million action properties that RWBY aped that are way better. Racism? Magic Systems? Fullmetal Alchemist. A colorful cast with different powers? Jojo and fuckin' Power Rangers. Monster Hunting? The Monster Hunter franchise. That's my two cents anyways.

Yeah sure there are better properties but RWBY had the appealing characters and tone. It did have merits at one point, and did feel fairly unique at one time. It just doesn't anymore.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

I'd argue you could if you look at shit like Samurai Jack and Primal. There are episodes that aren't that but it is mostly action in a fun setting, something RWBY easily could have been if they didn't decide to make the show a serious serialized mess.

Samurai Jack and Primal are both made by the same guy, Genndy Tartakovsky, and yes I do love both of them. The difference is that both Primal and Samurai Jack understand that they are a visual medium and allows the violence to be part of the atmosphere. Primal in particular is really good for this since the violence typically isn't mindless but is always part of the central theme of the show which is survival against the odds and the sheer lengths to which living beings go to continue living. RWBY just doesn't have any of that, it's just "anime girls fight monsters". It's a Stickpage animation from 2003 stretched to episode length with no other substance to support it.

 

[Mega Black]

RWBY just doesn't have any of that, it's just "anime girls fight monsters". It's a Stickpage animation from 2003 stretched to episode length with no other substance to support it.

That's fair and largely Monty's biggest failing, though they could have fixed this regardless.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

That's fair and largely Monty's biggest failing, though they could have fixed this regardless.

They could have but the issue is that a good property with a good artistic vision probably would have had things like the themes and tones already baked in or at least given other creators something to work with beyond just "You ever seen Haloid? I'm gonna do that but for twenty minutes." That's what I mean when I say that the show is a bad idea at it's core, there really is nothing to work with as it is and no way to make it good. You either end up going the SYTO route and change everything, or go the Celtic route and change nothing.

Edited for spelling.

 

[Random Internet Person]

You either end up going the SYTO route and change everything, or go the Celtic route and change nothing.

Or be Jerry Freeman and have your own spite keep you from making your own IP.

What retards like Celtic don't get is that the answer to fixing RWBY isn't to add more shit, it's that you need to pare it down. RWBY only started to get insufferable when they tried to grow up the formula and make Avatar rather than lighthearted action with a nugget of darkness.

Ten to twenty minute relatively episodic adventures with the occasional character arc for the main and extended cast. There I fixed it.

My thing has always been just don't have things where a tone shift is this super massive all at once and super jarring.

They could have but the issue is that a good property with a good artistic vision probably would have had things like the themes and tones already baked in or at least given other creators something to work with beyond just "You ever seen Haloid? I'm gonna do that but for twenty minutes."

I'm not even sure what themes and tones you could have put in at this point, besides Monty's thing of "keep moving forward" in the face of adversity.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Or be Jerry Freeman and have your own spite keep you from making your own IP.

I forgot Jerry existed. I'm so glad that his RWBY:Alt turned into such a shitshow and it was his own fans that did it. Someone as dumb as Jerry deserves fans as dumb as his.

I'm not even sure what themes and tones you could have put in at this point, besides Monty's thing of "keep moving forward" in the face of adversity.

Yep pretty much, RWBY is creatively bankrupt. There's no substance to it at all.

 

[Fougaro]

RWBY can actually work as a concept which is basically a threesome between the tales of the Grimm brothers, Diablo and Devil May Cry. The reason why the execution ends up being shit, be it either the canon provided by the CRWBY or the various re-writing projects from the FNDM is due to one and only valid rule of writing: Smart stories can only be written by smart people.

Speaking of which, once I'm done with some personal IRL matters, I'll rewrite the OP again to also include the Re-Write community and their clinical autism.

 

[Random Internet Person]

TIL there’s going to be a second season of Ice Queendom.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Smart stories can only be written by smart people.

Quite frankly I think dumb stories can also only be written by smart people. At least likeable dumb stories.

 

[Friend Drazha]

RWBYCritics jannie posted an unironically good take on the fandom's general "dislike " of authority and how retarded that actually is.

r/RWBY - RWBY, its fandom, and the unduly idolization of opposing authority.

10 votes and 84 comments so far on Reddit

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What's interesting here is that most of the comments come from...surprisingly sane people that agree on this.

Guess Ice Queendom really did pull off the rose-tinted glasses off of a good number of people, while the copium-addicts probably went to tumblr to cry, piss and shit about the mean critics.

 

[Random Internet Person]

When worlds collide.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

When worlds collide.

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Oh no, now I'm really excited. I cannot wait to see what a talentless hack like Twiins brings to the project.

 

[Mega Black]

Oh no, now I'm really excited. I cannot wait to see what a talentless hack like Twiins brings to the project.

It's especially funny because she's a horrific artist.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

It's especially funny because she's a horrific artist.

She's bad at everything. She can't draw, she can't write, and she can't critique.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Oh no, now I'm really excited. I cannot wait to see what a talentless hack like Twiins brings to the project.

I thought Critter and Twins were different people.

She's bad at everything. She can't draw, she can't write, and she can't critique.

And she thinks Shion is non binary.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

I thought Critter and Twins were different people.


And she thinks Shion is non binary.

I think they're sisters but I don't actually know. In either case Critter is a bad artist and Twiins is bad at everything.

 

[Friend Drazha]

Not gonna lie, it warms my heart when people outside the farms practice what the farms preach, that being archiving stuff.

r/RWBYcritics - A Compilation of Research of Rooster Teeth Behind the Scenes

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This, while more related to Rooster Teeth, is also quite bit related to RWBY as it deals with the grunts behind the animation of the show.

 

[Oilspill Battery]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=I_kkNTE39-I
And now, the final analysis.

Was intrested in the video, but stopped watching when the youtuber started sperging about they/them pronouns and telling people to "grow up" and use them.

Yes grow up into using imaginary shit made up for a contemporary trend when discussing your review video for children's animation, fuck off.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Was intrested in the video, but stopped watching when the youtuber started sperging about they/them pronouns and telling people to "grow up" and use them.

Yes grow up into using imaginary shit made up for a contemporary trend when discussing your review video for children's animation, fuck off.

Welcome to pretty much every single Twiins video, have fun.

 

[Friend Drazha]

Was intrested in the video, but stopped watching when the youtuber started sperging about they/them pronouns and telling people to "grow up" and use them.

Yes grow up into using imaginary shit made up for a contemporary trend when discussing your review video for children's animation, fuck off.

Twiins is known that she can't take a joke and will probably end up as a crazy cat lady in her late 30s.

Personally I follow either Vexed Viewer cuz the dude gets on point pretty quickly and Adel Aka for self aware autism.

Vexed in his videos shows that he knows what he's talking about and is pretty serious in his videos, with a hint of frustration.

Adel Aka is pretty much a keklord who doesn't pretend that RWBY is popular for anything other than its porn. His criticisms are more hits than misses, but his true value is his low-effort shitposts.

What you want to see if you're more interested in reading stuff is Dextixer on Reddit - he's the RWBYCritics jannie I've shared in this thread. He usually posts stuff directly on the main sub, pretty balsy of him.