How are they even doing these? Who is paying them? Shouldn’t they all be busy submitting their job applications to McDonald’s?
They had found the funds for it when they initially announced it, about a month or so before RT imploded, so I assume they are just using said funds
I imagine WB are just finishing out contracts that would be more expensive to break than just let play out.
Sounds like a WB type of move.
Not that I’m aware. Clearly they just don’t wanna seem desperate when they accept my cool offer.
When you take over the IP please make Faunigger a canonical slur.
*Faunfags
The whole "shadow war between two immortals" thing isn't the core of RWBY. That shit didn't come till later, and almost certainly wasn't planned from the beginning. The core of RWBY is "Cute girls
Minor correction. It was honestly one of the selling points, watching what ridiculous way they could fit a gun into another weapon and use it creatively.
Eh, maybe not in the form we got it, but Salem and Ozpin doing illuminati shit was almost certainly a very early idea.
That's certainly the core appeal. I meant that the central plot of the current show is fine and that if you were to reboot it, turning it into a completely unrelated IP with entirely different concepts/core plot elements is not a good idea.
That initial premise got shunted hard into the background as early as the second season and only got worse as it went. They also gave Ruby a power that immediately defeats monsters because that's how little they cared. In practice RWBY's always cared more about inventing human OCs and having them fight each other. You should be ashamed for thinking this description was accurate.
To be fair this show did have potential to become something great. People are in love for what it could have been. Not what it ended up being.
There’s really no proof of that. Before Volume 5, the only role Salem played was being the narrator voice in the first episode.
“Noooooooo, Stalker! You are on Kiwi Farms!!!!! You aren’t allowed to like things here! Enjoy prison!”
Which only shows why they should never have moved away from that initial premise.
Salem and Ozpin's narration in seasons 1-3 is a conversation, episode 1's opening narration ends with Ozpin addressing Salem. It's not super well written, but the opening narrator was always going to be some kind of big bad and Ozpin was always opposing her behind the scenes.
If that was the core, there'd be a lot more fights against monsters. RWBY was about Monty playing with his cool OCs. That's why the first 2 seasons meander so much and it's why no one can nail down what the show was actually about.
And that was the selling point: Monty having his OCs instead of action figures of existing characters.
And if you ask me, V5 fucked that up super hard and super badly.
It could have been done well if the show had focused on episodic content with a larger background arc of the forever war between Salem and Ozpin, but they let their scope get too big and ended up trying to turn it into a fully serialized world spanning epic. Keep the setting to Beacon or maybe some of the surrounding country of Vale and Patch and make it so that all the major conflict revolves around there. There's absolutely nothing wrong with making this into a typical magical girl show, especially since you already have three groups of baddies each split into three to four tiers of threat level so you can have your episodes where they're just fighting jobbers and then episodes where the more serious threats appear for mid-season multiparters or season finales. And then you've got your Ace who is Salem, and she's the final Big Bad for your series finale where she's such a huge threat that like, everyone has to band together to beat her, so you've got your heroes and fan favorite villains banding together to save the world.