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

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Saw this post on a Discord about someone explaining why they were dropping RWBY after this season finale and swiped it to see what people here thought.

The whole idea of not watching something after it becomes obvious it won't improve in your eyes is why I'm checking out after this season (and I don't even really wanna watch the last two episodes but I'm more doing it for the sake of a future review). This season's been legitimately bad for my mental health (to say nothing about the mental health of my Tumblr inbox). It's a growing attitude that I'm seeing as well that this season's been the final nail in the coffin for a lot of folk, especially in my immediate friend circle; a lot of the people I'd casually talk about RWBY with either left years ago after Volumes 3/5/6, are about to leave after this season, or are on the fence and strongly considering quitting.

I've found Volume 8 so joyless, anticlimatic and plot-convenient I'm gonna be glad to see it gone in the rear-view mirror. I don't like talking about it anymore. It's not even just dissatisfaction about Ironwood's writing (which is more a lightning rod and focal point reflecting a lot of the wider issues with this season and era of RWBY's writing), but there's a lot of bad juju lying underneath that that's tainted the whole season by association and made the entire end product... honestly just depressingly dull. I don't want to watch Volume 9. I don't ever plan on watching it. Once this finale airs I'm gonna be content to never think about RWBY again and just pretend the show died at Volume 6.

At least with Volume 7 while there was a lot of things that were infurating that led to the season being very frustrating in retrospect, there was still genuinely great stuff there that showed the series firing on all cylinders. Ironwood vs Watts is probably my favorite fight in the whole show and Watts and Tyrian are probably my favorite villains period thanks to their chemistry in V7. Penny's arc of self-acceptance capping off with her being rewarded the Maiden powers for a moment of pure humanity in comforting Fria is great. I loved that stuff, and it made it worth sticking through the weaker parts like RWBY being superfluous and Ren's misfire of an arc. But either between Covid being such a mess for production that the budget couldn't compensate, or the writing again over-extending beyond what they could realistically manage, Volume 8's never been good for me. Nothing this season got above a 6/10. I've not liked it, or even had fun. It's not been engaging, it's alternated between too many plots, it again tries to do too much without delivering on much anything in a satisfactory manner and so many plotlines just get resolved through very... convenient ways. It is perhaps the worst kind of bad; not the funny bad where you can laugh at it (like Glee or the CW DC shows), or the disaster bad where you can wonder what went wrong and try to piece together what could have been good if production hadn't been bungled (like Volume 5).

It's just been really boring. And boring kills interest like nothing else. So yeah, I'm gonna be glad to be gone after Volume 8, and I don't think anything will ever get me back into RWBY until the show wraps and I see where it went afterwards, and even then it'll take a miracle to get me to want to check back in.
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ChevroletBlackboard said:
Saw this post on a Discord about someone explaining why they were dropping RWBY after this season finale and swiped it to see what people here thought.
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Provided Ruby miraculously and magically resolves everything and brings about a rainbow colored era of peace, I have no doubt that it'll be the equivalent of watching seniors struggle to walk up a flight of stairs.
 
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LordBaron said:
Took the words out of my mouth. Don't forget that it's exhausting to even interact with RWBY fans now.
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"Oh yeah, there totally isn't anything wrong with the show. It's better than ever. It's a mess and I love it. None of it has to make sense. Yass, queen slay all the Grimm and stupid manbabies. Stay mad haters hatters lul 😝🥱😂"

In other news, adel calls a spade a spade:
 
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Random Internet Person said:
Yeah, a lot of my friends have said they’re only sticking through because they want to see it to the end. Classic sunk cost fallacy.
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Why? I legit haven't watched since the abortion that was season 5 and even i know how its going to end. Its going to be mushy bullshit about the power of friendship as ruby uses her eyes to just evaporate the least threatening villain in the series.
 
Dumpster dived waifu said:
Why? I legit haven't watched since the abortion that was season 5 and even i know how its going to end. Its going to be mushy bullshit about the power of friendship as ruby uses her eyes to just evaporate the least threatening villain in the series.
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For some, it’s a matter to see the new ways they fail, and others, it’s to see the mistake made that need to be fixed once a rewrite/reboot is made. And then you got those who think there are new depths that could be sunken to.
 
You know, I hated the 'Penny turns into a real girl' moment too, but the vitriol that moment is getting online for being 'transphobic' is kinda hilarious.
 
TheAmbiguousLurker said:
You know, I hated the 'Penny turns into a real girl' moment too, but the vitriol that moment is getting online for being 'transphobic' is kinda hilarious.
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Funny, because I saw this take. 0333EB8D-EBE1-465A-BCA3-C1E35F64808C.png
 
TheAmbiguousLurker said:
You know, I hated the 'Penny turns into a real girl' moment too, but the vitriol that moment is getting online for being 'transphobic' is kinda hilarious.
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ROFL! Had RT just hired actual writers, they'd probably get more long term approval. But, no, crunching the budget is just too much for an up and coming company.
 
Effluvium said:
ROFL! Had RT just hired actual writers, they'd probably get more long term approval. But, no, crunching the budget is just too much for an up and coming company.
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Even though said up and coming company managed to get a big name cast for their other "Anime", as well as get the rights to make a Transformers series for Netflix from Hasbro AND outsource the animation to Japan when they still can't seem to farm out RWBY to another studio to give the animators more of a break.
 
Random Internet Person said:
Funny, because I saw this take. View attachment 1996682
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Is it weird if I think this person has a point? Even before the Volume started, the showrunners said that Ironwood losing his arm was symbolic of him "losing his humanity". Because somehow, that makes him different from Yang and Maria. It feels like the show wants to use any kind of prosthetic as a visual metaphor to show just how awful some of the villains are, like Mercury's metal legs and Tyrian's replacement tail, which kind of gives some mixed messages regarding people with physical disabilities.

Just wait, maybe next Volume, we'll get Roman Torchwick's brain in a robot body to take this theme to the next level.
 
Captain Marvelous said:
Is it weird if I think this person has a point? Even before the Volume started, the showrunners said that Ironwood losing his arm was symbolic of him "losing his humanity". Because somehow, that makes him different from Yang and Maria. It feels like the show wants to use any kind of prosthetic as a visual metaphor to show just how awful some of the villains are, like Mercury's metal legs and Tyrian's replacement tail, which kind of gives some mixed messages regarding people with physical disabilities.

Just wait, maybe next Volume, we'll get Roman Torchwick's brain in a robot body to take this theme to the next level.
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Yang became a Lesbian and Maria became a weak old lady. Maybe they are consistent and just secretly based?
 
Captain Marvelous said:
Is it weird if I think this person has a point? Even before the Volume started, the showrunners said that Ironwood losing his arm was symbolic of him "losing his humanity". Because somehow, that makes him different from Yang and Maria. It feels like the show wants to use any kind of prosthetic as a visual metaphor to show just how awful some of the villains are, like Mercury's metal legs and Tyrian's replacement tail, which kind of gives some mixed messages regarding people with physical disabilities.

Just wait, maybe next Volume, we'll get Roman Torchwick's brain in a robot body to take this theme to the next level.
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Yang is fucking shitty kitty. I'd say that's a sign that she lost something, perhaps her fucking mind.
 
WinchesterPremium said:
Yang became a Lesbian and Maria became a weak old lady. Maybe they are consistent and just secretly based?
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Oh, of course! How could I forget? Yang and Maria are female, and therefore, perfect, while Mercury, Tyrian, and Ironwood are male, which makes them irredeemable monsters. It's so obvious!
HumanHive said:
Yang is fucking shitty kitty. I'd say that's a sign that she lost something, perhaps her fucking mind.
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There was an episode where Yang's dad jokes about her losing some brain cells along with her arm. Given what she did last volume pretty much kickstarted everything going to hell, I'm starting to believe that wasn't a joke.
 
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