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

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madethistocomment said:
Lol, they killed Penny after all that drama with her these last two seasons. Jaune kebab'd her to make sure that Cinder didn't get the maiden powers. Winter's now the Winter Maiden, in the most roundabout way of power acquisition ever.

To literally no one's surprise, the whole of team RWBY (and Jaune, of course) went into the void and are now in Wonderland. Yippee. The rest are left behind in Vacuo, causing the world's largest refugee crisis in a lawless, resource-strapped kingdom that hates the refugees' kingdom of origin with a burning passion. Can't see that going horribly wrong, no siree.

Also RIP to my mans Watts, the only good villain left in this show. Should have been Cinder and not you.
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Why the fuck am I not surprised at them attempting to emotionally string the audience with yet another Penny death?
 
BroccoliBrain said:
'Wonderland' lmao. I'm getting more of a tree of life thing because they look like those ancient Australian plants that haven't changed in millions of years, I thought that's roughly the same place where Salem met the God of Light and fell into the pool but upon looking it up that place looks too different.
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It's literally fucking Madagascar Island from the film lol.
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HumanHive said:
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Not even surprised, I knew this would happen
Faggotty Rabbitty said:
Is it just me, or did Ruby have the exact same reaction in this episode to loosing her scythe as she did in the last one where she lost her sister? Just a simple shouted "No!", both times.
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Yes but no, that's the most hilarious part of the season tbh. She somehow showed more emotion than her own sister falling, for her weapon.
 
Well that was a complete shitshow. This kind of drama and tension would have had more of an impact 3-4 years ago, instead of have the characters slowly drag themselves from scene to scene until they get another volume 3 style ass-kicking. RWBY's plot should have been a 3 year arc in each main kingdom, where they might gain some victory against Salem but at the cost of each kingdom. The final arc is them gathering up all the friends and allies they've made along the way and defeat Salem; simple story with a lot of action scenes. But now it's just a mess and Rooster Teeth is trying to prolong this series for as long as they can. Like Games Workshop with the Horus Heresy series, but at least we get to read about space marines cutting people in half with chainsaw swords in every book.

Penny's sacrifice could have been handled better if she was alive for another volume or so. The theme of her choosing to die instead of being programmed to do so would have been good to show that she was now a "real girl" provided that we saw her struggle with the difficultly of actually being human.

And with the whole "Wonderland" story they are doing for volume 9, I would have rather gone without it. Have two of the team get kicked off the bridge, maybe Weiss and Yang and make it look like they are truly dead. Replace Weiss with Winter and Yang with PennY or get a new Vacuo character whose name starts with Y. Rooster Teeth makes it look like yes, they just killed off two main characters. Then at the midway point, when our characters in Vacuo look doomed, Weiss and Yang come out of nowhere, looking more experienced and changed. Maybe Yang has her arm back and that the two have been in a different place for longer than time has passed in the real world. You then take the next two or three episodes to explain where they went, the experiences they gained, and how they got back.

Oh, and they would also explain that everyone else who fell off the bridges died along the way. Because remember that this volume's penultimate episode had Cinder shoot some people off a bridge. Anyone think that Rooster Teeth are going to remember that fact or is volume 9 just going to be the adventures of Team RWBY in discount fantasy realm?
 
Xenomorphs Are Cute said:
Yes but no, that's the most hilarious part of the season tbh. She somehow showed more emotion than her own sister falling, for her weapon.
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How about the fact that her silver eyes never went off? The first two times she used them were in response to the trauma of seeing two of her closest friends get mortally wounded, and seeing her sister supposedly die evokes a slight whimper and not an explosion of energy from her plot dev-eye-ces?
 
Captain Marvelous said:
How about the fact that her silver eyes never went off? The first two times she used them were in response to the trauma of seeing two of her closest friends get mortally wounded, and seeing her sister supposedly die evokes a slight whimper and not an explosion of energy from her plot dev-eye-ces?
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Because of plot. Not my words, but CRWBY's
 
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Captain Marvelous said:
Pretty much unless they retcon it. Do you think this will get the same uproar that Clover's death got? I've already read some posts about them being mad they killed off the alleged trans allegory after introducing an actual trans character in the show.
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She basically killed herself so she's just following through on the trans allegory.
 
Tbh, I don't even watch the show anymore since I jumped ship in V4. It's good to know Neptune and Mercury havent done a damn thing really and they're always forgotten about so they can't be ruined. Speaking of Mercury, Wiki said "his past has yet to be fully explored" were already 9 volumes in and I really hope they don't at this point so I can have fond memories before they inevitably shitcan him or something like that.
 
Captain Marvelous said:
I love how villains think murder is the only way they can scold their subordinates for screwing up. It's such a cheap way to write off side villains so the main baddies can actually do stuff for once.

Would you really be mad at someone who is literally holding two of the things you need to accomplish your goal?
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When Cinder has a track record of fucking up that makes the Team Rocket Trio look like masterminds?

Yes. My nebulous evil plan hinges on everything going my way, and every breath you take edges closer to making me lose everything, you're getting whipped. Add to that Watts seemed to be the only henchmsn getting shit done consistently, I would have ripped the maiden powers off Cinder and given them to him. Somehow.
Eugene90 said:
Why the fuck am I not surprised at them attempting to emotionally string the audience with yet another Penny death?
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... so i didn't read wrong? Jaune killed Penny?

... like on purpose? Or did he just roll a critical fail? (y'know, besides the fail that is being Jaune.)
 
Dang Woodchucks! said:
... so i didn't read wrong? Jaune killed Penny?

... like on purpose? Or did he just roll a critical fail? (y'know, besides the fail that is being Jaune.)
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Basically, the idea was that Penny wanted Jaune to kill her so the Maiden powers wouldn't go to Cinder because there was no time to save her from certain death.

Blessed_feed said:
Cinder is such a hoe for killing Watts. Like she legit just killed the one henchmen that actually got shit done.
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Xenomorphs Are Cute said:
Simple, she's show the evil with uselessly killing her own & shit.

Seriously, even anime fans usually hate this autism.
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Captain Marvelous said:
I love how villains think murder is the only way they can scold their subordinates for screwing up. It's such a cheap way to write off side villains so the main baddies can actually do stuff for once.
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Captain Marvelous said:
Would you really be mad at someone who is literally holding two of the things you need to accomplish your goal?
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Here's the thing: a few episodes ago, Watts had chewed out Cinder for her method of just rushing in thinking her raw power, brute strength, and Maiden powers alone would be enough to overpower her opponents...and her approached had failed constantly, and he even pointed them out. And the scene where she was sulking on the roof that everyone said was sympathy fishing...I just saw that as Cinder reeling from a bruised ego.

As for Salem and Cinder, I see it as just an Ozai/Azula relationship. Cinder is just the psycho, murder-happy minion that Salem can use as a right hand attack dog.
 
Hah, I knew Cinder was going to betray Watts. Psycho bitches will always be psycho bitches. RT hasn't learned a damned thing about character development, and Watts being useful and right are no excuse for hurting Cinder's feelings, so he must die.

Vine dies for literally no reason because Harriet's reasoning for wanting to blow the place up was stupid anyway. 'Loyalty' and 'getting the job done', when all you are doing is making shit worse for the six or seven people still left in Atlas. I get that they're trying to show that she's upset over losing Clover and focusing in on the job but this order is extreme and retarded and Harriet should not be so stupid as to follow it. If she didn't even get on the plane to begin with, everything would have been fine.

Winter becomes the Winter Maiden because apparently CRWBY has to put things right on the nose. It's not even a pun, it's just kind of dumb. Why did they name her 'winter' anyway, is that even really a color?

Blake gets a sucker punch on Cinder but is otherwise useless. Again.

Ruby gets fucked up. My girl Neo is beating that girl like Chris Brown beats Rihanna.

Neo doesn't use her semblance when Ruby uses hers to surprise attack her from the ledge. Hax. Neo's semblance seems to take no effort at all, what is different about right now compared to every other time she's used it?

Penny gets attacked by Cinder and left to die. She asks Jaune to kill her, and Jaune does it. That is the highlight of this entire episode. Jaune having to take his friend's life, by her choice, to protect the Maiden powers from Cinder is actually something difficult and painful, and it shows his leadership. It also gives him a good reason for being here, as I doubt RT would have been comfortable having a female character kill off another female character.

Emerald does exactly 0 things this episode as well, which makes me wonder why she had a redemption arc at all this season. Was helping them rescue Oscar really the only thing that happened here? And since Vol 9 is apparently going to happen with RWBY by themselves, then we aren't going to get any real payoff for Emerald switching sides for two whole years. RT. Pacing, please.

To the people who were saying Watts was the only good villain left in the show, don't forget about James. They were painting him as a villain, so it counts. James did not deserve to die like that at all.
 
Don't Tread on Me said:
To the people who were saying Watts was the only good villain left in the show,
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I guess Tyrion kinda? Not a deep antagonist but fun. But holy shit Watts not even getting to have it dawn on him that he got played is just boring. I hope we get a cyborg one.
 
Don't Tread on Me said:
Winter becomes the Winter Maiden because apparently CRWBY has to put things right on the nose. It's not even a pun, it's just kind of dumb. Why did they name her 'winter' anyway, is that even really a color?
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Don't forget that people will see this as more setup for Team RWBY getting at least one of the Maiden powers.
Don't Tread on Me said:
Emerald does exactly 0 things this episode as well, which makes me wonder why she had a redemption arc at all this season. Was helping them rescue Oscar really the only thing that happened here? And since Vol 9 is apparently going to happen with RWBY by themselves, then we aren't going to get any real payoff for Emerald switching sides for two whole years. RT. Pacing, please.
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They'll probably redo Volume 4 and Volume 5: People separated and we build towards them being reunited.
 
Don't Tread on Me said:
Hah, I knew Cinder was going to betray Watts. Psycho bitches will always be psycho bitches. RT hasn't learned a damned thing about character development, and Watts being useful and right are no excuse for hurting Cinder's feelings, so he must die.
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Honestly Watts died because he made himself useless to the writers. His whole thing was being a l33t h4xor but he blew up the only nation that runs on computers so he couldn't really do anything if they kept him on.
 
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