Seeing what RWBY is now is like seeing your lifelong friend slowly become addicted to drugs, and no matter how many times you try to get help for them, they push back in denial and say that they’re fine.
Its worse when you realize that same friend is going hard on said drugs over time. Not even a week, but a DAY, the potency isnt enough. That friend keeps pushing himself until...He falls off.
It's even worse because whilst you are the friend trying to help them to stop, they have other friends who keep telling them they're fine and they shouldn't listen to you.
Hunters in RWBY are fucking weird, they get talked up a lot but they don’t seem to be anything more than just mercenaries, the authority they wield in the show mostly comes from other positions of power like being a general, a headmaster, or a professor being a huntsman itself doesn’t seem to give you any power over anything outside of fighting Grimm. I can’t really criticize Rhodes for not using his authority when the writers never bothered fleshing out what kind of authority full huntsman are supposed to _apparently_ have.
The fact one of the main characters who came from high society and left to become one of these mercs that fights monsters not knowing if they'd live today and die tomorrow doesn't even know if she has the authority to arrest her dad is very showing.
Hunter X Hunter did it better. *WAY BETTER* I would gladly *Kill* Cinder Fall just to get that Hunter's License, shit Two kids got it like it was picking out a Pokemon card
They tried to get us to fell sympathy for Cinder - the bitch who killed Pyrrah. At the same time, they tried to get us to hate Ironwood - the guy who, with no prodding, gave a woman he barely knew a robot arm she didn't earn, made the main characters official huntsmen, and put his full trust in the main characters despite how they never earned his trust. Then RT wonders why people are angry about this.
He also stuck up for Weiss on two occasions, empathized with Yang when “broke” Mercury’s leg, commended Ruby for trying to capture Cinder in Volume 2, told the kids “No one will fault you if you leave” during the Fall of Beacon.
Why do the writers keep thinking that EVERY villain needs to be sympathetic and misunderstood? To the point where the good guys are fighting the other good guys and causing more destruction than the actual bad guys? Not every villain has to be Joker 2019 or Thanos, sometimes all a story needs is someone with the opposite values of the protagonist and who is impossibly powerful and unbeatable that the protagonists need to struggle to overcome. Look at Roman Torchwick ffs. Just a selfish gangster with an ego and a bad mouth, and in his life he was infinitely more lovable than Cinder. Salem went from terrifying Grimm Satan to an entitled woman who was so self centered that she held a sword to God’s face and was surprised when she and everyone else was punished
The most tragic thing about this show is remembering the very first trailer. The red trailer. How back then we all thought it was special. And how all that incredible potential has been completely wasted just because a pair of talentless stuck-up morons refused to study even the tiniest bit of the do's and don'ts of narrative writing.
All the trailers were really good, even if the black and yellow trailers started some of the many writing problems, I wish the show was more like the trailers
That's my problem with not only RWBY, but DRRR. That show has like, 20+ characters that they try to ham in the plot or create a side arc for them, but they never go anywhere, and are left to rot for more important arcs.
This is true. If you know how to use characters. They will not be awful. RWBY tries having so many main and side characters. But develops so few of them. And some side characters are more interesting than main ones and they don't get nearly even half as much screen time
Rwby is honestly what happens when you’re doing that one school assignment at the last possible minute. There’s so much that just feels rushed to push it out the door and get it online causing all these OOC moments and complete shifts and inconsistencies in both character and story.
Compared to Monty Oum doing the Red Trailer in just two weeks alone. Being rushed might have affected the quality of the show, but I'd argue that it is the lack of direction. A collection of great ideas that don't mix well with each other. Almost like Frankenstein's monster.
@@vijeomasher9154 Yeah, Rwby is a show with so much potential, But they fail to build it well. It’s like building with a solid foundation and plan, but then part way up the blueprints were lost and they decided to continue building anyway without making a new one. And because of that, things are starting to fall apart.
One could say they're basically building it like a Lego set by just looking at the box. They have the idea of what they want it to be, but they just mix and match all the pieces together and get whatever else comes out of the mess they're creating. Which is kinda sad tbh - because we all probably have a starting point where we were excited to see it fully use its potential
I'm pretty sure it is rushed? I remember one of the showrunners tweeting that they just finished working on the last episode for a volume on the day BEFORE the finale premiere.
RWBY is what happens when someone decides to watch many Terrible Writing Advice episodes and follows them without noticing the obvious sarcasm, and believe me, I'm not the first to say that.
@@gayanudugampola8973 I think its a topic that can be covered under "Web Shows" where the main pitfalls that the genre keeps falling into include being over-reliant on internet memes, taking advantage of creator-to-fans familiarity to dodge criticism, blatant T-shirt advertisements, awkward transitioning from comedy to drama, and etc.
@@carbodude5414 "taking advantage of creator-to-fans familiarity to dodge criticism".....by using them as shields and patsies. RT is the literary equivalent of an abusive relationship.
Easy fix for cinders back story: show the huntsman help her escape, train her, they form a father-daughter relationship (show it explicitly RT) he is proud of her and one day he trusts her enough to carry a weapon. (By this point cinder is almost an adult).Cinder is reminded of her former family (idk have her see one of them on the street) this reawakens her repressed anger. She kills them that night and the huntsman finds out. He attempts to bring her into the authorities for murder. Cinder feels betrayed by this and the two duke it out. Cinder is victorious but feels empty. She’s killed both of her families and starts to lose it. A small crowd finds her loudly crying and standing over the corpses. They send for help. But one of the bystanders is none other than Dr Watts. He helps her escape. He offers her a place to go and Cinder accepts, not having any options. Watts brings her to Salem and explains Cinders presence Salem love bombs her like a cult leader. Cinder projects her need for a parental figure into Salem which is taken advantage of. This dynamic explains Cinders unquestioning loyalty of Salem and why she’s always trying to impress her. Salem uses this relationship as her ultimate weapon as Cinder has shown a history of ruthlessness and fighting ability. Salem could also be shown to offer Cinder “greatness” via the maiden powers. Have a dialogue line where Salem says something like “you were raised a slave, with my power you’ll be the master.” This would explain why cinder has a short sighted desire for power. She views it as never being a servant ever again. Ironically this desire is what solidifies her as a servant. It’s all there and it need just a few quick scenes and dialogue line and you’ve created a more dynamic villain. Also, yeah season 4/5 should’ve been when they showed Cinders arc. If fits in perfectly with the scene where Salem is berating Cinder for her failure. It’s literally the perfect time to show how their relationship came about.
This is a pretty interesting idea, my main issue however is how Watts just shows up out of nowhere by coincidence. It would make more sense if Cinder was for example arrested and after watching recordings of her rampage after it went viral Watts broke her out of jail. It would also help if Salem and Watts had a discussion about taking in such a young and inexperienced person who just killed the last person who tried to help her. And of course, in order to keep the idea of Cinder killing Watts you would either have to show him openly exploiting and mocking Cinder with his knowledge of her past, or you could have him go back on some promise he made to her when they first met.
@@lowesmanager8193 The prison break idea isn’t bad as long as it was kept really short. This episode would already be like 30 minutes long. My idea isn’t exactly the most explicit so fill in the gaps with whatever you like. The coincidence was merely to save on time. I do think showing the implication of a conversation between Watts and Salem would be good though. A line like “A girl with promise, as you requested” when Watts presents Cinder to Salem. This gives the implication that Watts was looking for another disciple at Salem’s request. Pair that with the fact that Cinder is the only woman working for Salem pre-season 4 and it tells you that Watts was looking a woman to be Salem’s maiden sponge. No conversation scene required. Idk what the whole cinder-wanting-to-kill-Watts thing was about but I think the show has done a good enough job showing why Cinder wouldn’t mind roasting Watts on a spit.
@@SparkShadow212 less than the duration of this video. I just asked myself what I wanted from the show and how It could be conveyed without changing too much. Granted, it’s easier to fix a product that’s already been made, rather than make a product from scratch. Still, the RWBY team at Roosterteeth has been dropping the ball on the show for years and years. Instead of trying to hire high profile voice actors like Vic, they should’ve been looking for some writing staff who could tell them when their ideas aren’t going to work. It sucks because every few seasons, we get a glimpse of excellence from the writers (season 3, season 6s apathy episodes, and season 7s 2nd half) which only makes me more sad when the show keeps crapping the bed.
I always found his semblance pretty useless tbh (it’s helpful when it’d come to stealth or infiltration, but not only do they never use it for that, but it wouldn’t really do much in a head-on fight), so I’m actually kinda glad they evolved it. It’s just sad that it came at the expense of an asspull.
@@amirgarcia547 His new semblance is still pretty useless. A solution would be to have him see what emotions the person has buried, instead of what they currently feel. Playing into the theme of his semblance.
@@fenrisvermundr2516 I dunno, I think that the evolution is already in line with the theme of his semblance. Seeing how the whole deal with it is ‘tranquility through meditation’, and a big part of meditation is observing and understanding ones emotions uncritically.
_Thank you_ for bringing up the "No, you have sacrificed everyone else!" line. I don't think I've ever laughed so bitterly in my life as when I heard that in the episode. Few characters have been handled in a way that disappointed me quite as much as James.
Hey Winter, remember that new arm your boss got, because he ruined his old one in the process of capturing a dangerous hacker and terrorist? Sp, what was that about not sacrificing anything and only sacrificing "everyone else?"
@@Gencinnamon245 maybe it's about time another word is used to describe her type of a character... Whatever. Her ability is to unconsciously bend universe around her so that everyone around admires her perfection, her ultimate leadership skills and the only thing she needs to do is sitting around and waiting till magical farmboy saves himself, kills the main villain and delivers her a magical Genie able to solve all of theor problems without the need to make tough decisions and suffer any responsibility for them. An ultimate guide of not getting invested in a main character
Fun fact: series writers have said they wanted to put cinders backstory in volume 5 but they ‘couldn’t fit it in.’ I assume all the characters standing around doing nothing was more important
They also had to give Ruby an “arc” about how she sucks without her weapon but one of the first things in the entire series is her taking out two guys before bringing it out and all that leads to is Mercury jobbing like a loser.
@@thomasraines1396That whole thing with Ruby lacking hand-to-hand skills is something they should've gotten more into. While I did like the part with her improvising and knocking Mercury out with a headbutt. It would've been amazing to see Ruby get a little resourceful in situations where her weapon is lost or stolen to compensate for her inability to fight hand-to-hand. Maybe if Beacon never fell, Team RWBY would've been given lessons in resourcefulness, adaptability and survival skills. I mean I can understand that Ruby isn't as strong in hand-to-hand combat as Yang or a few others. But that doesn't mean she can't get resourceful.
you know it’s bad when the fandom says “screw it i’ll do it myself” and writes their own narrative that’s way better. i’m getting major voltron: legendary defender flashbacks.
Yeah, Coeur Al'Aran seems to be leading the charge on that front. RWBY's world is rich and filled with so much potential. It simply isn't explored fully.
I hate it when creators suddenly butcher a character, especially when it's just because the character's philosophy was getting "too much popularity/sympathy".
And the best part is, their ham-fisted attempts to make said character look bad only: A: Made him look better because people were appalled at how lazy this was and how obviously manipulative the writing was. B: Despite butchering him into a "Maniacal Tyrant" their "Heroes" are still worse, because the Kingdom's destruction is still all their fault. RT bent the very rules of realty in Team RWBY's favor to make them look good and they STILL ended up being the villains XD
@@blueteam4021 Eh, I'm not entirely sure if politics can really be applied to the situation. I mean yeah he's a politician, but when literal Satan on Earth is banging down your door, you do everything possible to win that fight. Everything is acceptable as long as you win the battle against Lord Sauron, and Salem is Remnant Sauron.... If Sauron came from a bullshit dimension where everything sucks.
@@patchwurk6652 Yeah Ironwoods plan was heartless but the show seemed to forget 3 things. 1. He was the only one that HAD a fuckin plan. 2. The main characters learned of Salems existence like what - 2 months ago if that? He's been in this fight for easily over a decade and probably knows some shit we dont. And most importantly. 3. When the established stakes is the literal extinction/enslavement of *the entire human race* a *heartless* plan does NOT make for a *bad* plan. Genocide is a *literal* NUMBERS game, so long as at least 2 people capable of reproducing survive to the end, you win.
I got lost at the fact that this series was about groups of student, warriors, thingy that kills monsters. And not about some half-hearted attempt to make a "save the world plot" against the world's worst divorce issue
The virgin Crow: Doesn’t want to form relationships with people because he’s scared his semblance killing people. The Chad Eizen from Tales of Berseria: Warns people about his curse, but doesn’t care if they come with him.
"My problem isn't RWBY wanting to save everyone. My problem is they don't even have a plan!" Thank you! I guarantee most people who sided with Ironwood only did so for that reason, because any plan is better than "War of attrition with immortal witch with infinite soldiers."
That was the only reason I even agreed with Ironwood's plan. In truth, I really didn't like Ironwood's plan. However, he was the only one that has a plan, and details of what and how to do it. RWBY didn't even have a plan, nor did they offer any alternatives to Ironwood's plan. Sure, they want to save everyone. However, they never explained what and how they are going to achieve it (they never even consider other factors or what kind of resources at their disposal to make it even close to possible). Especially since their plan seems to be based on the fact that their enemies can be defeated, in which they themselves know that isn't possible (like you stated, it was war of attrition with an immortal witch with infinite soldiers).
And even when Ruby is handed the reigns of control and leadership she does nothing with it. After Amity tower is brought up she tells people about Salem and how Atlas needs help but then tells them to not trust Ironwood. Her plan was literally to hope that other people would swoop in and save the day for her. And when that realistically doesn't happen she gets into tears over it. Really?! Ruby's plan was literally Ironwood's plan copy-pasted but without the proper resources or back ups. Ironwood was commanding soldiers out on the battlefield, Ruby tried to do one thing, failed then sat down to have tea. She then got on May's ass when she wanted to go help Mantle yet **still** didn't do shit until Penny showed up in the front yard. Despite the fact that he wasn't prepared for Salem's whale he worked around that and created a bomb to destroy it. Let's be honest, if Oscar did not have a pocket nuke and Emerald never switched sides, Ruby would have failed horrendously. She doesn't fly down to help and she only kills the hound because it went to her first. We're meant to believe that team RWBY is in the right but they seem to have their asses saved by pure luck and nothing else. Even when she has the opportunity to use her super unique trait which can beat Cinder with one shot, **she doesn't use it**. It feels like nobody is willing to actually be honest with Ruby. She mopes around in angst before being told everything is alright and that she's doing well when she isn't. From an objective standpoint she fails at being a decent leader and strategist, yet we're still told that she is the good guy.
@@marcophenox6520 Sadly, that's about the equivalent to "Alright! Group up... AND HIT IT TILL IT DIES!" It works for the Imperial Guard because they have near-infinite soldiers to throw at a problem... it doesn't work for these four because they don't have as many resources.
At first I didn't understand what people meant when they said RWBY had too many characters because any show has a lot of characters. But now I know the problem is that they show everyone like a main character but uses them like side characters.
The rules of writing RWBY 1. All characters are only as smart as the plot allows. 2. Only the current volume is canon. 3. Shipping > character development . 4. There's no power scaling . 5. If any character comes to disagree with team RWBY they will be demonized, flanderizied and humiliated, especially if male (ex. Adam and Ironwood). 6. Only team RWBY is right .
I think rubies reach a point for it's just gone beyond the logical to the point where just AI mean if ruby ends with disappointment than Monte omi's dream basically dies with him
@@unchartedraider7547 Jaune low key at this point, is a spot light stealing moron. In comparison to the rest of the cast though he's okay, which says more about them then it does him.
We saw him die on screen though. Stabbed, eyes rolled back, fell and cracked his head on rocks then into water, if he was still alive then he would've drowned and or bled out before anything. Either way it would be entirely pointless to bring him back since anything regarding faunus oppression or the white fang has been completely forgotten and pushed aside.
Imagine setting up your Bigger Bad Salem for 5 seasons only for her to lose her first on-screen fight and end up doing absolutely nothing in the end for the entire season...
That would be like, after two years of anticipation, killing off Snoke in a sneak attack before he has a chance to do anything memorable in 'The Last Jedi'. That would also be like setting up Dark Raiden to be a major antagonist in 'Mortal Kombat 11' after building up his motivations in the last two installments, putting him in most of the marketing and in the cover of Story in the main menu, and having the entire first chapter revolve around him... only to have him die in an anti-climax method in the second chapter, replace him with a main antagonist that can be described as 'Dark Raiden, but with little screen time to flesh them out, no backstory, and unclear motivations', and have the other kharacters barely talk about him again. I'm glad that never happened.
@@ryanm.8720 That would be like 'Game of Thrones' setting up the White Walkers for 8 years (and their master the Night King for 5 years) as the ultimate threat to the entire world only for them all to die from a single stab less than halfway into the final season, after which they get a passing mention at most and that's it. Time for our protagonists to lose to CERSEI AND EURON, only for Daenerys to lose her sh** and blow up King's Landing and then die at the beginning of the series finale. At least Salem is alive and has a chance to redeem herself in the next few volumes and hopefully show off her real power (namely by killing characters that have names and are recognizable).
I'm still going crazy about the fact the The Hound literally had it's back turned against Yang, Jaune, and Ren for a good 10 seconds while it was transforming to grow wings, but nobody had the braincells to attack it.
"they were scared" Yeah and they've been brave enough to attack grimm before. Things that to them should've been scarier. Because they weren't that trained back then. Now. After all this. They froze when a grimm was defenseless and about to take their friends
@@sean-sean-2083 here's my recommendations so you don't have to suffer anymore. Re Zero The magnificent kotobaki The heroic legend of prince arslin My hero academia Zatch Bell
Actually it is debatable in certain IPs Some are really quick in-universe but the audience gets eye candy. Problem is, sometimes we aren’t told that...
My favorite joke about transformations in fiction comes from the Kazumi Magica manga(a prequel to Madoka Magica). So the characters are getting attacked by a Witch(the series's boss mooks) and Kazumi does her transformation sequence in a hurry. She did it so fast she forgot to make the skirt and her friends had to scold her for streaking.
I hated how star vs ended and bit disappointed how Su ended..but am trying my best to let things go and move on with other things. I haven't seen too much of voltron but I heard it didn't end too good:/
@@kimberlybogert7031 I too was kind of disappointed with the end of svtfoe. It clearly needed at least another season to wrap things up, but of course daddy Disney said fuck you to Nefcy.
Gonna be honest. The moment they made Ironwood was made to be a bad guy, I stopped watching this fucking show. He was the only one probably keeping me watching lol
The funny part is, despite their ham-fisted attempt to make him look like the villain, Team RWBY STILL look far worse and it's all their fault Atlas and Mantle were destroyed.
@@randomcenturion7264 Ironwood: Totalitarian fascist. RWBY and Co: International Genocidal Terrorists that have destroyed at least 3 Kingdom now (Haven, Atlas and Mantle), and served up the survivors to a desert area where there's limited resources, no food and insufficient protection.
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Remember when Ruby was intelligent and resourceful and had created her own weapon but she was just a little hyper and forgetful sometimes? The writers don't.
At least Ruby wasn't as unintelligent as she was in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle's 'Episode RWBY', where she decides to trust Hazama, out of all people, and she doesn't take the hint when the announcer tries to point out that doing so won't end well. Also, in 'Episode Persona 4: Arena', the announcer tells Ruby and Weiss that the investigation team (and Ragna) are planning to uses their keystone for a diabolical purpose. She has no physical evidence of this, she doesn't state why they're evil, and they're fully aware that the announcer is the host of the tournament (or is working for the host) that's forcing them to fight, and yet Ruby and Weiss are firmly convinced that they're villains, and it takes an excessive amount of explaining for them to snap out of it.
@@ryanm.8720 I mean, I feel like it wouldn't be hard to convince anyone Ragna's a bad guy (Even though he isn't he just has that Aura too him, that and they might confuse the Black Beast as Grimm) I don't know how she manage to convince them that the Chad Yu Narukami was a bad guy though...
For Cinders backstory, I think it would’ve made more sense if Rhodes was actually just evil and he knew what he was doing was gonna raise a monster and that’s just what he wanted. So when she actually kills her foster family, and Rhodes finds her afterwards, you realize “Oh he wasn’t stupid, he was just evil.”
That’d actually be pretty smart tbh, if he had a vendetta against Cinder’s family and so trained her in the hopes that she would kill them one day. It’d also have it make sense as to why he didn’t try to get her out of her abusive household. Too bad the writers aren’t competent enough to even consider that though-
Now, I'm a little upset because that kind of backstory would have been great. they could have run away together after that as criminals until his untimely demise at the hand of someone from Ozpin's circle, giving Cinder reason to hate Ozpin and join Salem. also would be cool if Cinder has plans of betraying Salem, because she reminds her of her abusers more and more everyday.
Alternative backstory for Rhodes: He's not only some random huntsman that accidently was the only one that noticed Cinder's suffering, he's one of Salem's most trusted followers, he uses the cover of a huntsman (that he officially is, but "works alone") to be anywhere he wants and if someone questions him, he says he saw a grimm nearby or he's doing huntsman office. His mission is to locate the maidens and for that he has a nomadic lifestyle that makes him be in hotels a lot while he searchs the areas. That's why he's in the same hotel as Cinder. After seeing her, he sees potential in a ally for his own, and even if he decides to train her, he leaves her with her step mother so her empathy and sanity decreases and becomes more easy to manipulate. After Cinder kills her family, he takes her and (kinda) gaslight her into staying with him and following him anywhere he goes, he takes Cinder to meet Salem and uses his status to convince Salem to keep her, and give her a taste of a "better life": as long as she obeys, she's not mistreated, and if she succeds in the missions, she gets treats. All by the hand of Rhodes that just wants a obedient sidekick, and Cinder takes and obeys without question because he was the man that get her out of one hell, not knowing he put her into another. Rhodes eventually dies in another mission (maybe they encounter the Fall maiden but they fail to capture her), he gets badly injured and even with Cinder trying to get him to the base for Salem to heal him, is too late for him, he gives Cinder "words of advise" so she can do the same he did to her: find misserable people she can reclute to Salem. Any cost is necessary if Salem wins at the end, that's why she endures all the pain for her grim arm and shocks of Salem. Rhodes just sees Cinder as an easy to manipule girl, while Cinder sees Rhodes as her father figure and the legacy she needs to carry.
Can't really call it a rip off Jurassic hero when the back story is nothing like thanos. Also wouldn't really call Voldemort and pennywise great villains. Iconic? Sure, but not really great.
@E . A Honestly, a reboot like She-ra would do this show justice. Yes, She-ra still had its issues, but we can all at least say that it was better then rwby.
they need a production or management team who actually gives a shit. Monty didn't die for this. His cinematography is absolutely timeless and a wonder to view to this day.
They could’ve made Ironwood sort of like John Constantine: in that he’s a complete bastard but he’s necessary and can get things done but just turned him into some crazy mustache twirling bad guy.
I feel like Rwby is a cautionary tale of what happens when you don't know how your story is going to end, and be cause of that it suffers from every time the writers come up with a new idea it gets put in regardless of if it makes sense or not. This 'May' have been fine in vol. 1-3 cause at the time the story was more or less just there as a bridge between Monty's fight scenes, which lets be real lets be honest MONTY'S FIGHT SCENES WERE THE ENTIRE REASON THE SHOW WAS GREENLIGHTED AND WAS ORIGINALLY AS POPULAR AS IT WAS.
From what I heard in other videos, there are two ways of story telling 1. Having an end goal and building from step 1 to reach that end goal 2. Having a beginning base and building everything on top of that to gain some sort of long term adventure and resolution Obviously both have their risks and rewards but the RT writers really messed up with their "Building from the base" option. When Monty Oum passed, his "base, ended up getting adopted by the new writers and since they comeptlely ignored the baseline he had in mind, lots of detailed got mixed or lost. They had no goal in mind so everything ends up turning left instead of right. (Characters start drinking potions of forgetfulness and lose their original character developments for the sake of plot)
Yep, Monty was a legendary animator but to make a story? Not really. RvB has a similar origins in which it was a sitcom for Halo but turned into a rich story of its own. RWBY's origins were similar but the story and development of characters were handled poorly.
It's possible that Monty - when he was alive of course - had a plan about what to do with the series, but Rooster Teeth scrapped the majority of the plan, kept pieces of it and possibly placed them in different places after he died. That's my theory on it.
@@mumflerdinclebottom5507 Or at least keep up with what you've written recently. Rwby is so inconsistent, the episodes or even scenes retcon each other.
I cannot blame anyone for being tired of RWBY. The writers of RWBY simply don't know how to write a story at all and never have. They constantly make the same mistakes over and over again and never seem to learn. The first three volumes that everyone consistently says are the "best volumes" were due to Monty's fight scene choreography, but I think a lot of folks get wrong that Monty had any sort of grand or over arching plan as he's stated in interviews that he "left the details to Miles and Kerry. This has been evident since day one, but RWBY is a neat idea and we all rolled with it in the hopes it'll get better. Monty's fight scene choreography carried the show for the first three volumes. Then we got the rose tinted glasses ripped off when RWBY didn't have Monty's expertise to carry the show through anymore. 8 Volumes later, and nothing has changed or really improved with the fundamental story telling elements and plot always supersedes characters and any development. I'd be willing to bet that if we stopped watching RWBY now and waited until the last episode aired, absolutely nothing of value will be lost on missing however many episodes of the show are left as nothing will happen that will be important to concluding whatever the final confrontation will be at this point. Why? Because they've consistently shown that only the current episode is canon and characters are tools to make the plot happen (rather than the characters driving the plot to happen through, you know, their character).
I know that, in a lot of instances, Monty's fight scenes provided more instances of showing and not telling than the rest of the show (what Miles and Kerry wrote). And those little instances along with the fight choreography gave the hope of a better show. The plot problems also added to the charm of it being by a smaller team and not a large company, something a little more forgivable when you don't have the funding to know if a show is going to take off or not. Monty also argued with Miles and Kerry a lot on things that they wanted to put in that Monty disagreed with. And while the whole of Volumes 1-3 aren't perfect by any stretch of the imagination, at least there's character development and, for the majority of the time, the characters actions make sense. I think we have Monty to thank for pushing back on things that could've arguably made the show a lot worse. I just wish Monty was still alive because even if we had a crap show, we'd at least have fantastic fight scenes..
You're 100% right with the rose-tinted glasses. Excluding the fight scenes, volumes 1-3 were actually very poorly written, with some scenes being downright terrible--Jaune not knowing what Auras were and Pyrrha infodumping it to him comes to mind. It was clear the writers were winging it from the very beginning, and that would've been okay as long as they had learned from their mistakes and IMPROVED, especially during volume 4...but no, the writing got significantly worse from there.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 Monty often worked ahead with his scenes etc. so most of his contribution to Volume 3 was done by the time of his unfortunate death. This also often caused other pacing issues throughout the early Volumes. Hbomberguy did a fantastic break down on the issues with RWBY and would recommend checking it out if you haven't already (though I find most folks that view critiques of RWBY have probably already seen it).
I swear all Miles knows how to do is deflect. Rather than own up to his mistakes and admit he was wrong, he just spouts excuses to deflect responsibility.
Miles did admit once that he was bad at "show don't tell", and had really bad memory problems. And then moving forward we saw no effort to correct for his 'deficiencies'. I mean, I think most sci-fi showrunners have someone on the writing staff who is basically 'the loremaster' who's whole job is to sit in on the writing sessions and go over how the magic systems work and whether they are staying consistent with what they previously wrote.
@@dennmael4044 Supposedly Eddy Rivas is the loremaster and has been for a long time. I think that actually makes it worse, that the show is so inconsistent with someone specifically managing it long term.
@@Cain1134 I mean Miles wrote the Chorus trilogy of RvB so he KNOWS how to write. Could just be that he and Kerry together are weaker than the sum of their parts.
All the issues with this show can be summed up: The writers dont understand character writing; world building/consistency; and no idea what story theme is. Every issue pretty much falls under these 3 points.
The show's theme is completely incoherent, which completely kills it for me. That's like, the most important thing to adhere by when writing. It's the foundation in which you write your entire story and its characters. "What is this story's theme?" is the first question you should ALWAYS ask yourself when writing a story.
@@MiaoNya I wouldn't say theme is necessarily the first thing a person should ask when writing a story. Some people can't write that way. My stories tend to develop first from characters and a neat premise rather than theme. However, by the time you finish the first draft, you should be able to see what the theme is or wants to be and can relay that to someone in a concise sentence if they ask.
My opinion on the show per season: Season 1: “Wow, this is awesome!” Season 2: “This is awesome too!” Season 3: “Whoa, this got kinda dark, but it still looks cool.” Season 4: “Hmm… This isn’t as good as the other seasons, but maybe it’ll get better.” Season 5: “Wait a minute… This season is kinda bad.” Season 6: “It seems to be getting better… No, wait... never mind, it’s bad again.” Season 7: “Is this show EVER getting better?” Season 8: “Oh, fuck this right in the ear!” Season 9 onward: “Whatever, I don’t care anymore.”
Instead of just leaving her there and then be shocked at Cinder’s snapping, Rhodes should’ve been working for Salem and trying to turn Cinder into a murderous monster on purpose. Kind of like a “change of plans, you’re not going to become a huntress but I will take you to somewhere even better” and then it’s just Salem, and after showing her potential (maybe after a time skip when she’s like 16 or something) she has to kill Rhodes and to show how Inhumane Cinder truly is, she goes with it and it’s like “thank you for everything Rhodes, but you’re no longer useful to me. It was a manner of destiny” or something.
And is a hypocrite who is worse then Ironwood by far (Even if IW was getting to let people die at least we was trying to save people unlike Ruby who just sat around drinking tea)
Oh shit. I’m hyped. I love the RBWY community, being a person who initially never watched the series, the ideas that the fans were spreading were so innovative and interesting that I felt even more motivated to do my own stories! After watching the show, I felt like there was a lot thrown out there but nothing felt like it had substance or weight in terms of the story. And that’s a shame because I’ve seen and heard what characters can do when given real love.
I am going to be honest: a large part of the appeal of RWBY to me IS that we can give those characters the love we want to give them. Don't misunderstand me, the show massacred their characters a long time ago, but i think that's why creativity was strongly supported by the original creator It was a passion project
Honestly RWBY is great when in a crossover with Fanfics, best examples being Fallout crossovers and Warhammer 40k ones. They just do it right and its great.
It seems like the people making the show are only doing what the fans want The fans wanted Neo back in the show The fans wanted cinder’s backstory The fans wanted bumblebee The fans wanted Penny back in the show
This was actually a problem even back in the "Good Old Days" of the show. Faunus are supposedly discriminated against, right? So let's have the bully character pick on a random Faunus girl to show that. Good enough. Unfortunately, the fans liked the Faunus girl so much, they wanted her as a recurring character....for some reason. It wasn't for any reason I could see, since she had all of ten seconds of screentime. Okay, sure, now she's a character. She's now called "Velvet Scarlatina" and has a voice actress and everything. Except what does she do? What is she doing here? Well, she's a student at Beacon. Does she have teammates? Oh shit, now we have to come up with three whole OTHER characters to be her teammates, because that's the thing you do at Beacon. And give THEM names and weapons and Semblances and personalities and everything else that comes with a character in this universe (most of which were only actually given years later in an official side-novel) Coming back to the Faunus discrimination bit (which we barely EVER actually see), we need a character to serve as a foil for Blake, the Faunus who grew up being discriminated (supposedly.) Someone who's TOO COOL to let such petty things weigh him down for long. Okay, very good, we have a nice character concept going here. We'll call him Sun Wukong. So, what's he like? Where's he going? Oh. he's transferring to Beacon? That's cool. Does he have teammates too? Fuck, now we have to come up with three MORE characters! Character bloat has, and has always been, a problem from the very beginning.
Nitpick. I hate the way Yang falls. They way she falls is just animated lazily, but I expected nothing less from this show. When you fall, you don't just stay in one pose, even if you're unconscious. She should be tumbling through the air.
RWBY's been animated lazily since Oum died, they upped the quality of models and backgrounds to convince people that the animation's still good. Someone actually did a video detailing just how often the characters just randomly teleported around the room in the V5 finale fight, it was about an hour long! It's beyond sloppy, and I can guarantee if anyone cracked the seal on Monty's grave, they'd see him doing cartwheels out of sheer disgust. It's fucking embarrassing!
Ruby has little character and in the games she has more personality i swear even in Blaze Blue crosstag battle she has more character. When she speaks i can barely hear what’s she’s saying and her method of doing things is not the brightest. Not defending RT with Ironwood changing but they made it WAY too obvious imo.
@@babarshah6479 And considering how little that actually is (it's at most 2 paragraphs of dialogue and call outs), it speaks volumes to how little characterization exists within the show itself. They've had years, actual real life years, to build up these characters and make them interesting. And they haven't. It's honestly baffling, I've never seen a show have so much content and yet have so little to actually show for it.
Yeah, it's just shippers at this point. The community revolves around three stagnant threads: - Shipping - Overused memes - Smut Litterally all there is now.
@@gn.g.6516 what plan? the stuff like the maidens wasn't concrete till volume 3 the gods and relics thing was shoe horned in after monty's passing. The show still has no idea how semblances or auras work. they wrote themselves into a hole with silver eyes making any cool looking grim or salem into a joke. between the relics and maidens are now just 2 sets of McGuffins and that is lazy writing. how adam went from a mentor to a scornful ex to assist a popular ship. the general outline like the hop to each kingdom to do a thing as the villain's try to stop them may have been planned but i doubt anything else was.
Amongst my friends that enjoy RWBY, the general consensus regarding Ironwood's mental state shattering into a million pieces and becoming antagonistic towards the kids is... What the fuck did you think would happen? He's a man who at this point is carrying the weight of the ENTIRE world on his shoulders, he has done nothing but try to save as many lives as possible since he was INTRODUCED as a character, an immortal witch with a massive flying whale and an army of demons is on his doorstep, and all of the people he thought were his friends and allies have not only betrayed him but basically spit in his face in the middle of a crisis. How the fuck would you react in a situation like that? But no, Ironwood was getting too much sympathy for being the intelligent man in a room full of idealistic children, so they had to make him commit genocide so that they could bluntly and ham-fistedly shove down the audience's throat that "hey guys, you're not supposed to like him because he's baaaaaaaaaaad now." Shit pissed me off to absolutely no end.
There’s also Yang whining to him about his lie which he used to lure out Watts (which worked) and defending her decision of telling Robyn’s useless ass about the Amity plan because “she’s on our side, she always has been”.
@@iattacku2773 The problem is now, there's only one decent villain left and that's Tyrian. And his chances of surviving the Vacuo arc are insurmountably slim. Mercury's prolly gonna get some half assed redemption arc like Emerald did. Either that or he dies.
Roman, Adam, Hazel, Watts, Ironwood... Every dead antagonist to date is a man (except for Vernal in V5). Fucking CRWBY are going to do the same with Tyrian and Mercury.
@@BlacKingler Emerald who made Phyrra kill Penny in volume 3 had a "redemption" (switched sides because she was afraid of dying, and team RWBY went along with it just fine), but I bet Mercury is gonna die without having one
You know, it's kind of disappointing that nobody that likes RWBY will watch this video. Every comment pretty much says the same thing. I like this series, but understand it has several issues. I enjoy people breaking down this show just as much as I enjoy people praising it. You have so many interesting points, some I agree with and others that I don't. I enjoyed watching through this video.
I like RWBY and I watched it. Same thing as you. He makes points I agree with and MANY that I don’t, but it’s still funny and enjoyable. Even if some of the butts of jokes are points I vehemently disagree with.
RT seems to think that character development means to stand in one place, say something semi philosophical and then do as you did before. It happens all the time. Also they make no visually interesting semblances anymore or have retconned them into being easier to animate. This studio is lazy. They simply do not care. I feel no passion whatsoever from the script or animation. Which is sad because the main appeal of the first three seasons was just pure passion for fun and out there stuff.
I agree, especially with the effects. While the visualized blur on weapons looks cool on paper, it still looked more effective when you saw the whole path of the weapon. Flashy moves become flashier when you can, you know, SEE the flashy move
It's funny, you actually think that the whole "you sacrificed everyone else" thing was inconsistent with Ironwood losing his arm. BUT, you missed the fact that the show operates with the outdated trope of "machine bad, flesh good". The army of robots brought in to replace the child soldiers was portrayed as a bad thing cause robots bad. Yang's arm isn't a gift to aid her after a horrific injury, it's "just an addition". Penny's can't appreciate life right until getting a real body. Ironwood didn't sacrifice his arm... In Kerry Shawcross' own words for that scene, "And then of course Ironwood now losing.. another part of his humanity. Get it?" It's ironic, cause as much as they want RWBY to be a real anime, I'm rather surprised at how dismissive the show is to tech and robots when eastern media often gives such things life of their own that arguably is no less valuable than our own. (Which is where I thought Penny was going, but nope, gotta be a REAL girl)
Mans literally went up to Oz and said, "Hey lets stop throwing kids in the fire to die, I can manufacture us some stronger robots to toss in instead while we train those kids to their fullest potential. But the show said, "Nah, those kids can do this.... hopefully."
It honestly would have been super easy to make Ironwood isolated from other human beings, and make him see logical solutions without the consideration of ethics for others' lives. If they started with him being seen for the first in years during the Vytal Tournament, they wouldn't have shot themselves in the foot so much. But, unfortunately, what's done is done
Not to mention the inherent ableism of “losing a limb makes you less human”. Like FFS nobody says Edward Elric “isn’t human anymore” because he has an automail arm and leg.
And Kingdom Hearts since replicas are dolls meant to work as machines, like seriously replicas are basically Pinocchio with an eastern spin on it, which makes me love that arcs Xion and Rikuplica went through despite me preferring Roxas went through her arc. Then you got E102 Gamma from Sonic Adventure which is self explanatory on how to do that story right
Also consider this: literally every time Ozpin has ever tried to get the upper hand against Salem, it always blew up in his face and he'd lose yet another part of the world that can never be reclaimed, like Beacon, Atlas, and Mantle in the present. All he can do is keep a stalemate with Salem, depriving her of resources, but that's it. The protagonists have literally no chance of actually stopping her. To use terms from Mass Effect, we're watching a Reaper Cycle with no Crucible. It doesn't matter how heroic or how much willpower the heroes have. The writing has put them in a situation that they can't win. They are all doomed.
@@thomasraines1396 they literally wrote themselves into a wall and I doubt they have any idea how to defeat Salem I personally have a few but it would have to be a dues ex machina from the gods Or borrow ideas from other storows such as full metal alchemist
@@enviousgaming3250 it’s not like show isn’t above taking ideas from other stuff so if they did do something like you’re suggesting it wouldn’t surprise me.
lol . most of ironwoods motivations were that they didint have enough time to save everyone cause the immortal witch was already at atlas , and then she proceeds to do nothing just so ruby can be right again , as always
It was never good, as a whole. We watched it because Monty was good at fight scenes, and he had a lot of respect for being a solo artist doing a shit ton of amazing work on his own. Otherwise, the worldbuilding sucked. The story sucked. The jokes sucked. It was cute, but only so-so. The story was literally just a vehicle for him to show off his animations, and that's a-ok. We watched it because we wanted to see what Monty would do with it. But he tragically died. Then Rooster Teeth had a bit of a controversy about how the handled his charity funds. Worse, they treated the damn show like a vehicle for their message rather than what it was, an excuse to see anime girls kill big monsters. Then MORE controversy came out, and dealing with the company wasn't worth it just to get a mediocre show they put behind a paywall. I'm not going to expound their other mistakes, I'd have to write a freaking essay, and this went on long enough. In short, they shit him.
@Otneimica they wanted to build this big grand world but lacked the imagination and storytelling chops to pull it off. Monty did great with coming up with some of the concepts, but he was the big push on the design and animation side and let others drive the narrative side after helping with the big concepts. RT bit off more than they had the writing talent to deal with. If they had kept the story small scale with more action, maybe cut the run time in half with a focus on the characters and their relationships before gradually opening up the world, then I think more people would have been on board and given their writing team a chance to plan forward and develop their own skills and then later switching to more big story type scripts. Now that I stop to think about it, that's pretty much how they grew Red vs Blue. We grew to love those dumb ass characters and were happy to follow them along as they ended up in bigger and bigger messes. If they tried to first lay out all the stuff with multiple secret organizations and conspiracies, it probably would have sucked and might not have caught on.
I think my biggest issue with RWBY is that the main character Ruby is more of a terrible person in the sense that she thinks she is above basically everyone else with how she acts, she also says she wants to save people but at the same time, she thinks of things that ends up either putting people in danger or killing people, she isn't a good person.
@@garretstevens742 It's like, if Borderlands 2 made Handsome Jack the legit hero, only without any of his competency, charm or interesting motivations and origin.
Cinder's backstory reminds me of when the Akame Ga Kill manga, right near its end, finally decided to explain the backstory of its main villain in a flashback sequence that just established that yeah, she's kinda just always been a psycho lmao. At least that series never pretends to be anything more profound than trashy fun violence.
You aren't wrong but I completely disagree with your last statement. Akame ga Kill tries to get you to be emotional all the time. In no way is it NOT pretending its anything more than trash lol. Id say RWBY and Akame ga Kill are the same in that regard but that is more debateable.
I would saying trying is a strong word. More like akame ga kill sets up for you to care about the plot or characters, but it's fine if you don't pick up what they put down.
@@Lajos_Kelemen Consider how many fans tear their hair out at the 'logic' and gave up on RWBY? No, it didn't let the fans dictate the course of the show.
@@Riverlia I'm no longer convinced of anything, it's all just so... confusing. (Bumblebee always seemed overrated and forced as hell though, but that's just me)
He doesn't give aura to heal them. His aura melds with whoever he's touching and sort of enhances their aura letting them recover faster or give a small boost to their semblance. And while I agree that he could've helped penny recover (and honestly im glad she's dead finally.) you do have to take into account that her recovery would take way too long as she was already mortally wounded and probably would've died anyways thus letting cinder take the maiden aura. And there was no time for him to make that decision since cinder was literally a few feet away from them. It was a desperate move that honestly meant nothing since Cinder still retrieved the relics meaning theres no point in going after the winter maidens aura except to fuel her power lust
Cinder’s backstory reminds of how they tried to give Freddy Krueger a tragic backstory in “The Final Nightmare”: they waited to long and the character in question already did so much evil shit whatever backstory they had doesn’t matter.
@@worldweaver2691 a pretty interesting one actually if for how fucked up it is: his mother was locked on accident (i’m pretty sure) in an insane asylum and then raped by 100 of the patients so it was impossible to know who his birth father was, eventually he was put into foster care where he was ultimately adopted by some abusive asshole which lead to him developing his sadistic tendencies and later becoming the Freddy Krueger we all know.
@@thomasraines1396 ah yes the 'ninety percent of the backstory could have not existed in the first place" style. only need the abusive guardian bit. was the writers trying to be edgy when writing the backstory? only need one of those (was born in an insane asylum, parent raped, or abusive guardian).
As one who has never watched this show and suffered hearing about this series for the better of a decade whenever friends talk about it or a new controversy popped up online... yeah, I'm tired of it too.
Honestly, does RoosterTeeth even remember Monty at this point? Do they even care about his vision? Like, as flawed as the show was from the start, at least you could tell this was a passion project of his. Now RT just has it as a cashcow to milk until it's dry, and keep milking it after that.
OMG, this! But anyways, I like to think Monty Oum was the original maker of RWBY unlike those greedy pockets from Roosterteeth. And after he died, they didn't want to keep making RWBY anymore for the sake of honoring his memory, but to get more money.
Lol, they stopped caring about him right after he died. His name in the title is just a marketing gesture at this point and ways they're trying to manage this show contradict every principle Monty Oum established for it.
You do realize that companies say all that sentimental stuff all the time to seem like they mean well, when in reality, they just want money? Movie studios will say stuff like "we made a sequel to continue the story told in the previous one." but their main reason is because the 1st movie made a lot of money. Sure, it might have been the crew's original intention to continue Monty's vision, but at this point I doubt that's still it. And having Monty's brother doesn't really mean anything. The Ghostbusters remake had cameos from the OG cast, but that movie clearly didn't care about the source material.
I was so upset with Emerald's "redemption arc" not once did she question her actions or try to find out if things were going on that were more sinister then what she was acceptable with. No she did a complete 180 once she find out no one was safe not even her. just self-preservation? wtf!
@@flowersandcheesecake1710 To be fair, RT doesn't seem to grasp morals that well. These are the same people that thought Whitely, the abused and abandoned younger brother, needed to "Redeem" himself to his bitch of a sister who, instead of protecting or rescuing her little brother from an abusive household, decided to go LARPing as a monster-hunter and then proceeded to make his life even more difficult and not even offer so much as an apology. In this show, if a man so much as disagrees with a woman, he's evil. And if a woman wants to just "switch sides" for no other reason than survival without a hint of remorse for the lives she helped take (she's indirectly responsible for Penny's first death, Pyrrha's death and Yang losing her arm, by helping Cinder in the first place) then we're supposed to just fawn over her "Brave" decision. Bottom line, Rooster Teeth doesn't understand how to right Good and Evil, probably because they've spent so much time being evil while trying to convince everyone and themselves they are good.
Long rant incoming: I don't understand team RWBY's criteria for trusting people. Ironwood, the guy who gave Yang a new arm for free, took Weiss' side during that party, the one who took Winter under his wing, helped them in the fight during the fall of Beacon, didn't bat an eyelid to them stealing a warship to get into Atlas, upgraded their weapons, been nothing but transparent to them about his plans, showed Oscar the vault's location, trusted them to keep the lamp, allowed them to train under his wing, and even gave them their hunstman licenses. Yeah this guy is not trustworthy at all, he's so shady am i right? Ozpin, their headmaster, gave Ruby a free pass into Beacon, literally DIED fighting Cinder, helped them in the fight against Hazel in Haven, shared with them information about the maidens and the relics, and revealed his identity as the wizard in the story. And team rwby is like, "Oh he's not telling us everything he's sus" like btch he owes you nothing. So they forcibly revealed his secrets through Jinn (which is wow, invasion of privacy at its finest). They just made this man relive his trauma. They saw this man get killed repeatedly by the gods. They saw that the destruction of humanity literally has nothing to do with him and it was all Salem's fault. He was literally dead at that point. Then he got cursed for something he had absolutely no control about, but he still accepted the burden. They watched as Ozma slowly realizes that Salem is wrong and tries to escape with his kids. They watched his kids AND Ozma get brutally murdered by Salem. They saw that despite all of this, Ozma still tried to fight against Salem, spent lifetimes/millennia stopping her influence from spreading, built huntsmen academies, built the vaults, safekeep the relics, etc. But the moment they learn that Salem can't be killed, they all don't trust Ozpin anymore?? They all turn their backs on him? Wtf?? Then, aren't you proving him right? The reason he's wary of telling the truth in the first place is because he's afraid people will turn his back on him once they knew, and team RWBY just proved him right 🤦♀️ Also, they fault Ozpin for still waging a war against Salem despite not having a plan against her immortality. Look at them now, waging a war against Salem and intending to save everyone without a plan :>>> Ok now let's look at the people team RWBY easily trusted, Robyn and Emerald. Literally wtf do they know about Robyn. They don't know her at all why did they trust her?? Emerald is an established villain which they have fought MULTIPLE TIMES. Somehow they trusted these people easier than people who actually gave them reasons to be trustworthy 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
You make a lot of excellent points that it's so damn true it hurts that it boggles my mind on how the hell is this show still being worked on or why anyone even like it at all with how horrible both the writings are and how the so called good guys are acting! The sheer amount of cringe, pounding headache and just general of "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS GOING ON?!?!" is pretty much what goes through my head and perspective trying to understand what the show is trying to tell or why the 'Good guy' characters act like bunch of assholes for no reason to people who has legitimately secrets that emotionally hurts them due to trauma and hardship and want to keep it burried, to move on and try stay strong for the sake of not only themself but for others. But nope! Get them out so that we can judge you for everything you went through and demonize you for no apparent fucking reason! Yeah...Great writing and planning Rooster teeth! That's very much how real life people act to someone who has been hurt for so long and don't give a shit to their feeling and trauma, keeping secrets is so very bad that it makes you into a villain! Oh and trusting a green haired idiot because she regret joining the evil side, who also happens to have a hand in two death of their beloved friends, fought against you and tried to kill you several times, she definitely regrets her evil doing and have become our new Vegeta! (Sarcasm) I'm so done with the show, when i watched the show for the first time of season one I actually thought there was a lot of potential but now? It's a shit show with even shittier staff who catter into shippers and crazy lunatics called fans demands instead of making a good series in the memories of one person who actually made this show happen in the first place and Monty's reward is them shitting on his vision, work and disregard his notes and details of the directions how RWBY was supposed to be.
What makes the whole Emerald thing even more insulting, is that Emerald is in large part responsible for the situation they're in right now. And she doesn't regret any of what she did, she sides with Team RWBY because she wants to save her own skin. But Oscar/Ozpin goes on and on about how they have "to give each other a chance", even when literally all Emerald does is be a jerk to Team RWBY. Emerald's "redemption" is a joke. She doesn't own up to what she did, she continues to be an absolute tool and then makes sad faces when she gets backlash for it and honestly, her doing this pretty much throws Mercury, a person we're made to believe she cares about, to the wolves.
@@Justme-wm8vr YES!!! You people are making such good points! 🙏 Now it’s my turn to rant, brace yourselves! Gotta love how team RWBY almost instantly trusted Emerald when she is responsible for Yang being kicked out of the tournament when she created that illusion of Mercury. Then Emerald used her powers to make Pyrrha see those swords and kill Penny by mistake. And oh yes, she’s also partially responsible for the Fall of Beacon!! Then we got Ironwood, the dude who can literally counter all of these points. He believed in Yang when she said Mercury attacked her and thought she must have “saw something that wasn’t there” in the heat of the moment. He disqualified Yang because the world thought she mercilessly attacked a defeated Mercury, and Ironwood regretted he had to do so all while taking her side.Then Ironwood had to watch Penny get torn apart before his eyes, and his entire military get hacked and destroyed while Cinder denounced him (and Oz) on live TV. Ironwood fought at the Fall of Beacon FOR THE GOOD GUYS and shot his own robotic soldiers to keep citizens safe. And let’s not forget team RWBY decided not to trust Ironwood with critical information about the war while Ironwood was practically LEADING the effort against Salem alone. All cause they thought Ironwood was hiding something, and then season 7 goes to show he’s hiding ABSOLUTELY NOTHING from team RWBY and is so kind and genuine and they still don’t trust him. I cannot BELIEVE Ozpin came back in Volume 8 and was like, “yo girls, trust Emerald lol she’s good now!” Oscar too, and neither of them tried to convince the main cast to try to reach out and make things up with Ironwood??? When it’s partially team RWBY’s fault for why he went totally crazy in the first place?? So y’all gonna trust EMERALD with the password to the Staff and not Ironwood, who probably didn’t know how to use it or else he could have found a way to save everyone and not have to abandon Mantle. But nope, Oz just didn’t feel the need to try to help Ironwood, his FRIEND and ally, who had just turned “evil” two days ago, but Emerald is fine and Ironwood is now beyond redemption apparently yep yep makes sense 👍 Ok I’m done 😂😂😂 Edit: Wait there’s more!! I also forgot to mention that Yang said to Emerald (to paraphrase)“You’re part of the reason I have THIS” as she holds up her metal/prosthetic arm. Next episode, BAM we trust her now!! Oh and who was the one who actually GAVE you that replacement arm Yang?? IRONWOOD! For FREE!! FREEEEE!! And you never even thanked him for it. God I have to laugh 😂😂 This season hurt so darn much because I actually was someone who LOVED every other volume of RWBY, despite their flaws. In fact, unpopular opinion, but Volume 7 was (and still is) my absolute favorite!! I was so excited for the next installment, but Volume 8 felt like such a punch in the gut and unfortunately, I think I’m done with RWBY. Will continue to rewatch the past volumes and draw fan-art tho haha 😆 NOW I’m done. ❤️
Hell, I am a better writer, and my story is a cluster fuck with a son of Iron Man replacing Jaune and I can't decide who his foster father should be between Kazuma Kiryu or Stone Cold Steve Austin!
Coeur Al'aran? He's had some flops and his desperate attempt to make Adam sympathetic in Beast of Beacon proves that the only way to make abhorent characters like him even slightly sympathetic is to rewrite them entirely or what he picked there, which is to destroy several other characters (Ironwood, CFVY) in order to make them look better by comparison, but he's still generally good at it. Made stories better than the travesty they consider canon at any rate.
I’m calling it now. The only thing that would save all this bullshit. Is that after the final. Some godly power resets time where the maidens and the grim don’t exist and Rwby once again meet eachother. And it’s just turned into a “you decide how it ends” cuz I’m saying it now. That is probably what rooster teeth will do.
So from reboot from adventure anime into slice of life anime? I guess that would help with character interactions. Also i get the feeling RT or some other big company os going to milk the shit out of Rwby with spinoff and sequel shows.
@@gayanudugampola8973 No, I was referring to the end of Sonic 06, where they basically erase the main villain from existence, thus making it so that the events of the game never happened.
Well Grimm existed before Salem so Grimm are around though Maidens don’t exist since Ozma never became immortal due to Salem. So it would be like the first three volumes and that’s it.
The thing that still upsets me the most about RWBY. Is that we have eight volumes currently. And still cureently very little understanding of Aura and Semblance.
Ironwood:"Alright, I am not a perfect person. But seriously, what did I do to you all?" Rwby-team:"Nothing, but you suck. That's enough reason for all this, lol."
"What the- THAT GIRL WORKED FOR SALEM, SHE HELPED KILL LIKE 2 OF YOUR BEST FRIENDS, AND OZPIN, AND ONE OF THE PREVIOUS MAIDENS" "Yeee but, eeeeeeh fugetabouet"
Somebody asked me who the biggest villain in RWBY is and I answered Miles and Kerry because they do a damn good job of constantly finding new lows for the show to sink to.
My biggest problem is they fired the guy that worked with Monty and had a good idea of where the story was gonna go. Miles and Kerry clearly dont give a fuck because monty stated so many times that there was no magic, no gods, and in his original notes and stuff he said that Salem was trying to control all the maiden powers. Not hunt after relics looking for death or whatever. They shouldve either kept the guy on the show or not continue at all. Oh and they also fired Vic based off false claims so that's another reason why I stopped watching anything rwby related
@@Lajos_Kelemen I’m almost certain that this show went off-course from what Monty wanted. It’s like saying, “well you never know if a meteor will crash into your house. It’s not impossible.” But instead it’s, “you never know if this isn’t what Monty intended for his show. It’s possible.”
These are also the two who oversaw the poorest-received section of RvB. I was out as soon as I saw their names, and was vindicated when I happened to see how the fight between Blake and the chameleon chick ended. That's the only post-volume 3 episode I've seen, and it's all I needed to.
@@Dressup_Doll yerp kicked him off during the year long dry spell we had of anything RWBY related. From what I'd hazard to guess Miles and Kerry wanted to edit Monty's original work and the guy stood his ground and got fired for it
I've noticed a trend that whenever a villain that isn't Cinder starts getting good, they write them out of the story or kill them off entirely. Torchwick, Adam, Watts, etc. Cinder exist for the sole purpose of making the show worse.
It’s not just that, it’s “only female characters can have compelling arcs” . I’m still sour about Vine dying, thereby leaving only one male member of the ace Ops alive while the other two are female.
Like, if you want "Gender Equality", give BOTH genders a chance to shine. Don't EVER promote one over the other, or the arguments will start all over again and we will be back at square one.
Like why don't you promote Qrow, or Jaune or Ren more? Or Tai? Or Oscar/Ozpin? I would name more, but with Adam gone (and I don't hate him, I just think he got wasted) there isn't a lot of male representation to speak of.
Man, It's sad what has happened to this show, I actually enjoyed this show up until I wanna say Volume 5 where it was slowly for me changing from a good watch to what happened here? I will at least have the first few volumes and BlazBlue Cross Tag to remember how the cast actually was.
in the end of volume 5 i still had hope for it to turn out good later , but after volume 6 , im just watching to see how it ends , i dont even like the protagonists anymore
I genuinely feel the show died with its creator. RWBY was always rough, unpolished and a little crappy. But despite that, season 1-3 felt like a labor of love, a true passion project. Monty had a story he was eager to tell and even if it was flawed, it was so fun to watch him tell it with such enthusiasm and passion. Without that enthusiasm and drive, the show is just a means to the end of making money off of success...
@@sparxskywriter2589 It's... really tragic Monty didn't write down an outline of where he intended to go. I don't think that would have saved it, but at least when that outline got out, people would know where he was intending to take it.
It’s bad when some of the issues you bring up can be simply explained with “Behind the scenes drama happened before this episode was made”, which says less about the show itself and more about the current state of RT as a whole.
@@relic5752 Qrow is one that was 100% because behind the scenes drama happened. That was Vic’s character. RT immediately fired him after the false allegations came out against him.
@@RachelScalfani well hey now, there are really good dub shows and dub voice actors out there ya know? (Talent wise and personality wise) But I also completely understand, after discovering one of the va’s that I actually like her work and then she got involved in the drama (not in a good way either) I almost lost faith honestly.
Wasn't the point of the maidens were that they had to relinquish their powers eventually? If people like Penny can become the maiden, why don't the Kingdoms turn all their maidens into immortal machines?
@@CoralCopperHead Well, yeah? There's a reason the trailers have millions of views and people praising them. There were tons of great ideas, all with poor executions.
You should try these instead Re Zero The heroic legend of prince arslin Princess principal Zatch Bell Umamusame pretty Derby And try some of clamps works like cardcaptor sakura or xxxholic
Hasn't RWBY always had a "show don't tell" problem in regards to its music? I'm pretty sure most of the vocal songs quite literally scream the story and meaning at you.
Yeah, used to be that there'd be people that thought the soundtrack telling you what certain characters were thinking or had experienced instead of actually being shown by the series was good storytelling.
@@whiskeyhound One guy spent months using the lyrics of a single song to keep insisting it was objective fact that Salem was a benevolent hero trying to save humanity from the cruelty of Ozpin and his secret tyrannical rulership of the entire world because she cares about humanity so much like a mother figure. Seriously.
I honestly feel like Ironwood's Semblance was some crap made up by the writers during that zoom meeting. Not *once* is Mettle shown, explained, or even mentioned in the show; and this is strange since there's almost always an exposition dump on what a character's Semblance does. Ironwood's horrific actions and psychotic behavior are portrayed to be a conscious choice on his part and the writers don't treat it as a tragedy, rather they do everything in their power to make him as unlikeable as possible. His allies aren't sympathetic toward him or try to help him, which is especially weird in Winter's case since she and Ironwood are so close that she'd *have* to know about his Semblance and its effect on his mental state. Furthermore, when Ironwood's Aura is depleted (which disables someone's Semblance, according to the writers) Ironwood *still* acts crazy, kills Jacques, and tries to kill Winter.
If I recall correctly, Ironwood's semblance was mentioned (well, more like possibly made up on the spot judging by the tonal delivery) during a live panel by Miles, so you're not really too far off.
I still think his Semblance, Mettle, could've worked if it was properly utilized in story. Why not have it not only strengthen his resolve but the resolve of his own soldiers and allies? It would give him and his troops an edge in battle. Making them more determined to win the fight and keep on going no matter how many numbers they losing. Forcing their enemies to retreat because of his army's relentless numbers. Kinda like Bastila's Battle Meditation from Knights of the Old Republic. But Ironwood decided to use it wisely and carefully because it can give him tunnel vision as it can strengthen any resolve, no matter the morality of it. Once he sets a goal, he almost can't stop. And it doesn't help that he's naturally bullheaded. And it can be dangerous if he's emotionally compromised. Also another reason that while it gives his forces an edge in battle, it can potentially stretch his forces thin and rapidly diminish all of their man power. Nor does he want to control his men like robots. Thus, he can only use it when desperate times call for desperate measures. Like what's going in V8 for instance. Come to think of it, Ironwood should've been temporarily removed from command in the first place after the whole Battle of Beacon and the Dust Embargo. I know from a military standpoint that if a general is mentally unstable, emotionally compromised or suffering from PTSD, they will be removed from command, by force if necessary. If a general can't keep his head on, he's a danger to them all. If Atlas' military doctrine is anything like ours, that's what should've been done. Winter, being second-in-command, would have assumed temporary command until Ironwood calmed down. But that's blind loyalty for ya.
It still astounds me that some Twitter RWBY fans somehow confused this video to belong to HeroHei instead of you, like I know it's slightly unrelated but the sheer fact that, that guy left *that* much of an impression on the overdefensive RWBY fans is hilarious to me.
I dont know what this twitter drama is, but hero is kinda annoying video wise This youtubers style is way different? Why are people confusing them? Like these are all good legit issues to have with these seasons
@@charlx8979 That's precisely the problem: they don't want the criticism in and of itself, no matter who it's from. Would not be surprised to find out that they tagged this video to Hero Hei specifically because he's really hated in that crowd as a way to demonize this critic. Not much of a long-term tactic, but I still wouldn't put it past them to try it.
@@charlx8979 isn't he the dude that does a million 1 minute videos every time someone on Twitter breathes garbage? He has infinite content like that pretty much
Here's some recommendations for you. Re Zero The heroic legend of prince arslin My hero academia Love is war Princess principal And try some of clamps works like cardcaptor sakura or xxxholic
You know it's bad when a lot of the most watched RWBY youtube videos, that aren't music or the show itself, are criticism videos. Seems like every season, more and more people are jumping ship, every new episode becoming the "straw that broke the camel's back" for someone. At the very least, the toxic part of the fandom is now heavily outnumbered.
I miss the days when the RWBY FNDM was small and not so divided. If V9 hadn't come along, I would've jumped ship, too. It ain't perfect but it was way better than V8 by a long shot.
Kamen dunking on RWBY never gets old, as it’s the show that just keeps on failing. (And I say this as someone who still liked it until it eventually went downhill.) I remember saying a few days ago that RWBY is the only show I’ve seen that feels simultaneously rushed and drawn out. And once I pondered more about it, it’s because the writers throw around so many ideas and introduce tons of characters, but never really take the time to properly flesh them out. Not even when it comes to the lead characters. The biggest example being just breezing through Yang’s whole PTSD of losing her arm, or killing of Sienna (former leader of the Black Fang) literal *seconds* after she’s introduced. Man, what a great design so utterly wasted… Or having a new character who’s actually somewhat interesting, Ilia, basically no longer show up after the season she’s introduced in (Vol. 5) for…reasons. Oy vey… And since the pacing and plot progression is…frankly horrendous (looking at you, Vol. 5, and having most of the characters spend it almost entirely in a single room), it’ll drag out certain story beats for far longer than necessary and make it barely feel as if anything noteworthy has changed. Real-talk, this series should’ve ended at Vol. 6, maybe Vol. 7, and at this point it feels like they’re milking it for all it’s worth. And it’s almost *laughable* that it took us 8 seasons for us to finally get the backstory for one of the central villains. If I was on the writing table, I would’ve actually had them stay in the school for another 3-5 seasons instead of rushing to get to the world-ending, grimdark stuff so soon. And instead focus on developing the characters more instead of creating a generic RPG plot involving maidens, magical artifacts and this overpowered evil overlord who can’t die. But ah well, what’s done is done. I’m just glad I jumped ship after Vol. 6, especially due to how dirty they did Qrow in Vol. 7 and how inane the writing choices have been.
They did qrow dirty IRL and in the show lmao. It's such a fucking shame considering Vic is probably the only reason i stuck around with RWBY for as long as i did
@@uratheboi1555 I didn’t wanna mention that in fear I’d start an argument, but yeah, to this day I’m still pissed that RT just decided to throw Vic under the bus.
@@uratheboi1555 That’s good to know, at least, since I was recently browsing Reddit and saw someone post about how they had an Edward Elric funko pop signed by Vic. And let’s just say the comments were…something else.
Pretty much. NONE of the characters in RWBY are actual characters, they're props. They're being made to follow the plot, regardless of whether or not the actions taken are actually "in-character" for them.
Congratulations, you just learned how to write a scenario! Every freakin story ever goes with your statement. If in horror movies the characters were actually smart there would not be horror movies at all. Characters always act like the writers want to. They will act dumb if it’s necessary for the plot. I really don’t understand this complaint about RWBY
OKAY OKAY THIS IS TRUE. If anyone is reading my comment. Yang, when confronting Raven for the fuckin genie thing. She says she hates people who run away. Therefore saying she hates Raven. Then. When Blake returns. SOMEONE WHO RAN FROM THE TEAM TWICE. THE SECOND TIME TO RUN BACK HOME. AND LEAVE THE TEAM TO BASICALLY SUFFER ON THEIR OWN. She's all welcoming back. Then goes back to drama with her. But then they don't talk their way into being a ship apparently. Because the writers gave up due to the fans demanding it. In short. The writers are fuckin pathetic and put such little effort into consistent character writing. That if I have to give them anything. It'd be a middle finger
If Cinder is a Faunus, then her mistreatment would make more sense and give more impact to the plot because of the already established anti Faunus community. But then again, there are still a lot of things that needed to be fix with Cinder's character.
You could even explain away why she d sent look like one visibly because maybe she cut them off or had Salem modify her or something. To show self hatred.
I still think HBomberguy summed up RWBY the best: "The show occasionally THREATENS to suddenly become good, and so you keep watching." The show always skirts just barely below being actually good, and there are brief moments (the latter half of Volume 3 comes to mind) where the show, even if for a moment, starts becoming enjoyable...And then just stops. You watch the next episode thinking that MAYBE the next episode is where the show finally gets as good as it could be, but it never does. Rooster Teeth would win my undying respect if they just cut their losses and rebooted the whole show from the very start with new lead writers.
What's funny is, on Twitter, someone shared a picture of your video, and in the comments someone said "I hate seeing HeroHei in my recommendations" when your channel name was right in the picture. Also, I still think it'll end with everyone dying and Salem winning. Hoping for it, really.
As if they'd let that happen. No, the universe would align in such a way that Salem literally can't lose, but then she'll trip over a rock or something and that'll be her one and only weakness and then she'll die, the end
My problem with RWBY is how they treat their LGBT+ characters. For instance, May. May was revealed to be trans in Volume 7 far before she had any relevance or even knew her name. That's right there speaks volumes on how they see they're LGBT+ characters, not as normal people just like the rest of us, but as a tool to be used as marketing their show to score some brownie points for being "revolutionary". Hell, Pilot Boi is also an example of this because they thought we'd hate him for being mean. Because as we all know, gay people will do anything and everything for you if you tell them. Jaune's sister and her wife are proof of this is how Miles and Kerry think when Jaune's sister helps them trespass on a military base to help them steal a jet and have her infant child involved as well.
And then it turns out that May Marigold is a MASSIVELY shitty person who, AT BEST, is projecting her hatred of her family (for not respecting her identity) onto all of Atlas, and is not willing to help any of them.
@yeh uda Disney isn't exactly great in this area either. Like with Onward, there was all this marketing buzz that they'll have their first LGBT+ character, only to turn out she's a minor character in one scene for at most two minutes.
Honestly, Penny *really* got done dirty in her last appearance. What's the point of having her finally become human after having her robot body destroyed at least twice, only to then be _immediately_ dropped by Villain Sue-Incarnate Cinder in less than an hour with little-to-no build up? Huge waste of potential, and it just felt like an incredibly cruel and unceremonious (and above all, convenient) way to not only get rid of her for good, but reduce her existence to a mere prop for another character's development.
What's really messed up is that not only was she killed TWICE, but that both times she was ultimately killed by an ally. I can't be the only one who noticed this, right?
How in the ever loving Oum did we go from a world built solely as a stage for epic fight scenes (Dead Fantasy but bigger) to pointless self inserts (Jaune, Neptune, Blake and possibly more), demonizing characters who are good people, emotionless writing and a non-developed lesbian couple?
@@randomcenturion7264 Yep, I’m definitely aware. I still ask that rhetorical question regardless because I can’t believe how bad this has gotten. I never will get over it.
Ironwood got the same treatment as Joel. Both had been give reasons of why they act the way the act and are active with their objectives, yet the writers are set in stone to make them be the "big bad guy" in the entirety of the story
This’s actually a pretty apt comparison tbh. Especially since both scenarios lack any nuance, as TLOU1 left your decision as morally grey. Having the player sit there after the credits and truly ponder “did I really do the right thing?” While the sequel just entirely throws this out the window to be like “nope, Joel was a monster all along and deserved to die for killing people who were about to lobotimize an unconscious teenage girl without her consent.” Instead of trying to make both sides flawed, just like with RWBY, it instead entirely demonized one side just to make the other one seem better in comparison.
@@amirgarcia547 Exactly. And their way of saying that Joel is wrong is done outside of the game by having the devs claim that the operation would have been a success. But no, it doesn't work that way. I can suspend my disbelief and pretend that in a fictional world, there is a way to develop a vaccine for a fungal infection in the brain when we have yet to even perfect one to prevent fungal infections on the skin. I can even believe it if they said that they can reproduce Ellie's mutation or that they worked on many other subjects who are immune to the infection and have now perfected the operation and only need one last test subject. But if all of that isn't said or explained in the game, then I'll apply real world knowledge and common sense to say that the fireflies didn't know what they were doing and that Joel did the right thing since Ellie would have died for nothing. Having the story teller give me facts outside of the story doesn't do it for me. It's comparable to someone who has messed up and is now trying to justify himself. Even releasing a comic or novel that will barely reach 20% of the fanbase to explain what was poorly executed or established is wrong.
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Seeing what RWBY is now is like seeing your lifelong friend slowly become addicted to drugs, and no matter how many times you try to get help for them, they push back in denial and say that they’re fine.
Its worse when you realize that same friend is going hard on said drugs over time. Not even a week, but a DAY, the potency isnt enough. That friend keeps pushing himself until...He falls off.
It's even worse because whilst you are the friend trying to help them to stop, they have other friends who keep telling them they're fine and they shouldn't listen to you.
So it's kinda like being a Amy Winehouse fan
Exactly
To everyone
Personally I consider rwby a case study in how not to design a d&d campaign.
Fucking right? The world is interesting as it's told to you, but then you get the shit DM who dumps all their DMPC's on you and the story is trash.
@@wdf70 exactly!
RT actually did a DnD campaign with RWBY some time ago, can't remember when however.
@@wdf70 this
I've listened to a DnD podcast that was literally five dudes playing for fun that have better characters than this
Hunters in RWBY are fucking weird, they get talked up a lot but they don’t seem to be anything more than just mercenaries, the authority they wield in the show mostly comes from other positions of power like being a general, a headmaster, or a professor being a huntsman itself doesn’t seem to give you any power over anything outside of fighting Grimm. I can’t really criticize Rhodes for not using his authority when the writers never bothered fleshing out what kind of authority full huntsman are supposed to _apparently_ have.
The fact one of the main characters who came from high society and left to become one of these mercs that fights monsters not knowing if they'd live today and die tomorrow doesn't even know if she has the authority to arrest her dad is very showing.
Hunter X Hunter did it better.
*WAY BETTER*
I would gladly *Kill* Cinder Fall just to get that Hunter's License, shit Two kids got it like it was picking out a Pokemon card
@@JarenLemon the very first arc if the show was basically made to do that as well as set up things for later.
@@JanizMakudomaru Agreed, my Favorite arc will always be the Chimera Ant Arc.
@@JarenLemon cool, mine is Greed Island
They tried to get us to fell sympathy for Cinder - the bitch who killed Pyrrah. At the same time, they tried to get us to hate Ironwood - the guy who, with no prodding, gave a woman he barely knew a robot arm she didn't earn, made the main characters official huntsmen, and put his full trust in the main characters despite how they never earned his trust. Then RT wonders why people are angry about this.
He also stuck up for Weiss on two occasions, empathized with Yang when “broke” Mercury’s leg, commended Ruby for trying to capture Cinder in Volume 2, told the kids “No one will fault you if you leave” during the Fall of Beacon.
I know, right? Idiots…
@@thomasraines1396
Indeed
Ya'll seem to forget the fact that Salem is the reason for every single thing ya'll are saying....dummies
Why do the writers keep thinking that EVERY villain needs to be sympathetic and misunderstood? To the point where the good guys are fighting the other good guys and causing more destruction than the actual bad guys? Not every villain has to be Joker 2019 or Thanos, sometimes all a story needs is someone with the opposite values of the protagonist and who is impossibly powerful and unbeatable that the protagonists need to struggle to overcome. Look at Roman Torchwick ffs. Just a selfish gangster with an ego and a bad mouth, and in his life he was infinitely more lovable than Cinder. Salem went from terrifying Grimm Satan to an entitled woman who was so self centered that she held a sword to God’s face and was surprised when she and everyone else was punished
Always remember, nothing in the show is Canon except the current Episode.
does every episode happen in it's own seperate universe or something?
Painfully accurate
Might as well @bro look behind you
For me, the show stopped at Season 3.
@@brolookatthatthingbehindyo1324 I know jack about the series, but what I think they mean is that it contradicts itself constantly
The song played in Cinder's backstory lowkey sounds like the dream song from Sharkboy and Lavagirl
"Shut your eyes, lay about, or my fist will put you out!!"
- Me, to Cinder
@@JoshtheOverlander 😶
Now that you mentioned it...it does sound similar to Sharkboy singing. I rewatched that movie a while back.
At least the dream song wasn't this obnoxious
@@Saltedroastedcaramel Because it knew it was silly while RWBY is like a kid book narrator trying to be serious
When the Fanfiction makes more sense and is better written than the actual show:
Voltron is that you
So true
Couer al Aran is honestly a treasure in the community
Miraculous Ladybug, is that you?
Low bar to set but yeah
The most tragic thing about this show is remembering the very first trailer. The red trailer. How back then we all thought it was special. And how all that incredible potential has been completely wasted just because a pair of talentless stuck-up morons refused to study even the tiniest bit of the do's and don'ts of narrative writing.
It's like watching Rome under Honorius' rule.
The Red and White trailers where gorgeous. Then we got whatever the later seasons were
All the trailers were really good, even if the black and yellow trailers started some of the many writing problems, I wish the show was more like the trailers
It’s ok, we can remember the cast being as cool as they’re supposed to be by playing Blaz Blue Cross Tag.
Oh, I completely agree! All of the potential of this series has been wasted!
There's nothing wrong with having a lot of characters, you just need to know how to use them properly
This true. Warhammer has 18 (19) Superhuman Demi-Gods waging Civil War and manages to give enough time to give them each to shine and develop.
That's my problem with not only RWBY, but DRRR.
That show has like, 20+ characters that they try to ham in the plot or create a side arc for them, but they never go anywhere, and are left to rot for more important arcs.
This is true. If you know how to use characters. They will not be awful. RWBY tries having so many main and side characters. But develops so few of them. And some side characters are more interesting than main ones and they don't get nearly even half as much screen time
Look at one piece
Exactly. It can be 4 or 4000, if you craft each one carefully and the world they exist in, the story becomes compelling. If not, it becomes contrived.
Rwby is honestly what happens when you’re doing that one school assignment at the last possible minute. There’s so much that just feels rushed to push it out the door and get it online causing all these OOC moments and complete shifts and inconsistencies in both character and story.
Compared to Monty Oum doing the Red Trailer in just two weeks alone. Being rushed might have affected the quality of the show, but I'd argue that it is the lack of direction. A collection of great ideas that don't mix well with each other. Almost like Frankenstein's monster.
@@vijeomasher9154 Yeah, Rwby is a show with so much potential, But they fail to build it well. It’s like building with a solid foundation and plan, but then part way up the blueprints were lost and they decided to continue building anyway without making a new one. And because of that, things are starting to fall apart.
One could say they're basically building it like a Lego set by just looking at the box. They have the idea of what they want it to be, but they just mix and match all the pieces together and get whatever else comes out of the mess they're creating. Which is kinda sad tbh - because we all probably have a starting point where we were excited to see it fully use its potential
@@Castersvarog things long fell apart
I'm pretty sure it is rushed? I remember one of the showrunners tweeting that they just finished working on the last episode for a volume on the day BEFORE the finale premiere.
RWBY is what happens when someone decides to watch many Terrible Writing Advice episodes and follows them without noticing the obvious sarcasm, and believe me, I'm not the first to say that.
He should do an episode on Rwby.
@@gayanudugampola8973 I think its a topic that can be covered under "Web Shows" where the main pitfalls that the genre keeps falling into include being over-reliant on internet memes, taking advantage of creator-to-fans familiarity to dodge criticism, blatant T-shirt advertisements, awkward transitioning from comedy to drama, and etc.
@@carbodude5414 "taking advantage of creator-to-fans familiarity to dodge criticism".....by using them as shields and patsies. RT is the literary equivalent of an abusive relationship.
I think the result of that would acctually be hilarious...
It's impossible to take TWA advice unironically. And I should know, I have autism.
Easy fix for cinders back story: show the huntsman help her escape, train her, they form a father-daughter relationship (show it explicitly RT) he is proud of her and one day he trusts her enough to carry a weapon. (By this point cinder is almost an adult).Cinder is reminded of her former family (idk have her see one of them on the street) this reawakens her repressed anger. She kills them that night and the huntsman finds out. He attempts to bring her into the authorities for murder. Cinder feels betrayed by this and the two duke it out. Cinder is victorious but feels empty. She’s killed both of her families and starts to lose it. A small crowd finds her loudly crying and standing over the corpses. They send for help. But one of the bystanders is none other than Dr Watts. He helps her escape. He offers her a place to go and Cinder accepts, not having any options. Watts brings her to Salem and explains Cinders presence Salem love bombs her like a cult leader. Cinder projects her need for a parental figure into Salem which is taken advantage of.
This dynamic explains Cinders unquestioning loyalty of Salem and why she’s always trying to impress her. Salem uses this relationship as her ultimate weapon as Cinder has shown a history of ruthlessness and fighting ability. Salem could also be shown to offer Cinder “greatness” via the maiden powers. Have a dialogue line where Salem says something like “you were raised a slave, with my power you’ll be the master.” This would explain why cinder has a short sighted desire for power. She views it as never being a servant ever again. Ironically this desire is what solidifies her as a servant.
It’s all there and it need just a few quick scenes and dialogue line and you’ve created a more dynamic villain. Also, yeah season 4/5 should’ve been when they showed Cinders arc. If fits in perfectly with the scene where Salem is berating Cinder for her failure. It’s literally the perfect time to show how their relationship came about.
I like that. I like that a lot
This is a pretty interesting idea, my main issue however is how Watts just shows up out of nowhere by coincidence. It would make more sense if Cinder was for example arrested and after watching recordings of her rampage after it went viral Watts broke her out of jail. It would also help if Salem and Watts had a discussion about taking in such a young and inexperienced person who just killed the last person who tried to help her. And of course, in order to keep the idea of Cinder killing Watts you would either have to show him openly exploiting and mocking Cinder with his knowledge of her past, or you could have him go back on some promise he made to her when they first met.
@@lowesmanager8193 The prison break idea isn’t bad as long as it was kept really short. This episode would already be like 30 minutes long. My idea isn’t exactly the most explicit so fill in the gaps with whatever you like. The coincidence was merely to save on time.
I do think showing the implication of a conversation between Watts and Salem would be good though. A line like “A girl with promise, as you requested” when Watts presents Cinder to Salem. This gives the implication that Watts was looking for another disciple at Salem’s request. Pair that with the fact that Cinder is the only woman working for Salem pre-season 4 and it tells you that Watts was looking a woman to be Salem’s maiden sponge. No conversation scene required.
Idk what the whole cinder-wanting-to-kill-Watts thing was about but I think the show has done a good enough job showing why Cinder wouldn’t mind roasting Watts on a spit.
How long did it take for you to come up with this? This backstory is leagues better than what we got.
@@SparkShadow212 less than the duration of this video. I just asked myself what I wanted from the show and how It could be conveyed without changing too much. Granted, it’s easier to fix a product that’s already been made, rather than make a product from scratch.
Still, the RWBY team at Roosterteeth has been dropping the ball on the show for years and years. Instead of trying to hire high profile voice actors like Vic, they should’ve been looking for some writing staff who could tell them when their ideas aren’t going to work.
It sucks because every few seasons, we get a glimpse of excellence from the writers (season 3, season 6s apathy episodes, and season 7s 2nd half) which only makes me more sad when the show keeps crapping the bed.
I still can't believe they evolved Ren's semblance just to explain away the AceOps' loss
I always found his semblance pretty useless tbh (it’s helpful when it’d come to stealth or infiltration, but not only do they never use it for that, but it wouldn’t really do much in a head-on fight), so I’m actually kinda glad they evolved it. It’s just sad that it came at the expense of an asspull.
which doesnt make sense
@@amirgarcia547 even then only for grimm
@@amirgarcia547 His new semblance is still pretty useless.
A solution would be to have him see what emotions the person has buried, instead of what they currently feel. Playing into the theme of his semblance.
@@fenrisvermundr2516 I dunno, I think that the evolution is already in line with the theme of his semblance. Seeing how the whole deal with it is ‘tranquility through meditation’, and a big part of meditation is observing and understanding ones emotions uncritically.
_Thank you_ for bringing up the "No, you have sacrificed everyone else!" line. I don't think I've ever laughed so bitterly in my life as when I heard that in the episode. Few characters have been handled in a way that disappointed me quite as much as James.
It hurts, how he turned out.
The other characters are disappointing James is just tragic.
Hey Winter, remember that new arm your boss got, because he ruined his old one in the process of capturing a dangerous hacker and terrorist?
Sp, what was that about not sacrificing anything and only sacrificing "everyone else?"
Remember mettle?
@@gabrielklem48 what about it?
Ruby’s semblance is the ability to warp reality and logic in order to be always right and unassailable.
damn, everthing makes sense now
Reality can be whatever I want
It's called "Mary Sew"
aka the most bland and common out of all main character abilities
@@Prushinthespirit holy shit, so they just made a Mary Sue that literally does nothing?
Yeah, good on you CRWBY
@@Gencinnamon245 maybe it's about time another word is used to describe her type of a character...
Whatever. Her ability is to unconsciously bend universe around her so that everyone around admires her perfection, her ultimate leadership skills and the only thing she needs to do is sitting around and waiting till magical farmboy saves himself, kills the main villain and delivers her a magical Genie able to solve all of theor problems without the need to make tough decisions and suffer any responsibility for them.
An ultimate guide of not getting invested in a main character
Fun fact: series writers have said they wanted to put cinders backstory in volume 5 but they ‘couldn’t fit it in.’ I assume all the characters standing around doing nothing was more important
They also had to give Ruby an “arc” about how she sucks without her weapon but one of the first things in the entire series is her taking out two guys before bringing it out and all that leads to is Mercury jobbing like a loser.
@@thomasraines1396That whole thing with Ruby lacking hand-to-hand skills is something they should've gotten more into. While I did like the part with her improvising and knocking Mercury out with a headbutt. It would've been amazing to see Ruby get a little resourceful in situations where her weapon is lost or stolen to compensate for her inability to fight hand-to-hand. Maybe if Beacon never fell, Team RWBY would've been given lessons in resourcefulness, adaptability and survival skills.
I mean I can understand that Ruby isn't as strong in hand-to-hand combat as Yang or a few others. But that doesn't mean she can't get resourceful.
you know it’s bad when the fandom says “screw it i’ll do it myself” and writes their own narrative that’s way better. i’m getting major voltron: legendary defender flashbacks.
Yeah, Coeur Al'Aran seems to be leading the charge on that front. RWBY's world is rich and filled with so much potential. It simply isn't explored fully.
Isn't that the point of Fanfiction?
@@Justin-ui5ti I have question about Coeur Al'Aran Rwby fanfiction?
@@princeofqrow3181 What exactly do you wish to inquire?
@@handhelder823 Not if it's better than canon by a larger margin.
I hate it when creators suddenly butcher a character, especially when it's just because the character's philosophy was getting "too much popularity/sympathy".
And the best part is, their ham-fisted attempts to make said character look bad only:
A: Made him look better because people were appalled at how lazy this was and how obviously manipulative the writing was.
B: Despite butchering him into a "Maniacal Tyrant" their "Heroes" are still worse, because the Kingdom's destruction is still all their fault. RT bent the very rules of realty in Team RWBY's favor to make them look good and they STILL ended up being the villains XD
Ironwood is basically utilitarian, right?
@@blueteam4021 Eh, I'm not entirely sure if politics can really be applied to the situation. I mean yeah he's a politician, but when literal Satan on Earth is banging down your door, you do everything possible to win that fight. Everything is acceptable as long as you win the battle against Lord Sauron, and Salem is Remnant Sauron.... If Sauron came from a bullshit dimension where everything sucks.
@@blueteam4021 he is but considering the setting as a leader, he needs to be one.
@@patchwurk6652 Yeah Ironwoods plan was heartless but the show seemed to forget 3 things.
1. He was the only one that HAD a fuckin plan.
2. The main characters learned of Salems existence like what - 2 months ago if that? He's been in this fight for easily over a decade and probably knows some shit we dont.
And most importantly.
3. When the established stakes is the literal extinction/enslavement of *the entire human race* a *heartless* plan does NOT make for a *bad* plan. Genocide is a *literal* NUMBERS game, so long as at least 2 people capable of reproducing survive to the end, you win.
You're not alone, dude.
Bunch of people, even in the fandom, are noticing the wrong things that the show kept doing and are also tired of it.
Lack of world building, proper character interactions, letting shoppers have what they want or wasting Adam and how he got the scar?
For example Penny
Has MurderOfBirds starting to wake up and realize or is he still a delusional fanboy? Used to like his stuff.
When people writing FANFICTION can make a better story than the massive company that started it, the show is a bad place
@@HamazuraGOD Nope. He's still in RT's pocket.
I got lost at the fact that this series was about groups of student, warriors, thingy that kills monsters. And not about some half-hearted attempt to make a "save the world plot" against the world's worst divorce issue
Yeah it started out as sort of a slice of life anime but quickly tried to become something bigger and more “complex”.
@@thomasraines1396 Once it started taking itself too seriously is when it all started going downhill.
@@MetalCaffeine56 yep.
@@MetalCaffeine56
Pretty much
This reminds me of Netflix Castlevania
XD
The virgin Crow: Doesn’t want to form relationships with people because he’s scared his semblance killing people.
The Chad Eizen from Tales of Berseria: Warns people about his curse, but doesn’t care if they come with him.
I mean, Eizen is a character you can look up to. He accepted his curse and tries to live his life to its fullest. Qrow on the other hand...
@@ZMusok Although Eizen did leave his sister so that she wouldn't be affected by his curse. Regardless, he's still a cool character.
I'll happily take Tales of Berseria over this
@@jnut9494 Me too.
Eizen is the real winner here
"My problem isn't RWBY wanting to save everyone. My problem is they don't even have a plan!"
Thank you! I guarantee most people who sided with Ironwood only did so for that reason, because any plan is better than "War of attrition with immortal witch with infinite soldiers."
Painfully accurate
That was the only reason I even agreed with Ironwood's plan. In truth, I really didn't like Ironwood's plan. However, he was the only one that has a plan, and details of what and how to do it. RWBY didn't even have a plan, nor did they offer any alternatives to Ironwood's plan. Sure, they want to save everyone. However, they never explained what and how they are going to achieve it (they never even consider other factors or what kind of resources at their disposal to make it even close to possible). Especially since their plan seems to be based on the fact that their enemies can be defeated, in which they themselves know that isn't possible (like you stated, it was war of attrition with an immortal witch with infinite soldiers).
And even when Ruby is handed the reigns of control and leadership she does nothing with it.
After Amity tower is brought up she tells people about Salem and how Atlas needs help but then tells them to not trust Ironwood. Her plan was literally to hope that other people would swoop in and save the day for her. And when that realistically doesn't happen she gets into tears over it. Really?! Ruby's plan was literally Ironwood's plan copy-pasted but without the proper resources or back ups.
Ironwood was commanding soldiers out on the battlefield, Ruby tried to do one thing, failed then sat down to have tea. She then got on May's ass when she wanted to go help Mantle yet **still** didn't do shit until Penny showed up in the front yard. Despite the fact that he wasn't prepared for Salem's whale he worked around that and created a bomb to destroy it.
Let's be honest, if Oscar did not have a pocket nuke and Emerald never switched sides, Ruby would have failed horrendously. She doesn't fly down to help and she only kills the hound because it went to her first. We're meant to believe that team RWBY is in the right but they seem to have their asses saved by pure luck and nothing else. Even when she has the opportunity to use her super unique trait which can beat Cinder with one shot, **she doesn't use it**.
It feels like nobody is willing to actually be honest with Ruby. She mopes around in angst before being told everything is alright and that she's doing well when she isn't. From an objective standpoint she fails at being a decent leader and strategist, yet we're still told that she is the good guy.
Oh but they did have a plan remember in vol 7 they said they should stand their ground and fight “solid plan”
@@marcophenox6520 Sadly, that's about the equivalent to "Alright! Group up... AND HIT IT TILL IT DIES!" It works for the Imperial Guard because they have near-infinite soldiers to throw at a problem... it doesn't work for these four because they don't have as many resources.
At first I didn't understand what people meant when they said RWBY had too many characters because any show has a lot of characters. But now I know the problem is that they show everyone like a main character but uses them like side characters.
Welcome to the shitty fandom and show that is RWBY. Get out while you still can.
The rules of writing RWBY
1. All characters are only as smart as the plot allows.
2. Only the current volume is canon.
3. Shipping > character development .
4. There's no power scaling .
5. If any character comes to disagree with team RWBY they will be demonized, flanderizied and humiliated, especially if male (ex. Adam and Ironwood).
6. Only team RWBY is right .
7. If your a female villain chances are you'll get off much lighter
8. Only the current *EPISODE* is canon
Jesus christ DBZ is more enjoyable than this show
I hate later seasons of DBZ
@@markhirsch6301 I agree. Everything after the cell saga was hit or miss. Including super and gt
I think rubies reach a point for it's just gone beyond the logical to the point where just AI mean if ruby ends with disappointment than Monte omi's dream basically dies with him
"I'm the guy the RWBY fandom loves to hate."
That really doesn't narrow it down. XD
There are like 4 people
@@unchartedraider7547 It's really anyone who doesn't agree with the yellowjacket hivemind to be honest.
@@tempusmars6272
True. I hated Jaune on Tumblr now they all hate me for not liking a character who's whole existence is stupid
@@unchartedraider7547 Jaune low key at this point, is a spot light stealing moron. In comparison to the rest of the cast though he's okay, which says more about them then it does him.
@@tempusmars6272
You say that like it is hard to be better than the CardBoard villains with no personality-
"If I don't see a dead body I don't believe these characters are dead."
Exactly why I expect Adam to return in V9 or V10.
Lmao
We saw him die on screen though. Stabbed, eyes rolled back, fell and cracked his head on rocks then into water, if he was still alive then he would've drowned and or bled out before anything. Either way it would be entirely pointless to bring him back since anything regarding faunus oppression or the white fang has been completely forgotten and pushed aside.
If he does, I will *demand* an explanation on how he survived that.
Did you see what the fuck happened to him?
How much more do you need?!
I fully expect Adam to come back as a Grimm faunus hybrid like how Cinder his a Grimm human hybrid
Imagine setting up your Bigger Bad Salem for 5 seasons only for her to lose her first on-screen fight and end up doing absolutely nothing in the end for the entire season...
It would be liking have Doomsday or Vandal Savage from DC be in a story and in their first appearance they get bodied.
That would be like, after two years of anticipation, killing off Snoke in a sneak attack before he has a chance to do anything memorable in 'The Last Jedi'.
That would also be like setting up Dark Raiden to be a major antagonist in 'Mortal Kombat 11' after building up his motivations in the last two installments, putting him in most of the marketing and in the cover of Story in the main menu, and having the entire first chapter revolve around him... only to have him die in an anti-climax method in the second chapter, replace him with a main antagonist that can be described as 'Dark Raiden, but with little screen time to flesh them out, no backstory, and unclear motivations', and have the other kharacters barely talk about him again. I'm glad that never happened.
@@ryanm.8720 That would be like 'Game of Thrones' setting up the White Walkers for 8 years (and their master the Night King for 5 years) as the ultimate threat to the entire world only for them all to die from a single stab less than halfway into the final season, after which they get a passing mention at most and that's it. Time for our protagonists to lose to CERSEI AND EURON, only for Daenerys to lose her sh** and blow up King's Landing and then die at the beginning of the series finale.
At least Salem is alive and has a chance to redeem herself in the next few volumes and hopefully show off her real power (namely by killing characters that have names and are recognizable).
@@rosesongoku6980 I was thinking of also listing the Night King's death, but I figured that someone might do it for me in response.
@@ryanm.8720 Exactly, it's so infamous at this point that everyone thinks about it in regards to villains that had terrible endings.
I'm still going crazy about the fact the The Hound literally had it's back turned against Yang, Jaune, and Ren for a good 10 seconds while it was transforming to grow wings, but nobody had the braincells to attack it.
"they were scared"
Yeah and they've been brave enough to attack grimm before. Things that to them should've been scarier. Because they weren't that trained back then. Now. After all this. They froze when a grimm was defenseless and about to take their friends
@@Tainted_Human yo did this seriously happen? I stopped watching in volume 2 after all.
@@sean-sean-2083 yeah
@@sean-sean-2083 here's my recommendations so you don't have to suffer anymore.
Re Zero
The magnificent kotobaki
The heroic legend of prince arslin
My hero academia
Zatch Bell
@@noahwiley2846 dude this is the third time i've seen this comment stop suggesting your shitty taste in anime
Watching someone transform instead of attacking.
Goku: Because you don't ruin a good transformation.
Actually it is debatable in certain IPs
Some are really quick in-universe but the audience gets eye candy.
Problem is, sometimes we aren’t told that...
My favorite joke about transformations in fiction comes from the Kazumi Magica manga(a prequel to Madoka Magica). So the characters are getting attacked by a Witch(the series's boss mooks) and Kazumi does her transformation sequence in a hurry. She did it so fast she forgot to make the skirt and her friends had to scold her for streaking.
Goku is a battle junkie. He wants people to be stronger and give him a good fight
Eren: Hold my beer.
@@jamesdigennaro6705 laughs in infermon
Is this how Voltron fans felt? If so, there’s a common ground.
I hate how Voltron ended hurts even to this day
I hated how star vs ended and bit disappointed how Su ended..but am trying my best to let things go and move on with other things. I haven't seen too much of voltron but I heard it didn't end too good:/
@@kimberlybogert7031 I too was kind of disappointed with the end of svtfoe. It clearly needed at least another season to wrap things up, but of course daddy Disney said fuck you to Nefcy.
@@jjpark98 Yeah it did.=_=
Voltron had an excuse, they were practically blackmailed and had to rewrite the thing last minute
Gonna be honest. The moment they made Ironwood was made to be a bad guy, I stopped watching this fucking show. He was the only one probably keeping me watching lol
The funny part is, despite their ham-fisted attempt to make him look like the villain, Team RWBY STILL look far worse and it's all their fault Atlas and Mantle were destroyed.
@@randomcenturion7264 Ironwood: Totalitarian fascist.
RWBY and Co: International Genocidal Terrorists that have destroyed at least 3 Kingdom now (Haven, Atlas and Mantle), and served up the survivors to a desert area where there's limited resources, no food and insufficient protection.
@@Aurora-313 It's like the Imperium of Man. It's not great, but it's better than the alternatives.
@@randomcenturion7264 I wouldn't even go that far, but I agree with the sentiment.
Here's some recommendations so you can move on
Re Zero
Zatch Bell
The heroic legend of prince arslin
Princess principal
Kill la kill
And try some of clamps works like cardcaptor sakura or xxxholic
Remember when Ruby was intelligent and resourceful and had created her own weapon but she was just a little hyper and forgetful sometimes?
The writers don't.
And when cookies vanished into thin air when she ate them or taking part of an epic food fight, good times.
At least Ruby wasn't as unintelligent as she was in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle's 'Episode RWBY', where she decides to trust Hazama, out of all people, and she doesn't take the hint when the announcer tries to point out that doing so won't end well.
Also, in 'Episode Persona 4: Arena', the announcer tells Ruby and Weiss that the investigation team (and Ragna) are planning to uses their keystone for a diabolical purpose. She has no physical evidence of this, she doesn't state why they're evil, and they're fully aware that the announcer is the host of the tournament (or is working for the host) that's forcing them to fight, and yet Ruby and Weiss are firmly convinced that they're villains, and it takes an excessive amount of explaining for them to snap out of it.
@@ryanm.8720 Given their track record it could be argued that Ruby and Weiss acting as dumb as they did in that game is perfectly in character
That volume wasn’t cannon
@@ryanm.8720 I mean, I feel like it wouldn't be hard to convince anyone Ragna's a bad guy (Even though he isn't he just has that Aura too him, that and they might confuse the Black Beast as Grimm) I don't know how she manage to convince them that the Chad Yu Narukami was a bad guy though...
For Cinders backstory, I think it would’ve made more sense if Rhodes was actually just evil and he knew what he was doing was gonna raise a monster and that’s just what he wanted. So when she actually kills her foster family, and Rhodes finds her afterwards, you realize “Oh he wasn’t stupid, he was just evil.”
That’d actually be pretty smart tbh, if he had a vendetta against Cinder’s family and so trained her in the hopes that she would kill them one day. It’d also have it make sense as to why he didn’t try to get her out of her abusive household.
Too bad the writers aren’t competent enough to even consider that though-
Now, I'm a little upset because that kind of backstory would have been great. they could have run away together after that as criminals until his untimely demise at the hand of someone from Ozpin's circle, giving Cinder reason to hate Ozpin and join Salem. also would be cool if Cinder has plans of betraying Salem, because she reminds her of her abusers more and more everyday.
Alternative backstory for Rhodes: He's not only some random huntsman that accidently was the only one that noticed Cinder's suffering, he's one of Salem's most trusted followers, he uses the cover of a huntsman (that he officially is, but "works alone") to be anywhere he wants and if someone questions him, he says he saw a grimm nearby or he's doing huntsman office. His mission is to locate the maidens and for that he has a nomadic lifestyle that makes him be in hotels a lot while he searchs the areas. That's why he's in the same hotel as Cinder.
After seeing her, he sees potential in a ally for his own, and even if he decides to train her, he leaves her with her step mother so her empathy and sanity decreases and becomes more easy to manipulate.
After Cinder kills her family, he takes her and (kinda) gaslight her into staying with him and following him anywhere he goes, he takes Cinder to meet Salem and uses his status to convince Salem to keep her, and give her a taste of a "better life": as long as she obeys, she's not mistreated, and if she succeds in the missions, she gets treats. All by the hand of Rhodes that just wants a obedient sidekick, and Cinder takes and obeys without question because he was the man that get her out of one hell, not knowing he put her into another.
Rhodes eventually dies in another mission (maybe they encounter the Fall maiden but they fail to capture her), he gets badly injured and even with Cinder trying to get him to the base for Salem to heal him, is too late for him, he gives Cinder "words of advise" so she can do the same he did to her: find misserable people she can reclute to Salem. Any cost is necessary if Salem wins at the end, that's why she endures all the pain for her grim arm and shocks of Salem.
Rhodes just sees Cinder as an easy to manipule girl, while Cinder sees Rhodes as her father figure and the legacy she needs to carry.
Jeez, so many cool ideas from this alone that actually makes her backstory alot better for the story as a whole.
Can't really call it a rip off Jurassic hero when the back story is nothing like thanos. Also wouldn't really call Voldemort and pennywise great villains. Iconic? Sure, but not really great.
Let's be real.
One of the few shows that actually needs a reboot.
I agree, except more like the Bullet Girls series (even thought my concept is more dirtier than what Bullet Girls has in it)
And not a soft reboot. A harder than adamantium reboot
@E . A Honestly, a reboot like She-ra would do this show justice. Yes, She-ra still had its issues, but we can all at least say that it was better then rwby.
they need a production or management team who actually gives a shit. Monty didn't die for this. His cinematography is absolutely timeless and a wonder to view to this day.
No. Just outright cancellation. Like what the parent company did to machinima a few years ago.
They could’ve made Ironwood sort of like John Constantine: in that he’s a complete bastard but he’s necessary and can get things done but just turned him into some crazy mustache twirling bad guy.
@NILAY SHARMA yes.
Agreed
Or just batshit insane out of nowhere to serve the plot.
@@Lajos_Kelemen
Pretty much
@@thomasraines1396 Thought i let you know: the best video i ever saw criticizing RWBY was made by Hbomberguy.
I feel like Rwby is a cautionary tale of what happens when you don't know how your story is going to end, and be cause of that it suffers from every time the writers come up with a new idea it gets put in regardless of if it makes sense or not. This 'May' have been fine in vol. 1-3 cause at the time the story was more or less just there as a bridge between Monty's fight scenes, which lets be real lets be honest MONTY'S FIGHT SCENES WERE THE ENTIRE REASON THE SHOW WAS GREENLIGHTED AND WAS ORIGINALLY AS POPULAR AS IT WAS.
From what I heard in other videos, there are two ways of story telling
1. Having an end goal and building from step 1 to reach that end goal
2. Having a beginning base and building everything on top of that to gain some sort of long term adventure and resolution
Obviously both have their risks and rewards but the RT writers really messed up with their "Building from the base" option. When Monty Oum passed, his "base, ended up getting adopted by the new writers and since they comeptlely ignored the baseline he had in mind, lots of detailed got mixed or lost. They had no goal in mind so everything ends up turning left instead of right. (Characters start drinking potions of forgetfulness and lose their original character developments for the sake of plot)
Yep, Monty was a legendary animator but to make a story? Not really. RvB has a similar origins in which it was a sitcom for Halo but turned into a rich story of its own.
RWBY's origins were similar but the story and development of characters were handled poorly.
It's possible that Monty - when he was alive of course - had a plan about what to do with the series, but Rooster Teeth scrapped the majority of the plan, kept pieces of it and possibly placed them in different places after he died. That's my theory on it.
I don't claim to be the best writer in the world but even I know when you write a story, you plan it out
@@mumflerdinclebottom5507 Or at least keep up with what you've written recently. Rwby is so inconsistent, the episodes or even scenes retcon each other.
I cannot blame anyone for being tired of RWBY. The writers of RWBY simply don't know how to write a story at all and never have. They constantly make the same mistakes over and over again and never seem to learn. The first three volumes that everyone consistently says are the "best volumes" were due to Monty's fight scene choreography, but I think a lot of folks get wrong that Monty had any sort of grand or over arching plan as he's stated in interviews that he "left the details to Miles and Kerry. This has been evident since day one, but RWBY is a neat idea and we all rolled with it in the hopes it'll get better. Monty's fight scene choreography carried the show for the first three volumes. Then we got the rose tinted glasses ripped off when RWBY didn't have Monty's expertise to carry the show through anymore.
8 Volumes later, and nothing has changed or really improved with the fundamental story telling elements and plot always supersedes characters and any development. I'd be willing to bet that if we stopped watching RWBY now and waited until the last episode aired, absolutely nothing of value will be lost on missing however many episodes of the show are left as nothing will happen that will be important to concluding whatever the final confrontation will be at this point.
Why? Because they've consistently shown that only the current episode is canon and characters are tools to make the plot happen (rather than the characters driving the plot to happen through, you know, their character).
Wasn’t season 3 the tournament? Monty was gone by then.
I know that, in a lot of instances, Monty's fight scenes provided more instances of showing and not telling than the rest of the show (what Miles and Kerry wrote). And those little instances along with the fight choreography gave the hope of a better show. The plot problems also added to the charm of it being by a smaller team and not a large company, something a little more forgivable when you don't have the funding to know if a show is going to take off or not.
Monty also argued with Miles and Kerry a lot on things that they wanted to put in that Monty disagreed with. And while the whole of Volumes 1-3 aren't perfect by any stretch of the imagination, at least there's character development and, for the majority of the time, the characters actions make sense. I think we have Monty to thank for pushing back on things that could've arguably made the show a lot worse.
I just wish Monty was still alive because even if we had a crap show, we'd at least have fantastic fight scenes..
You're 100% right with the rose-tinted glasses. Excluding the fight scenes, volumes 1-3 were actually very poorly written, with some scenes being downright terrible--Jaune not knowing what Auras were and Pyrrha infodumping it to him comes to mind. It was clear the writers were winging it from the very beginning, and that would've been okay as long as they had learned from their mistakes and IMPROVED, especially during volume 4...but no, the writing got significantly worse from there.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 Monty often worked ahead with his scenes etc. so most of his contribution to Volume 3 was done by the time of his unfortunate death. This also often caused other pacing issues throughout the early Volumes.
Hbomberguy did a fantastic break down on the issues with RWBY and would recommend checking it out if you haven't already (though I find most folks that view critiques of RWBY have probably already seen it).
Sadly accurate as fuck, my friend. Sadly accurate as fuck…
I swear all Miles knows how to do is deflect. Rather than own up to his mistakes and admit he was wrong, he just spouts excuses to deflect responsibility.
Maybe Miles should look into being a politician, he clearly sucks as a writer.
To qoute DK West from No Straight Roads
Take responsibility for your irresponsibly.
Miles did admit once that he was bad at "show don't tell", and had really bad memory problems. And then moving forward we saw no effort to correct for his 'deficiencies'. I mean, I think most sci-fi showrunners have someone on the writing staff who is basically 'the loremaster' who's whole job is to sit in on the writing sessions and go over how the magic systems work and whether they are staying consistent with what they previously wrote.
@@dennmael4044 Supposedly Eddy Rivas is the loremaster and has been for a long time. I think that actually makes it worse, that the show is so inconsistent with someone specifically managing it long term.
@@Cain1134 I mean Miles wrote the Chorus trilogy of RvB so he KNOWS how to write. Could just be that he and Kerry together are weaker than the sum of their parts.
All the issues with this show can be summed up: The writers dont understand character writing; world building/consistency; and no idea what story theme is. Every issue pretty much falls under these 3 points.
… Yeah, pretty much.
The show's theme is completely incoherent, which completely kills it for me.
That's like, the most important thing to adhere by when writing. It's the foundation in which you write your entire story and its characters.
"What is this story's theme?" is the first question you should ALWAYS ask yourself when writing a story.
@@MiaoNya I wouldn't say theme is necessarily the first thing a person should ask when writing a story. Some people can't write that way. My stories tend to develop first from characters and a neat premise rather than theme. However, by the time you finish the first draft, you should be able to see what the theme is or wants to be and can relay that to someone in a concise sentence if they ask.
Rwby is the very definition of wasted potential. A very interesting premise poorly executed.
Uhhh, Monty has been dead since 2015.
@@seenl6eight258
Why are you saying this in a reply to a comment that didn't mention Monty?
@@williamharmon4039 Could be a bot.
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@@williamharmon4039 well, the guy said “wasted potential”, I was just trying to say why it is.
My opinion on the show per season:
Season 1: “Wow, this is awesome!”
Season 2: “This is awesome too!”
Season 3: “Whoa, this got kinda dark, but it still looks cool.”
Season 4: “Hmm… This isn’t as good as the other seasons, but maybe it’ll get better.”
Season 5: “Wait a minute… This season is kinda bad.”
Season 6: “It seems to be getting better… No, wait... never mind, it’s bad again.”
Season 7: “Is this show EVER getting better?”
Season 8: “Oh, fuck this right in the ear!”
Season 9 onward: “Whatever, I don’t care anymore.”
Accurate 😆
This
Reminds me of fairy odd parents
This’d 100% be my reaction, except I didn’t bother to watch Vol. 7 and 8 for good reason lol.
huh, no wonder i automatically dropped mid volume 8
Instead of just leaving her there and then be shocked at Cinder’s snapping, Rhodes should’ve been working for Salem and trying to turn Cinder into a murderous monster on purpose. Kind of like a “change of plans, you’re not going to become a huntress but I will take you to somewhere even better” and then it’s just Salem, and after showing her potential (maybe after a time skip when she’s like 16 or something) she has to kill Rhodes and to show how Inhumane Cinder truly is, she goes with it and it’s like “thank you for everything Rhodes, but you’re no longer useful to me. It was a manner of destiny” or something.
"You're no longer USELESS to me."? Wouldn't she have kept him alive in that hypothetical if he wasn't useless to her? Lol.
How does this summery sounds better than what we got?!
@@derpmaster878 oh thanks! , sorry for my mistake there, English isn’t my first language
SSomething like granny goodness from DC universe
@@texasranger8134 totally
My main disappointment is that our hero, Ruby, got no character development.
I hate how others seemingly know more about her power set than she does 🙃
And is a hypocrite who is worse then Ironwood by far (Even if IW was getting to let people die at least we was trying to save people unlike Ruby who just sat around drinking tea)
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle's 'Episode RWBY' does more justice to Ruby's characterization than the actual show.
@@flowersandcheesecake1710
Damn right
She just seems so uninterested in learning more about and improving her Silver Eye powers.
Watching Ironwood's character arc in the last two seasions made me feel what Daenerys fans felt in S8 of Game of Thrones.
Seriously, im just waiting for i don't know Ruby to do a "Your my queen" moment and stabbing him in the chest with a knife.
Yeah I never watched game of thrones but I can totally see that
That is so fucking true.
As a Daenerys fan (though that is in the context of the book version), I can say with certainty that you hit the nail right on the head with that one.
You mean fucking bullshit because that ending was fucking bullshit
Oh shit. I’m hyped. I love the RBWY community, being a person who initially never watched the series, the ideas that the fans were spreading were so innovative and interesting that I felt even more motivated to do my own stories!
After watching the show, I felt like there was a lot thrown out there but nothing felt like it had substance or weight in terms of the story. And that’s a shame because I’ve seen and heard what characters can do when given real love.
I got to watch the series before it got nuked from TH-cam and I have to say amen to that good sir or madam.
I am going to be honest: a large part of the appeal of RWBY to me IS that we can give those characters the love we want to give them.
Don't misunderstand me, the show massacred their characters a long time ago, but i think that's why creativity was strongly supported by the original creator
It was a passion project
Honestly RWBY is great when in a crossover with Fanfics, best examples being Fallout crossovers and Warhammer 40k ones. They just do it right and its great.
@@PelinalWhitestrake36 destiny and halo ones can be hit or miss, but damn are there some good ones like Ruby B-312
@@PelinalWhitestrake36 Fallout and Warhammer would be a great crossover but a settlement needs your help, I'll mark on your map.
It seems like the people making the show are only doing what the fans want
The fans wanted Neo back in the show
The fans wanted cinder’s backstory
The fans wanted bumblebee
The fans wanted Penny back in the show
Given enough time, those Clover fans will get their way soon enough.
This was actually a problem even back in the "Good Old Days" of the show.
Faunus are supposedly discriminated against, right? So let's have the bully character pick on a random Faunus girl to show that. Good enough.
Unfortunately, the fans liked the Faunus girl so much, they wanted her as a recurring character....for some reason. It wasn't for any reason I could see, since she had all of ten seconds of screentime. Okay, sure, now she's a character. She's now called "Velvet Scarlatina" and has a voice actress and everything.
Except what does she do? What is she doing here? Well, she's a student at Beacon. Does she have teammates? Oh shit, now we have to come up with three whole OTHER characters to be her teammates, because that's the thing you do at Beacon. And give THEM names and weapons and Semblances and personalities and everything else that comes with a character in this universe (most of which were only actually given years later in an official side-novel)
Coming back to the Faunus discrimination bit (which we barely EVER actually see), we need a character to serve as a foil for Blake, the Faunus who grew up being discriminated (supposedly.) Someone who's TOO COOL to let such petty things weigh him down for long. Okay, very good, we have a nice character concept going here. We'll call him Sun Wukong. So, what's he like? Where's he going? Oh. he's transferring to Beacon? That's cool. Does he have teammates too? Fuck, now we have to come up with three MORE characters!
Character bloat has, and has always been, a problem from the very beginning.
@@useraccount333 character blot is different from fanservice which that stuff is
Haters wanted Cinder's backstory too but don't like it
@@michaelflores9220 well because it's ass
Nitpick. I hate the way Yang falls. They way she falls is just animated lazily, but I expected nothing less from this show. When you fall, you don't just stay in one pose, even if you're unconscious. She should be tumbling through the air.
RWBY's been animated lazily since Oum died, they upped the quality of models and backgrounds to convince people that the animation's still good. Someone actually did a video detailing just how often the characters just randomly teleported around the room in the V5 finale fight, it was about an hour long! It's beyond sloppy, and I can guarantee if anyone cracked the seal on Monty's grave, they'd see him doing cartwheels out of sheer disgust. It's fucking embarrassing!
Ruby has little character and in the games she has more personality i swear even in Blaze Blue crosstag battle she has more character. When she speaks i can barely hear what’s she’s saying and her method of doing things is not the brightest. Not defending RT with Ironwood changing but they made it WAY too obvious imo.
Funny that a crossover game made from Arc Systems gave RWBY more personality when made by a different company.
@@babarshah6479 ikr
@Baka-na-san I chuckled about her interactions with the other characters in the game. Especially, how she fan girls over Ragna’s weapon.
@@babarshah6479 And considering how little that actually is (it's at most 2 paragraphs of dialogue and call outs), it speaks volumes to how little characterization exists within the show itself. They've had years, actual real life years, to build up these characters and make them interesting. And they haven't. It's honestly baffling, I've never seen a show have so much content and yet have so little to actually show for it.
even the ruby skin in smite has more personality
honestly rooster teeth does what the fandom wants at this point, regardless if it makes sense or not
fandom as in whoever the fuck is left at this point
@@ethanchoi7036 Bumblebee shippers?
@@georgethompson1460 Bumblebee shippers the bane of rwby
And all fanbases
Except when it comes to RvB 😔
Yeah, it's just shippers at this point. The community revolves around three stagnant threads:
- Shipping
- Overused memes
- Smut
Litterally all there is now.
I agree Roosterteeth already killed and buried this show/series a long time ago. This show has already been gone ever since Monty passed away.
agreed when try to talk to toxic fans thier call you your to negative
I'm a fan of RWBY myself
But unlike the idiots that are the Toxic fans
I agree, the best of RWBY died along side Monty
Monty own will be disappoint at rosster teeth for what at they did to he's series
Then again theyvare following monty's plans for the show. Vol9 being a detour was planned before the show even started
@@gn.g.6516 what plan? the stuff like the maidens wasn't concrete till volume 3 the gods and relics thing was shoe horned in after monty's passing. The show still has no idea how semblances or auras work. they wrote themselves into a hole with silver eyes making any cool looking grim or salem into a joke. between the relics and maidens are now just 2 sets of McGuffins and that is lazy writing. how adam went from a mentor to a scornful ex to assist a popular ship. the general outline like the hop to each kingdom to do a thing as the villain's try to stop them may have been planned but i doubt anything else was.
They wanted Ironwood to be the Tin Man who lost his heart.
But he didn't lose his heart. He lost his brain.
Everyone lost their brain.
@@Mangakamen
Yes, they did. Because the writers are morons
He's supposed to be the tin man??
@@MangakamenHe basically became Megatron
@@inconemay1441More like Sentinel Prime from DOTM
Amongst my friends that enjoy RWBY, the general consensus regarding Ironwood's mental state shattering into a million pieces and becoming antagonistic towards the kids is... What the fuck did you think would happen? He's a man who at this point is carrying the weight of the ENTIRE world on his shoulders, he has done nothing but try to save as many lives as possible since he was INTRODUCED as a character, an immortal witch with a massive flying whale and an army of demons is on his doorstep, and all of the people he thought were his friends and allies have not only betrayed him but basically spit in his face in the middle of a crisis. How the fuck would you react in a situation like that? But no, Ironwood was getting too much sympathy for being the intelligent man in a room full of idealistic children, so they had to make him commit genocide so that they could bluntly and ham-fistedly shove down the audience's throat that "hey guys, you're not supposed to like him because he's baaaaaaaaaaad now." Shit pissed me off to absolutely no end.
irondaddy was the best thing in the show now just another chip in the pile.....
I feel your pain, my friend…
Ozpin is also bad because he turned Crow into a bird.
@@Stachelbeeerchen
Yang being so angry over that was so fucking idiotic I don’t even know where to begin…
There’s also Yang whining to him about his lie which he used to lure out Watts (which worked) and defending her decision of telling Robyn’s useless ass about the Amity plan because “she’s on our side, she always has been”.
RIP Ironwood. Don't worry, the writters can't hurt you anymore.
Go to heaven and relax there alongside Adam, Watts and Roman
I’m glad watts was taken out before they could ruin him
All four are good characters with wasted potential.
Also up there in heaven is the tiger faunus woman that I forgot the name of.
@@iattacku2773 The problem is now, there's only one decent villain left and that's Tyrian. And his chances of surviving the Vacuo arc are insurmountably slim. Mercury's prolly gonna get some half assed redemption arc like Emerald did. Either that or he dies.
Roman, Adam, Hazel, Watts, Ironwood... Every dead antagonist to date is a man (except for Vernal in V5).
Fucking CRWBY are going to do the same with Tyrian and Mercury.
@@BlacKingler Emerald who made Phyrra kill Penny in volume 3 had a "redemption" (switched sides because she was afraid of dying, and team RWBY went along with it just fine), but I bet Mercury is gonna die without having one
I'm just tired of it feeling as if nothing has happened for the past 3 or 4 volumes
Rwby rule 103 only the current volume is canon
I honestly agree ‘cause after the fall of Beacon, it almost feels like this series has been trapped in a time bubble or something.
@@amirgarcia547 i wonder if it's because they are trying to replicate v3 success considering that was the show at it's height
You know, it's kind of disappointing that nobody that likes RWBY will watch this video. Every comment pretty much says the same thing. I like this series, but understand it has several issues. I enjoy people breaking down this show just as much as I enjoy people praising it. You have so many interesting points, some I agree with and others that I don't. I enjoyed watching through this video.
I like RWBY and I watched it. Same thing as you. He makes points I agree with and MANY that I don’t, but it’s still funny and enjoyable.
Even if some of the butts of jokes are points I vehemently disagree with.
I like RWBY and watched it too. RWBY is more of a guilty pleasure.
Great. A lesser human.
I like RWBY and sought this video out because I can tell it has issues and I want to understand why I can only 'like' RWBY, and never 'love' it.
I like RWBY and I watched it 4th season is the start of its death(death of the creator..... RIP) tryed to keep going but 5th really end it for me
Bruh real talk. I still think emerald just holding out until she see Cinder again. Until she flat out pull a mercury. I smell betrayal.
God I hope that is what will happen
Yea if I’m not mistaken emerald never had a problem with doing evil shit she is just scared of Salem .
Cinder: So this...is what...she felt like...before I killed her...
# sisters of Fate: (In unison.) She only gets it now?!
Ffs she should have been a neural faction like Neo, a group of wildcards.
RT seems to think that character development means to stand in one place, say something semi philosophical and then do as you did before.
It happens all the time.
Also they make no visually interesting semblances anymore or have retconned them into being easier to animate. This studio is lazy.
They simply do not care. I feel no passion whatsoever from the script or animation. Which is sad because the main appeal of the first three seasons was just pure passion for fun and out there stuff.
I agree, especially with the effects. While the visualized blur on weapons looks cool on paper, it still looked more effective when you saw the whole path of the weapon. Flashy moves become flashier when you can, you know, SEE the flashy move
"It happens all the time.
"
So, you too watched the Blood Gulch Chronicles.
Remember the cafeteria food fight? Those were good times.
The series died with Monty
@@falconeshield then rooster teeth invoked its powers of necromancy to animate RWBY's corpse to give us the walking husk of a show it is now.
RWBY Died when Monty Died. I'd rather remember the dance they have at Beacon as the last episode, future episodes where just meh...
For me as soon as volume 3 ended, the show died
The animation budget went up but everything else only gets worse in quality over the seasons.
@@Fishy77777
Amen to that!
@@Fishy77777 same here
It's funny, you actually think that the whole "you sacrificed everyone else" thing was inconsistent with Ironwood losing his arm. BUT, you missed the fact that the show operates with the outdated trope of "machine bad, flesh good". The army of robots brought in to replace the child soldiers was portrayed as a bad thing cause robots bad. Yang's arm isn't a gift to aid her after a horrific injury, it's "just an addition". Penny's can't appreciate life right until getting a real body.
Ironwood didn't sacrifice his arm... In Kerry Shawcross' own words for that scene, "And then of course Ironwood now losing.. another part of his humanity. Get it?"
It's ironic, cause as much as they want RWBY to be a real anime, I'm rather surprised at how dismissive the show is to tech and robots when eastern media often gives such things life of their own that arguably is no less valuable than our own. (Which is where I thought Penny was going, but nope, gotta be a REAL girl)
Mans literally went up to Oz and said, "Hey lets stop throwing kids in the fire to die, I can manufacture us some stronger robots to toss in instead while we train those kids to their fullest potential. But the show said, "Nah, those kids can do this.... hopefully."
@CrestRibbon Or Xenoblade Chronicles and even then not all the Machines were bad.
It honestly would have been super easy to make Ironwood isolated from other human beings, and make him see logical solutions without the consideration of ethics for others' lives. If they started with him being seen for the first in years during the Vytal Tournament, they wouldn't have shot themselves in the foot so much. But, unfortunately, what's done is done
Not to mention the inherent ableism of “losing a limb makes you less human”. Like FFS nobody says Edward Elric “isn’t human anymore” because he has an automail arm and leg.
And Kingdom Hearts since replicas are dolls meant to work as machines, like seriously replicas are basically Pinocchio with an eastern spin on it, which makes me love that arcs Xion and Rikuplica went through despite me preferring Roxas went through her arc.
Then you got E102 Gamma from Sonic Adventure which is self explanatory on how to do that story right
Also consider this: literally every time Ozpin has ever tried to get the upper hand against Salem, it always blew up in his face and he'd lose yet another part of the world that can never be reclaimed, like Beacon, Atlas, and Mantle in the present. All he can do is keep a stalemate with Salem, depriving her of resources, but that's it. The protagonists have literally no chance of actually stopping her. To use terms from Mass Effect, we're watching a Reaper Cycle with no Crucible. It doesn't matter how heroic or how much willpower the heroes have. The writing has put them in a situation that they can't win.
They are all doomed.
He’s just postponing the inevitable, it’s a dark and depressing thought but that’s how they have set up (completely unintentionally I’m sure).
No, the writers are going to pull a "Only The Author Can Save Them Now" scenario and make sure they win despite all logic suggesting otherwise.
@@Vigriff exactly what will happen which is gonna be so bad
@@thomasraines1396 they literally wrote themselves into a wall and I doubt they have any idea how to defeat Salem
I personally have a few but it would have to be a dues ex machina from the gods
Or borrow ideas from other storows such as full metal alchemist
@@enviousgaming3250 it’s not like show isn’t above taking ideas from other stuff so if they did do something like you’re suggesting it wouldn’t surprise me.
Also it sucks that Salem showed up to the battlefield and proceeded to do nothing
Salem: "Fine, I'll do it myself!"
*Continues to sit on her Chair*
@@johannesseyfried7933 it reminds me of the how it should of ended dubs of endgame.
Thanos: “ I’ll do what I do best sitting down”
lol . most of ironwoods motivations were that they didint have enough time to save everyone cause the immortal witch was already at atlas , and then she proceeds to do nothing just so ruby can be right again , as always
Rwby Vol 1,2,3: solid foundation and has potential
Vol 4: bit shakey, but we can bring this back
Vol 5-present: no hope
Nailed it
"Hope has no place here"
Nah it's always just Vol 1-2 and Vol 3-9 for me. Volume 3 has the goofiest expressions on characters when they get shocked
The series has no future at this point.
Vol 5 was good but after 6 it just went down
It was never good, as a whole.
We watched it because Monty was good at fight scenes, and he had a lot of respect for being a solo artist doing a shit ton of amazing work on his own.
Otherwise, the worldbuilding sucked. The story sucked. The jokes sucked. It was cute, but only so-so. The story was literally just a vehicle for him to show off his animations, and that's a-ok.
We watched it because we wanted to see what Monty would do with it.
But he tragically died.
Then Rooster Teeth had a bit of a controversy about how the handled his charity funds. Worse, they treated the damn show like a vehicle for their message rather than what it was, an excuse to see anime girls kill big monsters. Then MORE controversy came out, and dealing with the company wasn't worth it just to get a mediocre show they put behind a paywall. I'm not going to expound their other mistakes, I'd have to write a freaking essay, and this went on long enough. In short, they shit him.
Preach, my friend!
Whoa whoa whoa! The jokes were all right before Monty died, they wern't nearly as bad as they are now.
@@davidjohnson4171
The jokes weren’t great, but they were good for cheap laughs.
@Otneimica they wanted to build this big grand world but lacked the imagination and storytelling chops to pull it off.
Monty did great with coming up with some of the concepts, but he was the big push on the design and animation side and let others drive the narrative side after helping with the big concepts.
RT bit off more than they had the writing talent to deal with. If they had kept the story small scale with more action, maybe cut the run time in half with a focus on the characters and their relationships before gradually opening up the world, then I think more people would have been on board and given their writing team a chance to plan forward and develop their own skills and then later switching to more big story type scripts.
Now that I stop to think about it, that's pretty much how they grew Red vs Blue. We grew to love those dumb ass characters and were happy to follow them along as they ended up in bigger and bigger messes. If they tried to first lay out all the stuff with multiple secret organizations and conspiracies, it probably would have sucked and might not have caught on.
@@merphul
Yeah, pretty much
I think my biggest issue with RWBY is that the main character Ruby is more of a terrible person in the sense that she thinks she is above basically everyone else with how she acts, she also says she wants to save people but at the same time, she thinks of things that ends up either putting people in danger or killing people, she isn't a good person.
She's a delusional narcissist with a savior complex.
@@randomcenturion7264 she would make a detestable villain
@@garretstevens742 It's like, if Borderlands 2 made Handsome Jack the legit hero, only without any of his competency, charm or interesting motivations and origin.
Or is it more like a Messiah Complex?
@@colemanbrathwaite1036 seems like it
Cinder's backstory reminds me of when the Akame Ga Kill manga, right near its end, finally decided to explain the backstory of its main villain in a flashback sequence that just established that yeah, she's kinda just always been a psycho lmao. At least that series never pretends to be anything more profound than trashy fun violence.
You aren't wrong but I completely disagree with your last statement. Akame ga Kill tries to get you to be emotional all the time. In no way is it NOT pretending its anything more than trash lol. Id say RWBY and Akame ga Kill are the same in that regard but that is more debateable.
Is it right that RWBY became too much fanservice and letting the fans dictate the course of the show instead of making their own decisions?
I would saying trying is a strong word. More like akame ga kill sets up for you to care about the plot or characters, but it's fine if you don't pick up what they put down.
@@Lajos_Kelemen Consider how many fans tear their hair out at the 'logic' and gave up on RWBY? No, it didn't let the fans dictate the course of the show.
@@Riverlia I'm no longer convinced of anything, it's all just so... confusing.
(Bumblebee always seemed overrated and forced as hell though, but that's just me)
Can we also talk about how Jaune is the only guy that can give aura to people that heals them and instead just slays Penny without a second thought
He doesn't give aura to heal them. His aura melds with whoever he's touching and sort of enhances their aura letting them recover faster or give a small boost to their semblance.
And while I agree that he could've helped penny recover (and honestly im glad she's dead finally.) you do have to take into account that her recovery would take way too long as she was already mortally wounded and probably would've died anyways thus letting cinder take the maiden aura.
And there was no time for him to make that decision since cinder was literally a few feet away from them. It was a desperate move that honestly meant nothing since Cinder still retrieved the relics meaning theres no point in going after the winter maidens aura except to fuel her power lust
Cinder’s backstory reminds of how they tried to give Freddy Krueger a tragic backstory in “The Final Nightmare”: they waited to long and the character in question already did so much evil shit whatever backstory they had doesn’t matter.
*spittakes* Freddy Krueger has a backstory?
@@worldweaver2691 a pretty interesting one actually if for how fucked up it is: his mother was locked on accident (i’m pretty sure) in an insane asylum and then raped by 100 of the patients so it was impossible to know who his birth father was, eventually he was put into foster care where he was ultimately adopted by some abusive asshole which lead to him developing his sadistic tendencies and later becoming the Freddy Krueger we all know.
@@thomasraines1396 ah yes the 'ninety percent of the backstory could have not existed in the first place" style. only need the abusive guardian bit.
was the writers trying to be edgy when writing the backstory? only need one of those (was born in an insane asylum, parent raped, or abusive guardian).
@@worldweaver2691 I have no clue what they were going for.
It would've been more horrifying if it turned out that Freddy and/or Cinder had a healthy childhood, much like Machine in '8mm (1999)'.
I feel bad for Monty Oum. His work kinda went to not shit just a mindless direction of not knowing what it wishes to be.
The poor man's legacy is ruin.😞
As one who has never watched this show and suffered hearing about this series for the better of a decade whenever friends talk about it or a new controversy popped up online... yeah, I'm tired of it too.
Same
Honestly, does RoosterTeeth even remember Monty at this point? Do they even care about his vision? Like, as flawed as the show was from the start, at least you could tell this was a passion project of his. Now RT just has it as a cashcow to milk until it's dry, and keep milking it after that.
OMG, this! But anyways, I like to think Monty Oum was the original maker of RWBY unlike those greedy pockets from Roosterteeth. And after he died, they didn't want to keep making RWBY anymore for the sake of honoring his memory, but to get more money.
Lol, they stopped caring about him right after he died.
His name in the title is just a marketing gesture at this point and ways they're trying to manage this show contradict every principle Monty Oum established for it.
I think they got rid if most the people who were apart of Monty's original team after he died.
Yall
Do realize they continued rwby
Due to montys wishes
And that ren was now voiced by montys brother?
You do realize that companies say all that sentimental stuff all the time to seem like they mean well, when in reality, they just want money?
Movie studios will say stuff like "we made a sequel to continue the story told in the previous one." but their main reason is because the 1st movie made a lot of money.
Sure, it might have been the crew's original intention to continue Monty's vision, but at this point I doubt that's still it. And having Monty's brother doesn't really mean anything. The Ghostbusters remake had cameos from the OG cast, but that movie clearly didn't care about the source material.
I was so upset with Emerald's "redemption arc" not once did she question her actions or try to find out if things were going on that were more sinister then what she was acceptable with. No she did a complete 180 once she find out no one was safe not even her. just self-preservation? wtf!
Yeah it’s not a redemption arc then if she doesn’t feel bad for what she did and wants to repent! WTF writers
@@flowersandcheesecake1710 To be fair, RT doesn't seem to grasp morals that well. These are the same people that thought Whitely, the abused and abandoned younger brother, needed to "Redeem" himself to his bitch of a sister who, instead of protecting or rescuing her little brother from an abusive household, decided to go LARPing as a monster-hunter and then proceeded to make his life even more difficult and not even offer so much as an apology.
In this show, if a man so much as disagrees with a woman, he's evil. And if a woman wants to just "switch sides" for no other reason than survival without a hint of remorse for the lives she helped take (she's indirectly responsible for Penny's first death, Pyrrha's death and Yang losing her arm, by helping Cinder in the first place) then we're supposed to just fawn over her "Brave" decision.
Bottom line, Rooster Teeth doesn't understand how to right Good and Evil, probably because they've spent so much time being evil while trying to convince everyone and themselves they are good.
@@randomcenturion7264
Pretty much…
I got a hot take; Emerald was only redeemed because it was a fan theory from V3.
@@davidjohnson4171
Most likely, sadly…
Long rant incoming:
I don't understand team RWBY's criteria for trusting people.
Ironwood, the guy who gave Yang a new arm for free, took Weiss' side during that party, the one who took Winter under his wing, helped them in the fight during the fall of Beacon, didn't bat an eyelid to them stealing a warship to get into Atlas, upgraded their weapons, been nothing but transparent to them about his plans, showed Oscar the vault's location, trusted them to keep the lamp, allowed them to train under his wing, and even gave them their hunstman licenses. Yeah this guy is not trustworthy at all, he's so shady am i right?
Ozpin, their headmaster, gave Ruby a free pass into Beacon, literally DIED fighting Cinder, helped them in the fight against Hazel in Haven, shared with them information about the maidens and the relics, and revealed his identity as the wizard in the story. And team rwby is like, "Oh he's not telling us everything he's sus" like btch he owes you nothing.
So they forcibly revealed his secrets through Jinn (which is wow, invasion of privacy at its finest). They just made this man relive his trauma. They saw this man get killed repeatedly by the gods. They saw that the destruction of humanity literally has nothing to do with him and it was all Salem's fault. He was literally dead at that point. Then he got cursed for something he had absolutely no control about, but he still accepted the burden. They watched as Ozma slowly realizes that Salem is wrong and tries to escape with his kids. They watched his kids AND Ozma get brutally murdered by Salem. They saw that despite all of this, Ozma still tried to fight against Salem, spent lifetimes/millennia stopping her influence from spreading, built huntsmen academies, built the vaults, safekeep the relics, etc. But the moment they learn that Salem can't be killed, they all don't trust Ozpin anymore?? They all turn their backs on him? Wtf?? Then, aren't you proving him right? The reason he's wary of telling the truth in the first place is because he's afraid people will turn his back on him once they knew, and team RWBY just proved him right 🤦♀️
Also, they fault Ozpin for still waging a war against Salem despite not having a plan against her immortality. Look at them now, waging a war against Salem and intending to save everyone without a plan :>>>
Ok now let's look at the people team RWBY easily trusted, Robyn and Emerald. Literally wtf do they know about Robyn. They don't know her at all why did they trust her?? Emerald is an established villain which they have fought MULTIPLE TIMES. Somehow they trusted these people easier than people who actually gave them reasons to be trustworthy 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
You make a lot of excellent points that it's so damn true it hurts that it boggles my mind on how the hell is this show still being worked on or why anyone even like it at all with how horrible both the writings are and how the so called good guys are acting!
The sheer amount of cringe, pounding headache and just general of "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS GOING ON?!?!" is pretty much what goes through my head and perspective trying to understand what the show is trying to tell or why the 'Good guy' characters act like bunch of assholes for no reason to people who has legitimately secrets that emotionally hurts them due to trauma and hardship and want to keep it burried, to move on and try stay strong for the sake of not only themself but for others.
But nope! Get them out so that we can judge you for everything you went through and demonize you for no apparent fucking reason!
Yeah...Great writing and planning Rooster teeth! That's very much how real life people act to someone who has been hurt for so long and don't give a shit to their feeling and trauma, keeping secrets is so very bad that it makes you into a villain! Oh and trusting a green haired idiot because she regret joining the evil side, who also happens to have a hand in two death of their beloved friends, fought against you and tried to kill you several times, she definitely regrets her evil doing and have become our new Vegeta! (Sarcasm)
I'm so done with the show, when i watched the show for the first time of season one I actually thought there was a lot of potential but now? It's a shit show with even shittier staff who catter into shippers and crazy lunatics called fans demands instead of making a good series in the memories of one person who actually made this show happen in the first place and Monty's reward is them shitting on his vision, work and disregard his notes and details of the directions how RWBY was supposed to be.
THIS!! 👏👏 100 times this! ^^^^
What makes the whole Emerald thing even more insulting, is that Emerald is in large part responsible for the situation they're in right now. And she doesn't regret any of what she did, she sides with Team RWBY because she wants to save her own skin. But Oscar/Ozpin goes on and on about how they have "to give each other a chance", even when literally all Emerald does is be a jerk to Team RWBY. Emerald's "redemption" is a joke. She doesn't own up to what she did, she continues to be an absolute tool and then makes sad faces when she gets backlash for it and honestly, her doing this pretty much throws Mercury, a person we're made to believe she cares about, to the wolves.
@@Justme-wm8vr Couldn't had said it better myself! have a like!
@@Justme-wm8vr YES!!! You people are making such good points! 🙏 Now it’s my turn to rant, brace yourselves!
Gotta love how team RWBY almost instantly trusted Emerald when she is responsible for Yang being kicked out of the tournament when she created that illusion of Mercury. Then Emerald used her powers to make Pyrrha see those swords and kill Penny by mistake. And oh yes, she’s also partially responsible for the Fall of Beacon!!
Then we got Ironwood, the dude who can literally counter all of these points. He believed in Yang when she said Mercury attacked her and thought she must have “saw something that wasn’t there” in the heat of the moment. He disqualified Yang because the world thought she mercilessly attacked a defeated Mercury, and Ironwood regretted he had to do so all while taking her side.Then Ironwood had to watch Penny get torn apart before his eyes, and his entire military get hacked and destroyed while Cinder denounced him (and Oz) on live TV. Ironwood fought at the Fall of Beacon FOR THE GOOD GUYS and shot his own robotic soldiers to keep citizens safe.
And let’s not forget team RWBY decided not to trust Ironwood with critical information about the war while Ironwood was practically LEADING the effort against Salem alone. All cause they thought Ironwood was hiding something, and then season 7 goes to show he’s hiding ABSOLUTELY NOTHING from team RWBY and is so kind and genuine and they still don’t trust him.
I cannot BELIEVE Ozpin came back in Volume 8 and was like, “yo girls, trust Emerald lol she’s good now!” Oscar too, and neither of them tried to convince the main cast to try to reach out and make things up with Ironwood??? When it’s partially team RWBY’s fault for why he went totally crazy in the first place?? So y’all gonna trust EMERALD with the password to the Staff and not Ironwood, who probably didn’t know how to use it or else he could have found a way to save everyone and not have to abandon Mantle. But nope, Oz just didn’t feel the need to try to help Ironwood, his FRIEND and ally, who had just turned “evil” two days ago, but Emerald is fine and Ironwood is now beyond redemption apparently yep yep makes sense 👍
Ok I’m done 😂😂😂
Edit: Wait there’s more!! I also forgot to mention that Yang said to Emerald (to paraphrase)“You’re part of the reason I have THIS” as she holds up her metal/prosthetic arm. Next episode, BAM we trust her now!!
Oh and who was the one who actually GAVE you that replacement arm Yang?? IRONWOOD! For FREE!! FREEEEE!! And you never even thanked him for it. God I have to laugh 😂😂
This season hurt so darn much because I actually was someone who LOVED every other volume of RWBY, despite their flaws. In fact, unpopular opinion, but Volume 7 was (and still is) my absolute favorite!! I was so excited for the next installment, but Volume 8 felt like such a punch in the gut and unfortunately, I think I’m done with RWBY. Will continue to rewatch the past volumes and draw fan-art tho haha 😆
NOW I’m done. ❤️
Tfw a FanFiction author has repeatedly made better stories than the source material
Hell, I am a better writer, and my story is a cluster fuck with a son of Iron Man replacing Jaune and I can't decide who his foster father should be between Kazuma Kiryu or Stone Cold Steve Austin!
@@John-Stark Cool story. My fanfic involves an Iron Man-ish reader developing a slowburn romance with Ruby.
Coeur Al'aran? He's had some flops and his desperate attempt to make Adam sympathetic in Beast of Beacon proves that the only way to make abhorent characters like him even slightly sympathetic is to rewrite them entirely or what he picked there, which is to destroy several other characters (Ironwood, CFVY) in order to make them look better by comparison, but he's still generally good at it. Made stories better than the travesty they consider canon at any rate.
@@Lord_Numpty While I agree with the CVFY bit, I'm quite sure Ironwood's reaction is natural enough to do so.
@@John-Stark Ok, i can't tell if this is a crack fic, or just a joke, but either way, sounds like a drug trip.
I’m calling it now. The only thing that would save all this bullshit. Is that after the final. Some godly power resets time where the maidens and the grim don’t exist and Rwby once again meet eachother. And it’s just turned into a “you decide how it ends” cuz I’m saying it now. That is probably what rooster teeth will do.
Oh, so just basically pull a Sonic 06?
So from reboot from adventure anime into slice of life anime?
I guess that would help with character interactions.
Also i get the feeling RT or some other big company os going to milk the shit out of Rwby with spinoff and sequel shows.
@@gayanudugampola8973 No, I was referring to the end of Sonic 06, where they basically erase the main villain from existence, thus making it so that the events of the game never happened.
Well Grimm existed before Salem so Grimm are around though Maidens don’t exist since Ozma never became immortal due to Salem.
So it would be like the first three volumes and that’s it.
@Martin Toledo Seeing Pucci reset the RWBY universe would actually be good thing lmao
The thing that still upsets me the most about RWBY. Is that we have eight volumes currently. And still cureently very little understanding of Aura and Semblance.
Same here
How? (know what don't answer that)
@@batsdomain7057it should on lessons in beacon,but they speedruned 3 season.
Ironwood:"Alright, I am not a perfect person. But seriously, what did I do to you all?"
Rwby-team:"Nothing, but you suck. That's enough reason for all this, lol."
"What the- THAT GIRL WORKED FOR SALEM, SHE HELPED KILL LIKE 2 OF YOUR BEST FRIENDS, AND OZPIN, AND ONE OF THE PREVIOUS MAIDENS"
"Yeee but, eeeeeeh fugetabouet"
Somebody asked me who the biggest villain in RWBY is and I answered Miles and Kerry because they do a damn good job of constantly finding new lows for the show to sink to.
My biggest problem is they fired the guy that worked with Monty and had a good idea of where the story was gonna go. Miles and Kerry clearly dont give a fuck because monty stated so many times that there was no magic, no gods, and in his original notes and stuff he said that Salem was trying to control all the maiden powers. Not hunt after relics looking for death or whatever. They shouldve either kept the guy on the show or not continue at all. Oh and they also fired Vic based off false claims so that's another reason why I stopped watching anything rwby related
@@Lajos_Kelemen I’m almost certain that this show went off-course from what Monty wanted. It’s like saying, “well you never know if a meteor will crash into your house. It’s not impossible.” But instead it’s, “you never know if this isn’t what Monty intended for his show. It’s possible.”
These are also the two who oversaw the poorest-received section of RvB. I was out as soon as I saw their names, and was vindicated when I happened to see how the fight between Blake and the chameleon chick ended. That's the only post-volume 3 episode I've seen, and it's all I needed to.
@@bman296 yo wait what? I KNEW SOMETHING WAS OFF!
@@Dressup_Doll yerp kicked him off during the year long dry spell we had of anything RWBY related. From what I'd hazard to guess Miles and Kerry wanted to edit Monty's original work and the guy stood his ground and got fired for it
I've noticed a trend that whenever a villain that isn't Cinder starts getting good, they write them out of the story or kill them off entirely.
Torchwick, Adam, Watts, etc.
Cinder exist for the sole purpose of making the show worse.
Female empowerment: only female villain can have their redemption.
It’s not just that, it’s “only female characters can have compelling arcs” . I’m still sour about Vine dying, thereby leaving only one male member of the ace Ops alive while the other two are female.
She’s taken it over like an inoperable cancer.
Like, if you want "Gender Equality", give BOTH genders a chance to shine. Don't EVER promote one over the other, or the arguments will start all over again and we will be back at square one.
Like why don't you promote Qrow, or Jaune or Ren more? Or Tai? Or Oscar/Ozpin? I would name more, but with Adam gone (and I don't hate him, I just think he got wasted) there isn't a lot of male representation to speak of.
I wonder how they’re going to convince the gods that humanity is united after killing off characters in leadership.
Good question for one of the themes being unity they aren't trying to get people united 🤦
Man, It's sad what has happened to this show, I actually enjoyed this show up until I wanna say Volume 5 where it was slowly for me changing from a good watch to what happened here? I will at least have the first few volumes and BlazBlue Cross Tag to remember how the cast actually was.
Same with red vs blue and atleast we have seasons 1-13 to stick with and enjoy
in the end of volume 5 i still had hope for it to turn out good later , but after volume 6 , im just watching to see how it ends , i dont even like the protagonists anymore
It's a sad reality, poor Monty having his reality bite the dust.
I genuinely feel the show died with its creator. RWBY was always rough, unpolished and a little crappy. But despite that, season 1-3 felt like a labor of love, a true passion project. Monty had a story he was eager to tell and even if it was flawed, it was so fun to watch him tell it with such enthusiasm and passion.
Without that enthusiasm and drive, the show is just a means to the end of making money off of success...
@@sparxskywriter2589 It's... really tragic Monty didn't write down an outline of where he intended to go. I don't think that would have saved it, but at least when that outline got out, people would know where he was intending to take it.
It’s bad when some of the issues you bring up can be simply explained with “Behind the scenes drama happened before this episode was made”, which says less about the show itself and more about the current state of RT as a whole.
Which one?
@@relic5752 Qrow is one that was 100% because behind the scenes drama happened.
That was Vic’s character. RT immediately fired him after the false allegations came out against him.
@@ghostfear2011 - That entire scandal was the end of my ability to have respect for so many VAs. A shame, I actually liked the work of a few of them.
@@LucaxCorp After what happened to Vic, I stopped listening to dubs. They were going downhill anyways. That was the last straw.
@@RachelScalfani well hey now, there are really good dub shows and dub voice actors out there ya know? (Talent wise and personality wise)
But I also completely understand, after discovering one of the va’s that I actually like her work and then she got involved in the drama (not in a good way either) I almost lost faith honestly.
Wasn't the point of the maidens were that they had to relinquish their powers eventually? If people like Penny can become the maiden, why don't the Kingdoms turn all their maidens into immortal machines?
But...But...
Killing characters give them drama-
Giving the average iq of rwby characters its safe to say most of them were so fuckin dumb, the idea never crossed their mind
That's..... a point I never thought of - One that Penny is conditionally immortal, and Two that Maiden powers can be circumvented like that
RWBY in a Nutshell: Terrible Writers Ruin Great Ideas.
Anyone that disagrees with that, I'm sorry, but you are wrong.
That would've required there to be great ideas to begin with.
@@CoralCopperHead Well, yeah? There's a reason the trailers have millions of views and people praising them. There were tons of great ideas, all with poor executions.
You are very closed minded
@@Game-ne5nb People praise shitty stuff it's well known.
Look at anime
@@broly7784 Please enlighten me why the ideas and trailers are shitty then.
Volume 7 and 8 are basically "we forgot about everything."
And I have no hope for it to get better anymore.
I lost hope at volume 6
You should try these instead
Re Zero
The heroic legend of prince arslin
Princess principal
Zatch Bell
Umamusame pretty Derby
And try some of clamps works like cardcaptor sakura or xxxholic
Same here
@@maximillianlylat1589
You and me both.
Noah Wiley Or Space Jam.
It’s sad knowing that BlazBlue Cross Tag has RWBY have more character there than in their home series
Ah like Gundam Seed characters when they are in Super Robot Wars
@@clarehidalgo OMG, exactly! SRW was the only thing to make SEED bearable.
Hasn't RWBY always had a "show don't tell" problem in regards to its music? I'm pretty sure most of the vocal songs quite literally scream the story and meaning at you.
Yeah, used to be that there'd be people that thought the soundtrack telling you what certain characters were thinking or had experienced instead of actually being shown by the series was good storytelling.
@@whiskeyhound
One guy spent months using the lyrics of a single song to keep insisting it was objective fact that Salem was a benevolent hero trying to save humanity from the cruelty of Ozpin and his secret tyrannical rulership of the entire world because she cares about humanity so much like a mother figure.
Seriously.
aahhh feels like vocaloid song that became anime.... the song is literally spoiler for the entire anime lol.
@@Sora-dragneel which one?
@@Dressup_Doll yes.
I honestly feel like Ironwood's Semblance was some crap made up by the writers during that zoom meeting. Not *once* is Mettle shown, explained, or even mentioned in the show; and this is strange since there's almost always an exposition dump on what a character's Semblance does. Ironwood's horrific actions and psychotic behavior are portrayed to be a conscious choice on his part and the writers don't treat it as a tragedy, rather they do everything in their power to make him as unlikeable as possible. His allies aren't sympathetic toward him or try to help him, which is especially weird in Winter's case since she and Ironwood are so close that she'd *have* to know about his Semblance and its effect on his mental state. Furthermore, when Ironwood's Aura is depleted (which disables someone's Semblance, according to the writers) Ironwood *still* acts crazy, kills Jacques, and tries to kill Winter.
I'm surprised they didn't make him start kicking puppies just to try to make him more evil
If I recall correctly, Ironwood's semblance was mentioned (well, more like possibly made up on the spot judging by the tonal delivery) during a live panel by Miles, so you're not really too far off.
Sad part is that you’re not wrong…
@@thejasminedragonmerchant6843 it was yes.
I still think his Semblance, Mettle, could've worked if it was properly utilized in story. Why not have it not only strengthen his resolve but the resolve of his own soldiers and allies? It would give him and his troops an edge in battle. Making them more determined to win the fight and keep on going no matter how many numbers they losing. Forcing their enemies to retreat because of his army's relentless numbers. Kinda like Bastila's Battle Meditation from Knights of the Old Republic. But Ironwood decided to use it wisely and carefully because it can give him tunnel vision as it can strengthen any resolve, no matter the morality of it. Once he sets a goal, he almost can't stop. And it doesn't help that he's naturally bullheaded. And it can be dangerous if he's emotionally compromised. Also another reason that while it gives his forces an edge in battle, it can potentially stretch his forces thin and rapidly diminish all of their man power. Nor does he want to control his men like robots. Thus, he can only use it when desperate times call for desperate measures. Like what's going in V8 for instance.
Come to think of it, Ironwood should've been temporarily removed from command in the first place after the whole Battle of Beacon and the Dust Embargo. I know from a military standpoint that if a general is mentally unstable, emotionally compromised or suffering from PTSD, they will be removed from command, by force if necessary. If a general can't keep his head on, he's a danger to them all. If Atlas' military doctrine is anything like ours, that's what should've been done. Winter, being second-in-command, would have assumed temporary command until Ironwood calmed down.
But that's blind loyalty for ya.
"No one said that you should think."
- Probably Miles Luna and the rest of the writing staff.
Does miles still work on the show
"Don't think....obey."
@@Testimentsnow Yes. But not as a part of Rooster Teeth...
If only we can convince the FBI to look into his bad behavior, then...
@@broden4838 I have never liked that guy
@@Testimentsnow Yeah, and I bet some want to kill him in retaliation for murdering Monty, as well as destroying RWBY and RvB
It still astounds me that some Twitter RWBY fans somehow confused this video to belong to HeroHei instead of you, like I know it's slightly unrelated but the sheer fact that, that guy left *that* much of an impression on the overdefensive RWBY fans is hilarious to me.
It's because RWBY Twitter fans are unbelievably STUPID.
I dont know what this twitter drama is, but hero is kinda annoying video wise
This youtubers style is way different? Why are people confusing them? Like these are all good legit issues to have with these seasons
@@charlx8979 That's precisely the problem: they don't want the criticism in and of itself, no matter who it's from. Would not be surprised to find out that they tagged this video to Hero Hei specifically because he's really hated in that crowd as a way to demonize this critic. Not much of a long-term tactic, but I still wouldn't put it past them to try it.
@@charlx8979 isn't he the dude that does a million 1 minute videos every time someone on Twitter breathes garbage? He has infinite content like that pretty much
Here's some recommendations for you.
Re Zero
The heroic legend of prince arslin
My hero academia
Love is war
Princess principal
And try some of clamps works like cardcaptor sakura or xxxholic
You know it's bad when a lot of the most watched RWBY youtube videos, that aren't music or the show itself, are criticism videos. Seems like every season, more and more people are jumping ship, every new episode becoming the "straw that broke the camel's back" for someone. At the very least, the toxic part of the fandom is now heavily outnumbered.
Got that right
It’s depressing
I miss the days when the RWBY FNDM was small and not so divided. If V9 hadn't come along, I would've jumped ship, too. It ain't perfect but it was way better than V8 by a long shot.
Kamen dunking on RWBY never gets old, as it’s the show that just keeps on failing.
(And I say this as someone who still liked it until it eventually went downhill.)
I remember saying a few days ago that RWBY is the only show I’ve seen that feels simultaneously rushed and drawn out. And once I pondered more about it, it’s because the writers throw around so many ideas and introduce tons of characters, but never really take the time to properly flesh them out. Not even when it comes to the lead characters. The biggest example being just breezing through Yang’s whole PTSD of losing her arm, or killing of Sienna (former leader of the Black Fang) literal *seconds* after she’s introduced. Man, what a great design so utterly wasted…
Or having a new character who’s actually somewhat interesting, Ilia, basically no longer show up after the season she’s introduced in (Vol. 5) for…reasons. Oy vey…
And since the pacing and plot progression is…frankly horrendous (looking at you, Vol. 5, and having most of the characters spend it almost entirely in a single room), it’ll drag out certain story beats for far longer than necessary and make it barely feel as if anything noteworthy has changed. Real-talk, this series should’ve ended at Vol. 6, maybe Vol. 7, and at this point it feels like they’re milking it for all it’s worth.
And it’s almost *laughable* that it took us 8 seasons for us to finally get the backstory for one of the central villains.
If I was on the writing table, I would’ve actually had them stay in the school for another 3-5 seasons instead of rushing to get to the world-ending, grimdark stuff so soon. And instead focus on developing the characters more instead of creating a generic RPG plot involving maidens, magical artifacts and this overpowered evil overlord who can’t die. But ah well, what’s done is done. I’m just glad I jumped ship after Vol. 6, especially due to how dirty they did Qrow in Vol. 7 and how inane the writing choices have been.
They did qrow dirty IRL and in the show lmao. It's such a fucking shame considering Vic is probably the only reason i stuck around with RWBY for as long as i did
@@uratheboi1555 I didn’t wanna mention that in fear I’d start an argument, but yeah, to this day I’m still pissed that RT just decided to throw Vic under the bus.
@@amirgarcia547 don't worry most people in these comments probably have their heads on straight when it comes to Vic
@@uratheboi1555 That’s good to know, at least, since I was recently browsing Reddit and saw someone post about how they had an Edward Elric funko pop signed by Vic. And let’s just say the comments were…something else.
One of the Massive problems with this show is that the characters only act how the writers want them to so that the scene can go how they want it
We should make Ironwood a Lesbian too that's sure to fix it.
Pretty much. NONE of the characters in RWBY are actual characters, they're props. They're being made to follow the plot, regardless of whether or not the actions taken are actually "in-character" for them.
Congratulations, you just learned how to write a scenario! Every freakin story ever goes with your statement. If in horror movies the characters were actually smart there would not be horror movies at all. Characters always act like the writers want to. They will act dumb if it’s necessary for the plot.
I really don’t understand this complaint about RWBY
I would answer this, but you "wouldn't understand" that, either.
OKAY OKAY THIS IS TRUE. If anyone is reading my comment. Yang, when confronting Raven for the fuckin genie thing. She says she hates people who run away. Therefore saying she hates Raven. Then. When Blake returns. SOMEONE WHO RAN FROM THE TEAM TWICE. THE SECOND TIME TO RUN BACK HOME. AND LEAVE THE TEAM TO BASICALLY SUFFER ON THEIR OWN. She's all welcoming back. Then goes back to drama with her. But then they don't talk their way into being a ship apparently. Because the writers gave up due to the fans demanding it.
In short. The writers are fuckin pathetic and put such little effort into consistent character writing. That if I have to give them anything. It'd be a middle finger
If Cinder is a Faunus, then her mistreatment would make more sense and give more impact to the plot because of the already established anti Faunus community. But then again, there are still a lot of things that needed to be fix with Cinder's character.
You could even explain away why she d sent look like one visibly because maybe she cut them off or had Salem modify her or something. To show self hatred.
The fanfic Kamui candy did cinder infinitly better and you should probably give it a read even if obito is a mild gary stu.
Yeah imagine if cinder had her animal ears cut the fuck off, like that would explain a bit more about her
I still think HBomberguy summed up RWBY the best: "The show occasionally THREATENS to suddenly become good, and so you keep watching."
The show always skirts just barely below being actually good, and there are brief moments (the latter half of Volume 3 comes to mind) where the show, even if for a moment, starts becoming enjoyable...And then just stops. You watch the next episode thinking that MAYBE the next episode is where the show finally gets as good as it could be, but it never does.
Rooster Teeth would win my undying respect if they just cut their losses and rebooted the whole show from the very start with new lead writers.
What's funny is, on Twitter, someone shared a picture of your video, and in the comments someone said "I hate seeing HeroHei in my recommendations" when your channel name was right in the picture. Also, I still think it'll end with everyone dying and Salem winning. Hoping for it, really.
As if they'd let that happen. No, the universe would align in such a way that Salem literally can't lose, but then she'll trip over a rock or something and that'll be her one and only weakness and then she'll die, the end
Yeah I would hate having HeroHei in my recommendation as well
I agree
A part of me just wants to see everyone die so that all the arguing can stop.
@@dungww2006 if Twitter was a person, hero hei would be his stalker
My problem with RWBY is how they treat their LGBT+ characters. For instance, May. May was revealed to be trans in Volume 7 far before she had any relevance or even knew her name. That's right there speaks volumes on how they see they're LGBT+ characters, not as normal people just like the rest of us, but as a tool to be used as marketing their show to score some brownie points for being "revolutionary". Hell, Pilot Boi is also an example of this because they thought we'd hate him for being mean. Because as we all know, gay people will do anything and everything for you if you tell them. Jaune's sister and her wife are proof of this is how Miles and Kerry think when Jaune's sister helps them trespass on a military base to help them steal a jet and have her infant child involved as well.
And then it turns out that May Marigold is a MASSIVELY shitty person who, AT BEST, is projecting her hatred of her family (for not respecting her identity) onto all of Atlas, and is not willing to help any of them.
@yeh uda Disney isn't exactly great in this area either. Like with Onward, there was all this marketing buzz that they'll have their first LGBT+ character, only to turn out she's a minor character in one scene for at most two minutes.
Rwby took tokenism to the next level
@yeh uda who are the lgbt protags?
Honestly, Penny *really* got done dirty in her last appearance. What's the point of having her finally become human after having her robot body destroyed at least twice, only to then be _immediately_ dropped by Villain Sue-Incarnate Cinder in less than an hour with little-to-no build up? Huge waste of potential, and it just felt like an incredibly cruel and unceremonious (and above all, convenient) way to not only get rid of her for good, but reduce her existence to a mere prop for another character's development.
Penny at this point is just like: I’m not even here, baby. I’m just a hallucination
Pissed me off so much after hearing that. Also her dying was apparently something that supposed to happen to Phyrra back in vol 3.
What's really messed up is that not only was she killed TWICE, but that both times she was ultimately killed by an ally. I can't be the only one who noticed this, right?
How in the ever loving Oum did we go from a world built solely as a stage for epic fight scenes (Dead Fantasy but bigger) to pointless self inserts (Jaune, Neptune, Blake and possibly more), demonizing characters who are good people, emotionless writing and a non-developed lesbian couple?
When Monty passed away, the vermin sized their chance to feed their egos and wallets at this show's expense.
@@randomcenturion7264 Yep, I’m definitely aware. I still ask that rhetorical question regardless because I can’t believe how bad this has gotten. I never will get over it.
@@randomcenturion7264 I always kind of had suspicions that crwby in reality didn't like Monty for not bowing to them like showing yang meeting raven
@@garretstevens742 yeah, I had those feelings, too. Very good point.
The hack writers took over like an inoperable cancer.
Ironwood got the same treatment as Joel. Both had been give reasons of why they act the way the act and are active with their objectives, yet the writers are set in stone to make them be the "big bad guy" in the entirety of the story
This’s actually a pretty apt comparison tbh. Especially since both scenarios lack any nuance, as TLOU1 left your decision as morally grey. Having the player sit there after the credits and truly ponder “did I really do the right thing?” While the sequel just entirely throws this out the window to be like “nope, Joel was a monster all along and deserved to die for killing people who were about to lobotimize an unconscious teenage girl without her consent.” Instead of trying to make both sides flawed, just like with RWBY, it instead entirely demonized one side just to make the other one seem better in comparison.
We do not speak of THAT game
@@amirgarcia547 Exactly. And their way of saying that Joel is wrong is done outside of the game by having the devs claim that the operation would have been a success. But no, it doesn't work that way. I can suspend my disbelief and pretend that in a fictional world, there is a way to develop a vaccine for a fungal infection in the brain when we have yet to even perfect one to prevent fungal infections on the skin. I can even believe it if they said that they can reproduce Ellie's mutation or that they worked on many other subjects who are immune to the infection and have now perfected the operation and only need one last test subject. But if all of that isn't said or explained in the game, then I'll apply real world knowledge and common sense to say that the fireflies didn't know what they were doing and that Joel did the right thing since Ellie would have died for nothing.
Having the story teller give me facts outside of the story doesn't do it for me. It's comparable to someone who has messed up and is now trying to justify himself. Even releasing a comic or novel that will barely reach 20% of the fanbase to explain what was poorly executed or established is wrong.
For a moment I thought you meant Joel, as in the RT employee
@@VoicesInYourHeadphones given how joel has been treated lately it kinda still works.