Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3391158-20170904153455/@comment-92.112.38.242-20170905062033

So, I was the one who complained about Blake Character Short on her page here, and I have to admit that seeing it myself made me sadder than coming across spoilers.

Blake is not the main character of her short. Again. Sun also is still some kind of background for her story and has no any development at all. Even the new song in the end seems to be rather Illia's theme song than Blake's. Blake still doesn't have a solo song (both "From shadows" and "Like morning follows night" are duets) - while Weiss has 3 parts of "Mirror, Mirror" and "This Life Is Mine". Nuh, just said.

I also have to admit that I don't like the writing. Well, I've seen the problem starting from V4 but I had nobody to discuss it with - the majority of fans were just "ok" and "be happy what you have". I, personally, don't see a problem to say "that was bad, it could be better" - though, such statements usually get a lot of hate.

"Show don't tell" is the major principle of writing. Having flashback in flashback was weird. The way the showed it just made it worse. I mean, it's nice to show parallels sometimes, but it should be parallels - a little edgy. a little symbolic. What we had here? A flashback in conversation on the roof and meaningless chase scene full of glytches. Whad did it have to show? Blake and Illia do not want to fight? We have already seen it in V4, no sense in repeating. Having Illia backstory in Blake's ChSh? Not bad, still, putting someone else's backstory in another character's ChSh is a bad sign - it just means that M&K thought that they will not find time fot that in tha actuall show. Using Blake ChSh sreentime for that was just a crutch for bad writing.

This show has not so much of sreentime - so, it should be used wisely. I mean, that the storytelling should be concentrated enough to provide a lot of information in a short period of time. And there is no use to break this down completely: we've just had a moment in V4 that shows Blake (and Illia) who don't want to fight each other - so, again, why repeat?

The animation also was weird. Well, I'm not the found of animation since the Vol4, though, it's not the point. Tha animation is messy: Gambol Shroud disappears and appears on i'\s own, we also have slow mo moments which are unnecessary (slow mo should is usually used to show a lot of details or to draw attention to some moments - well, Blake taking her sword was not suck kind of moment). Lack of physics (again) - Blake blocks the bullets just by... standing. x_x Blake avoids the falling box just by... standing. Meh, it even was not the fight scene - was it so hard to make it ok?

And, really, RT - fish jokes, again? I have RWBY Chibi fot it, seeing in the fifth time is not funny.

I'm sad, because I really like the show. But I can't match with the reaction of fans. I feel myself a little boy "who says the king is naked".

Still sorry for my English, It's not good enough.