Talk:RWBY Chibi/@comment-9595000-20160505004459/@comment-24.50.7.137-20160509142845

(Hold onto your butts, novelist on board. Stewards will provide you with supplimentary grappling gear in order to scale the wall of text in case you are uninterested in observing it, though we would appreciate it if you would.)

I'm almost certain that the main series will retain some of its comedy and will have moments that make you smile. (Take notes, Mister Snyder) While the humor won't be the focus due to the tone change, it will be there. Well, it'd better be, considering the theme of the show from the beginning is hope. With hope comes joy, which can overcome curcumstances. Although things have really gone to hell, the hope of a better future will encourage RNGR and whoever they meet along the way to stay motivated, to smile and to band together in order to survive in a world that seems to want them dead.

That, and it's also simple story mechanics. A grim story requires some form of relief every now and again, otherwise you risk alienating your audience. Whether it's a small laugh, or a nice moment of chemestry, or  just time to relax from the action, it is a necessity.

If we just have grimdark and no lightheartedness, not only will the story suffocate the audience, but it will also abandon its own premise. And if the lightheartedness comes excusively from RWBY Chibi, it would be an even bigger screw-up because (in my opinion at least) no media should rely on supplimentary materials to complete itself. If a tie-in novel, a spinoff, a DLC or a gag series is required to get the full experience of a story, you're doing it wrong. And RT has been writing stories long enough to get this (at least I hope they have.)

And, Child of the Moon, the comedy doesn't have to come from the grimdark. That's still not the point. We have Nora Freaking Valkyrie on the team, and she knows how to be cheery. We could have some comedy from character interaction as they sit around a campfire after a long day. We could have Shopkeep inexplicably appear in Vacuo. Or, if you don't want to slow down the plot, we could have Jaune talking to himself during a fight, or Ruby struggling to understand an infodump.

As for Maki, who may (75% probability) or may not (25% probability) have been sarcastic, I'm cool with a bit of grim slapstick, as well, though that's not relevant to my argument, and it's not as good at relieving tension as some other forms of comic relief.

Still, I agree with Jaric and the Other One in saying to hold on and see what comes next, and suspend judgement until you can see.