Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-43756665-20200208204457/@comment-43757330-20200216193225

Granaatti wrote: I think too many cliffhangers is a thing in all action focused shows nowadays. Well at least they are yet to do the same mistake as CN did with Steven Universe and  "A Single Pale Rose". The creators intended that the next episode would be aired as soon as possible afterwards but CN decided to start a hitatus instead. That was an ugly month...

To those who aren't familiar with SU. Imagine a world where RT decided to make "The Lost Fable" the final episode of the volume 5. The FNDM would have burned itself on a stake.... It's formulaic. They put cliffhangers in because that's what every other show in this genre does. It's kinda like a herd mentality within the creative writing community. My biggest wish for RWBY over the years has been for them to take the anime genre in a bold new direction. I mean, you'd think that Western minds would be ideal to do something like that. But it seems like they just want to emulate what anime is, rather than put their own spin on it.

I mean, seriously, tournament arcs, token deaths, school prologues, macguffin hunting, fairy tale-oriented character allusions, color-coded names, ship focused relationships, election arcs, biblically-based deities, invincible big bad who wants to destroy the universe, floating cities, superhumans who transfer their power upon death; we've seen literally all of this in anime before.

Don't get me wrong, they clearly understand how to make anime, they just aren't putting their own creative flair on it. Which is unfortunate, considering they're exactly the people you would expect to do that.