Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28171999-20190208002539/@comment-25936766-20190216021958

BlizzardDragon wrote:

1. The Protagonists getting off scot free for their actions in Argus....

2. Qrow dying....

4. Hazel, Mercury, and Emerald not appearing. They were shown in the post credits reacting to Salem for a reason...

5. FNKI not showing up...

6. Ozma being dormant in Oscar's head the entire volume...he needs to come out of Oscar's head again and talk with the others.

8. Pandering.

9. No Weapon Upgrades. Blake's sword is broken, Yang's arm is damaged, Maria needs new eyes....

12. Neo dying. She just came back, and people were already complaining she was brought back as fanservice. Don't kill her off already, make her useful to the plot.

13. Sitting in a house the entire volume.

14. Forced Melodrama. If there is gonna be drama, don't force it.

15. Reverting to Telling and not Showing. Do not relapse to that. Continue to and improve on Show Don't Tell. 1) I'm just expecting them to get questioned, if not thrown in jail, the moment they step out since it's painfully obvious none of them are Atlas personnel.

2) I get that the deal with Vic would make the timing questionable if he dies in Vol.7, but Vic aside, I don't see much point in keeping Qrow alive. Or better said, I see about as much point in keeping him alive as I see in keeping Ren and Nora alive.

He can be useful, sure, but besides the stuff with STRQ, he's basically just an extra pair of hands. And if RT wanted to show stuff about STRQ they don't need him alive, they can just throw a flashback featuring him a whole season after his death (Cough Sienna Cough).

So yeah, I don't see much plot-related reason to keep him around. If he stays, cool, but it's not like he must.

4) Cough Raven and Tai Cough.

5) Eh, what reason would FN(KY) have for showing up? They can't connect with Weiss's personal plot well-enough to make them a must (Flynt's issues with Weiss lasted literally 1 episode, and Neon is just Flynt's teammate). The only way I could picture them showing up and it making sense is if our heroes explore Atlas Academy.

6) While I don't disagree on that, if he does pop out, it better not be just so we get another round of "Ozpin is a cruel and sadistic bastard who should burn in hell for the vile crime of trying to prevent everyone in the world from dying against a seemingly-unbeatable threat, nevermind that this was forced on him by a faceless divine deerguy and he's not doing it for fun and kicks".

I don't care what MK were trying to tell back in V6E2-4, that was just irritating to watch and the only good thing it did was prove Maria is best woman for being the only one that refuses to deal with everyone's bullshit and instead just focuses on what matters.

8) What would you call pandering though, or at least "bad pandering". I mean, FNKY showing up would be pandering IMO, done just to please the fans and not because it helps the plot.

9) Inb4 Maria gets laser googles and becomes Cyclops. Regarding Yang though, Yang's arm is fine. What it got is practically just a mark, it still works perfectly well, we saw that ourselves. If it even needed any upgrades, it's not merely just for that mark Adam left. And besides, what would they give it?

And don't mention DMC5 Nero, RT should do better than just shamelessly "be inspired by" recent hyped things.

Blake though.....I honestly don't see what upgrade she could get. A sword that is also the sheath of another sword that's also a gun that can also be whipped around like a kusarigama, that's pretty specific.

An upgrade I can see that wouldn't change the weapon's identity much would be Dust Blades, but....Blake suddenly using a weapon/style more similar to Adam feels.....questionable.

12) She can die in a way that's useful to the plot, you know. Like Pyrrha, Penny, Adam maybe. Though I doubt they'll kill her off so soon, she isn't a redhead.

13) To be fair though, once they get the Relic to safety.....what will they do? They won't have a defined goal unless they find out about Tyrian and Watts, so they kind of would have nothing to do.

14) Can you give me an example of what would be forced melodrama? Cause the best I can think of is, well, point 6.

15) I honestly hope they take notes from Gray on this. But not too many. Watching Gen:Lock, it has quite a lot of Show, but almost no Tell, to the point it has a very different problem.

With RWBY, we're told a lot, but rarely shown what we're told, so it's harder to believe or take seriously, we're just expected to believe it at face value. And then there's times where what we're told or what is even implied gets retconned, like Cinder using Dust clothing and not Maiden powers.

With Gen:Lock we're shown a damn lot. For example, we aren't told that the Union only shows mercy to their own people, we see it ourselves with how they kill everyone with firepower and nanofarts but a man and his wife are left alone once the guy shows he's from the Union. That is great.

But, because of the severe lack of Tell, we know less than jackshit about stuff as basic as why the war is even happening, and we're already 4 eps in. We don't know anything about the Polity beyond "good guys" and the Union beyond "bad guys and maybe something about the 4th Turning Theory", and the only thing we know about the war is that it's "cultural". With RWBY we at least had an infodump at the start of the first episode to give us an introduction.