User blog:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E8 - Blake Sucks - Impressions/Recap

What kind of stuff does Youtube give you in the "recommended videos" list? That list of videos to watch next, on the right.

For me, it's been recommending music videos of various kinds. Well, "various". It's been recommending the same shit for weeks.

>Calling, from The World Ends With You.

>Kuraiinu's cover of Villainous Riser.

>Kiznaiver's Opening song, full version.

>Sapphire's cover of Butter-Fly, Digimon Adventure's opening song that sticks to one's heart like freaking glue.

>AmaLee's cover of Life Will Change from Persona 5. The one song everyone uses when preparing to start running.

>A bunch of songs by The Aviators, like Remains and Fading Light.

I don't hate any of these songs, I like them, but I get tired of seeing the same recommended shit every single time I use Youtube no matter what I'm watching.

....So, Youtube decided to be nice and recommend more videos.......that also show up every single damn time on my recommended list on the right, regardless of relevancy, sometimes more than any of those I mentioned above.

>Counting! by heiakim music. That guy who makes cool songs sung by Google Translate.

>Pixel Galaxy by Snail's House. That ending gets me everytime.

>Silent Scream by Anna Blue. That ENTIRE SONG gets me everytime.

>Missing Halloween. Probably the only thing YT recommends me that isn't a music video.

>It's Not Like I Like You!, by Static-P.

I wish that out of the 15-so videos it recommends me, at least 10 of these were not any of the vids I mentioned. For the sake of variety.

In other news, this thing.

For newcomers to this thing, this is basically me, making an informal recap of what happened in the episode, while giving my thoughts about what happens. It also includes fancy color speak. 2 are particularly notable:

Red means truth, fact  in the eyes of the user, le me.

Blue means a guess, an hypothesis, a theory.

This was made before/during Tuesday, but is posted after the episode because when I post it, the Recent Activity page gets filled with all the images I use, which would spell Spoilers-Galore. I also have classes on Tuesday from 10am to 5:30pm with some lucky exceptions, and then I have to spend time uploading every pic I'm gonna use. It's time consuming, but it doesn't spoil everyone in one flash.

It didn't help that this time, besides my decreasing interest in this series, I had some work to write involving "files in Pascal" (Pascal in general, not just standard Pascal) for this week, which we were actually assigned at the beginning of November, but I had procrastinated it for quite some time.

And of course, when I finally decided to watch it, my internet decided to be an asshole and I give me trouble, disconnecting randomly and often not coming back until hours later.

Now, onto the episode. Note: This was written as I saw the episode.

Triumph, or Triumph!
....You know, I wished I knew some place where the ratings for each Volume of the show were shown.

I'm not talking about Ratings as in "E10+" or "2/5 too much water", no. I'm talking about the real Ratings that executives really care about: How many viewers tune in to watch something, which is what makes real money. With TV Shows, for example, Ratings are divided between Points and Shares, the former being the number of houses with TVs, and the latter being the number of TVs tuned in to a program when it was on.

I tried googling it but I don't get anything like "Average number of people who watches RWBY in general" or "Average number of people who watched Vol.X during it's run". To see if interest in the show ever dropped or rised between Volumes and throughout a Volume.

...All I got, at least for first results, was "Which was your favorite Volume? (1-4)" and an EXTREMELY GODDAMN STUPID page on Imdb that is, again, extremely goddamn stupid.

For starters, it calls RWBY a TV SHOW, that started it's run in 2012, gives it an 8.3/10 (probably the least insulting part), and does little more than provide a basic synopsis of the first Volume, aside from a Storyline description that is just bound to misinform people.

Synopsis: "Team RWBY trains to fight crime and monsters known as the Grimm. Together they will protect the world of Remnant." Most brilliant work, 10/10, deserves an Academy Award.

Storyline Description: "The story takes place in the world of Remnant, which is filled with supernatural forces and shadowy creatures known as the Grimm. Prior to the events of the series, mankind waged a battle of survival against the Grimm before discovering the power of a mysterious element called Dust, which allowed them to fight back against the monsters. In the present day, Dust is used to power magical abilities and weapons. Those who use these abilities to battle the Grimm are known as Huntsmen and Huntresses. The series focuses on four girls, each with her own unique weapon and powers. Together, they form a team at Beacon Academy in the city of Vale, where they are trained to become Huntresses. Written by Anonymous"

1>"Supernatural Forces", mentioned separatedly from the Grimm. I think we can count those in one hand and only about 1 of those shows up in the first 3 seasons. If by "Supernatural Forces" they didn't mean "Evil Half-Maiden who works for Grimm Queen of Darkness", then, since it separated them from the Grimm, there's nothing to really count.

2>"Dust is used to power magical abilities and weapons. Those who use these abilities to battle the Grimm are known as Huntsmen and Huntresses". While technically not wrong, the way it phrases it makes RWBY sound like a much more generic work than it was even in Vol.1. Plus it ignores how Dust is used to power basically everything, and Huntwhatevers are not the only ones who use it.

....And then there's the kid who wrote an User Review that is basically "RWBY is absolutely perfect", entire paragraphs of nothing but mindless praise while completely ignoring all the issues, minor and major.

....What kind of morons wrote all that crap? It's lazy, at some points even insulting to read.

3) Obvious Trap is Obvious
....What would you think if I said that I liked these 20-something seconds of action more than Yang's entire fight with the bandits, in terms of animation, flash, speed, music, and excuse for happening?

Still pales compared to everything in V1-3, but it's a step forward from that mess.

Parents in Danger
Ghira is the most badass character in this entire series and if you disagree I will channel my inner Hiro Shishigami and shoot you from your computer screen.

Conclusion
Despite not much happening in this episode until the very end - I mean, seriously, the plot doesn't really move forward for a whole 2/3 of the episode - I have to say that there was quite a lot to talk about. Summarizing the more important parts...

First, we start with Yang showing us, that she DOES hate Blake for abandoning her like she did. And that's great, it would be completely stupid if she didn't given her life story, that she actually shared with Blake despite how personal it was.

Granted, Weiss basically went to her room and told her "just forgive her already", with no real argument for it aside from "she's our friend". And it seemed to work somehow. So perhaps Yang won't hate Blake as much when they meet again.

But as long as she still punches her in the face when they meet again, even if she forgives her inmediately afterwards, I'm happy.

But now, the actual parts where the plot moves forward: Blake's scene.

The biggest problem with the scene is that it only happened because Blake was a moron, walking into a perfectly obvious trap, with a note that could've easily been faked, alone, during midnight, without telling anyone.

What makes it more irritating is that there was a good alternative that didn't make Blake look like a moron:

1>Blake goes with Sun on their midnight recruiting.

2>Ilia turns out to have been watching from afar, and calls the Albains.

3>During their midnight stroll, Blake notices Ilia and goes after her.

4>She is ambushed by Yuma mid-chase and then webbed by Trifa. The Albains and their forces move onto the house.

Same result, only that Blake didn't need to be an idiot for it to happen.

I'm not gonna say much about Ilia because all I had to say, I already said it.

But I will summarize it with this: Ilia sucks. I hate her more than anyone else right now, and that's including assholes like Raven and Adam. She's irrational, blind, inconsistent, yet she has no redeeming qualities whatsoever aside from "pity points" for being psycho-lesbian for Blake.

Hell, even Adam made his radicality sound more rational than how Ilia made her radicality sound. And even more, Adam is actually willing to work with humans while Ilia just wants to engage in genocide or something.

Now, the three amigos.

Rockface, you had no character.

Yuma, you're slightly less edgy than I expected, but you're still edgy. Also, he was trying too hard to rip-off Batman with that dropkick.

Trifa...horrendous name aside, you remind me too much of Mercury appearance-wise, for whatever reason. I liked what little personality she showed, I like her looks, and while it isn't entirely sensical I understand why they had her shoot web out of her hands instead of out of her ass.

...But if there's one thing that triggers me, is those tattoos. They look horrendous, she looks as if the Human Torch burned out, as if she sticked her hands in ashes and dust. They don't fit the whole "spider girl" idea at all, and just look ugly as hell.

Now, Ghira and Kali. I'm happy that they actually showed some degree of badassery, I feared they would go down without some action.

Kali could've shown more badassery, but she showed some. Ghira, meanwhile, did quite a lot and left us stunned. Especially because his fight scene nailed the way to design a fight scene that isn't fast.

When fights go fast it keeps the audience excited and is easy to make them flashy. Making fights slower makes them look more fluid and cinematic, but can also make fights more boring and less flashy.

So, what's the alternative if you don't want to make things fast again? Simple: Add more impact. Make every move, every hit, every punch and kick and slam, be like a meteor striking the Earth. It won't be as fast, but every hit will leave a mark.

Also, right now, I seriously hope that Ghira ends up in BlazBlue Cross-Tag-Battle. It's very unlikely, but come on, just look at him! Ghira vs Tager would be a thing to die for.

And then there's the Albain's weapons. Just a golden palette swap of Ilia's weapon, with a pair of extra-blades to act like a crossguard of sorts. Dull, and uncreative.

Unless it's some sort of "special agent weapon". Then it makes more sense. Ilia, Yuma, Trifa and Nondescript Rockface's uniforms are different from the normal mooks, so they're probably of a different rank or class.

....Actually, speaking of uniforms...the Albains's uniforms are pretty similar to the ones used by the Belladonnas's guards, when you leave out the Team Magma hoods. I wonder why....

And, that's pretty much it. I don't hate this episode, though the plot only moves forward at the last 6 minutes.

However, I hardly liked it. It was nice that Yang at least lost trust in Blake for what she did, but now I'm stuck with the doubt of whether Weiss's faulty excuses for Blake made Yang cheaply forgive Blake, or if it will be "Forgiven but not Forgotten" like I hope.

Meanwhile, Blake's side of the episode, where the plot actually goes anywhere, especially her specific plot, is hurt by the fact that <font style="color:#DC143C">it's freaking dumb here and there.

Starting with Blake walking into an obvious trap without thinking twice, to people dying from shots that leave no injury whatsoever, and then there's Ilia's "revelation" that undermines her character.

The only saving grace is that we got Ghira kicking ass, in what is probably the best fight so far, being better than Yang's fight in Ep4 in practically every aspect, while being more than a "special effect exhibition" like Weiss's marathon fight with the Lancers.

FUNNY V5E8 PICS :D!!!
I didn't get many. I got very few. However, I feel there's a case of Quality over Quantity here.