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ChishioKunrin wrote: @Cinder's back tattoo - Indeed. I've actually repeatedly wondered what they had planned before the Maidens thing, to be honest. It seems that they have adapted the Maidens plot in a way where it became connected to the tattoo on her back, but what was that originally about? Was it originally nothing more than a simple tattoo that showed us her personal emblem? Was she always going to, for some reason, do something with a Grimm beetle? How was she originally going to end up chased off or defeated at the end of volume 3? Did the original plan have Ruby damaging her with her Silver Eye powers due to something about a Grimm beetle or something else? As for her hair, there are people who claim that her hair looks more like it was burned off rather than cut off, though I don't personally see it. But it does look uneven, like she cut it herself without trying to keep everything the same length...

Who Knows? The awnser is probably somewhere in the "RWBY Bible." It probably was just an ordinary tatoo with no meaning. Then they just gave it meaning to the story because since it had so little importance to anything, they could just do whatever they want with it, as it technically wouldn't be retconning. Forget about being chased away or defeated, I want to know what her original plan was. Also how was Salem connected to the original plot? She seems like some sort of evil deity, and she wanted the maiden powers to help her take over the world or something. But since the Maidens were added in at the last minute, and they seem essential to her plan now, what was her plan before them? Was she even going to be a character before the Maidens were added? It is revealed that she was the narrator to the opening in Volume 1. This is played up like it is some sort of big twist when in reality she could have secretly been Billy Idol (or anyone else really) and it would have likely had the same effect. So maybe they wrote the narration first and then decided later it was going to be important. Kind of like Ruby's silver eyes.

Also, I was refering to how Cinder's left eye is covered by her hair and is therefore not directly exposed to the "blast". But yet she is blind in the covered eye and not her exposed eye. I was not refering to how she has a short haircut now.

When I was thinking on how the swords detached themselves I honestly thought it was because of a failsafe to... until I came to the same conclusion you did. If that was the case of the failsafe deploying AFTER the device already killed its operator, that could very well have turned the scene into some unintentional black comedy. Like how when a cartoon skydiver lands without a parachute, THEN the parachute goes off, often popping out of a crater. Imagine something like that happening to Penny on the show. Ark's explanation makes a little sense. I don't get why that feature would be built into her though. Why would the swords NEED to fall off?

WHY WOULD THEY STILL EMPLOY HIM IF HE JUST SPENDS CLASSES TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF?! Usually when a teacher brings up personal stories it is because they are relevant to the lesson. They have a point. But here there is no lesson, he apperently just spends the entirety of his classtime telling stories. Imagine if a news anchor went on live during say... 9/11 or something... and then just talked about himself and how his personal life is going. This is slightly better than someone who is supposed to be training humanities future defenders, but instead talks about himself. About Ozpin, maybe he thought Port was "so good" at huntering they needed an entire class devoted to him. Ugh. that fucking drunk.

I thought the Pre-Hunter academies would teach how Dust works, how to build different types of weapons, different types of Grimm and their attacks, how to survive in different enviroments and such. I don't see how sparring and practice would help. Especially if it was against humans, or robots or... Jeez maybe they did just make the presumably middle school aged kids attack and kill normal animals with their skin painted black. What else would they use for a Grimm substitute? I took that joke from RWBY Abridged, but maybe ZehOverseer was onto something. Most of Weiss' dialogue was just blatant exposition. Why would she explain to RWBY how Dust works if she believed she belonged in a combat school which presumably teaches kids how to use Dust? Not to mention she has Cresecent Rose on her person at the moment. The awnser: we as the audience don't know, and how they did it was slightly better than Weiss just flat out stating that information into the camera.

Yeah, hopefully there are no jokes AT ALL in Volume 5. Volume 1 had some jokes, Volume 2 had a lot of jokes. Volume 3 had a few jokes in at the right time, a few bombed horribly and slogged on for way to long. Volume 4... ALL the jokes bombed. The Geist fight had Juane on the recieving end of one of the worst "hit in the nuts" jokes I ever seen. (How is it even possible to have his nuts get hit in that scene?) There is that mean spirited Juane's hoodie joke I mentioned before that didn't make sense. And worst of all: "That'll be a regular Journey to the East!"

Patrick Star: Oooohhh! East? I thought you said Weast.

Way to make a joke about the story that you shamelessly copied from, I mean "drew inspiration from" for the idea of Sun's whole character. And they did it WRONG even. Next I am hoping there is a scene inspired from the French version of Little Red Riding Hood, maybe as a joke or plot point or something. Ya know? The one where she eats her dead grandmother, and strips naked and gets in bed with the wolf. No, I am not making that up.

That move probably hasn't been the same since the nerf. Or you know, since Aura makes it impossible to kill any perticular enemy in one hit. So you have to keep spamming attack over and over and over. Also, now that I think about it, I wonder if it possible to even perform open heart surgery in Remnant, due to Aura making people really hard to cut. And if they did the doctor would probably have to beat the crap out of the patient before operating. "You might feel some mild pain."

Wow, That Nevermore, it looks like it forgot what it was doing for a second and just flew away. Uhh.. Maybe Weiss was just on a hoverboard? Let's not forget that during the ceremony, Ozpin had his cane when he was introducing team JNPR, but then team RWBY comes and his cane is just gone and his hand is just floating in the air for some reason. Then we have the camera pointing at team RWBY's back for ooooonnnneee small bit Blake's hand just bends at a weird angle as if it was Dennis' hand in the one scene from the Splinter. That can't be antural.

I still have never scene Gravity Dust appear on the show proper. I don't think any character uses Dust in its "Raw Form" neither. Nor have I seen a character combine two forms of Dust to get a stronger one. I don't think they will ever do that last one. Also each kingdom is ruled by... a council. OK fine fine fine, who says KINGdoms have to have kings running them? Like at all. Also don't forget Volume 4 Chapter 8, where those slug fucks snuck a World of Remnant INTO the ordinary episodeand thought nobody would notice. THEY WERE WRONG.

That theory dosen't explain what he did with Winter's schooling and career choices. Also I am guessing Whitley was homeschooled or something? I have no idea.

Seriously the names for the episodes are all pretty bad. It's as if Miles finished the episode and went "Gotta upload this hour, shit forgot a title, uh... what was this episode about again? (types 1 to 4 word title that vaugely describes episode) Done," Volume 3 Episode 7 was named Beginning of the End. What was the title 5 episodes later? End of the Beginning. So Original! Dance Dance Infiltration and It's Brawl in the Family were probably the best titles, this is because they were puns like an actual cartoon title might have.

We also could have had Whitley be properly established so none of us would go "She has a brother now?" when we first see him. Winter, I'm pretty sure was mentioned earlier. Whitley came out of no where.

Yeah, during the 6-8 months I am like imagining Weiss playing video games, watching Redtube, and arguing with people on the internet. (Assuming they are in int Atlas of course) All while glancing at a clock periodically wondering when the plot would start.

I get that, but in the last part of Volume 3 they set a precedent with character deaths that things are going to be way more darker and fucked up later, But come Volume 4 and it's LESS SERIOUS than the last part of Volume 3, Some people saw Roman Torchwick's death as a turning point in the tone of the  show. The funny, charming, likeable villain is dead and so that implies that alot of the shows jokes and brevity are going to die with it now that we have nothing but the serious villains left doing serious things. But in Volume 4 THEY STILL TRY AND TELL JOKES! And like I said above, the jokes in Volume 4 are all terrible. I cannot remember one "joke" told in Volume 4 that made me laugh. Other than maybe Weiss getting slapped. Wait, what do you mean that wasn't supposed to be funny?

Yeah, I guess that is a bit to fucked up especially since the show still really isn't all that serious. But here is the thing: to me at least my idea would be how an actual writer would fit the Silver Eyed Warriors into this world they have set up, as opposed to how they actually set up the Silver Eyed Warriors in the show, which in its current form is an artificail construct at best. Here is what they tell us so far:

Season 1: You have silver eyes! That is going to be important later.

Season 3: We see and are told the significance of Silver Eyed people.

Season 4: We know that Salem's group has contingency plans in case silver eyed people show up. (So already her group is smarter than ALL THE GOVERNMENTS and police force in Remnant.Still don't know why Salem didn't tell Cinder about these.)

We know eye color is genetic. We know they are struggling against the Grimm who are trying to wipe them out. We know that Silver Eyed Warriors can make Grimm (Creatures who are drawn to negative emotions) AFRAID. Governments should be finding more and more ways to use and abuse these people to protect their kingdom. If they don't want to cross the line at forced breeding they could at least find these silver eyed blokes and turn them into celebrities. Televise them wiping out huge scores of Grimm singlehandedly using their powers and other weapons, in order to keep so that Grimm won't attack as well showing the citizens that they are in goof hands. OR they could subvert this by pretending this is an innocent propoganda program built to keep spirits up, but behind the scenes it could be aforced breeding program. But no, Ruby passes by powerful, influential people like Ozpin and Ironwood and not one of them seems to give a shit.

Meh. That is a bit to subtle for Miles and Kerry to pull of really. To me it was probably them going: "Pyrrha is dead, we are not going back on it, just deal with it yo." Also it was probably there to show that Jaune still hasn't gotten over Pyrrha dieing due to his own stupidity. We strangely never get to see Nora and Lie react to Pyrrha's death much. Some people might think they simply don't care anymore. Seriously, we never see them mourn once.

True but there are alot of misteps, animation fuckups, bad characterization, stupid decisions, communication issues, and uhh... where was I going with this? Oh Yeah! All of those things are in the execution of RWBY. I went into RWBY expecting a bunch of interesting characters fighting monsters and villains, with unique weapons and superpowers. What I got was a bloated cast of poorly developed heroes fighting against a bloated cast of villains who are trying to do... something. Strung together by a flimsy plot which only finally gets good in the last half of Volume 3.

Yeah, Monty jokingly called it "anit-upskirt technology". That technology works "so well" Lie can still look up every characters skirt. (Maybe the ability to look up other characters skirts is his true semblance.) This method of preventing upskirtsis is apperently just everyone has extremely thick... petiticoats? I think that is what the things under their skirts are called. Like seriously, wouldn't that get hot during a fight? Why didn't they just give all of the female characters modesty shorts? Like their school uniform for a FIGHTING school came with a skirt so they could have just packed some shorts with them... but wait, characters don't actually fight in their uniforms during class... they change into their regular clothes, so... WHY DO THEY EVEN HAVE SCHOOL UNIFORMS AT ALL?! They are all ugly and look the same, during fights in class it must take a while to change out of them. It makes no sense.

A lot of Ironwood's men are really incompetent though. (Well alot of characters are incompetent in this show but this is going to focus on Ironwood's men,) The soldiers can be karate chopped in the head and go down like a sack of bricks, and they just stand there as Cinder walks into the elevator with them even though SHE JUST KILLED ALL OF THEIR FRIENDS. The robots can't dodge for shit and get run over by a Borbatusk (it's not like they were built to fight Grimm or anything.) His mechs 360 degree laser targeting can be ruined BY FOG. Plus they get destroyed by a flaming dog. So yeah it makes sense he would watch this criminal kingpin personally. (OR higher smarter guards and engineeers!) Plus then you realize all of this stupid, contrived shit was PURPOSEFULLY added in order to work as plot points.

Me: So, Miles and Kerry why is Roman on Ironwood's ship?

M&K: So he can gain acess to all of the robots and make them evil of course.

Me: And why would James put Torchwick on the ship which can acess all of the robots?

M&K: Uhh... That's a spoiler question! No spoiler questions!

So, you are saying that idea was poorly written? Put it on the list. Basically anything wrong with Atlas from bad robots to electoral systems is all thanks to *in a sped up emotionless voice*  "the military industrial complex." What Ozpin basically did is sat around and sent in poorly trained children to take care of everything. Then the poorly trained children fuck it up and he goes "See? This was a good thing, now I know the bad guys are trying to cause a breach with a train and shit." Yeah you would have stopped this if James just sent in his forces to search for the bad guys and eliminate anyone who stood in their way like he planned.

Yay! Even MORE elements of the plot that look stupid in hindsight. It is like this show was just built to be a series of action scenes with a toilet paper thin plot that falls apart whenever you try and examine it closely. Maybe to give them credit they were trying to mirror how stupid and ridiculous real life governments are. Kudos for them, because they hit it right on the money.