Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140921022402/@comment-24993958-20141215105528

Natedog5105 wrote: hehehehehe.

Sorry, I love saying things that I know will rile you guys up. It's too fun watching you all yell at the same time. Suffice to say I read none of your comments but could definitely feel the hate. Supporting a show is fine, blindly ignoring its fault isn’t, here let me demonstrate.

RWBY volume 1 biggest flaw is the speed with which they handle their conflicts. Out of it’s 5 conflict for the volume, only 2 got a proper setup, and out of those only one didn’t get an abrupt ending and was paced in a way to give the viewer time in order for the conflict to stew within them, while one of the conflicts was there simply as a sequel hook ...aside from that the animation suffer from standard 3-D animation issues: texture clipping, asset duplicating, stiff animations here and there, lack of physics and don’t even get me started on the running animation.

Sound wise (or sound Weiss if you prefer), Yangs VA was noticeably the weakest of the bunch throughout volume 1, having several scenes where she couldn’t acutely put the right emotion when she was asked to be subdued, resulting in some cringe worthy delivery here and there (noticeably the “now we can die together” line), and Blake had some stiff delivery in her earlier episodes but noticeably improved and was able to deliver spectacularly during her character focused episodes. However, while the main cast, and side characters all generally had a performance that went from decent to downright great (even A quality material coming from some characters), the show’s budget does show when the extras or one note characters talk, as the sudden change of quality in the delivery can knock a dude from his emersion harder than a home run from Noras hammer.

Story weiss…wise, it follows a standard Magical high school/coledge formula, so you can expect all the goods and the bads that come with it, including the dissonance that comes from youg adults having stubbornness issues while a giant monster tries to kill them, and in order for the scene to not end with more red symbolism then Ruby’s character, the monsters either get halted or let the character have their moments, resulting in the monsters I should be afraid of turning into those monsters of the week I  know aren’t going to last.

With me so far? Good, now pay attention. I LOVE THIS SHOW. I love it so much it’s the second…make that third show I actually recommended to friends and even an acquaintance. The characters are diverse, varied, and fun, with designs that stand out despite having similar facial features, the universe is an interesting take on the power scale, managing to somehow maintain a balance between magic and technology despite being a futuristic setting, it’s fight scenes are over the top in all the right ways, the 1v1’s are jaw numbingly well-choreographed, using weapons that would make Devil May Cry proud to do a crossover, and despite it’s rather overused setting, when the main cast is asked to make me care, they make me care, and I actually found myself tearing up with joy at the last episode despite being a very poor volume ender.



See? I’m supporting the show, just like you are supporting SAO.

BUT. I’m not blindly ignoring its faults, just like you are by dismissing the oppinions of people that are making legitimate criticism and doing a better job of convincing me to gice SAO a shot then you are, because I trust honesty more than blind admiration.