Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6533159-20170512233823/@comment-25936766-20170514162457

I feel RWBY is mediocre at best, and just plain Bad if not feeling optimistic. The fights themselves are great, in a general sense, even if individually some are worse than others, and in some cases everyone involved is being stupid (Cough Qrow vs Tyrian Cough).

The writing is terrible, for the most part. Many things still make no sense for the most part, attempts at foreshadowing generally fail at their job (Silver Eyes being the most egregious case), and in a Naruto-esque sense character's abilities at times do things they weren't even implied to do beforehand, generally due to lack of foreshadowing, but at times these "new abilities" pretty much go against what was already established.

Examples of the latter include: Ruby's Semblance in V4. In V1-3, it was a burst of speed with some petals as a visual effect. We saw her doing so multiple times, it was simply Super Speed. We even saw her running fast once or twice.

Yet in V4 suddenly her Semblance was changed into becoming a storm of rose petals that can move and even divide freely, flying in the air. Something 100% different from Super Speed. This was never implied to be possible, never implied to be an aspect of her Semblance, never foreshadowed in the slightest, it just happened.

There's also the Schnee's Glyphs, both in the aspect of being inheritable and in the Summoning aspect. They are probably the most egregious case since they basically do whatever the writers want them to do.

Plot-wise, there's way too many wasted chances, lack of character development or even presence for some, and, again, no explanations for many things, like Ozpin suddenly "merging" with Oscar. Someone who wasn't even mentioned for years, he just suddenly appeared and Ozpin is a part of him now just because.

Another problem for the plot is the lack of Show, but too much Tell. Example: "Faunus are discriminated!", yet we have never seen this being the case except: 1) From a wanted criminal who simply called a deer faunus "deery", and 2) An equal-oportunity bully who only pulled Velvet's ears once, said something racist once, and spent 95% of his screentime bullying a human anyway.

Character-wise, it is better, since RT at least doesn't go all out with anime archetypes, making the characters feel more...believable. Though the lack of character development some get kind of hurts this, especially since RT has a tendency to introduce more and more characters instead of developing what they already have. And if they develop someone, is at the expense of many others who also need it.

Overall, RWBY is terrible. It has potential to get better, and gets better on ocassion, but in a general sense, it ranges from terrible to mediocre.