Talk:RWBY/@comment-4010415-20180116234235/@comment-25936766-20180131195527

So you're saying that The Battle of Haven didn't demand action?

Look, action for no reason is meaningless, yes. But RWBY was an action show, action was what made it popular to begin with, so ignoring action entirely in favor of story, is slapping old-time fans in the face, especially when said story has writing too terrible to make up for it.

The Battle of Haven. Ozpin and co. knew about it since Ep2. They knew they had to get better for it. Naturally, just show them training, no different from Pyrrha vs CRDL. BOOM, fans get fights, and it actually makes sense.

But we only ever saw them fighting once. And by them, I mean just Ruby and Oscar, and by fighting, I mean Ozpin pwning Ruby to the ground.

Even in the Battle of Haven itself, they ignored Action at the end, in the finale. The episode builds up to Ruby, Weiss and Blake fighting Hazel, Emerald and Merc, a tough fight. Ozpin even says what they have to do to actually beat Hazel.

Then we get back to them and they already won, no one was injured or even look tired, the entire fight happened OFF-SCREEN.

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RWBY was invented as an action-oriented show, action is it's very Soul. Sure, Story was important, but Action is what made RWBY stand out.

Now, without the Action, new fans are bored, while old fans feel this RWBY is not the one that hooked them in years ago, the one Monty presented back in 2013. And since the Writing itself is terrible - and getting worse for the most part - the show can't even make up for the lack of Action.