Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-74.101.236.56-20170321065847/@comment-68.194.1.35-20170511033605

Her back tatoo has nothing to do with anything. It was there in volumes 1 and 2 and the maidens weren't a thing in volumes 1 and 2. (By that I mean, they weren't originally supposed to be there.) Therefore her Grimm beetle charm thing, which stole the maidens powers, has nothing to do with her back tatoo. And since you say that, it appears her right eye is more directly exposed to the energy as it is uncovered by her hair. I don't get why her left eye is now blind.

Oh. OK. So she just so happened to grab that one sword, that just so happened to land right in her path, right in front of her, it didn't get lost in the stands, or land point first and get stuck, or land slightly to either the left or right of where Ruby was heading. Plus aren't those swords connected to Penny by wires? If that sword got blown away, shouldn't Penny's carcass be blown away with it? And if you say: "Oh well the Nevermore impact must have severed it or something." Remember that Penny PULLED AN AIRPLANE OUT OF THE SKY with those same wires, I don't think a Nevermore can break them.

If teachers are giving long drawn out stories then why do they even need to go to classes in the first place? How is Port not fired for wasting the time of warriors who are supposed to defend all of humanity from a seemingly infinite supply of human hating eldritch abominations? Does he have tenure? Also he really isn't speaking in a language, it is just a word salad. So he could really be talking about anything.

Heh heh heh heh... What?! The very reason Weiss chews Ruby out in that infamous "dust sneeze" scene is because "This isn't just sparring and practice, we are here to fight actual Grimm, here they don't just take normal animals and paint their skin black like that Signal place." Why would she say that if the ENTIRETY of her combat training consisted of sparring and practicing against robots. (Not Grimm, you know like what Hunters are supposed to be fighting.) Ruby grew up on a small, wooded island chock full of Grimm (Remember in Yang's backstory) so she most likely had WAY MORE expierience in fighting Grimm than Weiss does. Granted though Weiss was able to take down that armor bro who was posessed by a Geist, while Ruby needed her whole team. So I might just be talking out of my ass here.

You know, it just dawned on me. With Monty you get him changing the characters abilities, skills, and powers all at the expense of storytelling, in order to get cool fights. With Miles and Kerry, you get the characters abilities, skills, and powers changed at the expense of storytelling for the sake of a JOKE. Like in the foodfight scene Yang get hits thru the ceiling and crashes back to Earth. On Yang's Death Battle they calculate that the impact would have caused approximately 50 TONS OF FORCE to spread out thru her entire body. How is anyone supposed to kill Yang if she can shrug off a 50 ton hit like it was nothing? Also that makes Yang's dismemberment at the hands of Adam look even stupider. Did Adam by chance swing his sword with a surplus of 3,000 tons of force? What, no? Then Yang should be fine. Also, not fight related, but but when Ruby laughed at Juane's Pumpkin Pete hoodie (Because she has never seen Juane without his armor on before?) How many people I wonder thought to themselves "You bitch, You just triggered his PTSD of Pyrrha dieing because of that." Also how much are you willing to bet that Ruby, or some other character, is going to say "Now that's a katana!" in an upcoming episode of RWBY despite RWBY chibi not being canon?

Actually, according to Wikipedia regular rapiers do have edges, and have been used in cutting before. What you and I seem to be thinking of is a foil, which is used for fencing and not really used at all in combat. It appears Weiss' weapon is modelled more on a foil. I have actually fenced before and I can say that foils don't have edges, they are more rectangular. Even if it is a rapier it is still a primarily stabbing/thrusting weapon. So she should hardly be slashing at enemies with it.

Maybe it could just be the animators messing up. From camera angles and the foot's positioning it very well could have been her right foot being moved forward. But because they change the camera angle the way they do, and how it seems like Weiss' feet are in line, like heel to toe heel to toe. (Which is a very uncomfortable way to stand mind you. She would have likely had to be on her toes on her back foot at that point.) It appears she might have moved her right foot, but the animation is so bad it looks like she is moving her left foot. I mean, look Yang's feet when she is running to hug Ruby after she almost got killed by the Death Stalker. Uuuggghh! Makes me shudder.

See the paragraph above these other two.

They could have found a way to make her seem nicer WITHOUT making her seem like a massive hypocrite. They do write the show after all. But as I said above with Miles and Kerry, characterization takes a back seat to jokes.

If it was in total, which I suspect it is, that means for 36 hours they just went about their weekend normally only barely noticing Blake's presence at all. And here I am expecting to watch a show where characters do things based on events that occur.

Yea. She didn't think HER ENTIRE LIFE PLAN through enough, this is why I believe she is just an idiot. So now we get plot crucial details revealed to us in the manga, World of Remnant, and potentially the video game. I believe I mentioned on how all of this is reminds me of the Grimoire Cards in Destiny. Where you have to leave the thing that is supposed to be telling you the story and go on something else in order to learn the ins and outs. (People hated those cards in Destiny by the way.) And if I didn't mention that before, now I did.

Plus why is Jacques mad about Weiss not going to Atlas' school when he was mad at Winter specifically FOR attending Atlas' school? (She wanted to join the military and her father didn't want her to, and it is established that the Hunter School in Atlas has been scrutinized for forcing the military lifestyle on their students.) Did he just not think Winter could handle running his company? And so he didn't want her to do the training at home he planned Weiss to go thru. But Winter did end up training at her home school anyways? And Jacques was relieved when she wanted to stay in the military and not usurp his empire? Like what?

Seriously, Port is like the only fat character. (Except for maybe Dove from Team CRDL) There are zero fat women, so maybe I am supposed to assume everyone has to be in peak physical condition because they could get attacked by Grimm at any moment, or the Grimm are restricting their food supply so they are all thin? Or maybe the Grimm are totally not a threat because people like Coco exist and and this whole series is pointless? Uugghhh!, but seriously though, RWBY vs. ARBN wasn't the first round in the tournament. In the bar the bartender tells Qrow "you didn't like the Vale kids (Meaning RWBY) or any of the rounds before that?" So yeah there was more than one. Makes me wonder why the title of that episode was Round One though. My best guess is it was a placeholder title they put there until they came up with a more interesting one. Then they just forgot about it and left it.

Writers as a whole, not just on RWBY, should really focus on fixing the timeline between installments. Either that or get out of serialized media, or just stop making sequels. Prefebally the second one.

All the fucks yes. I totally agree with that. Instead we get little bite sized samplings of those bullet points which are each to short to adequately care about.

I still think formulas are crap. Plus they are bad for storytelling.

"Only time will tell" Ah. One of my main reaccuring gripes with RWBY. The arm thing maybe had an impact for you, but not for me. When main characters started dropping like flies was my "Oh Crap" moment. OK mostly Pyrrha, I don't get why Pyrrha isn't just rebuit with a backup of her memories put back in. Yang's arm felt cheap to me. Like: Oh so you're telling me one of the strongest characters in RWBY, who has been nigh invulnerable up to this point, is not only going to get defeated right now, but DISMEMBERED by this character we know next to nothing about? (I don't even know what animal he supposed to be a faunus of.) Yeah fucking right. I assumed Adam's smblance was some sort of wither ability and that is what he used to defeat Yang in one hit. Like he had to charge it up to kill several robots in in the Black trailer, to defeat a human maybe he dosen't need to charge it up?

I am also kind of disappointed on how little the story has changed in terms of getting more dark and serious. It has slightly more Lovecraftian horror with Salem, characters MIGHT die, and we swear alot more now. I was hoping it would dive WAY deeper than that. Like murder, (There are to many throwaway characters have them all, or maybe just a few, die in a huge, epic battle to show bad things are getting.)  torture, (I wonder what would have happened to Ruby if Qrow and the rest of her team didn't manage to fight of Tyrian and he suceeded in bringing her back with him. Hmmm... Or maybe they could have captured Tyrian and beat some info out of him before killing him, or leaving him to die.) rape, (Ruby's mom was implied to be a Silver-Eyed Warrior like her daughter, that implies that trait is genetic. In a world where governments are desperately trying to find a more permanent way to bash back Grimm, it would sure make sense to for these Silver-Eyed ones to be kidnapped from their families and put into forced breeding programs in order to to sire an unstoppable Grimm destroying super army for the sake of protecting everyone else, right?) slavery, (The Schnee's have been implied to own slaves SHOW US THAT, plus the aforementioned Silver-eyed army, or maybe Penny gets mass produced, and gets used to fight the Grimm en masse, maybe they get hacked by someone with more nefarious motives like Merlot from the video game? And at the end it is implied each model Penny still has sentience and memories of everyone and was merely forced to watch as they did horrible things against their will.) insanity, (And I mean beyond Tyrian giggling like a school girl, I was hoping Juane would have grown to be more cutthroat, cynical, and uncaring after Pyrrha's death, and becoming more and more consumed by vengance as he abandons his team to fight Cinder alone and ends up stoving her head in with a shovel or something.) Or maybe I am just expecting to much dark stuff to happenfrom a story in which children are taught in schools how to fight countless, soulless, deadly Eldritch Abominations who are hellbent on wiping all of humankind off the map, and so their best defense  is to constantly sacrifice waves of these child soldiers in order for the rest of the citizens to have some false promise of that they can still leave normal lives despite the omnipresent threat of of extinction lurking under the grim facade which is made even worse if you think about it more because these monsters are attracted to these types of negative thoughts and anything less than happy, feigned ignorance would really piss them off!

Yeah, I hope those dreams don't mean anything also. If they bring Pyrrha back to life at best this would accomplish Pyrrha turning into Brian Griffin from Family Guy (A complete asshole that barely resembles who they were before they got killed and ressurected.) At the worst it will completely destroy all tension the show has because if the main characters fail then they could just resurrect everyone and start over.

Yeah he SAYS that Aura is fuel but he dosen't really show it. If Flynt's semblance really did use less than one percent of his aura, I don't see why he dosen't just use it all of the time. I mean it eats up so little of his aura he should just use it for the entire fight.

If that is true they are doing a bad or halfassed job at it. Yang, Pyrrha, and now Ruby in Volume 4 are ridicously sexualized. Barbara herself said that Monty liked animating Yang "very late at night" if you catch my drift. They also still have upskirt shots anyways. The food fight scene has at least 40 upskirts. Ren even looked up Yang's skirt during it, he even looks up Nora's skirt in Volume 4 (because he's such a player.) So they say they aren't going to put them in, then they actually DO put them in, and make them less enjoyable. They are technically liars on that now, and they screw people who like fanservice.

Once again, Yep, I really hope they decide to tell us one day.

OK then. It still was a bad idea to leave Roman on the ship which can be used to control all of the robots. Since he is a general he should have predicted someone might try and break Roman out during the chaos.

Regardless, it is still a bad idea to give him so many jobs. Then again I don't know if he was GIVEN both the school head job, and the government job or if he was kust given one an usurped the other. If it was the latter one someone should have intervened. In a documentary I saw that Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo  (The one who ordered the Pearl Harbor attack in WW2!) began hoovering up all of the positionsrelated to Japanese defense, and as a result in WW2 Japan commited some of the most horrible war crimes that might even surpass those commited by the  Nazis. Stuff like that happens when you let one guy control everything. I actually think he does have the right idea, the bad huys are just carrying out their plans and Ozpin is just watching them. How is what anything Ozpin (or any of them really) was doing in Volumes 1 to 3 gonna stop Cinder?

No, the issue with the fight scenes is that the characters can do things they shouldn't be able to do, whether or not because they are expirienced dosen't matter because in Volume 4 they still have overpowered stupid abilities. Like the grenade launcher farts, where did Nora get that? How can her weapon store so much gas? How does this feature fit in with something a grenade launcher/hammer would have? Also Ren's semblance. He now has one of the most overpowered semblances on the show. I don't know if it was always like this, but it makes a lot of thing stupider in retrospect. It makes grimm ignore him right? Why didn't he use that in the woods when the two snakes showed up? He could have just avoided that fight all together. He even supported the idea of getting the relics and running away, so I don't see why he chose to fight the snakes. They still don't explain why Coco's gatling gun suddenly sucks now.

True.