Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190126081959/@comment-25936766-20190131174350

What are you people doing watching RWBY. Watch Gen:Lock.

1) I like Neo's new clothes - give me a bit of a Mad Hatter vibe - but....they look terrible compared to the original outfit or even the one she had in the tournament.

Cinder's clothes on the other hand, they look much better than her V5 one. Actually looks villainous and evil and cool. The previous one made her look like a mom. Also hiding the arm with a coat (mantle? Whatever the term was) > hiding the arm with a giant dumb sleeve.

2) I'm confused about what Neo's Semblance does now. I thought it was Ilusions, but Cinder says she materializes things. And when she uses it on the airship it turns into an Atlesian one...but then switches back in like 3 seconds.

So, what, she can make X look like Y? That's just Emerald's gimmick. Or does she really transform X into Y? And if it's the former, does the ship still look like an Atlesian airship to the others after changing back?

In any case, how is any of that materialization?

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3) I was expecting Yang and Blake to give more of a "what the fuck happened" reaction when they saw the Mech and the Leviathan.

4) Those are some horrendously shitty barriers, if taking just 1 tower out shoots down the whole circle.

5) I'm pretty disappointed in this "final fight". I mean, it's a million times better than Vol.5, sure, but still. They got this Kaiju Grimm that vomits fire and can swim underwater. And a huge swarm of Sphynxes and Manticores.

And yet the Leviathan falls about halfway into the ep and Argus is literally completely fine despite the number of Grimm and the panic of the people. The worst thing that happened to Argus was part of a building being destroyed, which is trivial to fix for a nation like Atlas.

I wasn't expecting it to end up like Vale, but I was expecting such a number of Grimm to cause more destruction than just that. This feels just like the Breach.

Also Blake is an useless lesbian.

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6) Now, that aside I don't hate how the Leviathan was defeated. We all knew Ruby was going to Silver Blast it in the face and if someone thought that wouldn't happen they were being delusional.

Ruby using Jinn to give herself some time to think was clever and I liked it, and I loved how Titanosaurus broke out (just the head, but still). The only things I hate are:

1> the lack of "THIS IS THE DRILL THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS!" reference with Cordovin.

2> The use of 2D images for Ruby's flashbacks like when they showed Mistral. Aside from the fact that they don't really look very good compared to the 3D used elsewhere, they have models for at least Team RWBY in their Beacon outfits, and Zwei, and Tai. There's no excuse to use so much 2D like that.

7) I admit I was disgusted by Summer's appearance. I knew she was a Ruby clone, but to go as far as to literally copy-paste Ruby, with the exact same outfit as her current one, just with different colors, is just too lazy. Raven in Vol.2 at least had a different outfit from Yang.

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Also what the utter fuck is wrong with her hair, it's horrendous. They should've copy-pasted Ruby's hair instead of doing....that.

8) I noticed while Cordovin charged at the Leviathan that the animation framerate kind of....dropped. It was smooth and fluid before, but then it suddenly gets slightly choppy. Just like Gen:Lock.

Has the Gen:Lock advertisement gone this far, that now they're not just shoving a teaser before every video, but even shoving it's framerate into every show?

9) Eh, Cordovin just letting them go after they sort-of led to the whole mess doesn't sound as fun as arresting them and taking them to Atlas for commiting a crime that would've made Cinder proud.

But at least it makes her feel more reasonable. Relatively.

10) Ozpin is the ultimate forum lurker. One just forgets he's there. He's beating Oscar at his own game.

11) I admit I never expected Atlas to be a giant city in the sky. I do wonder though, is the one at the bottom Mantle, or just another part of Atlas? Kinda gives the "High Class - Low Class" concepts a whole new meaning.

Also the realization that Weiss didn't just grow up in the coldest place in Remnant, but also in one of the tallest places in Remnant. And yet she still was the only one who prepared for the cold.

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12) I like Nevermore. The chorus is lacking and non-outstanding, but the rest of the song is the opposite. A song that has the same energy as the usual RWBY songs but the piano takes the lead while the guitar just supports. It makes it feel somewhat fresh compared to almost every RWBY song nowadays.

The lyrics are kind of forgettable though.

13) Why does Merc look so traumatized by Salem making new Grimm? He's seen her get Grimm out of the pools before, this isn't really new.

Also the flying monkeys, sick reference, but....my god the design is the laziest shit ever in this show. They are literally just Beringels with a pair of wings pasted on their back. That's ultra-lazy.

Hell, the mutant Grimm from Grimm Eclipse were more original and creative, and it was a half-assed game RT barely gives a shit about.

14) A minor thing, but using Obviously-100%-2D effects for the "magic splash" Salem does at the end, they just look bad when everything else is 3D. They should've just covered the screen in black pool liquid instead. It's not like they can't animate liquid, they did a fine job when the Leviathan rose.

But yeah, don't watch RWBY, watch Gen:Lock.