Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25049191-20140725062625/@comment-25049191-20140725201628

Watch the trailers and then watch the panal, and I mean all of it. The trailers are basically lying to you. They're deliberately set up to sucker you into the series while hiding its true image. Either that, or they were completely ignored and Monty said "Fuck you!" to everyone.

Burnie and Matt only gave the green light to RWBY once they the Red Trailer. But after that, they had no idea what was going behind the scenes because almost none of the RoosterTeeth were actually involved in the project. Sure they made voice cameos but that was well near the end of Volume 1. When the panal premiered and it turned out that RWBY was the total opposite of what the trailers portrayed, they should have immediately pulled Monty into a room and said, "Hey, What are you doing? Why are you decieving our fans like this? Get your shit together or we're going to shut down your show." That didn't happen! Why?

And then Monty makes up this excuse that the trailers were "Inaccurate" and that they were nothing more then weapon demos. INACCURATE?! Who the hell are you trying to fool, Monty? Do you really think that we're that stupid?! Are you so full of yourself now that you think you can get away with this shit and no one would notice? Well, I'm sorry but people for the most part are not that stupid.

Trailers were inaccurate my ass! If that was the case than Monty shouldn't have listed them as "Trailers". He should listed them as weapon demos of character introduction with a little pretext saying "This trailer is a weapon demostration. It does not provide any story substance or characterization". If he had done that, than I would have been okay with it. But no, he sits there and lies right in our faces and RoosterTeeth does nothing about it. My only guess is that they were more concerned about keeping their company's reputation untarnished so they kept quiet and went along with it. Either that or they no longer care about their fanbase and are only insterested in making money instead.

If you're are not sure on what kind of story they sould give to the series or what direction to take it, then DON'T RELEASE IT ON THAT DATE! Wait! Delay it! Give yourself more time so you can work on it, polish it, and maybe develope a better story out of it. DO NOT rush the whole thing forward in a half finished state and a generic story as Volume 1 was. If you're concerned about how the fans will react than simply post a response video explaining why you're delaying it and ask for a little cooperation. Most fans will understand that because they'll see that you're trying to get this right and will have the patience to wait another few month or so. Sure, you'll have a few jerks here and there that will complain because they got nothing better to do but that's their problem not yours. You should not have to cater to the fans just to keep them satisfied.

Monty even stated once that Ruby was supposed to be the innocent character in this series. Innocnet? Okay, let's compare Red and White's respective trailers. Which one looks like the innocent one to you? If you say Ruby than you must seeing something that I'm not because I don't see her as an innocent character. I see her as a huntress with unnatural yet deadly skills and a silent personality who is driven to do what she does best because of a life changing event that happened in the past. Weiss, on the other hand, definitely strikes me as an the innocent character because of the song she sings and how she looks so lonely the entire time and is just hoping against all hope that she will be able to find some peace and happiness in her life. Nope, instead we get the total opposites of what the trailers portrayed.

I and a good bunch of friends of mine who are anime fans themselves were looking forward to this series and when Volume 1 ended all of us were completely disappointed. I even showed this to my older brother who's a purist and he thought the whole thing was a joke. I've talked with other anime fans both in person and online and many shared the same opinion as I do. We're not impressed with this first attempt of an American made anime.

As far as the story goes, it's not so much that they're telling a bad story, it's that they're telling the wrong story. This should have been an RPG style action/adventure/fantasy series, something I've been so desperately wanting to see more and more over the years, Star Ocean EX and Tale of the Abyss anime being the closest examples. Going by the trailers, it had all the makings of being one. Instead we get a school kids vs. monsters story. School Kids vs. Monsters? Seriously? That's the kind of story you decided to give this series? It's as if they know what kind of story to give this series, or when they finally did they had no idea what direction to take it and just made it up as they went along. And while I was naive fanboy back in the day even being favorable to shows such as Sailor Moon, I'm a bitter old man now who's sick and tired of seeing the same thing over and over again and expects something new to come from it!

I'm now convinced that Monty Oum's obsession with anime got the better of him and he doesn't care what other people think just as long as he get what he wants. How can you can from Ruby looking like a total badass to a bubbling idiot who doesn't know what she's doing half the time? Or Weiss looking like the sweet innocent girl, who just wants someone to love her, to a spoiled brat who's a total bitch to everyone? It just doesn't make any sense? Why? If RWBY lived up to its expectations, I would screaming it priases from a mountain top like everyone esle, but I can't. In retrospect I think I was way too forgiving for the RvB Freelancer episodes when people criticized Monty for turning it into too much of an anime. I actually defended him at the time because I thought that maybe he needed to grow up a little and have some time settle down into the role of a storyteller. But then comes a series that slaps me in the face, making me realize that just because you pride yourself of being the greatest action choreographer in the world doesn't make you the greatest person in the world.

I know nothing can ever be completely original, but that doesn't mean it can be something a little more original. I want to see action scenes and epic battles as much as the next guy does, but I also want to see character development, progression of the plot, amazing settings with a decent amount of detail, and background history. RWBY, as of now, doesn't have any of that other than what? Weiss having a very hard childhood and Blake being partly responsible because she was once a member of the White Fang? We pretty much already knew that already going by Black Trailer. There was faunist rebellion that eventually led to the formation of the White Fang, but do they ever go into detail? Nope. Action scenes are not, and should not be, the most important thing when it comes to telling a story. This isn't a Michael Bay film! Is action scenes all we expect from films nowadays? Action flicks that have no plot or substance to them at all?

People like you defend RWBY and say that I need to calm down. Okay, maybe I do.

"Monty Oum, our God and Savior, told us that this was only the tip of the iceberg, so get over it and don't bitch."

THAT'S NO EXCUSE WHATSOEVER!

When you put out a product like this out for the public to see it is open for criticism, whether it's good cristicism or bad criticism and it this case I am criticizing it for problems that in the end don't excuse it for its poor value on bit! And when you out a product like this you are suppose to give every bit of effort that you can muster even if does fail in the end. With RWBY, the whole feels half-assed, as if the production team had nothing better to do! If they had delayed it so they could finish polishing it and getting the story down, then released as Thanksgiving or a Christmas release, no one would compliam about that! But instead they just rushed the whole thing through.

In all honesty, RWBY deserved better than what it got. It deserved a better story. It deserved a better director. It deserved a better everything! Hell, I could've written a better story than what we had here. If they were having trouble with the story than they should have delayed it reached to RoosterTeeth, or maybe even outside, for some help. If they had asked me to write the story I would have been more than happy to do it, and if I failed, I could at least look myself in the mirror and say that I did the best I could do. There'd be people who would kill for an opportunity to work for RoosterTeeth!

RWBY, I'm sorry to say, in its current state is nothing more than a simple cash grab by Monty Oum because he knows fans will buy it because it's got his and RooserTeeth's name plastered all over it. And that's why he's getting a free pass! He's whispered sweet nothings into your ear while screwing your wallet! And I'm sorry to say this but your blind loyalty and devotion to this guy is preventing you from seeing what he's actually doing, and that is that he's taking advantage of you! "But why would he do that?" as you might ask, because he doesn't care! He's so full of himself now that he's pretty adopted the "Fuck you! Give me money!" attidtude. And this series is a prime example of it.

It's like what I said before. What Monty did here is setting a dangerous precedent for future animated webseries of this quality with every copy of RWBY sold. What don't you understand about that? If RWBY did one thing right, it's that it has open a new door for media and future entertainment. But this is not the path it should take and, as I said, if it does than animated webseries are going to a short lived thing. But the sickening part is that the fans are okay with it and they welcome it! I just hope nobody else follows the same path when they do their own animated webseries!

So ask yourselves this: Is this what you want out of a webseries? Poorly made prologues that are charged overpriced and are nothing like how it was advertized? If you're okay with that fine. Buy it if you want. Squeeze the life out of it until there nothing left. You are RoosterTeeth's and Monty Oum's bread and butter. But for the rest of us, we don't being treated this way. We don't like being shown one product, only to recieve something that is the total opposite. And if we encourage this behavior, you bet your ass Monty's going to continue spilling out this bullshit until he's satisfied.

You're not going to convince me that this a is perfect show just as I'm not going to convince you that it's not after all the reasons I've listed. The fact is Monty lied to us about the concept of this series starting with the trailers. You do not create a trailer showing one thing only to have the actual product be the opposite. That's false advertising people, and I don't care what Monty Oum's excuse is.

If I had to rate RWBY out of 10 it would be a 5/10. As of now, it's average. The concept is there but it's been taken in the wrong direction. Fans love it, for a good reason, but the quality is not worth its asking price. I do like this show and I do think it has potential, but right now I just don't see it happening, at least not anytime soon.