User blog comment:Hidden Scorpius XI/Volume 3. Hypeness and Skepticism./@comment-11188061-20150623090113/@comment-11188061-20150625023029

@Bespectacled

1) Yes. Because this show is not aimed at just us but also children. Again I don't necessarily agree to the choice, but it is a consideration the writer of RWBY has to think about. Not only that, given the episode length it is very necessary to dumb down or trim the written script to achieve a balance between the quantity and quality of content. It is a mere fantasy to think that with the limited budget and manpower RT has the production team can produce exactly the writer's vision without the writer having to compromise anything at all.

Naturally, it also can be that the writers of RWBY aren't used to writing in this style yet, but at the end only when Volume 3 is out that the whole Arc (hopefully) can truly be evaluated and nitpicked.

2) " having a character bring up the fact that her mother is missing and then having a mysterious figure that strongly resembles her saving her life a few episodes later, is still an unbelievably trite series of events."

I don't watch much anime (only read thousands of light novels), but I'm pretty sure that there are many scenes when a character proclaims on screen that their beloved went missing, only for said person to show up within the same episode itself and either go 'I am your father' immediately or drag them for a planned number of episodes. And most of the time, the faults of the latter is they drag the stupid drama way too long and wasted space that could've been used for more interesting stories.

At any rate, any judgment on Raven Branwen's plot is going to be incomplete and dissatisfactory because the particular storyline isn't complete. I'm just disappointed that some of you are unable to see past colored lens that despite giving an amateurish feel, the writing so far has managed to execute a good number of plots and dilemmas within a limited format cleaner and to-the-point than many of the average animes out there, which stories can't even get over a simple grudge without spanning it over half a season.

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That, and I doubt that you've written stories before if you don't get my previous post.