Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-14138255-20131019173146/@comment-24012109-20131019195850

Youre probably the least flaming person Ive seen with RWBY (Even if youre being a Pseudo Angry Joe), and your words are well placed in this, but there are a few things kinda awry.

1. I guess to the average person who saw the trailers, went, "OH DAMN, ALL DAT ACTION. ALL DEM SCENES OF AMAZING AWESUMNESS". I didnt expect full blown action, but I did want some epic fighting scenes every now and again that would boil blood and get you hype. They did put certain references in the trailers themselves, like the Moon shattering with each trailer, or with Adam. I think its just the pacing Monty is going by, that is more or less saving the action into later.

2. Yeah, I understand this fully. I really want to see more of the world too, with deserts, exotic locations, gigantic cities, and even icy tundra, idk. The School setting is more of a safer way of getting to see new locations, but by coming back to the "Home" setting, it feels more bland the more that you come back. Unless theres a secret of Beacon, I think it'll stay the "Home" setting that one comes to back and to go on another adventure.

3. I like references. They make me feel like I understand little jokes they put into the script with my knowledge of social means. Now comparing RWBY and Soul Eater you cant reeeeally do. They both have schools with weapons that fight off the "evil" of their respective worlds...but youre comparing something thats complete (The Manga is finished, I believe) to something only opening itself up. Theres only so much originality you can add to something before it either becomes ludicrous or just too far off for someone to understand. And there are only so many ideas to be made from the elements we know, and not everything is even known yet.

4. Thing is with length, they're barely an animation studio. Its just the lack of manpower and the relatively low resources they have. Ofc people want more, longer episodes- The thing with that is, everything costs money. And a constant flow at that. I mean, instead of 4-6 minutes per week I guess you could do 8-12 minutes every two weeks, but then people would complain about the release times and would ask for faster times. It wouldnt change much besides what people would beg for. However, by people complaining about it, episode after episode, they still end up watching the episode.

5. Hmm...Im split here. On one hand, I understand the sake of placing and development, I.E. Putting Jaune's storyline first so that he could in the future help like, lets say Ruby. But I do hope they atleast start with one of the main girl's storylines atleast...I dont know what else they could spawn for Team JNPR. As well as the planning of some sort of war with the antagonists against the school and the city. We need some plot development, while I cant say character development is a bad thing.

But I agree with Grass, its way too early to say a show is in decline. But I respect those 5 points because those are weak points at the moment.