User blog:ChishioKunrin/RWBY could be worse

So, I've seen an awful lot of people who say things like "The animation sucks," "The voice acting is god awful," and "The writing is terrible." If you ask me, the people who say those things are exaggerating or, like many of us, spoiled by higher quality professional works.

Yes, the voice acting isn't great. In some cases, it's kinda bad. I mean, don't get me started about how badly I hope that Adam's voice acting improves by the time he's in the actual show.

Yes, the animation is flawed, and there are animation errors. Monty's more used to animating fight sequences, but he'll get better at other sequences with practice. And about the animation errors, even some professional animations have errors. There's an entire Youtube series that points out animation errors in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

As for the writing... If you combine episodes 1-5, it adds up to about 37 minutes 23 seconds, including the intros and outros. If anyone wants to do the math and find out how much it is without the intros and outros, please do. Whatever the case, as of this blog post, we've only seen approximately the equivalent of a single episode. That doesn't seem like enough time to tell how good or bad the writing is. You don't watch the pilot episode of a show on TV and immediately say "The writing is terrible, the characters are so plain and typical, there's not enough action going on, and the story is just going to be awful."

If you still insist that the animation and voice acting are horrible, then watch this video and come back. Yes, that's a fan-made "episode" of MLP, and yes, an actual team of people made that. How much effort and skill actually went into that? Not all brony-made videos are that terrible. In fact, there are some awesome and beautiful videos out there that were made by bronies, such as this one.

So, I guess in the end, the fact is that RWBY could be worse, but it could also be better. At least we know that it can and will improve.