Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20151101163739/@comment-4367432-20151102005153

TheRozenQueen wrote: Shadow at Morning wrote: Rozen: Am I the only one who doesn't care about the animation quality unless it's so bad as to be distracting (à la Cinder roof-hopping)?

Winter's aircraft is apparently really damn stylish. Neat. -This is RWBY. It's strongest arm is animation during combat. If that area decays, it's bad. Most people watch it for the fights first and foremost, after all. I'd had to agree with this sentiment, if the fights no longer become attractive to watch, RWBY pretty much becomes just another mediocre combat high school anime, unless they mange to up the ante in terms of animation or story. The entire reason the show gained hype in the first place was Monty Oum's amazing animations. But Shane is a great animator as seen with his Mega Man X Fanimation and Pyrhha vs Mercury fight, so I have hope that the 2 vs 2 and 1 vs 1 fights can be better. Plus the characters of RWBY are also very fun to watch, so I do enjoy that.

That being said, I found the fights to be okay this episode, I did feel the exposition and weird team talk to be disruptive during the JNPR fight, but actually pretty funny.

SSSN fight was also hampered with Neptune's sudden fear of water, but again it was still funny to see Neptune's actions regarding water though.

But what I didn't really like is how the team fights seem to have a tendency of being a Full Team KO by the power member which is pretty anticlimatic, or have a bunch of useless members that don't do anything special before getting knocked out. I hope we don't have to see much of that anymore.