Talk:Pyrrha Nikos/@comment-2602:306:805D:8C10:D95C:C8E5:3755:71C4-20180320134905/@comment-25936766-20180320212137

You wanna know why I think V4-5 are inferior to V1-3? Alright then. Rant incoming:

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Volume 4 had issues, big issues. Some, such as the fights being slower and less flashy, were understandable, since not only was Vol.4 supposed to be less "dramatic" than Vol.3, the team lost their 2 best fight animators (Monty and Shane) and had to get (re)used to Maya. Others, such as the actual writing of the fights, are not so excuseable.

1) RNJR vs Geist has a lot of teleporting around and has little actual teamwork until the very end, not to mention it's freaking stupid how everyone tries to fight a rock with blades instead of just letting Nora, who has a Grenade-Hammer, do it.

2) Qrow vs Tyrian fight, which looks cool at first, and has a good song accompanying it, but when you stop and look at it for more than 3 seconds, it goes from a cool fight to a contest to see who is dumber:

Tyrian failing to see/avoid Qrow's slow-ass punch done right in his face, then just sitting there while Qrow WALKS towards his sword, like 3 meters away. (Say what you want about scorpion vision, Tyrian is not a scorpion, he already has a tail as a faunus trait, and nothing says he's blind) All this, despite showing amazing reflexes against RNJR.

3) Nuckelavee fight, which was boring mostly. The Nuckelavee, despite being a HORSE, spends 98% of the fight just standing in one spot while it slams it's hands against everything. And it's design is literally a meme at this point, a wacky waving inflatable tube Grimm.

But Vol.4's main issue is the pacing, and how Miles and Kerry overestimated their writing skill. It juggles between like 8 plots, and we have no idea of when each plot is occurring in relation to each other. The limited screentime per season combined with so many plots, meant that most characters's stories were rushed, and in some cases their development was rushed too.

And of course, Ruby got basically no development. At most her typical "reacting when the plot demands it" moment at the end, but nothing that sticks with her. But that wasn't new.

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Then came Vol.5. More budget, more experience, more animators, and they've been working on it even before Vol.4 ended. Then they advertised it as some epic story that would divide the heavens. And to be honest, the first pair of episodes were awesome.

....But it did not last. There were almost no fights in the entire V5, and those that we got weren't really good (the last "amazing" fight before Raven vs Cinder, was in Yang's Short, the fucking trailer. Sun vs Ilia was good, but it was too short).

And then when the actual Battle of Haven began, we got nothing but a complete mess. Most actual fights between characters were skipped a thousand times, and despite it being Heroes vs Villains, instead of an actual TEAMFIGHT we got nothing but a series of dull 1v1s, where you can barely even see the others fight.

And then in the finale, they build up to this epic RWB vs MEH fight, shilling Hazel as this unstoppable juggernaut.....and then we cut back and RWB already won, somehow, with no injuries or signs of being tired, and we didn't see a bit of it. This is the most insulting part of V5, and I seriously doubt Monty would've liked the idea of skipping a fight that was built up so much.

So, when the action fails, it can only depend on the story....which was worse than in V4. The plot barely progresses with every ep after ep4, the heroes themselves don't do shit but laze around at home, we don't even see them sparring except 1 time, and we get episodes were the plot doesn't move on until the very last 2 minutes.

And what happens before those last 2 mins in each ep? Well, the rest of the screentime was often dedicated to unimportant things, or answering questions they could've answered elsewhere, or just reminding the audience about things we've known already.

There's also too much wasted potential. Ruby never ever used her Semblance once; Jaune and Oscar never interacted personally; they never do something as simple as going out and walking around Mistral (which makes it harder to care for it); and on and on.

The only improvement it did was the visuals. Everything else was shit, was boring, and was insulting. It abandons what made RWBY fun while not compensating for it, to the point most people just skipped through the episodes until stuff actually happened (no joke).