Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.235.191.26-20140721085214

I created this account just to write this, mainly beacuse I am completly and utterly disappointed in the Volume 2 trailer, as well as Volume 1. I've read all of the fan's of RWBY counterarguments on why RWBY is this, or why it's that, and how the writing isn't -that- bad. Honestly, I don't want to have to counter the flawed 'no originality' arguments, nor do I want to listen to you rant about how you don't see ME doing anything, therefore I have no right to criticize.(A fallecy in its own right) Which is false, I wrote a fanfiction thats 100k in length that is better than this "series", and I wrote it in under 3 months. I don't want to listen to the man children whine and rant about how I'm stupid for not likeing something.

What I want is answers, answers for the most obvious misrepresentation and borderline false advertising Rooster Teeth and the RWBY team has done to date.

When the trailers all came out, I loved them, I stil do, to this day I rewatch the White and Red trailers. This was going to be amazing! Strong female characters kicking ass, who had more than silly tight cloths (or none at all) and had a REAL backstory. These characters looked promising! The Grimm had potential! The weapons were cool! Creative! Not to mention the conflicting personalities each of these girls had! Weiss, looking prim and proper, clashing with the party girl as Blake casually observed with mute interest and Ruby, looking to be an extreamly confident character, either backed her "sister" and further cemented a horrid team dynamic or tried to defuse the situation at the cost of her sister's feelings.

So much potential; all of it wasted and nearly outright lied about.

Have you seen the trailer for Volume Two? Does this look ANYTHING like what we were promised by with the trailers? Volume One has the very, very flimsy excuse of expositon, beacuse there was none, as well as "character development"; we still know nothing of Ruby's parent/relative/person Summer. I can't remember even a mention of Yang's past or even a coherent thought coming from her, Blake and Weiss were the ONLY main characters who had real and meaningful development and...and well personality!

What is Ruby outside of a child who loves cookies and has redish hair? Who is Yang outside of a goofy and humorous personality?

The answer is nothing, and don't anyone try to say that something was mentioned outside of the series about these topics. An Anime or any work of art needs to be able to stand on it's own two feet, a creator can't just say "oh yes, this is X or Y, forgot to mention that." Do you think artists would be so aclaimed if they just described what they wanted to paint? Or just outlined what they wanted to write?

Again, the answer is no.

Back to my original point; what did we see in the Volume Two trailer?

More High-School melodram that belongs in Twilight. Yes, I just went there. A DANCE...A FUCKING DACE WAS ADVERTISED IN AN ANIME ABOUT GIRLS GOING TO SCHOOL TO KILL THINGS! AND PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT WAS GOOD! Do I want just gratuidious amounts of violence? No, I don't, I love having themes and pourpse behind the conflicts, I love having characters who have personalities, flaws, hardships. No, I am not complaining about character building by pointing out this dance, it hints at Jaune finally realizing he can bang the red-head, but this is NOT good character building.

This is sacrificing precious screentime, screentime RWBY of all animes can not afford to waste, on very minor, very remedial things that have no wieght to the overarching plot or story.

Will the Beacon Prom night truly have an impact on the story? No, no it won't. If it does I may just hack into fanfiction, take all the fics, and hire an animation team to make the fics come true. Let me tell you something, fanfic is not that good, mine is not that good, but it's better in terms of plot, theme, characters, action, and originality than cannon RWBY is.

What else did we see in the trailer?

Some fluff, filler, RWBY interaction and some real building up of a plot. Ozpin and some character discussing war, some political intruige maybe, Cinder being herself. This is all good, this I have no problem with, this I support! I want more of this! RWBY needs more of this! Just get some good combat with originality and-

Oh, and then the trailer takes a crap all over itself. The music was well synced, and the music itself was great! The problem was the content, as most things with RWBY are.

What is the first thing we see? A mech, a fucking mech. No words in my vocabulary can describe the amount of dissapointment I felt when I saw that. What happened to all that original weapon making? Where is that self-proclaimed creativity? To anyone new to this 'anime' thing, mechs are the most over used "super-weapon" in the history of anime/manga; outside of love of course. Love always prevails!

Next we see...Ruby kidnapping Penny? I can't comment on this, as Penny is one of the characters we know the least about that actually showed up in the series. Almost at Qruow levels (did I spell that right?) really. Fine, I'll role with it. A shot of Pyrrha fighting a semi-main villian, cool, that's good. Next is...wait, we will actually get to see more than  a single scence of combat in this Volume? We are getting back to our advertised roots?!

Then Wolverine in a bookstore happens. And I loose all faith I had in this anime ever being what it could be. Oooooo, he turned the lights down! Shit just got real! You expect me to be on the edge of my seat when Wolverine wannabe jumps up and attacks? Yea, okay, it's been proven that these people can fucking TANK like no tank before them. People are getting SHOT in these things and you expect me to worry about some sharp nails?

Don't make me laugh.

Then the mech shows up again, in it's bland ass military poopdeck grey color and generic weapondry. I don't think I need to talk about this again. All I see is more stupid mec-

WAS THAT A GRIMM? The creatures that have been built up since the beginning of the anime? What could they be doi-

Oh, they're already gone. Well, there goes all my exitment. That missle shooty down thing from Blake was cool, but I'm just kinda bumbed at this point. And this fight between Pyrrha and Cardin shows some possible character development. Maybe there is some hope afteral-

Wait, nevermind. It's the mech again. That and a laser beam/plasma gun for a primary weapon for the dude on the motercycle. Wow, really outdid yourselves there, remind me why a giant mech is running from a motercycle? Maybe beacuse mechs suck? Another snippet of school drama that hardly anyone with brain cells wants to see in an anime proclaimed to be about combat. Followed by more arse grey mech and it's laser light show.

Oh! I forgot about the whole 'Ruby gets saved from a truck by Penny! The drama! The feels!'. Maybe beacuse the character stength is WAY above that of kinda fast truck? The MM sisters got shot POINT BLANK by SHOTGUN SHELLS. How stupid do you think we are with that obvious bait for Penny fans cuse you made her badass in a two min fight scene?

I didn't even see Weiss for the entire thing outside of the intro and background. I suppose this is what she gets for daring to have a depth of personality in the first volume.

My entire argument is this; where is the show we were promised? Where's the action? Where's the great soundtrack? RWBY has an AMAZING soundtrack, one that the creators have yet to capitalize on. Where are the CHARACTERS we see in the trailers? Where is the originality you promised us? Where are the enviornments we see in the trailers? Where are the trailers at ALL in cannon?

Can you imagine if a movie had these four amazing combat sequences in the trailer, but then cut them out? How much shit would that generate? Or in a game?

Why is this accpetable?

My grammar is not the best, and I'm not editing. Anyone who thinks grammar ability is an indication of intelect has some intelligence problems of their own.  