User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V4E5 - Polystralia - Impressions/Recap/@comment-4010415-20161205153713

1. Blake's face, tho. It... reminds me of something...

2. Well, only 1/3 of Menagerie is actually safe and usable, unless they wanna battle the desert-dwelling creatures that are apparently more dangerous than the ones in Vacuo.

3. Honestly, prior to volume 3, since the writing was pretty weak and unimpressive and not much actual plot was going on, the action scenes carried the show. Once actual plot things started happening in volume 3, now that we have *gasp* a story to pay attention to, the action no longer has to pull the dead weight and carry the show.

The fight in Players and Pieces got me hooked on RWBY, and the action scenes helped me keep watching long enough to see things like Burning the Candle and survive until volume 3. I actually started to lose faith in RWBY prior to volume 3's premiere, and it didn't start drawing me back in until It's Brawl in the Family. Personally, the action could only carry me so far in the series, considering the minimal plot and the weak points in the writing from the Rule of Cool stuff ("It'd be so awesome if Roman chased Blake and Sun down a highway in a mech and then Team RWBY fought him! Don't even worry about consequences for either party, just enjoy the action, woohoo").

So, yeah, I personally don't mind the lack of amazeballs action, as long as there's actual plot that doesn't get screwed up by "But it'd be so cool if this happened tho". Also, to be fair to the Sea Dragon fight, the Team RWBY vs giant Nevermore fight of volume 1 wasn't as high speed as Yang vs Neo or Blake & Sun vs Roman. The "multiple characters vs a giant Grimm/big tough enemy" fights tend to be the slower ones. (And, looking back at volume 3, 4 vs 4 fights do too, but hey, they're trying to keep up with 8 combatants at once)

4. Have a crazy Sun face for your viewing pleasure: