User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Philosophy in RWBY/@comment-5041507-20150127174639/@comment-25555436-20150127182646

The show tries to be serious and have moments of drama, but the almost-complete lack of any dark elements makes those moments be hard to take seriously, and in a good number of cases makes them be present in word only.

The Grimm are very powerful, threatening, and destructive, can live for many years and don't need to eat, drink or even do anything, and have forced mankind to live inside kingdoms very far away from each other, with the ones that don't usually having to face constant attacks and such. Seems dark and interesting (somewhat), right? 

And yet, they are among the most innefective mooks I've ever seen in fiction, with only about 2 being worth something, and they didn't last long either against the Hunters. And later they were insta-killed by Coco, who is only 1 year stronger than Team RWBY and JNPR. So imagine her after graduating.

This makes you wonder just how did they get so far?

The show tries to be dark at times, but it's just so light-hearted it just fails hard at this. It's like My Little Pony trying to be Shin Megami Tensei or Prototype. It's like Doraemon trying to be InFamous. If RWBY wants it's attempts at drama and dark moments work like they should, it needs to grow a pair.