Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20151101163739/@comment-9464517-20151101180906

Azurebluecyan wrote: 1. The animation didn't suck and the jnpr fights have been slower paced since forever.

2. I think people mistake a lack of Monty's style of cinematography for the fights being worse. They really weren't.

3. Pyrrha's animated fighting and most of what Ren did is in line with how their cinematography usually goes. I'd only call Nora the weak point of the fight choreography and only because of her charge attack.

4. Nora's semblance was for comedic timing, in a tournament held to show off skill. Port and Oobleck rambling on about what makes Nora bounce back from a stun shock is conversational banter you expect in a tournament.

5. It's a lot better placed than ruby telling blake that Yang's bouncing back. 1. Players and Pieces called. It wishes to have a strongly-worded discussion on this matter with you.

2. The change in cinematography is aggravating, sure, but what's worse is the change in editing. Gone are the exhilirating fights with fast cuts and constant action - they have been usurped by obnoxious, frequent pauses and 10x the amount of comic relief present up to this point. The editing is noticeably slower, only occasionally reaching the glorious heights it did under Monty's guidance (such as when Ren runs towards the sniper with Pyrrha defending him).

3. Not really. Pyrrha had that one tiny segment where she fought off the two BRNZ members in the same fashion that she fought off CRDL, but for the most part she almost felt nerfed in this fight - cut out of most shots and apparently doing nothing in the moments between when she was shown and when she was not. Ren also seemed to be absent for much of the battle, only occasionally showing up, and apart from the one part I highlighted, not doing much either.

4. It was contrived as fuck. I know it can be explained away as being "for the benefit of the spectators", but isn't it convenient that the only semblance explained in the whole fight was the one belonging to a JNPR member whose semblance had not been seen by the audience up to this point?

5. That was contrived as fuck too.