Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-74.101.236.56-20170321065847/@comment-68.194.1.35-20170609054042

ChishioKunrin wrote: The crew has told us that Salem was one of the earliest characters designed, so yes, Salem was going to be a character before the Maidens plot. Also, with the reveal of Salem, it suddenly makes sense why, in the volume 1 director's commentary, while Miles and Kerry were talking about Jen Taylor's recording session, Miles says one of the things they told her to do was to sound scarier. Basically, they booked her for an hour, and she did a perfect recording on the first try, so they tried to fill time by having her redo it in various ways: "Slower." "Faster." "Scarier."...

OK. Even though you can be forgiven for not thinking she was in it from the begining because they didn't hint that the narrator was significant or evil in the slightest until she actually did turn out to be significant. I don't really get how the reveal of Salem or the multiple takes shows how Salem was in there before the maidens Arc was added. The show is written in such a way where the narrator could be anyone and it wouldn't matter.

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Oh... So it was Miles who added in that confusing Brothers Grimm thing in. I should have really expected as much. Come to think of it, the original idea of protecting Relics kind of makes sense. After all, the initiation mission did have the characters try to safely recover "a relic". So MMAAAYYYBBBEEEE Ozpin is trying to implant the idea of Hunters protecting a relic at school without telling them in order to have the relic be kept a secret and protected at the same time. Maybe the initiation wasn't pointless filler at all... Except, we don't know if the 3 other school do this kind of subtlety. They did all run away when danger was present at the arena. And none of Team RRNJ seemed to care when Qrow mentioned this. so... Eh?

Also, Realy? The bad guys motivation was originally to collect 4 seperate Macguffins to gain power. But now it is to collect 8 seperate Macguffinsto gain power? Why are the other 4 necessary?

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That would make sense, They just never show it AT ALL. She never once holds her swords by the handles or fights in said areas. How would she even use her swords in ger hands? Use only 1? One in each hand? Would the others be spares? Could she still use the lasers? How would they have wrote that in a way that fits in with her wire based fight style? But it really dosen't matter as they don't cover any such situation in the show,.

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Once again, NEVER SHOWN THAT. All we can do is assume  I still believe all of that stuff would be TAUGHT in combat schools, and then APPLIED  in Hunter schools.

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So you have to go to a school, to learn how to get to a school, so you can get to a school to fight things. (Seems like they could cut out some steps.) I mean we never learn if gradeschoolers learn anything to do with fighting or at what point do they let lthe kids decide if they want to go learn and fight shit, or go into a normal faggoty school and not die. I don't understand the purpose of teachers teaching kids how to use weapons THAT THEY BUILT THEMSELVES. Shouldn't they know how it works by default since they built it? How is somebody else going to know more about it then them? Or can they only build weapons based on certain archetypes of established weapons with already existing fighting styles. (i.e. swords, axes, rifles, etc.) That sounds like it would stifle creativity and negate the purpose of building weapons themselves entirely. But then again I don't think there are many purse, camera, thermos, and cane related fighting techniques. So to me it would make more sense that they would just teach them the basics of weaponcrafting, let there own imagination run wild, and send them out into the woods to fight shit, with supervision. These are people who train kids to fight eldritch abominations, they don't sound like the responsible type.

Also, Why would they need they wait until Hunter school to inform them they are going to be fighting Grimm? A lot of them know they are going to fight Grimm that is why they wanted to be Hunters. That would be like waiting 4 years to read over the syllabus that was handed to you at the beginning of high school. They should get right into it, for how serious they claim the  job is.

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So... Yeah. it's exposition. Granted it wasn't to horribly done, but it still exposition none the less.

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What the Hell France? ... I don't think I get that joke. My point was if you are going to reference something do it properly. Have Menagerie be West of where they are now. For the "inspiration" part I will leave you with these quotes Yahtzee quotes (albeit altered slightly) from his Too Human review "Many writers treat mythology as a free idea bucket." "It's based on a reimagining AKA COPY of Journey to the West's mythology. Also I find it funny that Weiss and alot of characters names only fit the governments stupid color rule even though they are in a language that dosen't exist on their world. (i.e Weiss is a German word, there is no Germany in Remnant. Unless this story takes place after some sort of apocalypse where Germany existed at one point.) It would be funny if when Jacques pitched his daughters name to the govenment and they were like "This has nothing to do with a color! Off to the gas chambers with this one!" (What type of government forces their citizens to name their kids a certain way?) Pyrrha Nikos and and Peter Port don't have anything to do with colors, so I am guessing their ancestors were on the other side of that war. It its weird: one side tries to ban art, the other wants to erect a system which tells you how to name your children. Both sides sound like complete asshats. Also fuck sculptors, musicians, and playwrights they aren't artists at all.

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Why not? Grimm wiping out entier villages seems to be commonplace in this world. If the government is shitty enough to dictate on how you should name your child. Why not do the sensible thing and order all citizens go to a Hunter and have their Aura unlocked. That way if a Grimm raid (or car crash due to a Paladin), or some other tragedy occurs they have a little extra chance of escaping. This show dosen't seem to follow the rules of its own universe sometimes. Secondly, YES! That is what I've been saying! Aura can't protect you from getting knocked out.. And it dosen't work when you are currently knocked out. Remembed Neo trying to finish Yang off on the train? If Raven didn;t show up and Aura DID protect her while unconscious, Neo would probably have been stabbing her until the train actually crashed.

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Yeah... The problem with that "recoil shenanigans" theory is that during the Yellow Trailer Yang clearly has ORANGE dust in her weapons. Yet at the 2:57 and 3:09 mark she uses the recoil to boost her jumps anyways. So yeah, Gravity Dust is for rocket jumping... except for when it is not... like at all. What purpose does it serve then? To open Black Holes, maybe? I thought that was supposed to be a rock clone that Blake made. Also all of the visible sword slashes we see her do are purple, with your logic, wouldn't that push her intended target away? That seems like something you wouldn't want your sword to do.

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Its not mixing Dust in the middle of a battle that irks me, its that no character ever mixes Dust in the show proper, NOT EVEN ONCE. If you didn't watch World of Remnant you would have no clue of it even being a thing. Nor is it made clear on what the four main types of Dust are and how they can be mixed. The main 4 appear to be: Fire, Ice, Lightning (Even though slow-mo on Ruby's lightning round is a different color than the Dust shown in the World of Remnant), and... a green comma? Maybe it is air dust? But the wiki says they made the color of air dust white so, meh. It also says there are both man-made and nature-made Dust combos. Are they different in any way? Is Gravity Dust a rare combination found deep within the Earth? What two or more types create it? How many combos even exist?

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That makes sense IN RETROSPECT. There is still like two volumes of show between learning about the councils in the kingdoms and learning that the kingdoms went thru a reform after the Great War. That leaves a lot of time to speculate. They could have shoved this in potentially when they were playing Risk and giving exposition on the kingdoms. (Come to think of it, we see Lie in one episodes loading his handguns with bullets, that would be a good time to show Dust mixing on the actual show.)

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"Congratulations! You now have 6 or 7 characters in one scene and there is alot of information you need to get out in one go." "it was really stressful, I remember like, is it gonna feel like it is came out of nowhere? blah blah blah, and I don't know maybe it does." These are lines in the commentary refering to the Maidens being introduced to Pyrrha. They could easily apply to Qrow explaining Salem to Team RRNJ. They pulled the same epic mistake TWICE now! (If not more) Them dressing it up as a campfire story, told to characters who know as little as we do, dosen't end up helping much. The writers in this story are like the passengers on a crashing plane. They know they are heading towards a huge disaster so they put their seatbelt on, assume the crash position, put on the O2 mask. But sooner or later... THEY ARE GOING TO HIT THE GROUND. And when they do everyone involved would be affected in some way.

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OK, So if Winter broke him and let Winter attend the academy it would make sense that he would treat her like that. He sort of tried to do the same thing with Weiss but it was harder considering that they are seperated.

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Yep, that is exactly what is wrong with those names. Too similar, to close to each other, and not really true. The Burning the Candle title aslo works because Blake is running herself ragged over... a guy who isn't much of a threat.

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That is kind of what I expected them to do. I just imagined the situation getting more and more dire, and the characters encountering more and more fucked up things as the story went on. I haven't seen or heard about the Tumblr Q & A, I'm guessing it is really bad? A joke I liked was Ruby falling thru the tree in the first episode, referencing "landing strategies"a funny little callback to the initiations from Volume 1. Oh boy, my opinion on Sun flip-flopped throughout Volume 4. One moment he was doing cool stuff, next he is making jokes (some good and some bad), next he is being a total douche and spying on Blake's ... ugh "heartfelt conversation" with her father on how he forgives her for joining a terrorist organization, killing people, staging kidnappings, etc. But given the overall shitty quality of Blake's arc this Volume, I say Sun made it out relatively okay.

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I believe you awnsered your own question. There is no program because the already assimilated the Silver Eyed Warriors into society. So nobody but the Ozluminati (heh heh) knows about them. Although it would be a goof way to develop one of these programs secretly so Salem can't find out about it and stop it.

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Yeah. screw the timeskip. There better not be one in Volume 5.

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Glad we agree. However, I never actually saw Sword Art Online before. I was watching something elso once and saw a Youtube comment that said how bad it was. So I lookedcup how bad it was, and as a result I never wanted to check it out.

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There is a difference between anime which take place in a High School like say Watamote, and anime which take place in a High School which is supposed to teach you how to fight like Soul Eater. In the first type students are suspected to sit at a desk, take notes, and the like. They don't need an extra outfit that they can move around easier in. In the second one they are supposed to move around and fight stuff so it makes sense for the characters to fight in what they feel comfortable in. The reason I think the characters have school uniforms despite not needing them at all is because Monty admitted once he gave the writers "anime homework." i.e. watch a bunch of anime and write down whatever sticks out the most. And, yeah, the things that you see appearing alot across multiple instances of a genre or media. Those things have a name. They are called cliches. The school uniforms are just one of those, that are bought into the story by said anime homework.

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I get that but if you find out that the original model of your car was destroyed completely and its occupants were are killed due to a collision with a DOG. Would you really want to keep using that car even if they "improved" it? Never explained why his soldiers and robots are so terrible though.

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Why, However, did they send people who are essentially first year high school student, to basically stop a terrorist attack? Couldn'tt they just send someone with more expirience? And don't say "its because they are the main characters" they could have made a situation where it would be appropriate to send team RWBY to go and solve. Also this is another time Team RWBY should have ran away instead of fighting. The first being the initiation where they agree running away was the best option.

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"Build a World" Yeah, how is that working out for them? Was there no-one else who Monty could have gotten to help write his story? I mean just look at Miles work on RVB Season 13! And let's not forget his problems remembering stuff.