Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37565459-20200209022033/@comment-4010415-20200209062739

Boysmith2003 wrote: 1. A human arm can spend quite a bit of time apart from the body, so it's not too unreasonable (if a little lucky) that the arm could have survived. In addition, it's not too much of a stretch to have a clone engage Adam, grab Yang's limb and start running like hell. Risky? Sure. Impossible? No.

2. the 3D thing just sort of makes it appear plastic, as if someone is playing with dolls, because the faces are nowhere near as detailed as they need to be (which is why I would have preferred 2D) I'm well aware of the asinine time constraints and stupidly low budget they had.

3. The "Yangst" is well done and I EXPECTED emotional trauma after something as big as that, but it kind of comes off as something they shoehorned because the ramifications of what they deal with never really had an effect until right there. It's usually handled like the scene of Roman getting devoured. It's random, it happened, and no one gave a damn about it.

4. I'm sort of glad you agree with me. Generally when I state my opinion I expect a ton of mudslinging.

(Please bear in mind that i'm running through these in order again and I sort of lost intrest after Volume 5 so i'm just getting back into it on a whim) But Blake's clones don't fight people. Her clones are just empty copies that she leaves behind, while they propel her in whatever direction she wants. They don't perform any actions, they don't run anywhere, they don't attack. They sit there and take a hit for her or distract her opponent. The only thing she was able to use a clone for was for Adam to cut its head off instead of hers. She was so low on Aura that he managed to stab her and leave a scar, and she was already scared before that even happened.

And like I said, even if they had decided to go after her arm afterward, it was likely already eaten by a Grimm by then, so even if it did manage to stay viable for that long, it likely would've been digested by a Grimm.

2. Eh, RWBY Chibi looks more toy-like than RWBY does these days, in my opinion. Though, faces in 3D animations can be less expressive than in 2D, due to the restrictions of the model. If you're not careful, the face can do some funky things and end up looking freaky. Meanwhile, you can change a character's face however you want in 2D.

Though, I appreciate the work that CRWBY has done to try to bring more expressiveness to the characters' faces. Perhaps the biggest improvement is the fact that they've made it to where they can change a lot about the eyes themselves. Used to, they could only change the size of the iris, but now, they can also change the size of the pupil, as well as make adjustments to and do effects with the shine spots. It seems simple, but when these three functions are used right, they can work wonders on a character's expression. I think I first really noticed this addition to their animation capability in the Volume 5 finale when we had a closeup on Emerald's eye before she made the Salem hallucination. They animated her pupil shrinking as she screamed.

3. True. Though, the Griffon might have eaten Roman in particular due to being attracted to his negative emotions. It still came out of nowhere, and by all rights, he shouldn't have died from that.

The lack of ramifications prior to Volume 4 was honestly a big writing issue that the show had, especially in Volume 2. Blake and Sun led a giant mech down a busy highway full of civilians who didn't have their Auras unlocked, and Roman ended up using the mech to toss cars aside left and right. Those people likely died! But the only things we hear about that episode after that are Ozpin saying he heard something about "robots and rose petals in a dance club" (???) and then Winter mentioning the stolen mech prototypes in Volume 3.

There's not even a whisper about a mech that Ironwood had announced earlier that same day running through the city with the White Fang logo painted on it and throwing cars off a bridge. There should have been mention of it. Blake should have gotten in trouble for being stupid enough to run straight toward a cluster of civilians with that mech chasing her. But neither of those things happened. It was stupid.

4. No problem. I understand RWBY has its problems and has never been the best-written show.

And yeah, Volume 5 was a train wreck. I honestly could have dropped RWBY if I hadn't liked Volume 6. While Volume 6 has its own problems, it's definitely better than Volume 5, and I found it entertaining. It's also where they finally started to get their legs back in terms of the fight scene animation.