Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24.1.105.23-20140715074343/@comment-9090085-20140718013311

76.104.210.252 wrote: Ever seen Mobile Suit Gundam 00? At least that's one of the shows that explained what Celestial Being's doing and how the world's responding to their global intervention. Within five episodes, I already identified the main character's motivations of eliminating war with the Gundams, what kind of personalities they have, a brief, but not full novel about their backstories, and other supporting characters that blend in well with the main cast. And how is that not what we have in RWBY?

I went and checked my DVDs, and we only get a little of Allelujah's backstory in ep.05, and we don't in particular learn about his "space trauma" until Season 2. Setsuna and Lockon's backstories are not properly revealed until ep.07, and we much more near ep.20. and for Tieria we get next to nothing until Season 2. Similarly, we don't learn the details of the event that lead Sumeragi to join Celestial Being until Season 2, or that Graham accidentally killed a superior officer until around ep.15, or that  Sergei has a family until Season 2.

As for Attack on Titan? Yes, we do learn a lot about our "core" main characters backstories in those first five episodes... except that, 20+ episodes in, we still don't know why Eren is a Titan Shifter, or even how he became one; In fact, we have even more mysteries added to his backstory with the reveal that he is also the "Coordinate", which manly explains why the group that's blackmailing(yes, blackmailing) the other Titan Shifters to capture him want him. And we know nothing about that group.

My point is not that those series are bad, far from it. But that they didn't get us to care about their characters by revealing their entire life's story in the first five episodes; they instead revealed some of those backstories early on, told us more later, and let us infer much more.

And that is exactly what we are getting is RWBY.

I know it's normal for us in the internet age to want everything right now, but that runs almost completely opposite to how you write a good story. That's less a problem for you, and more a problem for those who want everyone's backstory right now.