Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20130728185452/@comment-4830106-20130811035802

Hallucinia wrote: I think one of the hardest parts of making a show (or really, any creative medium whatsoever) is to be able to keep a gauge on the level of "maturity" in it. Personally, while I would like RWBY to get a bit more serious, and start to approach some adult themes, I certainly wouldn't want it to reach Warhammer 40,000 or The Monstrumologist levels of holy-shit-life-sucks-we're-gonna-die!

RWBY, though, well, is about young girls and boys battling monsters and saving the world, it, in my mind, is still very much a "coming of age" story. To put excessive brutality into it would kind of distract from its central themes.

Although, I think it would be pretty cool for a more serious spin-off series focusing on the more adult members of the cast, such as Ozpin, Glynda, etc, dealing with adult issues, such as spirituality, meaning of life, and moving beyond past failures.

Though, of course, I believe for now, we should just:

Grit our teeth and wait for Thursday!

(Well, it's Friday for me actuallly....)

I wonder who made up the meme in the first place, anyways? Guilty!

But seriously, it's entirely possible to put really adult themes into a show meant for a young audience, and still pull it off well. Avatar is the best example, and it's one of the things that makes the show so good (although it is taking a pretty dark turn now). For example, Wan Shi Tong's line(s) in the Spirit Library:

"Do you think you are the only ones to think your war was justified? No, I hid this library because the only knowledge that humans wanted was an edge, over other humans."

Or the entire character development of Zuko. Zuko is perhaps one of the most complex and well developed characters I've seen in fiction, period.