Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-67.240.160.222-20141107040111

The point of this is to explore objectively what would happen exactly if RT did try to have a darker story, like how most of the audience wants it, and how the RWBY community would react.

First of all, if you honestly had the simple choice, would you personally rather the show become darker? Even if there are actually kids watching this show and despite the developers apparently having said somewhere that they want the show to remain kid friendly? We all know not all of the audience that watches their videos are kids, adults, manchilds, etc anyway. Should we even be bothering with an age distinction for this show when everyone from middle school kids to college graduates still watch Red vs Blue? Can RT even bring themselves to ignore that part of the audience and cater towards the mature audience? Is it for the best?

Cause lets face it. Most of us expect and want this story to become more mature as we progress throughout Remnant. We're all waiting for some great realization where RWBY and co are shown to have grown out of their youthful shells and have actually experienced the real world outside of their fantasies. We keep telling ourselves to wait and see what happens. That the show is still in its early stages and that we need to give the developers their time.

Lets say it finally happens. We get a story that actually expresses the loss of innocence and harsh realities where not everything goes cleanly. How would they even do that?

I'm not asking that because I don't think RT as developers can't handle it or portray it. I'm saying this because I'm afraid for this show after they've produced it. When we say "a loss of innocence" what does that mean exactly? Relative to whose innocence? To me, a loss of innocence and an approach to reality would be a story of something closer to Game of Thrones. There are betrayals, liars, thieves, rivalries, and murders. If we approached a Game of Thrones-like setting and actually had more realistic representations of interpersonal relationships throughout the show, that would only be relative to myself and my personal portrayal of a loss of innocence. Ultimately, we run into the problem of subjectivity and how to have our realities correlate to Remnant's reality is something we're going to have to put up with once the developers completely decide on their storyboard.

If they go too innocent in the portrayal of the story, then the audience might see it as cliche and overwrought. If they go too far off the deep end, too few people are going to appreciate their expression.

I'm worried that if they show some kind of artistical, arbitrarily "dark" setting for this show (that haughty artist's attitude that I fear Monty might be approaching) they'll destroy the utopia that they miraculously have created for themselves in RWBY. I'm worried that if they stick too closely to being "easy, and child-like", they'll never satisfy the mature audience thats looking for something grand and morbidly exhilarating.

Above all, I'm worried that they just won't satisfy us because they've limited themselves, cutting corners, dropping storyboards, and relieving themselves of so many things important to us that they might not even realize, because we don't even realize it for ourselves. We don't know what we want precisely. Its up to them to satisfy us nonetheless and give us a story.

See you at Volume 3. 