Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6533159-20170512233823/@comment-4010415-20170515160041

DemonicsFire wrote:

for me i think season 3 is when it went downhill. the whole tournament things been done sooooooo many times and it feels like random filler eps with fighting mixed in. the ending also.... "killed" it for a lot of people.

they seem to of also changed what they were doing. v1-2 seem all happy go lucky like most amine around. v3 is when it gor a bit boring for me... and then dark.... think I threw a lot of people for a loop. thinking this show would be like a lot of others then seeing a few people killed.... thank god it wasn't gory, they would of made people flip out more then they did Yeah, tons of anime do tournament arcs, and we've heard the writers even talk about it like Miles and Kerry went "Wait, so it's an anime, right? We're doing a tournament arc, right, Monty?? Right?! Can we?!"

I remember a lot of us were saying that, if RWBY followed the trope of "Tournament gets interrupted by the villains", we were gonna be mad, but when it happened, none of us were mad. So that kinda says something, that we said we would be mad if they did it, but the way that they executed it actually left us invested in what was happening and not angry at all.

Also, it's not like volume 3 focused 99% of itself on the tournament. It felt more like other things were going on while the tournament was something that was happening, and occasionally, those things carried over into the tournament. The tournament was a set piece, not a plot. That was actually a good way go to about it. They didn't have the volume take place in the tournament 99% of the time like some other anime do. Some other anime will have the tournament be the plot with a few different things happening during it, but RWBY did not do that.

And they most certainly did not change what they were doing. They always planned for it to be like this. It's just that production issues led to it taking them longer to get around to it. They even said that RWBY will get darker and more mature as it goes on. And before volume 3 started coming out, Miles and Kerry warned us that it would be darker and more mature, and that the change to darker and more mature is like if Harry Potter skipped books 2-4.