Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170224140119/@comment-4010415-20170228004313

KNN005 wrote:   1. I see. Personally I like those scenes. They really made the show more action-packed. The episodes that were more regular life were the ones I hate.

To me the best episode is still No Breaks. Hands down the best fights and it shows the ladies actually putting in work instead of whining about teen problems and juggling school work.

2. But if I was doing a show I would never have characters slowly get powerful. At the start of the show they would have everything they need to win the war of good and evil. They'd be able to destroy trains if that's the kind of story I was doing. But the point would be the character would have to grow and learn when to go all-out and when to go for precision. Why blow a train up when you could just snipe the driver? See what I mean? Run of cool is fine. But you gotta do it is steps. But that's not to say you have to gradually make characters get stronger. You could just have them gradually get smarter. 1. But RWBY can be action-packed without the action causing there to be inconsistencies in the characters' abilities or the plot and without negatively affecting the quality of the story's writing. No Brakes was exactly one of those action sequences that actually made sense, didn't have a negative effect on the quality of the story's writing, and didn't leave us with inconsistency about the characters' abilities or the plot.

Meanwhile, we had the Paladin chase scene which didn't make much sense (How could Roman be so stupid as to do that?!) and didn't have any consequences. It was just there to be cool. We also had the food fight, where Ruby showed off the ability to do something really powerful with her Semblance and then, for some reason, wasn't able to do that again until the Volume 4 Character Short. Even when she did the spiral move while trying to get past Mercury, it wasn't as powerful as it was in the food fight. And then there's the huge difference in the strength of Coco's gun between Breach and volume 3 as a whole.

2. A lot of people find it more interesting when the characters grow in strength over time, especially since, if the characters are super duper powerful from the beginning, it's hard to make it believable that it's taking so damn long for the good guys to make progress or win.

Plus, stories tend to not to be as interesting or entertaining if there's no struggle or risk involved. That was another issue that a lot of people had with RWBY was that the bad guys (Grimm and people) were too easily defeated and the majority of the fanbase never felt like there was actually any risk or danger until volume 3. That was one thing that made a lot of people like volume 3 - we actually worried about the main characters for once. For once, it didn't feel like they're super invincible badasses who can't possibly get hurt or lose. There's risk involved, and when there's danger and risk, that makes their triumphs feel all the more awesome and worth celebrating.