User blog comment:DiegoAnime3000/RWBY Volume 3 has gone into production!/@comment-25555436-20150619174425/@comment-9464517-20150621004727

I feel like the action scenes in Volume 2 took a turn for the worse. Granted, the Yang/Neo and Weiss/Lieutenant fights were entertaining, but they were the only ones that really stood out to me from that season. The food-fight was funny at first but dragged on for too long, the battle against the mech and Pyrrha's tournament match were too one-sided to be interesting, and the less said about Breach, the better. None of the other skirmishes stood out at all. The combat was the show's unique selling point back in Volume 1, but now that's gone too and we have nothing left.

People sometimes trash the Black Trailer for whatever reason, but I really wish the show had gone more in the direction it indicated. It's undoubtedly my favourite thing Rooster Teeth has ever produced. Minimal dialogue, artsy setting and flashy but tasteful action. The last 30-40 seconds of that trailer (the robot fading into rose petals, Adam's unwillingness to let Blake go, and Blake solemnly de-coupling the carriages and that WONDERFUL final shot of her fading into red as a strong independent figure as that gorgeous piano ostinato plays) still amaze me every time I watch them. They conveyed more genuine emotion with one line of dialogue ("Goodbye") than all the speeches of "Mountain Glenn" and "The Stray" put together. The most commonly-given criticism of the trailer is that the voice acting was sub-par, to which I would retort by pointing out Arryn's delivery of that line. Perfectly nuanced and sounding tough but heartbroken. All in all, it's a fantastic trailer, and, crucially, it displays an intriguing, enigmatic narrative and artistic flourishes while still having outrageously entertaining combat.

Maybe that's why I always trash the show so eagerly. I wanted it to be a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, while Monty, Miles and Kerry were more focused on making a Big Trouble in Little China, and I've never forgiven them for lying about what the show would be through the trailers (even the train-wreck that was the Yellow Trailer had that nice quote at the start).

But I always detested the idea of speaking ill of the dead.