Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-14138255-20131019173146/@comment-25555436-20141028224720

WC-83 wrote: Okay, I may be channeling Angry Joe here and this will get messy so if you are a RWBY apologist, who just glorifies it and says nothing is wrong with it, leave this thread now, this will be a long rant. I want to make one thing clear... I love RWBY, I cannot find a better show out there right no to occupy my time (except for self-reviewing Sonic the Hedghog (SAT-AM) but I digress), and I have seen every episode since it came out including the trailers so don't you DARE say I don't like the show itself. I will just say what is wrong as well as ways to fix them and at the end

1. First off, I want to start with videos that made us fall in love with RWBY; The traile. These were the best things to be made beore the show started. For many they saw the last Season 10 episode of Red vs. Blue and, out of no where, out comes Ruby's trailer and before we knew what happened she blasted a werewolf's face off. Wow. This alone gets us hooked. Then we get to my favorite trailer, Weiss', without any talking we are sucked in to a magical and mysterious world and we are curious as to who these people are (we didn't even know Ruby's name!). With the Black trailer we got voice acting and we would think that it would suck from there on, NO it got better! We all to this date are fascinated by Blake, we all want to know who and where she is. Adn Yang, don't get me started, when we saw her death grip Junior's balls we all were like "ooh" in a pained but impressed expresssion. OK I have to tell you the bad news, Monty Oum decided to IGNORE THEM! What the F*******!!! After giving us these huge cinematic brilliances he decides to make them NON-CANON. WTF, we loved those things that's where we were born as a community! This is exemplified by the Forever Fall episode where there was alot of oppurtunuty to dive into Blake and even give us a little cameo for Adam. NOPE! There goes anybuild up for Blake or any chance to show...ANYTHING for the trailers and instead derp their eyes elsewhere to the distance. If you want a good story for an anime, you also need some elements from the trailer to keep us in and gently have us go away from those, give us the fight scenes and the action and the mystique from the trailers instead of BLATENTLY IGNORING THEM!

2. Next up I want to bring up another thing the setting. You may think that I hate it or I don't appreciate it. Not the case, I love it, I love how it was made. According to legend, Monty made it at a diner and made it from scratch, tha is resourceful he really put effort into fleshing out the world. But where are we in this great world of new oppurtunities...? I a F****ING SCHOOL! That's right, rather than explore this brave new world and let us absorb it they trap us in a typical school setting to explain it. Now I can't rant on this too much because they do explain and explore it, however they do it in the confines of the school most of the time. There's the occasional forest like the one they go to during initiation and Forever Fall and a few glimpses of Vale's city but we're mostly there at Beacon. Now I realize there is the Vytal Festival coming up so that's a good oppurtunity to show us some culture.

3. My next point, the anime influences. I haven't seen much anime other than Avatar and my new favorite RWBY, and I like giving homages but for RWBY there are perhaps too many. They even put them up on the wiki ITSELF, they point out the obvious references on the WIKI!!! I seen enough Soul Eater from my friend, read it on Wikipedia, and even this wiki to know that Ruby and Beacon Academy are ripoffs of Maka and the DWMA from Soul Eater! A RIPOFF! Here! On RWBY! If you wanted to make an original work for a while, make it ORIGINAL! Now I have to admit I do like Ruby and the rest alot but there as to be a little more creativity from now on, less sterotypes and cliches and if you must have some good ones

4. The short episode length. Oh my GOD this is one of the most annoying parts of the problems. The thing about Red vs. Blue is that it was originally all comedy and no real meta story, this made it accessable for the 5 min. format. But here you are trying to tell an engaging story and you can't do that if you have only FIVE MINUTES OF RUN TIME! The thing about the trailers is that they fit because it was all action but if you make something 5 min. of endless nothing but story it doesn't work. If you want story you have to make it interesting, by making it 15 min. they can have enough time to synergize deep plot, kick ass action, and LMAO comedy in one episode! ONE! It doesn't have to be Star Trek TNG long, it just has to be interesting long! As in long enough to make your week that you had us wait for! If you want us to wait a week, give us something to really watch a sip a Dr. Pepper to instead of waiting 7 full days to watch a 5 min. anti bullying PSA!

5. Ok I'm almost done, just bare with me, my final point for the day is the lack of focus. In RWBY we see quite a bit less of RWBY and goe in between two teams to tell a story in a 5 min. slot time. That would have been fine, if they kept the main story about RWBY! But no, we even focus on JNPR rather than RWBY for a 4 part episode arc about Jaune! JAUNE! Now I don't hate Jaune, no one does, he is just so damn loveable, but e can't take up that much time, JNPR is a part of the supporting cast, the whole show is about RWBY. Now I like that they gave these guys their own stroy, but guess what...? THEY WERE ALREADY DOING THAT!!! For the first few episodes they were doing just that, they all had their own places to go, we had quite a bit of RWBY and then we cut to JNPR for a little while, nice, natural! But not only that, but they even almost forget about some characters like Blake! F*****ING BLAKE!!! One of the most popular characters in the show and no sign of her and DON'T give the "ninja" excuse here, DON'T YOU DARE. And I mean it was fine for a little while, we went from "ooh, Blake's not there, wherever did she go?" to "WHERE THE F*** is Blake! WE have been waiting several weeks and no real input from her, where is she!?" In the most recent episode they even just send her away instead of giving us a look back into her trailer so we can get some well deserved Blake time (I just wanted her to sit on that rock and think and we could have all been happy!). For a show where she is a part of the actual name of is UNACCEPTABLE!!!

OK I am done ranting and I want you to reply and tell me how the show can approve and somethings I may be overlooking or wrong about but I do NOT want to see people saying that I am crazy and that the show is absolutly picture PERFECT! NO, just no! Please reply, forgive me if I hurt any of you because of my harsh words but ell me what you think, I'm going to drink some water..... Ok, I want to ask you something first before I say anything to half-counter that: Did you change your mind about any of these points some time after making that post? Like, you watched Vol.2 and changed your mind? Or someone on previous posts gave good counters and made you change your mind?

I just want to know before I say anything. It would be stupid for me to rant about something made 1 year ago by someone that most likely changed his/her mind during that time. If you haven't, or want me to counter all those anyway, I will, but if you changed your mind and it's not necesary...

PS: No, I didn't bother to read all the other previous posts. They are too many, and too big. A multi TL;DR.