User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Philosophy in RWBY/@comment-5041507-20150127174639/@comment-3146930-20150127181334

Personally, I don't see why people want to go in a darker direction. RvB for example spent a lot of time focusing on humor before there was any kind of long-running plot. Even now, despite the show having more serious story lines the humor is still there. RWBY will probably follow a similar path, with humor and action taking up the first few volumes with the show steadily becoming a little more intense as it goes on. At this point I'm kind of just waiting for something to happen, as it has been about 2 years and we really don't know the bad guy's plan.