Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24.1.105.23-20140715074343/@comment-69.114.231.46-20140715181540

I agree with Robykirby, but I also can't help but feel disappointed somewhat by the show. I (and I know a lot of other people) remember what it felt like to see the Red Trailer for the first time. I thought that Ruby would be this kind of introverted badass that kind of pushed people away because she was emotionally scarred from her mother dying, but we got the immature character of Ruby Rose that was nothing like her counterpart in the Red Trailer; however, I know that Monty stated at RTX in 2013 that the Red Trailer was more like a weapon resume than a reflection of the character. Next, I  thought Weiss would be a bit weird as well and sort of respectful of others, shy, etc (you know, ice princess that wants to make friends, but can't because of the shyness/ice). Blake and Yang were exactly like I thought they would be, but the Ruby and Weiss presented in the show threw off the team dynamic that I thought they would have that would give a more serious note to the show. The feel of the show as it stood in Volume 1 made it so that Volume 1 didn't quite interest me as I thought it would.

However, I know that these are personal preferences and false assumptions based upon trailers that were already stated to not reflect the show itself. I just feel that we were shown a different (and better) show in the trailers than we actually got (except for the voice acting), as I watched each of the trailers at least 20x and loved all 4 of them, while the show I only watched as it was being released, and not since. Although episodes 1, 4, 8, 10, and 16 were pretty good.

Anyway, the non-fighting animation wasn't really good in volume 1 as the people above have stated, the interaction between some of the characters (such as between Yang and Blake) were not developed enough, the charcters themselves weren't developed enough (ex: Ruby does not really have a backstory except we know that she has a dad and a sister for God's sake and we don't even know how Ruby and Yang are sisters as they have different last names), etc. I hope these things are addressed in volume 2, but I also agree with Robykirby's assessment of the slightly improved animation from the volume 2 trailer. Finally, I think they are kind of rushing the "kids turning into soldiers" thing because we haven't really seen them be kids much, although we may see enough of them being kids in Volume 2 to buy into it when the time comes.

Sorry, I just needed to vent my misgivings. i I know that a lot of people are working hard on it and I want the show to be as good as possible too.

-XVII