Talk:Extracurricular/@comment-58.7.185.207-20140906113806/@comment-4010415-20140924162835

The first episode pretty much told us what RWBY is about. We just haven't made it very far past the surface, but we're picking up speed now that they're actually focusing on the damn story with what the antagonists are up to and whatnot.

Ruby is a girl training to become a huntress, so she can fight monsters, and she finds herself interfering with a criminal's plans. The series is about hunters in training, some of whom find themselves repeatedly interfering with a group of criminals' plans.

Though, I'll admit, they didn't come out and reveal some lesson they're going to be teaching us. But not every story really has to be all about teaching a lesson, does it?

Volume 1 only had one lesson, as far as I can tell, and that came about at the very end of the volume. See, the episode Black and White wasn't named that just because Blake's name means black and Weiss' name means white. It's also because not everything is black and white. Blake said it herself in The Stray: "There's no such thing as pure evil!" Also, in The Stray, you'll notice that both Blake and Weiss had legitimate reasons for feeling the way they did, so neither person in the argument was in the wrong.

Judging from a few of the things said in interviews, though, they might be going for having the "Nothing is truly black and white" thing being a running lesson. I mostly got this impression due to Monty stating that Ironwood has good intentions, but the way that he'll be going about things may not be the best of methods.

I have to admit, we still don't know what the hell the bad guys are up to.