User blog comment:Hidden Scorpius XI/Volume 3. Hypeness and Skepticism./@comment-11188061-20150623090113/@comment-11188061-20150624053331

If we're writing about realism, said mental problem won't be resolved ever. It will subside into the heart, then rush back out in a wave, then go back in, then rush out again until the end of a person's life. There won't be obvious growth either, and in fact it is simply the honing of one's body towards a few spectrum of skills while sacrificing the others, and how well you do in them depends on how talented you're born with and whether your will can defeat the absolute tide of recession through time. If games or animes are realistic we'll see power levels shaking between a range of levels even as you push higher and higher, and once your prime has passed no amount of hardwork or sheer will can stop you from receding unto death.

If we're talking about real life, we wouldn't be talking about RWBY, and that is also why RWBY can follow a tight format and not feel overly weird.

First, my point is unrelated to predictability. Yes RWBY is predictable but I wasn't talking about that so take it out of the equation, because if we're talking about obvious or classic then of course they're predictable, twist or Untwist or whatever the hell those tropes are I never get why you people are so hung up on this kind of things they're the absolute bane of creativity and missing the point.

If there's an obvious/classic/overused tropes/scenes/dilemma that you don't want to skip, play it out, but end them quickly and cleanly so we can move on to the next big thing and not lose out in content variety. RWBY did well on this. All the 'obvious' scenes are executed - despite the amateurish feel - well with clear logical path, which makes them acceptable. Small and trivial dilemmas do not deserve excessive attention, nor should they bleed into the characters and corrupt their actions. Depending on the atmosphere this may or may not change, but as of now RWBY's characters are in line with the projected atmosphere.

That they even considered not having bloodstains for Tukson's death showed a clear effort to remain consistent to the atmosphere of RWBY Volume 2, which is a good thing. While I don't necessarily agree with their choice of atmosphere, I agree that the atmosphere of a given storyline should remain consistent and logical as much as possible, and if there's a transition a natural flow has to be constructed that led down to the new atmosphere. In that sense RWBY did very well, because splattering paint into one's food is never a good idea.

Now because I know you people will twist it without reason, no, I am not saying that 'Raven is Yang's mum' twist should be resolved in 2 Episodes. This twist has more long term purposes and can potentially be used to set ground for other conflicts in the future.

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As for your complaints that there should be a more crooked twist. My answer is sure, it can be done; but I don't see why for this obvious one it cannot be done. There are not pieces in this world that are entirely original, and if an author is forced to come up with original ideas for everything they literally cannot write. So if RWBY chose to keep this twist simple and obvious, while there may be a case that these mysteries are too simple to provide a challenge to veterans, they can also be bombastically good to newbies who have never experienced this medium before. If executed well it can even be a classic, so if you want to fault then do it because of their execution, and not because it's 'too obvious'.

In my opinion the execution is just average. There may be cleverer ways of doing it. But it's definitely not so bad that I'd call them 'killing RWBY', because animes obviously hasn't died out of the culture yet and not looking to do so soon, and there's no medium that's more criminal than animes when it comes to a lack of originality.

And I haven't even brought up the fact that to conform to web series format, even the best writing may be chipped down to an average one simply due to many real life reasons such as time and budget and manpower and technology etc etc. Like 'hey dude! Check out this cool scene!' 'Oh, uh, we don't exactly have the time to uh, animate this and that and I don't have assets for this' 'Oh... okay. Guess I'll tone it down a bit. Better than nothing'. You people think production quality is all about that one person's fault and if it's not satisfying than their talents are shit or whatever, but fail to realize that sometimes it's just not in one's control. So many complains and whinings and shittalking, by gods it's one thing to listen to them when Volume 2 first came out but to read the same shit again after half a year...

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As for reveals, at first everybody thought Weiss is going to be a 'hohohoho' type of tsundere ojou-sama with twin tails of absolute arrogance and ignorance to the point only a crisis can change her mind. Turns out she's just a strong-willed person with a strong pride, but does not let it override her ability to realize and admit her own mistake, and even prove it through action as soon as she is able to. Her growth and character was definitely unexpected, but pleasant, and out of all the characters right now in canon I like her the most.

I don't see you praising it.