Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-108.23.148.194-20140118015155/@comment-1173941-20140118071146

I... I'm going to have to agree with the OP.

RWBY is VERY generic, to the point where it's extremely predictable. You know exactly what's going to happen at the end of an arc by the time it starts. The character development is pretty rushed (Only Blake, and maybe Weiss have received any real development. Jaune's arc was pretty dull, though I guess he did get fleshed out a bit) Even Ruby and Yang haven't received any real development, despite the show being named after Ruby.

Bottom line is, a lot of the writing in Volume 1 IS bad. Maybe not terrible, and it does have a lot of nice parts, but when I revisit the idea, and everything behind it, without all the hype I had when it first aired, it seems like little effort was put into it at all.

The biggest problem to me was that everything was so rushed. The animation outside of combat (Which is a surprising big portion of RWBY) is clunky and almost broken. The story telling is so linear and predictable, following a number of overly used, and unneeded cliches. Within the span of 16 episodes, they could have done a lot better at telling everything that happened.

The biggest complaint from fans is that the episodes were short. You may be thinking, "But TUSF, they had a schedule to keep to. They couldn't make longer episodes because that's too much work." I'm not asking for 22-30 minutes episodes. 8-10 would have been a superb standard for all the episodes, and they would have enough time to develop all the characters in one way or another. Then all they would have needed to do was work more on episodes, and maybe push back the final release time for RWBY. Maybe review some episodes before release, (We know how many mistakes we've caught, that could have been fixed by looking through it in one sitting) I think it would have been better if we received RWBY a few weeks (or even a few months) later, so that they could work over everything, and review the many troubles every episode had.

This all being said. The setting is great. The action is amazing. The lore is interesting. However, the characters, and the scenes that play out are more than disappointing, to where I can't call RWBY "good", because there are far too many series that are like this, to where it's very disheartening to watch a series suffer because of bad writing.