Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-94.8.221.186-20180402122306/@comment-25936766-20180403012501

ChishioKunrin wrote:

Weiss' story about how her mother turned to alcoholism would've been a lot more interesting to look at if they had shown us imagery of what she was talking about while she spoke, even if it was just static images or drawings with a flashback filter, rather than something animated. Like when Blake was talking about the White Fang's past to Sun......Back in Volume 1, where they had only a tiny fraction of the current budget and manpower and screentime and etc.

That's part of why Volume 5 was so terrible. They're taking steps backwards, both from the original Volumes that had much inferior budget, and even Vol.4.

>They show Mistral by using multiple obviously-2D images that contrast horrendously with the 3D. Meanwhile, back in Volume 2, they showed Vale in full-3D, including the people walking around and talking and cars passing by.

>The story barely moves on every episode after V5E4, because the rest of the episode is either filler, or drags on for way too long, or spends minutes explaining things we already knew, or they waste time explaining something that could've easily been explained in a WoR, if they didn't moronically choose to axe them.

Meanwhile, Volume 3 didn't just manage to add a fight in all but 1 episode, it still managed to move the plot along every episode, in a small or big way, and not at the very end of each ep. Even in Volume 4, the plot was moving along every ep at the very least, RNJR was at least moving forward towards Haven.

>The fights - many scenes, really - were boring, badly choreographed, badly written, in many ways. The fight in Weiss's short looks good-though-weird due to Weiss's snakey movement, but Yang's fight with the Ursa in her short was amazing.....and then comes the actual Volume and the only fight that gets even close to that is Cinder vs Raven.

The fights in Vol.4 were a mess, but they were the kind of mess that still looks good if you don't think about things. And the fights as far back as Volume 1 all the way to Volume 3 are so well-done that even if they are stupid, even if the writing sucks, they at least entertain and satisfy.

RWBY was never good story-wise, or writing-wise, and everyone knew that. Everyone who liked RWBY liked the action and music before anything else.

But in Volume 5, they decided to give action and flash the middle finger, and feel complacent with mediocre, boring shit. While the writing itself is still bad, if not worse than before. So in the end, there's just nothing to like about it that's worth it enough.