Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11362637-20150116232355/@comment-173.58.251.107-20150119021212

The volume is...lackluster. Yes, there are awesome fight scenes. Yes, there is some actual plot. Neither is performed very well. The fight scenes are much too common to be considered jems of the show, since Pyrrha beating up CRDL is no different than RWBY beating up the White Fang, because it involves beating up people for the sake of seeing someone's CGI work.

And the acting is...reasonable. It's not RvB, which does well in it's acting, but it's not bad either. Gray does better at Locus than he does Roman, and Lindsay does better at Kimball than Ruby, but it's not like they're not putting in effort. The cast could just stand to put more emotion and power into their voices.

And the story, well, anyone from the last volume could see the Jaune Arc coming a mile away. Of course we were going to get one of these. But, unlike the last time we had a Jaune Arc, this one contributed to the plot, so it's bearable. Just incredibly stereotypical in it's portrayal of guy trying to get girl while girl is interested in another guy who is interested in her. And the plot was reasonable, just not well executed. The antagonists, shown in the trailer and opening to be the prominent enemies, had little to no role. Roman? Okay, he captures Ruby. That's the only thing of any real importance he does, and that doesn't even have lasting value since she gets broken out by her friends thirty seconds later. Mercury and Emerald? What Mercury and Emerald? Cinder? Mystical, crazed woman hell-bent on world destruction? Yeah, none of that happened. The White Fang, a supposed threat to humanity, an entire army of them are eaten alive by Team RWBY in the space of a minute. If this is the threat Humanity faces, then all they need to do is send a teenager with a toothpick out and that's the end of the White Fang. The Grimm...scourge of humanity, conquerors of the world, ancient, powerful, and capable of tearing apart cities by themselves, the harbingers of our doom! Not. The Grimm, who up to this point have been little more than cannon fodder, prove why they are cannon fodder and they all die quickly. They don't even kill anyone.

For those who will probably claim "Too long, Didn't read", I'll put it in a tiny nutshell:

Volume 2: A Michael Bay Movie, But With Better Writing.