Talk:Pyrrha Nikos/Image Gallery/Volume 3/@comment-64.85.229.105-20160923072130/@comment-25936766-20160923114204

"This show was never meant to be some light hearted slice of life"

The problem, Phantom, is that before Vol.3, that's pretty much the image the show gave. Even with that "threat of monsters wanting to kill humanity", the show was still pretty light-hearted, and made itself feel hopeful; that even in the world they live in, there's some hope. It was like that in Vol.1, and Vol.2, the latter only being more serious.

So yes, Phantom, RWBY was presented as something that would go to have a happy ending, or at the very least, not be too dark. It's a big part of the reason Vol.3's finale was so polarizing: The Cerebus Syndrome was too dark for what came before, alienating a good deal of the audience that had been watching the show. When people play Pokemon they don't expect it to become Shin Megami Tensei, they saw Pokemon and that's what they expect, and for the most part, what attracted them to begin with.

It's something they need to dial down a good deal for Vol.4. Or else they risk finishing the alienation of that part of the established fandom, who will quit because they didn't come looking for that.