RWBY General Discussion

To be clear, I don't actually think that RWBY's format is the problem. I just think that season four has been poorly paced. The reason I was talking about format (and why I don't think it's a valid excuse) is because other people were bringing it up and blaming the pacing problems on the format.

Fair enough.

Blindwave has gotten to V 3 C 11

I am so excited for this ep and the next

Those poor bastards....

hopefully they don't react as badly as Murder did when he saw the last episode...

they got got good

so excited for next week

like more excited than the actual rwby episode?

edited 24th Jan '17 6:48:27 PM by ch00beh

Yeah, I'm subscribed to them.

It never gets old seeing people's hearts skip a beat when they think that Adam actually cut off Blake's head, if only for a second.

Well, it's not easy, obviously.

edited 24th Jan '17 6:53:30 PM by LSBK

How do you cut a heart off?

edited 24th Jan '17 6:52:02 PM by Karxrida

by Being Adam

I have seen reaction to that episode only to see people despair at Adam main Yang, bonus point if they thought she can beat him

Very carefully with surgical precision and a chainsaw/gatling napalm shotgun. Or mad ninja skills.

Clearly you have never played Dwarf Fortress.

I'v seen that reaction video before, but never watched it. Who are these guys?

Just a reaction channel. They react to a lot of different things and have some original content.

Another that got used for RP. Citing the WOR Dust video, its mentioned Hunter may just infuse themselves with Dust. Well, the character I'm running now just took that idea and went straight Bane.

okay, a few more days until we find out if Sun is okay.

^^^^a reaction channel that plays up being dumb but produces decent theories and manages to see the easy to miss details

If it’s not obvious by now I only like dumb things on the internet

I've found all the Oscar scenes so far have raised something that's pertinent to the plot.

imo all of Oscar's scenes have been incredibly important

in fact i'd be rather annoyed if they didn't show what they did for Oscar.

edited 25th Jan '17 2:45:09 PM by EpicBleye

I suppose they could merge the first scene of him with the scene of Ozpin revealing himself, but I get why they didn't, and I'm not sure if that would have been better.

That storyline is moving pretty slow, but it's one that I think moving slow (for now) is definitely the better route.

edited 25th Jan '17 2:49:07 PM by LSBK

Yeah. We all need a breather after last Volume.

When Adam swung that blade and seemed to kill Blake, my heart almost stopped!

RWBY are safe from death, at least for the next, say, three volumes or so. You don't kill off the characters your show is named after (see Red Vs Blue) without a really good reason or some colossal plot move.

We didn't need the timeskip. That's the main reason I have any pacing complaints.

edited 25th Jan '17 4:37:40 PM by VeryMelon

We kind of did, if only because both Ruby and Yang needed to recover into functionality.

The problem is, neither Weiss nor Blake's storylines feel like there was much of a timeskip, if any. What was Blake doing for six (I think it was six?) months before boarding a ship to Menagerie, for example?

Nothing about Ruby's arc needed a timeskip. Nothing.

And If you want to defend the timeskip by saying Yang needed it, why not instead spend a season watching her reactions and emotions about the loss of her arm? It's an extremely human and personable thing for a character arc to focus on, so there's no reason to say a timeskip is needed unless you wanted it to be over with as soon as possible.

They didn't need a timeskip, that much I agree with, or it could've been like a few weeks rather than a few months.

We needed the timeskip because the world of Remnant at the end of Volume 3 was one where all Kingdoms have been isolated from each other with the destruction of the CCT. If it would take a couple of weeks to get from Patch (off the East Coast of Vale) to the middle of Mistral and to go from Vale to being a few days off the coast of Mengere then the whole "divide and isolate" thing at the end of Volume 3 as well as the idea that the CCT system was some big ground-breaking pillar of international society becomes a complete joke. "What's that, we can't call people in Vale to find out what happened? Well better go put on my hiking boots and head over, it's only a month's trip by foot to find out the truth about this

From that perspective the time skip is completely required as to convey that RNJR and Blake are traveling to very far off places and to illustrate how isolated the Kingdoms are now. Plus they are crossing over to the literal other side of the world. To put into perspective how far that distance is they estimate it's about 6 months travel time to purely walk coast to coast in the US, and that's one nation that has civilisation and roads and a lack of murderous Grimm along the way.

So to say that the timeskip wasn't needed for Ruby's arc would be to say that, assuming everything else about her arc has been the same, she should be able to cross from the East coast of Vale to the West coast, cross the ocean between Sanus and Anima, then make it most of the way to Haven (which is about three quarters of the way to the opposite coast), braving Grimm infested terrain most of the way in just a few weeks at most would make the world of Remnant laughably small and impossible to take the idea that the Kingdoms are effectively cut off from each other seriously.