Chibi RWBY is an alternate universe(fingers crossed for crossover
I hope we get an episode of RWBY chibi centered around that table top game that has a title that's filled with references to other tabletop games like warhammer 40k
edited 11th Apr '16 4:21:48 PM by DarthSion
Cut off one head 2 more shall take it's place! Hail HydraThat's already a flaw...it just needs to be addressed.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.So, doing a Thread Hop here. I've watched RWBY from beginning to end over the last couple weeks (first encountered it when someone linked the original Yellow trailer
as an example of what Exalted combat would look like).
I enjoyed the first two seasons. Not the most engaging plot in the world, but interesting enough to keep the series moving between fight scenes (which were the main draw of the series, at least for me), with amusing characters and some occasional gems in the dialogue. It was a light, fluffy sort of series that was relaxing to watch because there weren't any major moral quandaries ("those are monsters, kill them" and "those are bad people, defeat them" is about as complicated as it got) and nothing bad ever really happened to anyone.
Over the first half of season three I got to become progressively more annoyed at how overwhelmingly better the antagonists were at everything. The few straight-up fights they had resulted in the protagonists getted the snot kicked out of them, and they were doing more and worse behind the scenes without the good guys even knowing about it. The thing that was the last straw and shifted me from "this is mildly annoying" to "this is seriously affecting my enjoyment of the series" was when they tricked Yang into attacking a "defeated" Mercury.
And pretty much everything was downhill from there. The antagonists can do whatever they want whenever they want, and no force on Remnant can stop them. Hell, a second-stringer whose gotten almost zero screentime was able to defeat Blake without much of a fight and then one-shot Yang in a Single-Stroke Battle — which is not only completely unlike any other fight to appear in the series before, it also results in the first actual consequences of losing. And this is the guy who was intimidated into working for the primary antagonist. Which was before said primary antagonist got the significant power boost she got at the end of the season.
So basically, everything's screwed, forever, and Only the Author Can Save Them Now. The only thing that did anything to delay the antagonists' plan was a complete Ass Pull whose only foreshadowing was a single cryptic comment from the very first episode, three seasons ago. Also she doesn't understand what the power is or how to control it, and it's possible that no one does, so even that's still firmly in "bullshit plot magic" territory.
We've gone from lighthearted animesque action-comedy to full on grimdark mode in about four episodes, starting at the tail end of season three. What the hell is that? I have no objection to going Darker and Edgier if that's your thing, but doing such a massive change in tone in such a short amount of time is seriously jarring. That sort of thing can be handled well (the Harry Potter series manages it, for instance), but RWBY established very early on that they're facing supposedly deadly danger against the Grimm, which makes the whole "no, NOW things are serious, honest" thing feel like the series is pulling the rug out from under me rather than feeling like a legitimate evolution of the plot.
edited 12th Apr '16 12:08:41 PM by NativeJovian
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.The Villains are Always better...better than rookie combat thrillest children?
No way, mang.
That's just obvious.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.edited 12th Apr '16 12:15:51 PM by NativeJovian
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.Epic tone shift!
Sometimes you have to hit that message that...suddenly everything can go right down the pooper bowl.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.I don't mind.
It took almost the same amount of episodes for Yu Gi Oh Arc V to establish itself as the darkest series in the Yu Gi Oh franchise, and in some aspects darker then the original Yu Gi Oh manga.
I'm used to that, and people wanted RWBY to be as dark as its OP songs implied it would be, but it never was until Season 3.
edited 12th Apr '16 12:32:53 PM by Demongodofchaos2
Watch Symphogear@Jovian: The plot of RWBY was always intended to get dark, but due to a combination of various factors, it ended up happening quite a bit later on in real world time than initially intended, in part because the script was written with 30 minute episodes in mind, hence the abundance of two part episodes and the glacial pace of the plot compared to the amount of time that's gone by IRL.
Had it been paced better, it would have looked more like Madoka wherein the first few episodes are quite relaxed, then things hit the fan and the setting is a much scarier place than you initially thought.
I am geniunely wondering just how the good guys are ever going to come out on top after how helplessly underpowered they were compared to the villains in season 3. I don't think a season or two of harsh living out in the world of remnant is really going to close the gap. And just abusing Ruby's magic eyes isn't really going to be much better.
I don't think they'll be able to do that in a satsifying way.

Edit: Yay, horrific page topper.
edited 11th Apr '16 1:58:16 PM by WillDeRegio