Statement: All meatbags must die
You missed something...the addition of new fans.
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And let's please not act like someone not liking the new direction, or the abruptness of it, is just because they're a whiner who can't stand a little darkness. I don't agree with him, but Jovian makes good points and he hasn't insulted anyone.
I'm more or less of the same opinion, though I personally take issue with his belief that it's too late for the show to dramatically shift in terms of tone, especially given he's someone whose binge watched it. RWBY has typically run on something resembling Web Comic Time in terms of how long the show actually runs compared to how long it's been around in real world time; it's around 6.5 hours total from beginning to end IIRC, and in a more conventionally produced animated series, that'd put us right around the half way point of the first season (assuming 25 30 minute episodes/season).
edited 13th Apr '16 1:52:21 PM by CaptainCapsase
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oh yeah. I disagree with Jovian wholeheartedly, but he's not being rude about it and he's allowed to have his opinions (even if it means i'm going to debate them).
not really? this is pretty similar to how other online media updates. the issue is that they're writing, animating, and improving all at once, as well as dealing with staff changes.
edited 13th Apr '16 1:55:21 PM by EpicBleye
"There's not a girl alive who wouldn't be happy being called cute." ~Tamamo-no-Maeedited 13th Apr '16 2:04:52 PM by NativeJovian
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.I, personally, do not find RWBY to be all that dark. The cuties aren't broken enough. Ruby and Nora are still capable of smiling.
Now, I don't want to see Nora broken. That would be depressing.
edited 13th Apr '16 2:11:03 PM by WillDeRegio
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Yeah, seriously. Ozpin was schooling Cinder during their fight, and he wasn't even going all-out. Pyrrha managed to keep up with Cinder as well.
Hell, from what we saw of Amber vs Cinder's crew even showed that someone who's experienced with the powers can still be blindsided.
edited 13th Apr '16 2:07:57 PM by BlackSunNocturne
"It's not BLACKER THAN THE BLACKEST BLACK, TIMES INFINITY! so it doesn't count" is a silly argument to make.
edited 13th Apr '16 2:15:51 PM by NativeJovian
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.This tonal shift hasn't set in yet...
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.@Jovian: The number of seasons that have gone by is frankly less relevant than the actual run-time of the show so far, and it's only something like 6.5 hours at this point. Because it's produced by a fairly small studio with a fairly small budget, it's on a Webcomic Time release schedule, which was exacerbated by a number of issues (loss of staff and the creator's death) during production, which matters for a long time fan, but less for someone who binge watches this sort of stuff.
edited 13th Apr '16 2:33:48 PM by CaptainCapsase
Series like this isn't safe for binge watching...should be planned out better?
edited 13th Apr '16 2:32:25 PM by randomness4
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I don't see how that makes a difference. I'm the guy who watched the entire thing over the space of a couple weeks instead of the several years it actually came out over, and I still found the shift abrupt and poorly handled. If you want to talk about it in terms of runtime instead of seasons or episode count, then it just becomes "we had six hours of Nobody Can Die, followed by a half-hour of several deaths, a presumed-death, and a maiming" instead of "we had two and a half seasons of Nobody Can Die followed by a few episodes of death and badness". It doesn't fundamentally change anything about the criticism.
edited 13th Apr '16 2:32:41 PM by NativeJovian
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
Well, in terms of the overall plot, we're perhaps 1/4 to 1/3 of the way through the story, and while it's uncommon for such a drastic tone shift to occur at that point, it's not unheard of; a critically aclaimed example is Puella Magi Madoka Magica, which leads the viewer to believe it's going to be a lighthearted throwback to the classic Magical Girl genre for the first quarter of the show, only for things to suddenly go to hell and the world to turn out to be a much scarier and bleaker place than the viewer was initially lead to believe. Now, I will concede that RWBY spent a bit too much time faffing about, but considering we're likely looking at a total of 20+ hours, it's a fairly small chunk of the show in the grand scheme of things.
I'll definitely concede that RWBY spent an excessive amount of time faffing about prior to the tone shift, and considering the release schedule, it would've probably been better if they hadn't done that, since the show did indeed accumulate a Periphery Demographic of children and people who weren't particularly interested in something dark.
edited 13th Apr '16 2:42:37 PM by CaptainCapsase
That was only a recent revelation.
That wasn't really a problem before.
Well it was, but nobody brought it up before.
edited 13th Apr '16 2:44:33 PM by randomness4
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