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DeanCole Since: Jun, 2015
#40401: Oct 18th 2016 at 11:24:52 AM

..So has anyone mentioned the 2 new WOR vids on the RT site yet?

One's on Youtube

edited 18th Oct '16 11:30:27 AM by DeanCole

BlackSunNocturne Since: Aug, 2013
#40402: Oct 18th 2016 at 11:31:00 AM

[up][up]It's the height chart: Glynda is 6'5" (1.96 meters) in heels.

[up][up][up]Also, no, she's not. The actor who plays him currently, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, is 6'9". The previous actors were Conan Stevens (7') and Ian Whyte (7'1"), but despite being shorter than them, Thor is much more muscled. Also, all of those actors are still shorter than him in the books by the way, as Gregor is extremely tall, and close to EIGHT FEET in height or 2.4 meters.

edited 18th Oct '16 11:36:14 AM by BlackSunNocturne

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#40403: Oct 18th 2016 at 11:38:10 AM

World of Remnant: Vale has me thinking. If we're getting infodumped on the Four Kingdoms for this season's World of Remnant sessions, that suggests this season's gonna be really political. This should be interesting.

Also, the northwest continent is totally where Salem is. None of the kingdoms occupy it and it's shaped like a f*cking dragon. It's hard to get more Obvious Mordor than that.

EDIT: It's even spitting fireballs at Vacuo!

edited 18th Oct '16 11:42:54 AM by TobiasDrake

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DeanCole Since: Jun, 2015
#40404: Oct 18th 2016 at 11:43:24 AM

From what was shown.There were villages on that continent at some point.

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#40405: Oct 18th 2016 at 11:55:54 AM

It's interesting how Qrow mentions that only a handful of coastal settlements made out okay, considering that we see one in the middle of nowhere with literally no defenses whatsoever.

It was in the middle of being destroyed, true, but the way it looked implied it was there for some time already.

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#40406: Oct 18th 2016 at 11:58:44 AM

Eh, we learned about Dust, Huntsmen, Grimm, and Aura last season - the predatory nature of the Grimm and the inevitable conflict between the kingdoms were important. The only huntsman we see is a bitter drunk, and dust has mainly been the in-universe excuse for elemental abilities. The White Fang stealing dust subplot fell on the backburner.

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#40407: Oct 18th 2016 at 11:59:30 AM

I like how Qrow implied that aquatic Grimm might be a thing.

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#40408: Oct 18th 2016 at 12:18:06 PM

No reason they shouldn't be. They've already been implied to be Salem-made rather than any kind of natural occurrence.

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#40409: Oct 18th 2016 at 12:21:08 PM

And then the manga threw in an octopus Grimm. Speaking of which, should it be included in the character page?

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WillDeRegio Since: Jan, 2015
#40410: Oct 18th 2016 at 12:49:26 PM

I think I know where Salem lives. The island to the northeast that looks dark on the world map Tobias linked, and didn't show up on the map in World of Remnant: Vale.

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#40411: Oct 18th 2016 at 12:52:53 PM

So, they are other towns in fact.....

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#40412: Oct 18th 2016 at 12:56:55 PM

[up]x9 Looks like both of them are.

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#40413: Oct 18th 2016 at 1:33:03 PM

Man, I'm so conflicted on World of Remnants. Like on the one hand, it is nice to get some understanding of the world but it would be much better to get that sort of information in the show and not mindnumbingly dull exposition dumps.

Like the board game in Volume 2 was a really good example of how to do that. WoR feels like a cop-out for mediocre writing.

edited 18th Oct '16 1:33:52 PM by EviIPaladin

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BlackSunNocturne Since: Aug, 2013
#40414: Oct 18th 2016 at 1:41:38 PM

[up]Or they realized that having that many Info Dumps would take away from the plot.

Oobleck was specifically created to be able to do that in an enjoyable while still not screwing up the plot's pacing.

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#40415: Oct 18th 2016 at 2:28:00 PM

What are these exposition dumps like, is there not enough entertainment along with interest(question mark)

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DeanCole Since: Jun, 2015
#40416: Oct 18th 2016 at 2:34:01 PM

'Like the board game in Volume 2 was a really good example of how to do that. '

How much actual info did people get out of the board game though?

edited 18th Oct '16 2:39:00 PM by DeanCole

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#40417: Oct 18th 2016 at 2:41:24 PM

From the board game, I gleaned that Atlas has a military focus and stuffs. Which is the most obvious trait they have.

So not much.

I still know nothing about Mistral and I frequently forget Vacuo's name.

edited 18th Oct '16 2:41:52 PM by TobiasDrake

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#40418: Oct 18th 2016 at 2:43:14 PM

[up][up][up] The key to making exposition work is to have the info delivery fucpnction second to dramatic necessity. At its best, exposition is invisible or should feel invisible.

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DeanCole Since: Jun, 2015
#40419: Oct 18th 2016 at 2:43:57 PM

[up][up]You'll get more on Mistral tomorrow.Its next on WOR.

edited 18th Oct '16 2:45:21 PM by DeanCole

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#40420: Oct 18th 2016 at 2:44:23 PM

We learned more about what the other places were like. Atlas is heavily focused on robotics, Vacuo is a desert landscape that is a society that is more of an outland than the heavily built up Vale and Atlas, and that Mistral is involved with black-market.

Really, the main problem with the WoR segments is that they are fundamental violation of Show, Don't Tell.

If you compare this with the likes of Mob Psycho 100, My Hero Academia, and other similar shows, you'll find very few need to put up outside material to actually handle their worldbuilding.

EDIT: Goodness this thread moves fast.

edited 18th Oct '16 2:44:39 PM by EviIPaladin

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#40421: Oct 18th 2016 at 2:45:27 PM

I've never heard of either of those. Meanwhile, legendary works like Star Wars and The Lord Of The Rings have entire books dedicated to supplemental worldbuilding.

edited 18th Oct '16 2:48:42 PM by TobiasDrake

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#40422: Oct 18th 2016 at 2:47:04 PM

[up]Both of those are rather new shows of similar genre to RWBY, which is why I chose them as examples.

In addition, those works you listed generally had that extra world-building occur during large breaks between the works and are hardly needed to get an understanding of the works.

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#40423: Oct 18th 2016 at 2:47:34 PM

But...LOTR started as a book series...or something

edited 18th Oct '16 2:48:22 PM by randomness4

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#40424: Oct 18th 2016 at 2:47:46 PM

Not really sure either of them is a fair comparison anyway.

At any rate, the World of Remnant segments have usually felt to me like clarification of the finer details of stuff we already have a pretty good idea about, or will find out about later in the story. They're not strictly necessary to understanding things, but provide nice insight nonetheless.

edited 18th Oct '16 2:50:00 PM by LSBK

Karxrida from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#40425: Oct 18th 2016 at 2:47:55 PM

Atlas is the only kingdom I can remember the name of and actually know stuff about. The others are whatever.


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