I fell off the series after episode four of the first season. (It's on, what, 3 now?) for some of the complaints already stated here.
Mostly because the characters are all one-note tropetrains. Oh, here's are plucky, awkward-yet-skilled protagonist. There's the rich ***** with the silver spoon. There's the shrinking violet. There's the incompetent "why isn't he dead yet" goofball.
Checklists indeed, and I found myself not giving a shit about any of them.
OT: Problem is that as a writer, Monty is a good animator. The fight scenes are all fun and compelling, but the characters involved aren't terribly interesting and everything is really cliche and predictable.
I think RWBY's main problem is that Monty Oum has a bit of a thing for anime girls but he's not quite sure what that thing is. He likes to animate them. He likes to fight them. But he has literally no idea what he wants to do with them. Like, what's the point? Why was most of the first season made up of petty schoolkid drama? Why can I replace all the character's names with their respective TV Tropes entry?
And one line that...really...really...irritated me.
-That lad's shield shrinks onto his wrist-
"Doesn't it still weight the same?"
"Yeah."
It was so unnatural and was apparently designed 100% to make fun of the idea. Hey. Hey Monty Oum. You know that thing where you 'show don't tell' information?
Burnie Burns has always said that the guiding maxim for RT was that they make the kind of shows they would want to watch. Monty, Miles, and Kerry are doing just that. Maybe you don't like it, that's totally fine. RWBY has many fans though, and is overall quite successful. I was pretty lukewarm towards it during season 1 but season 2 has shown a marked improvement and I'm now pretty happy with the direction it's going. It won't be perfect overnight, but it's getting better and better as the show goes on.
I thought the weird animation was supposed to be a bit video-game-y? Like, in the first episode, it always bugged me that the cookies Ruby is eating just sort of vanish. But, in a video game, that'd be pretty standard animation, for the most part, especially for something lower than AAA (not counting the AAA games that change their graphics to crap on release). Either way, it seems to be more a part of the style than anything else, and I've been more bothered by other anime styles in the past...
As far as trope-y characters go, I pretty much gave up on anime for awhile because ALL OF THEM ARE TROPES (this is technically an exaggeration when it comes to some of the classics, but exceptions proving rules, etc., etc.). Seriously, it's find-an-anime-with-the-most-interesting-setting-or-something, because all of the characters are pretty much done to death already. I started watching Attack on Titan because apparently everyone was nuts for it, but the first few episodes I watched were tropes with a heavy layer of angst and a vaguely dull premise. I have no idea where RWBY is going, but I do like how all of the trope characters interact, and the show doesn't really take itself too seriously.
Stop making Blake a flipping weak ninja, she is a proven combat vet, but she always falls, gets beaten etc in almost every fight. Ruby is firing 50 cal bullets or atleast sniper rifle bullets. Make those bullets start impacting because they may as we'll be as weak as a handgun bullet.
Well, with the latest episode out, and having watched it and come back here, I can do this.
Ok, so, first thing. I don't want to hear the "it's a web series," or the "it's still early," excuses. These are excuses used to absolve the creators of the responsibility of creating something entertaining, on the basis of "they don't have a lot of money" and "they're just starting out." I've seen very well made pieces of animation and work with little to no funding. I can at the very least agree with the 'starting out' notion because nothing starts out perfect.
Anyways, problems with the series in general, personally.
Monty is afraid to world build. I interpret this because the world itself is frequently glossed over. The world never expands on how dust is used, and even with the suppliment we got, it could've been exposited in class segments and the like. Hell, that would've given the VA's more dialogue, lengthened episodes here and there, even if by a minute, and given people more insight into how the world works, whether it be the functions of dust to the various types of Grimm and where they seem to come from. Not to mention the history of the Faunus/Human wars and where Faunus came from (I don't even know where the Faunus came from, really. Was that ever mentioned? Did anyone even theorize where they came from? Are they native to the world? If so why are they being discriminated against? Are we having a Blazblue beastmen moment where they helped the humans in a fight with Grimm then got disciminated against afterward? I think so!)
But exposition is boring, right? No one wants to know about how the world works! They want drama, they want action, they want as much shipping fuel as humanly POSSIBLE!
So if you can guess, the story is character driven rather than world driven.
Honestly, I'm not really hard on the characters. They're not really relatable, and they're not that well written, but there are times when I really like them. They have their moments, basically. It's just that when I really start warming up to the show, it does something to piss me off.
Ruby was relatively boring, but her interactions with Penny warmed her to me. No, she's still not a very interesting character, but she's never really come across as unlikable to me. She's just not very interesting because her flaws are cliche, her story is cliche, and SHE herself is cliche. Otherwise, I honestly find her kind of harmless. Nothing really there to piss me off.
I really liked Weiss. Yeah she came across as a total *****, but that made her interesting. She had this mean streak and I wanted to see what it was that made her so abrasive. HOWEVER, she was not nearly as condescending as I had expected. When I saw Weiss in the trailers, I saw someone who was graceful, a perfectionist, the technician to Ruby's performer. Since she was rich I also expected a calm, collected snarker, who was condescending but secretly yearning for a genuine friendship. The way she was handled contradicted her initial showing. Therein I did not hate her, but I felt like this was completely opposite to my first impressions of her. Her "racism" was handled horribly. If she had lost family, lost friends, had her life threatened (maybe have the attack in her trailer likened to an assassination attempt? Especially since it left a freaking SCAR on her FACE.), her side of things could be more understandable. Instead her reasoning comes across as self-centered and unsympathetic. Ugh.
Blake being the quiet one I had no issues with. Having her be cold and brooding made some sense, considering her history. Honestly, though, she was TOO quiet. She has barely any real presence, and the fact that Monty kept bringing in new characters later in the season gave the main cast (and even JPNR, for that matter) barely any time to come out and shine. AND at the climax of her arc, when we get another tussle with Roman, Penny comes and upstages the lot of them.
Yang has recently been expanded on. However, much like Blake, she hasn't had much time to really get her character shown. The focus was mostly on Ruby early on, then we went to Jaune, and then to Blake (and Blake runs on some rather loose logic with the whole White Fang thing). She's not that bad, but doesn't leave any real impression either. I dunno, she's not bad to me, but never stuck with me.
JPNR is a whole other story. Ren and Nora have gotten little screen time. Hell with the latest episode I think Monty actually remembered just then that they exist. Pyrra is a character I really liked. Always willing to help, puts on a show of being near perfect, acts as a support to Jaune. All in all she was borderline sue, but at the same time something lets her straddle the line really well. Maybe because she's interested in the character I hold the most disdain for of the lot. Maybe because she doesn't really outperform anyone combat-wise and most of her 'perfection' is largely hearsay among the cast. Although considering the Cardin teamfight where she single-handedly wrecks them, well...
Penny is a character I really like because despite ripping off Nu, I like Nu, and Penny herself is rather charming because her awkward acting actually really gets across IMO. I'm more a writer than voice actor, it's easier for me to harp on the story's problems than the VA's, honestly.
Although Monty didn't want to be even the tiniest bit subtle about her being a Nu clone, or being a robot in general. That moment almost made me just straight up quit.
Oh, and before I forget, Jaune.
Ohohoho, man, Jaune. I really want to rip into him. Really I do.
So I will.
Jaune is a shitbird. Ok, let me elaborate here. He's a walking contradiction. He can hold a decent conversation with Ruby, but acts like an obnoxious bigshot and flirts with both Weiss and Pyrra within seconds of each other. He says his family wants him to be a hero, but he also WANTS to be a hero. He wants to do things on his own, and then slacks off (BINOCULARS). He wants to help his friends, but doesn't want his friends to help him. I can understand if he wants to be dependable once in a while. I can understand not wanting to be that guy dragging everyone down. But then I remember this is the guy who was sleeping in class and thought Faunus had BINOCULARS as an advantage over humans.
To say nothing of his pursuit of Weiss, although I think that it FINALLY got through his head in this recent episode that she's not into him. Of course, if he immediately jumps on Pyrra, holy fuck, I will go from dislike to loathing, because that means he knew Pyrra had feelings for him AND that she was basically his 'backup.' The fact that pre-Jaune arc he couldn't do shit and only showed some minor competence in the Nightstalker fight did not help. If he at least was working hard and TRYING to do well, I could understand. As it stands he's still a shitbird. And until he makes the swap from what he is to the character I'd hoped he'd be (a nice guy who's not too bright but still means well and works hard), then I will sum him up in 2 words.
Shit. Bird.
Hoo kay. Well...yeah. Figured I'd set all those TL;DR's in spoiler boxes. Makes things more digestible.
I don't really have much to say about the antagonists. They haven't done anything yet, so I see no threat in them. Also, Roman's a jobber as far as I'm concerned. Cardin was a one-note minor atagonist because he's just a bully. I highly doubt any of that will be expanded on. Ozpin, Glinda, the other professors, no impact, no interest. I barely remember their names, Ozpin is inspirational speeches with a limp, and the others are just there.
Oh, right, Sun and Neptune. Sun's alright. Neptune's kinda eh. That's all I can really say about 'em really.
Oh, and here's something interesting, but you can take it as hearsay if you want, since I had a discussion with a friend of mine about RWBY, and he said this:
I think the series could have benefited from RT's other creative staff getting a say in direction. I understand it's Monty's personal project, but RT has proven how brilliant their storytelling can be as Red Vs Blue progressed. It's kinda telling how in meeting the RT staff at Comicon, I could tell how (tense? unamused? offhand?) they were about RWBY. It's like it's a sore spot for them.
You know, as someone who generally detests anime, I kinda like the show. I don't really pay the animation any notice, it's not something I care about and I'm not going to judge a web show over the quality of its animation.
Mostly, it's just a fairly mediocre set of plots/characters with some fun visual references that appeal to the literature/mythology nerd in me, a decent enough aesthetic, some good jokes, and a few pretty solid fight scenes. And I'm still feeling a bit of awe over the genius decision to make the pretty perfect princess Weiss the only character with a physical imperfection. That scar man. I don't care if they ever explain it, it makes her character interesting and slightly more than one-note just on its own.
That and the bit when she shouts, "I'm not perfect" at Ruby.
Basically, it's good enough, and lacking in some of the things I hate most about anime, that I can make it through an episode without switching it off. It's short enough that I can justify watching an episode while procrastinating and trying to avoid my University work. And picking the visual references is entertaining enough that I actually sometimes feel like I'm using my brain while watching it, which is more than I can say for most shows these days. It's nothing spectacular, but it justifies the time I spend watching it.
Thyunda said:
And one line that...really...really...irritated me.
-That lad's shield shrinks onto his wrist-
"Doesn't it still weight the same?"
"Yeah."
You know, I watched that with my brother, an Engineering student. He's the kind of person who loves to nitpick over things that break the laws of physics like that. We freaking loved that moment. I could almost see his mouth starting to open in order to object when Jaune collapsed the shield, and then that line happened. I think my brother's pretty much given the show a free pass ever since.
As far as trope-y characters go, I pretty much gave up on anime for awhile because ALL OF THEM ARE TROPES (this is technically an exaggeration when it comes to some of the classics, but exceptions proving rules, etc., etc.). Seriously, it's find-an-anime-with-the-most-interesting-setting-or-something, because all of the characters are pretty much done to death already. I started watching Attack on Titan because apparently everyone was nuts for it, but the first few episodes I watched were tropes with a heavy layer of angst and a vaguely dull premise. I have no idea where RWBY is going, but I do like how all of the trope characters interact, and the show doesn't really take itself too seriously.
You've already firmly established that you don't like the show. I don't know why you feel the need to keep harping on it. Maybe I'd be more receptive to your opinion if I ever got the notion that you ever WANTED to like the show, but I don't hear that. All I'm hearing is
First is something that most people have noticed, the animation. My god, it goes into stupid at times. I've seen way too many incidents of arms clipping through clothing, hands not actually grabbing items and even during the fights, I find that some of the animation could really benefit from more frames per second in animation. Sadly, the only way to really fix this is to go on hiatus, finish all the episodes and spend time pouring over each frame to make sure that there are no real hiccups because the clipping and off model stuff is getting annoying.
I really hate it when people say they can fix RWBY by improving the animation.
Pixar could make an episode that wouldn't make it better. and... you probably hate it when people say that. and more time between episodes wouldn't help matters either, the show is so badly paced and unmemorable that if they took a hiatus people would forget about it.
Next is the writing; dear god, why. It shifts too often between goofball antics with our "characters"(i will explain why the parenthesis in the next part) and really poorly executed melodrama (see the Weiss/Blake conflict in the first season). It feels either too rushed or too slow and often focuses more on irrelevant humor than any plot; now if this was a comedy, I can accept the humor but this is a story that we are supposed to be fully invested in and while eliminated all humor would also be detrimental, please just learn how to ease us in and give us space.
Making the tone consistent is how you would fix RWBY? Not... say... introducing a plot?
You want to fine tune the small details while ignoring the elephant in the room. Miles and Kerry don't know how to write a story. They don't know anything about continuity or pacing, they don't even understand "Show don't tell"
there's one simple step to fix RWBY. replace the writers.
The first episode of volume 2 retconned every significant detail from volume 1.
The best way to improve RWBY is to have someone (Any human with a brain) sit down with Miles and have a stern talk about what you need to do before you finalize a screen play.
3 hours have gone by and the only thing you can say happened in RWBY is that Ruby got bumped up 2 grades and Torchwick acquired some dust (And that happened off screen!)
What did I come here for?
Oh yeah RWBY needs a plot. plain and simple.
Everything else can sort its self out later but things need to start happening.
As far as trope-y characters go, I pretty much gave up on anime for awhile because ALL OF THEM ARE TROPES (this is technically an exaggeration when it comes to some of the classics, but exceptions proving rules, etc., etc.). Seriously, it's find-an-anime-with-the-most-interesting-setting-or-something, because all of the characters are pretty much done to death already. I started watching Attack on Titan because apparently everyone was nuts for it, but the first few episodes I watched were tropes with a heavy layer of angst and a vaguely dull premise. I have no idea where RWBY is going, but I do like how all of the trope characters interact, and the show doesn't really take itself too seriously.
You've already firmly established that you don't like the show. I don't know why you feel the need to keep harping on it. Maybe I'd be more receptive to your opinion if I ever got the notion that you ever WANTED to like the show, but I don't hear that. All I'm hearing is
I want to like it, I love crazy action, loved the freelancer fights and I like the base concept. But base concept and past precedent can't save this show at all
The first season had the issue of Kill la Kill being out the same time and it being a better show for the type of action RWBY tries to do.
The second has no excuse, Roosterteeth has made a good webshow and the fact that they can't repeat it doesn't look good.
First is something that most people have noticed, the animation. My god, it goes into stupid at times. I've seen way too many incidents of arms clipping through clothing, hands not actually grabbing items and even during the fights, I find that some of the animation could really benefit from more frames per second in animation. Sadly, the only way to really fix this is to go on hiatus, finish all the episodes and spend time pouring over each frame to make sure that there are no real hiccups because the clipping and off model stuff is getting annoying.
I really hate it when people say they can fix RWBY by improving the animation.
Pixar could make an episode that wouldn't make it better. and... you probably hate it when people say that. and more time between episodes wouldn't help matters either, the show is so badly paced and unmemorable that if they took a hiatus people would forget about it.
Next is the writing; dear god, why. It shifts too often between goofball antics with our "characters"(i will explain why the parenthesis in the next part) and really poorly executed melodrama (see the Weiss/Blake conflict in the first season). It feels either too rushed or too slow and often focuses more on irrelevant humor than any plot; now if this was a comedy, I can accept the humor but this is a story that we are supposed to be fully invested in and while eliminated all humor would also be detrimental, please just learn how to ease us in and give us space.
Making the tone consistent is how you would fix RWBY? Not... say... introducing a plot?
You want to fine tune the small details while ignoring the elephant in the room. Miles and Kerry don't know how to write a story. They don't know anything about continuity or pacing, they don't even understand "Show don't tell"
there's one simple step to fix RWBY. replace the writers.
The first episode of volume 2 retconned every significant detail from volume 1.
The best way to improve RWBY is to have someone (Any human with a brain) sit down with Miles and have a stern talk about what you need to do before you finalize a screen play.
3 hours have gone by and the only thing you can say happened in RWBY is that Ruby got bumped up 2 grades and Torchwick acquired some dust (And that happened off screen!)
What did I come here for?
Oh yeah RWBY needs a plot. plain and simple.
Everything else can sort its self out later but things need to start happening.
I know the fact that the plot is really non existent but there is technically a plot, the main issue is that we keep getting sidelined with the stuff with the dance, classes, and any interesting things like the stolen mechs, the fact that Penny was made, the increased militarization of Atlas, or even the god damn tournament that we keep eluding to is just pushed all the way to the corner while the stupid stuff happens.
As far as trope-y characters go, I pretty much gave up on anime for awhile because ALL OF THEM ARE TROPES (this is technically an exaggeration when it comes to some of the classics, but exceptions proving rules, etc., etc.). Seriously, it's find-an-anime-with-the-most-interesting-setting-or-something, because all of the characters are pretty much done to death already. I started watching Attack on Titan because apparently everyone was nuts for it, but the first few episodes I watched were tropes with a heavy layer of angst and a vaguely dull premise. I have no idea where RWBY is going, but I do like how all of the trope characters interact, and the show doesn't really take itself too seriously.
You've already firmly established that you don't like the show. I don't know why you feel the need to keep harping on it. Maybe I'd be more receptive to your opinion if I ever got the notion that you ever WANTED to like the show, but I don't hear that. All I'm hearing is
I want to like it, I love crazy action, loved the freelancer fights and I like the base concept. But base concept and past precedent can't save this show at all
Well then at this point you're just shooting at, what is to you, a sinking ship. I'd just avoid it altogether. It's not the only thing Roosterteeth makes, after all. I mean, I love Game Grumps but I don't really care for the other people on it besides Arin and Danny (and it also took me a LONG time to accept Danny), so I don't watch Steam Train or Table Flip.
I don't know. You can do what you want, of course. It just seems to me like wasted energy to trash something you apparently didn't like from the beginning.
(Also, not sure if you heard, but RWBY won best animated show at the Streamies.)
(And best original score, but I don't think I saw you hating on the music.)
I know the fact that the plot is really non existent but there is technically a plot, the main issue is that we keep getting sidelined with the stuff with the dance, classes, and any interesting things like the stolen mechs, the fact that Penny was made, the increased militarization of Atlas, or even the god damn tournament that we keep eluding to is just pushed all the way to the corner while the stupid stuff happens.
I think the show would be better off it they just dropped all the quote unquote "serious stuff" all together.
After that last episode of volume 1 the characters can't get in fights anymore because that's the most boring part of the show.
and they don't know how to deliver exposition because... Miles and Kerry.
And we don't know what the villains are planning. For all we know Cinder might want to throw a rave party and she needs the dust to power the fog machines and she needs the mech's because the laser sights look cool when everyone's high on E
I read your review you posted up there and this is a snippet from my review that I think summs up all the problems with the way they present their plot.
I only bring it up because you didn't mention it in yours.
Anyway, Yang and Blake... (Is it just me or are they trying to push that ship hard core?) Yang and Blake have a discussion about why the plot isn't moving forward.
Then Yang says "If Roman Torchwick walked through that door what would you do?"
and Blake says "I'd fight him!"
and Yang says "You'd lose!"
And then I say "How do you know that? Huh? Did you read the script? Is your semblance reading the script?"
And then Miles and Kerry laugh derisively at me "hehehehe"
Everything we've seen of Torchwick suggests that he's just terrible at everything. Every time we see him he fucks something up and runs away, and the one time we do see him with Dust he pays for it.
But every time we hear about Torchwick (Every time we are told about him)
we're told he's this master criminal who has the whole town running scared, and that he's the most bad ass bad ass who ever badded an ass.
So which is it? Do we trust the actions of the character or the words of the author?
I mean if being like an anime is so important to them they should try to be one type of anime at a time.
Dropping the plot is a way to solve the side lining problem. even though Monty would become completely irrelevant if they stopped fighting.
As far as trope-y characters go, I pretty much gave up on anime for awhile because ALL OF THEM ARE TROPES (this is technically an exaggeration when it comes to some of the classics, but exceptions proving rules, etc., etc.). Seriously, it's find-an-anime-with-the-most-interesting-setting-or-something, because all of the characters are pretty much done to death already. I started watching Attack on Titan because apparently everyone was nuts for it, but the first few episodes I watched were tropes with a heavy layer of angst and a vaguely dull premise. I have no idea where RWBY is going, but I do like how all of the trope characters interact, and the show doesn't really take itself too seriously.
You've already firmly established that you don't like the show. I don't know why you feel the need to keep harping on it. Maybe I'd be more receptive to your opinion if I ever got the notion that you ever WANTED to like the show, but I don't hear that. All I'm hearing is
I want to like it, I love crazy action, loved the freelancer fights and I like the base concept. But base concept and past precedent can't save this show at all
Well then at this point you're just shooting at, what is to you, a sinking ship. I'd just avoid it altogether. It's not the only thing Roosterteeth makes, after all. I mean, I love Game Grumps but I don't really care for the other people on it besides Arin and Danny (and it also took me a LONG time to accept Danny), so I don't watch Steam Train or Table Flip.
I don't know. You can do what you want, of course. It just seems to me like wasted energy to trash something you apparently didn't like from the beginning.
(Also, not sure if you heard, but RWBY won best animated show at the Streamies.)
(And best original score, but I don't think I saw you hating on the music.)
I actually liked Season 1 of RWBY until around episode 9-10 when the writing started to seem a bit stupid or cliche and it got worse during the bully arc. The last straw was how Weiss's development got reserved and Penny AKA Nu-13 but more wooden got revealed.
Once again, the base concept and Monty's previous work got me invested but now the only enjoyment I can have is to just review and bash it like what Linkara or Nostalgia Critic do.
Edit: I really have nothing to say about the music, it's nothing compared to some soundtracks used by actual anime but it does get people pumped and doesn't sound too dissonant.
I know the fact that the plot is really non existent but there is technically a plot, the main issue is that we keep getting sidelined with the stuff with the dance, classes, and any interesting things like the stolen mechs, the fact that Penny was made, the increased militarization of Atlas, or even the god damn tournament that we keep eluding to is just pushed all the way to the corner while the stupid stuff happens.
I think the show would be better off it they just dropped all the quote unquote "serious stuff" all together.
After that last episode of volume 1 the characters can't get in fights anymore because that's the most boring part of the show.
and they don't know how to deliver exposition because... Miles and Kerry.
And we don't know what the villains are planning. For all we know Cinder might want to throw a rave party and she needs the dust to power the fog machines and she needs the mech's because the laser sights look cool when everyone's high on E
I read your review you posted up there and this is a snippet from my review that I think summs up all the problems with the way they present their plot.
I only bring it up because you didn't mention it in yours.
Anyway, Yang and Blake... (Is it just me or are they trying to push that ship hard core?) Yang and Blake have a discussion about why the plot isn't moving forward.
Then Yang says "If Roman Torchwick walked through that door what would you do?"
and Blake says "I'd fight him!"
and Yang says "You'd lose!"
And then I say "How do you know that? Huh? Did you read the script? Is your semblance reading the script?"
And then Miles and Kerry laugh derisively at me "hehehehe"
Everything we've seen of Torchwick suggests that he's just terrible at everything. Every time we see him he fucks something up and runs away, and the one time we do see him with Dust he pays for it.
But every time we hear about Torchwick (Every time we are told about him)
we're told he's this master criminal who has the whole town running scared, and that he's the most bad ass bad ass who ever badded an ass.
So which is it? Do we trust the actions of the character or the words of the author?
I mean if being like an anime is so important to them they should try to be one type of anime at a time.
Dropping the plot is a way to solve the side lining problem. even though Monty would become completely irrelevant if they stopped fighting.
I had watched your video review and while I would argue about the lack of plot (I watched Evangellion for christ's sake) I do agree wtih most of the general assertions
One thing I would like to comment is the fights or rather the fighting sytles. While Penny and the girl from dead Fantasy are similar, their base style is from Blazblue, Weiss seems too similar to other people with comparisons to Asuna and Amy being common. Neptune looks like a blue haired Rex Salizar from Generator Rex
There is more points to be made like how the animation hiccups, while not completely tied to the show's incompetence, really does start to break immersion (the lack of frames during fights doesn't help but that's more from a fighting game point of view so it may not be valid)
Lastly, the issue of the villains. My god, I can't take Torchwick, Cinder, Emerald or Mercury seriously.
Again if they sounded more like this or this
or even
and
I would be much more intimidated, I would know that they don't mess around. There is still the issue of lack of on screen actions but the voice acting in this show really kills it for me especially since like you said in the text reviews, Yang really is not that good and Blake, to me at least, is so flat instead of stoic.
One other question; what do you think about my review? I tried to do Linkara's thing with my review but I don't think I did well enough and I was probably way too angry.
I've just started watching it- it's ok, but the characters are pretty dull. From what I've seen, Nora is basically a PG friendly version of Cheryl from Archer, Blake is trying to hard to be mysterious, Ruby is a bit like Ash Ketchum, Weiss is the uber stereotypical rich girl (and seems very similar to a tekken character in all areas of design), the yellow girl is just a stereotypical older sister... yeah it's not great. Hopefully it'll pick up though.
EDIT:Also, the lecturer with the Tasch is terribly voice acted
EDIT: The world building is also terrible. There's a girl with bunny ears, no explanation of who/what she is. Also, other kingdoms are mentioned I've never heard them named.
You know, I watched that with my brother, an Engineering student. He's the kind of person who loves to nitpick over things that break the laws of physics like that. We freaking loved that moment. I could almost see his mouth starting to open in order to object when Jaune collapsed the shield, and then that line happened. I think my brother's pretty much given the show a free pass ever since.
We're both Escapees, it's quite likely we both watch Zero Punctuation. I think we've all heard the weight argument over and over again. My issue isn't that it was addressed, it's that Ruby addressed it. Why was that her first thought? I found it a break in character and that's what bothered me so much.
Especially since he could've just had one arm bigger than the other and left the whole thing ambiguous. Or would that have been childish?
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