Hello and Welcome to another RWBY review where WE HAVE FINALLY GONE 1080p. With the new player enabling me to see all the little animation hiccups as they happen, lets review Mountain Glenn [http://roosterteeth.com/archive/?id=9796]
So we start with Ironwood looking out in the distance and Glenda coming up to talk about what's wrong. Ironwood is starting to feel uneasy at how Ozpin is talking the situation relatively passive. Glenda reminds him that Ozpin has more experience and that they should trust him. Glenda also states that she finds it admirable that he works for the people's benefit even against protest. So Ironwood is one of those harsh but fair leaders; kind of expected it from a man who brings an airforce to an academy. This actually seems to be setting up something; don't know what it is but it's decent foreshadowng for the time being. In addition, aside from clipping of hands and clothes, the animation actually is good. Faces are fairly emotive and people move reasonably well. This seems to be a step up from the normal mess but that might be the new player.
Back to team RWBY, Yang Blake and Weiss decide to talk about why Oobleck asked them about becoming a huntress. We actually get some interesting bits of information. Starting with Weiss, it turns out she is aware of the moral gray area the company operates under and wishes to change it in a way that a job in Atlas would not be able to do. Blake starts talking about Adam, and how his ideals were too extreme for her. Blake decided to join because of the nobility and honor hunters have but she doesn't know how to undo the hate her kind has gone through. She also states that she feels like a coward because she ran from her partner being a monster and ran when the team found out about her fanuis identity. Yang says that she has gone with the flow and doesn't know how long she can do that for. She wanted to be a hunter because of the adventure and feels that Ruby is not like her since she had the goal of being a hero since childhood. In the end, they realize that their romanticized ideals of being a hunter were present but now they ultimately have a job to protect the people; Oobleck smiles as he hears this.
I only got one thing to say: WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DID YOU DO WITH MILES AND KERRY. Seriously, this is actually good character development that pays off what happened in the last episode. It gives us the main motivations of what they wanted to become and ultimately talked them through to the duty of being a hunter.
After that dose of charcter development, Zwei the dog runs off while Ruby is sleeping and she goes off to find him. She heads out and by sheer luck comes across a white fang patrol. Ruby follows them and after a few set pieces of high speed cover transitions and fumbling with a weapon, she finds the hideout and tries calling the rest of the team but the signal is bad. She heads back to get them but steps onto weak ground and falls through a hole into an underground city. She gets knocked out and captured.
The team finds out that Ruby is missing and go out to find her. Meanwhile, Ruby wakes up and sees that the operation full of mechs and what appear to be bombs. The team finds the hole that Ruby fell through and Oobleck starts rambling. He explains that during the expansion attempt, when the city began to fail, the people decided to head underground into a cave system built to house a metro for transporting people between the outskirts and Vale and created a city. However, an explosion exposed the cave to a cavern of grimm, forcing Vale to seal the tunnels of the metro. As the show ends, Oobleck pulls out his weapon, a weird staff that extends from his bottle, and has the team ready up to head down.
Well, I can guess the plan now: have the mechs clear the tunnels, use the decommissioned metro to smuggle bombs under the city and detonate them to cripple infrastructure and cause chaos. Not sure what this had to do with the communication tower but this actually is a good plan that would completely cause confusion.
The main theme of this episode is WHERE ARE THE REAL MILES AND KERRY. The little character development scene we had was probably the best writing we had all season and we get a real sense of what these characters are like. The animation still has way too much clipping but is polished otherwise and this was generally a good episode.
Two in a row, lets go for three
So we start with Ironwood looking out in the distance and Glenda coming up to talk about what's wrong. Ironwood is starting to feel uneasy at how Ozpin is talking the situation relatively passive. Glenda reminds him that Ozpin has more experience and that they should trust him. Glenda also states that she finds it admirable that he works for the people's benefit even against protest. So Ironwood is one of those harsh but fair leaders; kind of expected it from a man who brings an airforce to an academy. This actually seems to be setting up something; don't know what it is but it's decent foreshadowng for the time being. In addition, aside from clipping of hands and clothes, the animation actually is good. Faces are fairly emotive and people move reasonably well. This seems to be a step up from the normal mess but that might be the new player.
Back to team RWBY, Yang Blake and Weiss decide to talk about why Oobleck asked them about becoming a huntress. We actually get some interesting bits of information. Starting with Weiss, it turns out she is aware of the moral gray area the company operates under and wishes to change it in a way that a job in Atlas would not be able to do. Blake starts talking about Adam, and how his ideals were too extreme for her. Blake decided to join because of the nobility and honor hunters have but she doesn't know how to undo the hate her kind has gone through. She also states that she feels like a coward because she ran from her partner being a monster and ran when the team found out about her fanuis identity. Yang says that she has gone with the flow and doesn't know how long she can do that for. She wanted to be a hunter because of the adventure and feels that Ruby is not like her since she had the goal of being a hero since childhood. In the end, they realize that their romanticized ideals of being a hunter were present but now they ultimately have a job to protect the people; Oobleck smiles as he hears this.
I only got one thing to say: WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DID YOU DO WITH MILES AND KERRY. Seriously, this is actually good character development that pays off what happened in the last episode. It gives us the main motivations of what they wanted to become and ultimately talked them through to the duty of being a hunter.
After that dose of charcter development, Zwei the dog runs off while Ruby is sleeping and she goes off to find him. She heads out and by sheer luck comes across a white fang patrol. Ruby follows them and after a few set pieces of high speed cover transitions and fumbling with a weapon, she finds the hideout and tries calling the rest of the team but the signal is bad. She heads back to get them but steps onto weak ground and falls through a hole into an underground city. She gets knocked out and captured.
The team finds out that Ruby is missing and go out to find her. Meanwhile, Ruby wakes up and sees that the operation full of mechs and what appear to be bombs. The team finds the hole that Ruby fell through and Oobleck starts rambling. He explains that during the expansion attempt, when the city began to fail, the people decided to head underground into a cave system built to house a metro for transporting people between the outskirts and Vale and created a city. However, an explosion exposed the cave to a cavern of grimm, forcing Vale to seal the tunnels of the metro. As the show ends, Oobleck pulls out his weapon, a weird staff that extends from his bottle, and has the team ready up to head down.
Well, I can guess the plan now: have the mechs clear the tunnels, use the decommissioned metro to smuggle bombs under the city and detonate them to cripple infrastructure and cause chaos. Not sure what this had to do with the communication tower but this actually is a good plan that would completely cause confusion.
The main theme of this episode is WHERE ARE THE REAL MILES AND KERRY. The little character development scene we had was probably the best writing we had all season and we get a real sense of what these characters are like. The animation still has way too much clipping but is polished otherwise and this was generally a good episode.
Two in a row, lets go for three
. M&K's writing here in this scene and the one before in the last episode is the kind writing of the last eight episodes and Volume 1 should have had but didn't get thanks to Monty's uncaring directionless attitude.
