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It's just people backstabbing each other and ping-ponging off of each other and not talking to each other and lying to each other and doing basically nothing to advance the because the plot happens independently of all of them like if you watched the back half of Evangelion and completely misunderstood why things went to shit there.
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Very extremely rarely does it seem like any characters have any real agency and even rarer still does it seem like they have any influence on the plot. It legitimately got better in Volume 6 and Volume 7 both in writing and animation and design work and definitely in world building, but honestly Volume 8 was so extremely try hard and rote and "characters do things but it doesn't matter because no one accomplishes anything and their attempt to do anything was ruined way back in episode 1" that it's on an extreme backspin towards the dark times of Volume 4 when they were making shit up by the episode and spent the entire volume spinning their wheels. No, when you ominously "kill" 70% of the show's main cast in the last five minutes of the final episode and then call back to the foreshadowing in an extremely unsubtle way, it's not clever and it's not suspenseful because nobody over 5 years old is going to believe that the status quo isn't going to be either immediately restored in the next Volume or that the next Volume is going to be wasted on pissing around to restore the status quo for most of it and then there will be a couple episodes where actual storyline occurs. This is a show that has killed main characters, I suppose. Yes, it's somewhat plausible that a character may actually be gone forever if you imply falling off the path causes them to be graphically erased from existence and that's a good hook for the next season. Yes, it is foreshadowing when you bring things screeching to a halt and have a character basically just say what bad thing is going to happen ("don't fall off the path") a few episodes before the finale. It got so bad that Monty's own brother had to tell them to knock it off, and they in turn just used that as an excuse to harass him as well.
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Then again, given that there are plenty of these RWBYTubers who have a massive entitlement complex to the point that they think they can use a dead man as a prop to harass the RWBY team, maybe they just can't be bothered to do so.įor context, the dead man is Monty Oum, one of the creators of the show who passed away in around Volume 2 to 3, and ever since then, due to the show going in a direction that people have mixed feelings about, some cretins have taken to claiming that Monty would have never approved of it, using this mindset (known as "Monty's Vision") to justify harassing and being overall terrible to the RWBY team, claiming that the latter have "sold out to corporations and stealing Monty's work for their own gain" despite the fact that they were CLOSE FRIENDS to Monty, and RWBY was a collaborative effort between all of them. Maybe they just don't think it's worth their time? I'm surprised Rooster Teeth hasn't commented on that. It's telling that I can only really stomach one, MAAAYBE 2 YouTubers at best when it comes to anything RWBY related, because the rest are either ladened with incredibly misogynistic bullshit, or their takes are less about examining the themes and plot progression and more about forcing their headcanons onto the story, and then throwing a temper tantrum when those headcanons aren't realized in the show. That said, I HATE trying to watch any of the discourse about RWBY on YouTube, because that place is a cesspool of bad takes and poor understanding of RWBY's themes and characters. However, I think it's also one of those shows that you only really "get" if you rewatch it multiple times imo, because a lot of the details that make certain plot points or character decisions work or make more sense can be a bit easy to miss if you only take things at face value, since they basically have to stuff a lot of details into a smaller period of time. It's a solid enough show even with it's rough areas.