RWBY

I remember back when volume 4 started airing was after the time you weren't able to watch videos on Rooster Teeth's website without signing up as a member. Being the lazy man that I am, I never got around to signing up. I also never got around to watching it on YouTube when the episodes popped up. Yeah, that last year of college was just... hard for me to commit to watching things. Not even cuz the school work was difficult. I just kinda stopped doing lots of stuff during that last year of college.

So, fast forward a year and a half or so (I honestly don't remember when volume 4 started) and I have finally gotten around to watching it again. Binged volume 4 in the span of two days. Did that a week or two ago. Then I watched all of volume 5 yesterday. Fun stuff. Glad to finally be caught up with things.

 

I enjoyed it. Not sure how I feel about it going against some of my expectations. Or how some things ended up happening. Like the stuff involving Adam in the final episode. Speaking of which, Blake's sub plot was kinda boring all things considered. Yang still best girl.

Also I'm surprised by how much I like Hazel.

 

http://tomecko.tumblr.com/post/170465598821/tyforestposts-my-issues-with-rwby-volume-5 ain't my thoughts but it encapsulates my feelings.

 

I feel like I can easily agree with plenty of the things listed (Except the shipping cuz that's ridiculous). But as has already been stated, the complaints about character deaths don't need to have any emotional impact. I'm torn about whether or not I should include spoiler tags. On the one hand this thread is meant for talking about the series which means there is an unspoken acknowledgement that the latest episodes will be talked about and not necessarily in spoiler tags. On the other hand there's always that one person who doesn't stop and consider that. But I say to hell with that.

So, the idea that all character deaths need to have any sort of emotional impact is wrong, plain and simple. Some deaths are there to please the audience, like Fennec's death (Let's be honest here, I can't imagine there was a person who was legitimately upset when he died). Other deaths, like Sienna's are made to advance the plot. Characters being introduced only to be killed off shortly later is something that I feel is common enough that it isn't much of a legitimate complaint. Generally it's done to show how much of a threat the bad guy has become, and in a way her death did that to show Adam becoming more of a threat by putting him in a position where he can move the White Fang to act on his extremist ideals. I wanna comment on Vernal dying, but I can't really think of much to say. Yeah, she died, but I don't think she was a character who was really made to be a good person on her own two feet. Any good she would have done would have come at the command of Raven, who at the very least has being Yang's mom as a means to eventually become a good guy and not a rogue third party.

Then of course there's Cinder and the possibility of her dying. Primarily, I don't believe she died. Typically that doesn't happen. But honestly, more power to Rooster Teeth if they did decide to kill her off. Her death would then carry the implication that no matter how important you are to the story there is no guarantee that you'll survive. Unless you're part of team RWBY cuz they're definitely gonna be fighting Salem somewhere down the line. In fact, I feel that Cinder dying would help reinforce my thoughts that nobody from team JNPR is going to make it to the end, alongside Qrow and some others.

 

y'all be focusing on the shipping too much.

but there's no point in wasting the screen time on somebody like Sienna Kahn that could be used elsewhere when she literally is a person in a power who existed only to die. Up until this season I thought adam WAS the head of the White Fang. At this point, they could have just dedicated a one-off line from tweedle fox and tweedle dog to Adam taking control and saved that much valuable screen time to giving Oscar character, or do a time-pass montage or SOMETHING to show him and the others improving in some way. Because all Adam did this season was kill Sienna, and then job to Blake.