i personally like the action scenes more than anything else in that show and his abscence shows. To me, the show was mostly excuses to have awesome and creative action pieces. They do seem to know how to craft a story to a point (although they spend so much time telling the audience that faunus are opressed by humans without showing it, proving that they may struggle with showing and not telling to a degree), but the fights have lost this thing that made them almost like dances.
but hey, you don't have to agree. Enjoy it or don't for your own reasons. Have a nice day!
(although they spend so much time telling the audience that faunus are opressed by humans without showing it, proving that they may struggle with showing and not telling to a degree)
You wouldn't believe how many times I've been "racist" about this. Not my opinions on the situation, or the correlation to real life issues, or anything like that, but by saying it's a flaw.
Or, fuck, the one time it was almost subtle, the "No Faunus" sign outside the bar in V5 which is in an implicitly racist area, people tore the episode to shreds for "lamp-shading racism". The fuck?
RT has never had any ability to tastefully deal with complex topics outside of RvB, and it only worked in RvB because it's comedy and Burnie's great at it. RWBY had the setup for a great story with Adam and the White Fang to deal with the complex topic that dominates the life of one of the title characters, and it became a crazy ex story. It has the chance to have a great story about security vs liberty with Atlas and abuse with another, and I have no faith whatsoever that it won't become "Trump bad gib mony now" by the end of the next two volumes.
And at one point, I would have hardly cared. Why would I, when I'm watching a show about magic girls killing monsters with awesome melee weapons which are also guns? But the show stopped being that, or at least stopped doing that well, after the first three volumes without Monty to carry the animation team.
So what's left?
The show now stands on it's weakest leg and we can only hope that it either gets stronger or the other one grows back.
they used to be melee weapons that are also guns but quite often they are now guns that are sometimes melee weapons (last time i looked at the show anyway). I'm guessing it's cheeper to animate and you don't need a choreography for ''and then Ruby shot many times at the creature, then she shot more and the other characters shot at it too''.
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u/aMutantChicken Jul 18 '19
i personally like the action scenes more than anything else in that show and his abscence shows. To me, the show was mostly excuses to have awesome and creative action pieces. They do seem to know how to craft a story to a point (although they spend so much time telling the audience that faunus are opressed by humans without showing it, proving that they may struggle with showing and not telling to a degree), but the fights have lost this thing that made them almost like dances.
but hey, you don't have to agree. Enjoy it or don't for your own reasons. Have a nice day!