BMPixy
Well-Known Member
This is kinda why I don't know why I bother explaining the subtle character details and motivations because when people are already convinced something is bad they will color everything to fit that mold instead of taking an objective step back to actually form their own opinion. (Even though most of the arguments I hear are the same as the latest popular YouTuber's argument regurgitated at me with only slight changes.)
I mean I meant that originally as a tongue in cheek joke, but let's go ahead and dive deep into why I phrased that joke the way I did because I don't have anything better to do today.
So, back when the first trailers for RWBY came out, I loved them to hell and back. Cute girls with cool weapons in big dumb fight scenes, by the guy who did some of the best parts of RvB in my opinion? Sign me the hell up. I must have watched those trailers dozens of times over and over, analyzing them for details, trying to pick out continuity, all that good stuff. They were minimalist stories, yet complete, and had the flashy action I crave. I still hold Blake's trailer as one of my favorite short animations to this day.
And then episode one came out, and I wasn't fond of it. I had been watching enough anime set in magic high schools as of that time, and the characters in that first episode didn't... they didn't pop the way the ones in the trailer did, I guess. It was setting up for the story, but there wasn't really that big hook you need to get people into a story. But I gave it the benefit of the doubt, and waited for the second episode. My opinion didn't improve. But I gave it the benefit of the doubt, and waited for the third episode. My opinion didn't improve. At this point I had given three weeks of my life to something I didn't care much for, and my philosophy on life is that if you have to wait for it to get good, it isn't worth waiting for. So I dropped it.
So, that means that my fondest memories of RWBY, when I was the most hype for that show was those four first trailers - six minute fight scenes released, with minimal to no outside context, yet in all but the Ruby trailer, they still managed to tell a story. That's what I loved. And so, if that was the RWBY I loved, it's why I would want RWBY to be like that, so that I can love it again.
Music's still pretty good, in that dumb fun buttrock way, I will say though.