#ambitiousend

at the end of the day, that's all rwby is. it's like jelloapocalypse said, rwby's writing likes to "fly by the seat of its oversized clown pants"

it's just tossing in tons of cool ideas but never fully developing any of them.

racism against animal-people? cool idea, never fully developed.

adam and blake's relationship/dynamic being like malcolm x and martin luther king jr.? cool idea, never fully developed.

class wars with mantle vs atlas? cool idea, never fully developed.

having the main four girls realize their privileges in growing up in safe/wealthy areas unlike our villains (cinder/mercury/emerald/adam/ilia/etc.)? cool idea, never fully developed.

we see cinder make some comments about this to weiss in v8 but nothing really ever comes out of it.

we see tyrian's "you interest me" comment to jaune in v4. maybe some sort of comment on his semblance and how their semblances are opposites? cool idea, never fully developed.

there are series that, within one season, have done more with their characters than rwby has done with their characters in eight seasons.

like arcane, which developed caitvi's relationship (and their attraction to each other) more in one season than b/umbleby's "slowburn" relationship did in eight seasons.

like artiswitch, which developed nina's problems and shortcomings as a main character more in one season than rwby did with ruby in eight seasons.

it sucks because rwby could be so great if they just picked ideas and stuck with them and developed them. but they keep jumping from one concept to the next and add nothing new... there are no new spins on these ideas they have.

The first 7 minutes (of a 15 minute episode) is just the Volume 9 Trailer teaser, so feel free to skip to that point if you watch it.

Everybody forgets about their powers.

As far as Alice in Wonderland copy-pastes go, it's especially bad. Expies of Alice, the Red Queen, Absolem, the Cheshire Cat, and the Jabberwocky all appear by the time the show's opening is playing at the end.

There is, predictably, no premier fight scene, those have long since been left behind.

When Weiss is finally forced to spill the beans on how Volume 8 ended, Ruby literally faints when she hears Penny's name. And then she just wakes up on the ground when it's raining. And then she's just kinda down while talking with the rest of the team after. Called it.

The Jabberwocky expy is kind of fucked up and eerie but it's voice is so heavily layered that it can be difficult to make out what it's saying.

Even without that change, they still could've done more to show how she still believed in the mission of the White Fang just not their methods (specifically working with humans / targeting innocents).

i hadn't heard anything for sage being indian however there's no denying that team sssn brought a lot of visible skin tone diversity, scarlet aside, to the table when the first three volumes were fucking barren. which is probably why they didn't get a lot of screen time & then sun had to be whitewashed to hell & back when he became blake's orbital character. until she abused him out of the show. ✨

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I think I said this a while ago, but all I want is a callback to volume 3 when Sun made Blake blush

I really wouldn't put it past them to be that pathetic...although I GUESS that's better than all the horrific ship teasing they did for 5 whole seasons just to rip it away and replace it with a cheap, resentful, unhealthily co-dependent ship that they forced down our throats and insisted they had planned from the get go.

at the very least the blacksun winking scene was extended from 8 seconds to 10 seconds.