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knightofbalance-13 · 7 years

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Boss Battle: Vs. Dudeblade 2

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Yep, More Dudeblade bullcrap. And my god, is this going to be a trial on par with Hercules’. So i hope to the people who read this: Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi34XJx35ZE

Volume 4.

Oh boy, are you a subject that is a pain in the ass to handle.

Sometimes it feels this volume was made just to be hated.

So much time spent on setting up for future volumes that you forgot about the volume in front of you most of the time.

And yet throughout this review.critique you will constantly be shown to manipulate facts and be either deliberately vague with your complaints as so you can’t be directly contradicted or you will and I’ll do a better job of understanding the sources than you. This shows that you are not unbiased and professional in this but rather out for blood to insult and attack what you personally don’t like to try and manipulate the show into what you want. And I’m here to knock down the pillars you have built up. Let’s go.

A vague and convoluted timeskip that raised more questions than avoided it (like seriously? It took WeissSIX MONTHS to decide to leave her broken home? - (And no. If anyone says “Weiss’ arc took place at a different point in time than the timeskip.” Then that basically validates my accusation that Yang recovered overnight. You can’t say that about one character, and then claim it was completely different for another)).

That’s your only example? That example doesn’t even work here because parents, not matter how much a child hates them, holds a very strong psychological hold on them to the point that the idea of straight up defiance takes a lot of power. Weiss grew up with a man who is able to keep a business afloat despite rampant racism and mistreatment of workers due to his ability to persuade people so it would take a lot of Weiss to rebel against him, especially if it means she’ll have nowhere to go. This is especially egregious because you have directly compared your own mother to Jacques Schnee (http://dudeblade.tumblr.com/post/158279625962/more-beef-with-taiyang-xiao-long) so you should know better than to act this way. Your lack of empathy and understanding is disturbing honestly. Not to mention your one exasmple with the timeskip not only fails so the point is mute, you display a lack of empathy and understanding here, showing you are just hating on the show, disregarding logic and facts to do so thus this entire post is useless.

And you treat the timeskip as actually happening for the rest of the critique but argue it didn’t happen here, showing an inconsistency in criticism and thus showing a bias against the show. So your argument here is useless on two fronts.

Questionable decisions that make the plot even more confusing than that vague timeskip already did.

Dudeblade, you clearly show you are capable of giving examples in the previous point and even an incorrect point is better than no point since you just expect us to agree with you blindly without any proof. If you don’t have proof, why should we listen and how can the writers get better if you don’t tell them what went wrong: Vague criticism like this is worthless.

A PTSD recovery arc that was so fast-paced, that the song at the end of the season had to basically say, “Yes. This character has now recovered.”

Dudeblade, you just said that there was a six month timeskip thus meaning Yang had six months to recover from the PTSD so it wasn’t as immediate as you say. Not to mention even if you take that away, Yang had been directly working on recovery with her father for weeks within Volume 4 (https://youtu.be/rox3yphzLy4?t=1m46s) so it wasn’t as fast as you say. Could there have been more shown? Yes preferably but that's not your argument and thus you don’t get the benefits of that.

Characters appearing out of nowhere, and plot points that were never planned so it feels as if they were shoehorned in.

No example so again, no reason to listen for any reason. Next.

A finale fight that was so underwhelming and overhyped that it felt as if the Spawn vs Alucard DBX was more interesting. I’ll prove it!

Ignoring the fact that the purpose of DBX is too have quick, easy to make fights so the creators can evaluate what their potential animators can do which is completely different than what RWBY is about, I completely removed anything knowledge of Alucard and Spawn I had except what is given in the fight and I felt nothing for the fight. It wasn’t fun, it wasn’t exhilarating, it wasn’t emotional: it left no impact on me. i knew nothing about these characters in the video’s context and thus had no impact on me. Doesn’t matter how pretty it is, unless I care about the people, I won’t like it. Contrast this with the Nucklevee fight which had foreshadowing, build up from before hand, a personal connection to the heroes and defeated in a symbolic way that reinforces the theme of moving beyond the past that is present in Volume 4. You don’t take any of this into account and judged two entirely different things as one being superior or inferior.

Seriously. The fight took less than a minute, and it was better-paced than the fight of RNJR vs. Nucky the straw hat grimm.

I honestly felt more tension in the fight made with sprites, than I did with the fight that was 3D animated.

Once again, this is because you judge two entirely different things by the same standards. DBX has around three minutes to do their thing at best whereas the battle with the Nucklevee took so much longer because there was a lot going on with the characters personally and not in battle. Are you saying character moments cannot happen in the middle of battle? Because that is very close minded and moronic.

Also, due to your derivative nickname, most people will brush this off as blind hating and thus, this is useless. If not for this then how you never say what slows down the battle, it just is.

Seriously.

Look, this is a grimm that is years, if not decades old, and four kids who didn’t even graduate their first year of Beacon could beat it?

- Either this undermines the ability of the Hunters, or this wanks the ability of RNJR significantly. Both of these options are bad, and neither are desirable. Pick your poison, I guess.

I want you to take a look at the cave of the Nucklevee (https://youtu.be/QjBtT4uCWpI?t=17m1s) Notice how it has not unique weapons in it, thus meaning no Huntsman has fought it. This means that the Nucklevee has only fought normal humans who are said to be incredibly weak to the weakest of Grimm and two children who say their home destroyed thus they would have a rational but misplaced fear of it. Just as well with Jaune and Ruby, who have never seen a Grimm like this every before and thus this is the fear of the unknown controlling them. But as at least partially trained Huntsman they are capable of killing it, especially as they have three talented huntsman on their side (and Jaune).

You are aware of Tv Tropes and are aware RWBY ahs apage: This has been noted in the Fridge tab (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fridge/RWBY Under the Volume 4 folder of Fridge Brilliance). There is no excuse for this lack of research.

How is it that a hammer to the backside deals little damage, but a rusty old knife is what kills it? I mean, as impractical and absurd as Jaune’s sword is, that also didn’t do much. But a rusty knife is what puts it down. I mean, I hate Jaune. His character has been done to death. There have been so many characters who wield swords, are constantly told they are important (without having earned it),and get to be the designated good guy even if they can’t take ‘no’ for an answer.

1. Symbolism. The knife is a handime down from Ren’s father who taught him and saved his life from the Nucklevee and him holding it is him understanding what he must do and how he cannot let his emotions control him, be it fear or anger. By killing it with his knife, Ren is putting that in the past and moving forward with his life, fulfilling the theme of the Volume.

2. You go on a tangent about Jaune in the middle of the illogical fighting and continue on as if this is the focus of the point. This just reinforces the fact you are doing this to attack and hate, especially as most of what you complain about Jaune has no correlation with what you said before. And you cannot deny this as you acknowledge in the post this was a tangent and do nothing to edit it out, showing your intent.

3.You have a self admitted bias against male characters. (http://dudeblade.tumblr.com/post/160161209960/rwde-theory-reactions-to-everything) and considering the jaune point, you have shown that you are incapable of removing your personal bias from critique and is thus useless.

I’m getting off-topic here. Look, this fight makes little sense. Aside from the animation errors of buildings and trees moving around, no impact feels as if it has any real weight to it. Like when Nora hits the back of the thing, it doesn’t feel as if it had any real impact.

It just feels as if the old magic is just… gone.

I mean, I get it. Monty (god rest his soul) isn’t around anymore. But if they hadn’t booted Shane, the magic could be recaptured. - The only fights of note were Qrow vs. Tyrian and RNJR vs. Tyrian. And both of thosefights had unnecessary breaks that disrupted the flow of the action. Animating combat 101: Don’t disrupt the flow of the battle to do something dumb.

You don’t explain why the battles seem to lose impact and thus the writers cannot improve on what they have done wrong thus your “critique” fails at your job. Had you said that the animation isn’t fluid enough or the sounds are muffled or the characters move awkwardly you may have had a point but now, this is a waste of space.

And you take the Shane problem out of context: Shane resigned, Shane was causing problems and even shane himself noted that only Monty could work the system they set up and thus it was useless after he died. It would have not worked one bit even if Shane stayed: probably would have gotten worse as Shane’s mental state deteriorated.

I have a good example. When Sun got hurt, a lot of people wanted to know if he’d be okay or not. Then, we get a WoR. That disrupts the flow of tension that was already built. This causes a disruption that makes people less inclined to have concern for Sun because we get some exposition.

Don’t disrupt action for exposition. Exposition is dumb. Especially if the exposition has nothing to do with the situation at hand.

Again, you take this out of context. Due to the complexities of 3D animation and an inexperience at Maya, RT cannot complete every episode in time so they use WOR to fill in an airspace hole as they polish an episode. Demanding that they do not do WOR is demanding to go a week or more without any RWBY content which would be an even bigger upset.

And tension does not work the way you say it does: spands of time increase tension instead of lowering it so what you are saying is the opposite of what actually happen i the time frame. And you saying Exposition is in and of itself dumb as exposition is narrative talk for “info” and thus you are demanding each show go into their conflicts without context or info, killing tension.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWnS8iKYnbQ

Also, Qrow getting better undermines the situation that they were put in. It amounts to cheap tension, and now, when another character is placed in a similar situation, very few people will have concern because thelast time, there were no lasting injuries (or at least, none that the audience is informed of. Seriously, Qrow? You were treated for poison, and not only are you not in a hospital recovering, but you’re also allowed to go right to the bar?)

Sun getting better undermines his situation as well. Look, I didn’t want Sun to die. The Bumble/by shipper in me would bemoan the fact that this would simply make Yang the rebound, and the storyteller in me would bemoan the senseless loss of a character that was likable (even if his character got derailed for this volume).

I did not understand how Qrow getting better from a non-fatal injury to be a tension killer and undermines a situation. Going on from my first part, Qrow could not die because his narrative purpose was not yet fulfilled, scorpion stings are not fatal for the most part and Tyrian tried to sting Ruby, who he was ordered to capture alive. All factors pointed to Qrow surviving. The only reason why people were worried because of the true basis for death in RWBY: Volume 3 where three characters where injured seriously and died. That is the true basis for judging death in RWBY which you ignore. because so much happened in Volume 3, they couldn’t kill anymore character or else risk something similar to what happened to Akame ga Kill and the audience becoming detached from the show due to the continuous deaths so it was in fact the correct choice to not kill Qrow so people know that others can get hurt but still survive, giving hope and thus maintaining tensions.

As for your Sun point: Sun joined Blake as supposed backup against the white fang, exactly what he did with Blake beack in Volume 1 and Volume 2. This is oefectly in character for him as well as the rest of his actions such as interrupting Ghira and Blake like how he barged in on Team RWBY in Volume 2 (https://youtu.be/mj3jfqPwJEk?t=2m43s) thus his actions are the same: What has changed is the circumstances and this is good writing showing the complexities of situations through circumstances and context and how even we normal people do not always get it. You simply ignore it for the sake of complaints and fault mining.

Yang suddenly getting used to the prosthetic overnight undermines her trauma as well. Seriously, she wakes up, puts on the prosthetic, and she’s suddenly a master with it. Almost as if she never lost an arm to begin with (Follow-up question: How did Tai sneak out of Vale to get that arm from Atlas for Yang without her noticing? Are we supposed to assume that Ironwood had it delivered? - Because then how did he know the length it would have to be? How did he know the shape? How did he know what the functionality would have to be?) Not only that, but the prosthetic itself also undermines the trauma Yang went through. There were a lot of people who wanted to see Yang kick ass with just the one arm, and then get a new one (myself included).

1. She does not get the prosthetic overnight, it took six months for her to get it, an unknown amount of time between Episodes 3 and 4 to put it on and weeks afterward as said in Episode 9. So you are misrepresenting her time frame what happened in the show.

2. You ask for details that you would not ask for in any other show that would be classified as “nitpicks” and thus are not worthy of attention. Just as I ignored how you you said she got it overnight when it was evening or how she was not an immediate master at it. Or how she mentions that she did not expect it to be so easy to wield the arm nor how her moving like she never lost it is the point as a replacement. I do not believe you want to get nitpicky with me.

3. Fighting with one arm is far different than fighting with two and she would need to relearn her entire fighting style in order to fight properly. She would need to be out of teh show for months more and thus would have no involvemnet with the plot whatsoever for months, especially as Taiyang has two arms and thus wouldn’t know how to teach her such a style. And the new prosthetic would undermine all that in the end and cause another split. Hence simpilar to have her take the arm before training.

4. An actual amputee has priased Rooster Teeth over their depiction of Yang ( http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Awesome/RWBY Under the meta folder). You are not an amputee so their word is more reliable about such a subject like this than you, as little as that means as I will explain latter.

- And while I could rant here about Tai, and his comment, I have a better thing to ask: “Was anybody expecting that comment (or something similar), and actively wanted to hear it?” if we’re being honest with ourselves, I doubt that a whole lot of us wanted to hear that kind of humor from Tai of all people. I get it, he also went through depression, but depression isn’t the same as PTSD. If he can go out with plans to get Yang a new arm, then he should be able to afford a therapist. Hell! given that the literal embodiment of the consequences for having negative emotions is supposed to be a major threat, you’d think that people specializing in psychology and emotional therapy would be more valued than hunters at this point.

You say you will not rant about Taiyang then spend half of the post ranting about him, thus this is no different than the Jaune tangent before and shows off your hate. I will not address it here because there is a better instance coming up in which we see your hate on Taiyang so i will conserve myself for that.

As for the expectation of the joke: In hindsight, yes it should have been see. Taiyang is friends with Qrow, who also has the sense of humor as seen when he says “Nope” at Ruby’s greeting as well as Yang’s where she is shown to be sarcastic while she freaked out over the stressful thing happening in episode 8 of Volume 1. Rooster Teeth treat one another much like Taiyang and insult one another as well, espeically in their products (Camp Camp, X Ray and Vave and Red vs Blue) And Rooster Teeth characters do take after their voice actors and Taiyang is voiced by Burnie who voices the snarkiest characters in RT series (X Ray and Church). all in all, you have no one to blame but yourself for that.

- - Look, that joke was cheap shock humor, and cheap dark humor. Don’t go for the cheap jokes. Hell! the laughter that Ruby had in the first episode was more forced than the Bruce/Nat romance in Avengers 2. The uncomfortable forced laughter just feels as if… it’s out of place. - Unless that was the point, in which case, good job.

Subjective comparison, potshot at another event which is also subjective and misunderstanding of the joke’s genre and purpose. Next.

A lot of trauma and injuries were undermined in their severity here, and it pisses me off. I myself, have a disability (I’m blind in my left eye), and I feel as if most of this is basically telling me that I should have been over it from the start. I adapted to my injury. I adapted by getting used to using only my good eye, and I think that Yang should’ve done the same until she felt as if she herself was ready to put on the arm. She shouldn’t have had to feel as if she wasn’t worth her father’s time if she was missing an arm, she should have gotten used to it.

And yet, you are contradicted by an amputee who should be logically more offended seeing it was their type of disability that was being “underminded” and yet they praised RT for it.

The problem with you is that you don’t take into account the circumstances of your disability and Yangs as well as the fact that you and Yang are different people. Your disability is something you were either born with or deteriorated naturally, your eye was not gouged out while trying to protect your friend. Just as well, your eye prevents you from seeing, Yang’s arm prevents her from living her life the way she wants too. And just as well, your eye could not have caused PTSD.

And even if your arm was taken off in the exact same circumstance, it would only be applicable if your experiences, environment, loved ones and base personality is exactly like Yang. Fundementally, you and Yang are different people and thus would operate in different ways. Yang adapted to her arm just fine, just as you have with your arm. All she did was do it her own way and expecting her to do it any otehr way is not smart.

And here I will address the Taiyang hate: you say that yang felt like she needed to put on her arm to feel like she was worth her father’s time when Taiyang directly states that he would help her when she was ready, ( https://youtu.be/GaB62PeuFwM?t=7m31s) meaning that Yang had shown herself to unready for his help, shown by her inactivity towards recovery and her defeated acceptance of her PTSD and depression. The mere fact he is there looking after her and he looking her is proof that she cannot feel that way because if he did give off that vibe, he would have acted exactly like Raven and left to find Ruby. You misrepresent what he said just so you could have a justified reason to hate.

- Also, what does it feel like for Yang to take off the arm? - We never see. Does she have a brief moment of anxiety from the sudden loss of a limb? Does she have a panic attack because she can no longer feel the arm? Or was she lying when she said that it felt natural? - We don’t know! I mean, Yang is good at hiding her emotions (see: Her opening up to Blake about what eats her up inside) so she obviously isn’t that emotive of a person.

If Yang is good at hiding her emotions: How did she lose her arm in the first place. a person in control of their emotions would not have rushed Adam so foolhardy, would not have let Neon toy with them, would not have counter attacked Mercury and would have not lost to Neo. This is a direct contradiction to what we see of Yang and only exists to justify your feelings.

All injuries feel as if they were placed there for some cheap tension. It’s hard to see it otherwise. This basically means that you haven’t prepared your audience for when the stakes get raised again. As a critic, this means that when a character does die, there will be uproar. You haven’t prepared your audience for this, because the characters who have gotten major injuries managed to recover and get better.

A character has already died: Three of them. you act as though Volume 3 never happened, you act as though you live in RWBY chibi. It has already happened and those are the basis of tension surrounding characters in RWBY. You failing to take this into account shows you are not a critic but indeed a hater (or complainer, whatever.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkwLHDx-zzc

From what I’ve seen around various critique tags, Volume 4 goes into either one of two categories for most (if not all) fans:

1. Great volume, with some moments that were bad.

or…

2. Bad volume, with some moments that were good.

If this were true then the raitings for RWBy would have dropped significantly seeing as critics would give it around a 3-6 out of 10 instead of the usual 8 out of 10. But the ratings have not been hit: they have stayed mostly the same at 8.3 out of ten (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3066242/). Thus showing this split is due to you staying mostly in the rwde tag where things are slanted negatively.

I fall into the latter category, because I enjoyed the Ren and Nora backstories, and liked the development of Weiss and Blake’s families. Other than those, however, the whole volume was… bad. I couldn’t enjoy it (Although, all the writers had to do was say that Blake wasn’t an orphan, and her parents wouldn’t have felt as if they came out of nowhere. - Just sayin’).

you ignored the nucklevee’s point in their past, you are about to comapliant about Weiss’ family and her plotline and you just complained about Blake’s so your actions do not match up with your words at all. This seems more like trying to appear like a critic than actually being objective so you don’t get called out.

I totally respect anyone’s opinion that if it was a good volume to you, and that if you did like it, but I myself could not enjoy it.

hence why everytime you have been confronted about this, you treat your subjective opinion as fact and call everyone else “Rt Whiteknights.”

The opinion aren’t black and white though. Much like the characters in the show. Qrow is not the definitive hero, Cinder is not the definitive villain, Raven isn’t a complete monster, and Jaune isn’t a precious cinnamon roll that needs to be protected at all costs (and if this were a Jaune hate post, I’d make a quip about how Miles seems to favor him over other characters… Wait, does this count as making that quip? - I’m so confused.)

Once again, your actions don’t match your words. You have complained about the White Fang conflict in the show being black and white, you have defended Raven only and anything you say about male characters can’t be trusted due to a self admitted bias, reinforced by an out of nowhere potshot at Jaune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4_qFrc6704

Then the decisions made by the characters make little sense. Even the decisions that they didn’t make also make little sense as well.

Like Weiss wearing LOUD OBNOXIOUS HEELS WHILE TRYING TO BE STEALTHY! Seriously Weiss? -THAT was your definition of stealth? The freaking HULK is stealthier than that! I swear, the universe bent over backwards to make sure Weiss wasn’t caught. Characters shouldn’t be bailed out by bad writing.

Weiss is never shown to own any shows outside of heels so it is entirely possible that she had no other option, reinforced by the fact that even in casual attire she has high heels. Also, you are not allowed to talk: You made up a nonsensical curse, made up a reason why it affected Yang to excuse her being OOC, acknowledged it was cliche and got her out of it because of another cliche you admittedly stole without understanding why it worked in the source.

Weiss not being caught is a coincidence. The writers cheated. This doesn’t teach the character of Weiss anything. Now she will believe that wedges are the footwear to wear for stealth. - Follow up question: How are those shoes combat effective? - They don’t seem practical. Like at all. RW/BY should set the trend of females wearing proper footwear into combat, it shouldn’t be following the trend of this sort of thing. It lookscool, yes, but practicality should be the main priority before style when entering combat. Magic users can get away with wearing heels because magic. But since it’s been established that semblances aren’t magic, Weiss has no excuse. Unless a secondary effect of those glyphs make it so that the user is able to fight in impractical heels, I have to call bull.

And you cheated in yoru work, ripped some one else soff and admitted it, on top of that you also didn’t understand what you were ripping off and why it worked.

And considering that RWBY is descended from Gurren Lagann which has characters going into battle damn near shirtless and it’s half sister Kill La Kill...speaks for itself, expecting such a thing out of RWBY is ridiculous as well as demands that the crew does what you want exactly or else it;s shit, showing that your critique is indeed you throwing a temper tandrum. Not to mention only Weiss and Blake wear heels (and Blake is a Cat fanus and cats walk on their toes) so only one character is impractical so this is yet another nitpick.

Also, Sun stalking Blake in a creepy hood doesn’t feel like something that he would do. It also wasn’t romantic, or heartfelt. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, I guess. But that doesn’t really excuse his behavior on Menagerie (Seriously, “Menagerie” means “Zoo.” why the hell haven’t the faunus changed that name yet? Were the humans all like, “You kicked our ass. Here’s an island, all to yourself. Call it ‘Menagerie,’ because we already named it, and you get no say in renaming it.”) - Sorry about that, I’m a little frustrated about that whole debacle. I feel as if was validated for stalking Blake and not respecting her personal space because of the events that happened. He barged in on Ghira an Blake (when Blake was just about to open up about what happened at Beacon, by the way), to tell her that he saw some White Fang members wearing Grimm masks? - Nobody wanted that interruption. Nobody asked for it. That was basically showing off a sandwich in front of a starving person, and then throwing it out. - I will acknowledge that Sun was in the right to be concerned, but the excuse he gave didn’t exactly seem to convey a sense of urgency. It just conveyed Sun not respecting Blake’s privacy.

Considering the fact that Blake is a self admitted coward whose tendency to run is greater tan a Romaning legendary on crystal meth mushrooms, this was Sun’s only option. Was ita good option? no but you don’t always get that luxury. Not to mention the fact that it was a single day and not the months you make it out to be, showcasing a case of melodrama that extends to your starving metaphor (Delayed character development will not kill you, drama queen.)

As for the Menagrie thing: That si exactly what is. (https://youtu.be/uUwuZdbUzT8?t=3m) it is a zoo, why change the name when you can keep it as a reminder of hwo far you need to go for true equality? Just as well: fanaus make up 80% of the population on Remnant and judging from Sun, most Fanaus wouldn’t care about Menagerie’s name so there is nowhere enough people for a name change to matter. Not to mention symbolism again, Remnant isn’t our world and thus words might have a different meaning and this is a point less tangent again showing your hate.

“Didn’t exactly convey a sense of emergency”

Not like Blake directly said she was running from the White Fang or how such an oddity means that said White Fang is probably working for Adam (which is latter confirmed) AKA “I’ll destroy everything you love.” I do not wnat to know what you’re sense of emergency is if there is one at all.

Jaune also didn’t get called out on calling out Qrow. Qrow is Ruby’s uncle. And while Jaune has every right to be mad, it doesn’t excuse the fact that Ruby should have come to her uncle’s defense in that scene. The most Jaune gets to being reprimanded for his comments is some glares that are in the background.

Ruby is probably processing that her uncle was behind such a powerful group, had knowledge he didn’t share with her and general shock as shown when she asked him why he didn’t tell her. (https://youtu.be/g91qG3qTaXE?t=15m28s). I, a person with a social disorder who doesn’t get subtleties of human interaction, got it better than you. Shame on you.

- Yeah Jaune. “What did Qrow do to help?” - After all, it wasn’t as if he cleared most of the grimm out of the way, or saved Ruby while you were busy closing your eyes, or fight an experienced minion of Salem’s single-highhandedly fpr about 90% of the fight. Oh wait, he did. - I’m not trying to validate Qrow for using Ruby as bait, here. But Qrow has done more than Jaune story-wise, and trying to make Jaune sympathetic isn’t going to work in this situation.

He wasn’t being sympathetic, Jaune was treated as a pentualant child by his tone of voice and framing. He wasn’t in the right anymore than Qrow. You just got done admitting things in RWBY aren’t black and white: does the show need to hold up a sign for the shades of grey. Probably not considering this is just more Jaune hate.

Or how about the large amount of time it took for Salem to decide to send one of her lackeys after Ruby? - Follow up: Why not also send Emerald? I think that someone who can make a person see something that isn’t there (or make them not see what is there) would be useful in kidnapping someone. Why didn’t she send more people as well? - They should be aware that there would be at least one person trailing them, if Salem is supposed to know what her grimm are doing. Three major players against Qrow and RNJR (The latter of which are a team of newbies) probably would get overwhelmed.

Nitpicking with chosen ignorance over the fact that the dialogue between the team shows it is their first meeting a long time.Next.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE2DjF-ZON8

Characters that are thrown in that don’t even feel as if they belong anymore.

Like Oscar (actually, this entire section is probably going to only touch on Oscar, so I feel as if this is redundant (or, at the very least, it’ll primarily be about Oscar.)) Oscar is basically the new Ozpin. But his screentime could have been given to other characters. We could have waited the entire volume, and then have him say his line, and the Qrow says his, and then first episode of Volume 5, is a flashback to what Oscar was up to, how Oz is sharing a body with him, why he goes on this journey, and other exposition stuff. That screentime could have gone to Weiss, or Yang, or even Ruby. Heck! It could have even gone to Ren and Nora (Dust only knows that those two need more development about their backstory outside of “There was an attack. Everyone died, except us.”)

Oscar needed to be onscreen because you yourself said there shouldn’t be exposition so this is the show weaving him into the narrative. Just as well, people often say Oscar needed more screentime to show his conflict about Ozpin being in his head, something that is surprisingly absent from your critique. also: Demeaning Nor and Ren’s backstory and saying it was an enjoyable part.

Whitley was only made to give us an asshole to hate on, and the half of team WTCH basically have zero personality. And I’d just like to reiterate that if the writers had just said that Blake wasn’t an orphan, her parents wouldn’t feel as if they came out of nowhere (Though, how does an ex-terrorist faunus have luggage? - I can understand clothes and books, but I can’t understand stuff like a scroll, and basic school supplies).

Whitey shows hostile and broken her family truly is (which is why he’s a part of a part you say you like) and said team are the main villains so they will be in later Volumes, something you never take into account and thus should have stopped watching by the end of Volume 2. Ps: Point to where Blake said she was an orphan. because her being an orphan would have been just as unbelievable.

Klein was enjoyable though. Even if his caring nature brings up the question of why didn’t he call Remnants equivalent of Child Protective Services when he saw ho bad Weiss was being treated (unless Jacques threatened to raise the price of dust if they had done so, thus, De-stabilizing the economy… Actually, that sounds like a good idea for a fanfic. Someone should use it.)

Man, this just gets easier and easier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XixH7NMkOe8

The last thing I want to touch on is the four relics.

The whole “Four artifacts that can destroy/save the world depending on who wields them” is a cliché so old, that it’s probably written in stone somewhere.

So is 90% of RWBY with the Hyperactive Kid Hero who is a Grade Skipper, her Hot Blooded Unskileld But Strong Bug Sis, the Rich Bitch Heiress with a Heart of Ice and the Mysterious Londer with a dark secret. I just reduced the main four characters into basic tropes: You should have quit at Volume 1 if this bothered. But considering you think heterosexuality is a cliche, I take this as another attack.

Much like the four maidens, there was no foreshadowing of this. But while the four maidens had potential to become something really awesome (Like Ruby being a maiden (Preferably getting it from her mom, so as to emphasize how little she knew about her to help develop that character aspect)). the four relics fell shoehorned.

I can even deal with the silver-eyes-machina. Did I want them to be planned from the start, so as to have proper set-up and foreshadowing for it? - Yes. But while I can think of different ways to make it better (and even turn it into a point for character development), the four relics don’t have that kind of flexibility.

The four relics are just… there.

and nothing more is known about them.

Fun Fact:The relics were planned since the beginning hence why nothing is known: it’s for latter volumes. The shoehorned in stuff was the maidens and Dudeblade knows this. Again, an attack.

Reinforced since his main compliant is that he personally cannot improve on it: He just wants stuff to go his way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucyYfzbrYkQ

This will be the last thing I personally post in the rwde tag concerning Volume 4. I’ll still reblog other people’s stuff, and probably add my own two cents, but for now, I just want to enjoy Chibi. Even if every joke is hit-or-miss, there’s still a level of enjoyment to be had.

Maybe I’ll write a review at some point. Who knows? - But for now, my brain is tired. I can’t change the pat, and while I hate that, I have to accept it.

Maybe a theory post. I have one in mind that’s basically “Jaune lied about his heritage as well” floating around in my head.

Or maybe a “Hopes for Volume 5″ post.

See you guys when Volume 5 rolls around.

I think I got out most of my frustrations about Volume 4 anyways.

Here’s hoping.

This is all a crook of shit.

He said he wouldn’t attack Taiyang and broke that immediately. he said he was a critic but showcases inexcusable bias as well as fact manipulation and lies. Dudeblade’s word isn’t worth crap.

The instant a joke “misses” (because all comedy is hit or miss), he will be back bitching about the show once more, most likely Jaune or Taiyang.

The instant Volume 5 doesn’t go his way, he’ll proclaim it to be shit.

Everything about this post, from the hate tangents to the fact manipulation to the hidden jabs tells me this. And I will be here to knock him into mud like the rest of us.

If you want to stop that Dudeblade:

Come at me bro.

#rwde bullshit #dudeblade #rwby #rwby4 #\

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