Відео

Nah he's all right. RWBY is garbage anyways 😂. People ride Monty Oum WAAAY too much. Yeah sure he has made good animations but RWBY was honestly going to fail simply because you LITERALLY can't survive off ONLY good fights! You need good lore, characters and world building

@ not saying his other criticisms are bad, I agree with the majority of them. Just don’t like the nitpicks

@@heynowyourearockstar3803 honestly never understood the love for RWBY. I was called a hater for years when I pointed out the bad writing and characters..... annnnd I was right but people didn't realize it until years later for some reason

That’s how I feel about it. No amount of terrible writing in later seasons could make me hate Volumes 1 and 2

There is an unfortunate frequency in how much of the dialogue feels completely interchangeable. This is especially bad in V8 where, if you listen to what Ruby and Ironwood are saying, their positions on Salem & Atlas are identical, and the only reason they’re in opposition is because Ironwood shoots people.

To this day, I have no idea what the thought process behind this decision was, because the twist of Lewis writing the book only makes things worse. Especially when you factor in that this is supposed to be the #1 favorite fairytale in Remnant. Most popular story in the entire world, yet nobody managed to figure out who the original author was??? And I highly doubt we’ll ever get answers to this confusion…

You keep on pointing out things in this rant where I’m wrong, and I’m both happy for the chance to improve my work and annoyed that you’re finding so many. Yes, Little and Somewhat are different since Somewhat doesn’t have any of Little’s memories (outside from their heart remembering that Ruby is a Huntress, but at bare minimum they did set that moment up in Chapter 5). So they are different people, and thus this technically doesn’t undo Little’s death. However, by having Ruby see Somewhat, it completely removes any guilt or trauma that came as a result of Little dying, and all Little’s death achieved narratively was pushing Ruby to Ascend herself (which only served to absolve her of guilt and responsibility for the Fall of Atlas because her mom loves her, but never mind that). So I would argue that Little’s Ascension to Somewhat makes their death kinda pointless, since it didn’t have any long lasting consequences on the plot or characters. You could easily rewrite Volume 9 to keep Little alive whilst still Ascending Ruby and nothing of narrative significance would need to change.

Of all the things I said in this rant, claiming that V9 is the worst story ever written is the only claim that I really regret saying, because it’s blatantly false. Velma is, like, twice as terrible as Volume 9, along with all the other stuff you listed (I kinda disagree with Korra, but then again it’s been years since I last saw Korra. I just don’t remember Korra being nearly as bad as V9).

@@leoncritiques its cool. I understand the feeling of a series that you had a long term investment in disappointing you. Judging by the comment a lot of the people in the comments seem to feel similar.

@@leoncritiques Velma and especially High Guardian Spice. At the very least RWBY feels like it’s trying. By the way, I noticed this video turns a year old in two days. Neat.

I should clarify: it is RWBY’s specific iteration of this idea that is confusing and uncomfortable, at least to me. I don’t think the idea is inherently bad, there are certainly ways that you could have a faction fighting for racial equality become villains in a way that’s consistent and sensical. But the White Fang doesn’t work

​@leoncritiques Fair enough, thanks for clarifying

​@@leoncritiquesI think The White Fang works on paper the same way Magneto and The Brotherhood does as villains mostly due to radicals and vengeful criminals exist in our world for similar reasons. The problem however is that the fang is lacking nuance and depth, characters like Adam have a strong potential to be deep tragic characters but ultmately his lust of violence leaves little room for character depth. The Fang members have some depth too them but needed more focus to work effectivly. Maybe show certain members having issues with the attack on Beacon or show the effects of radicalization.

What’s funny is that after Volume 6, I did temporarily drop RWBY. I didn’t watch Volumes 7 or 8 when they came out because apathy had set in hard, and outside of the occasional video about Volume 7, I didn’t care what happened next. Then I saw some reviews of Volume 8, heard what they did to Penny and Ironwood, and my apathy was immediately replaced by burning curiosity, which was followed by anger and frustration when I finished Volume 8. And, well, I think you can tell that Volume 9 didn’t exactly improve my perspective. But to answer your question, there’s a sizable part of me that thinks that coming back after Volume 6 wasn’t worth it. At this point, the only reason I’m sticking around is the sunk cost fallacy. I’ve spent nearly a decade watching this show, and it’s too late to turn back now. One way or another, I will see the end of this story…

@@leoncritiques I totally understand where you’re coming from and after feeling cheated with how they handled Adam and flipped to Bumblebee after building BlackSun for the first volumes I took a long break of almost six months after the close of volume six, only to be persuaded to come back and watch volume seven, which seemed better than volume six even if the political message felt out of place and they were starting to assassinate Ironwood’s character. Then I moved onto to volume eight and that’s when I had to face the fact that the RWBY series wasn’t the one I loved back when Monty Ooum was still alive and was replaced with a shallow, hollow shadow of itself more concerned with the CRWBY’s politics and propping up a mid ship than telling a great story. I know early RWBY wasn’t fine art but enjoyed it nonetheless, I just miss how RWBY used to be and practically gave up on any hope of it getting better. Thanks for listening.

I honestly never considered that before. And it kinda gets worse when you consider that the Curious Cat’s motivation to get to Remnant is practically the same as Yang’s motivation to find Raven. The Cat just wants to know why the Brother Gods, their Creators, left them behind. It’s not the Cat’s fault that they were cursed with unending curiosity, it’s not their fault that they can’t ever leave the Ever After to get answers without stealing someone’s body, and it’s not their fault that Alyx went back on her word and didn’t take them with her to Remnant. They were trying to steal Ruby’s body because that’s the only solution that seems viable to get what the answers they want. It doesn’t excuse their evil actions, but at least it’s understandable. Why did they give the Cat the horrifying fate of being eaten alive while the woman who literally tormented Ruby into killing herself gets a more peaceful and painless end? And why does Neo, after all the vile crap she’s done, get the chance to Ascend and become something better while the Cat is screwed over and just permanently dies?!

Neo is also a sadist.

You’re right. I kinda just lumped Tai in with the rest of the characters from Vale we don’t see when I should have specifically mentioned him. Cause if he died in the Fall of Vale, then that would have massive ramifications for Ruby and Yang, and it would only make their evacuation plan worse in retrospect. Now, if I recall correctly, RWBY Beyond Episode 4 references Tai as being alive and on mission away from Vacuo, so I think he survived Salem destroying Vale. However, there is still a decent chance that Taiyang might be killed off-screen during Volume 10, depending on whether CRWBY can get Burnie Burns back to voice him one last time. And if he does die, he better not be swept under the rug…

@@leoncritiques the writers will do anything to make team RWBY right, so they’ll kill people we don’t care about, but make Tai survive as to make team RWBY the “heroes”. As for Tai dying being swept under the rug, do I need to say anything about how they swept Penny’s death under the rug in V9?

@@JSDS12345 Yup. Cause heaven forbid these girls deal with the consequences of their actions. And what happened with Penny is exactly what I’m worried about with Tai. At this point, I’m worried that they’ll sweep any character death under the rug if it means keeping Team RWBY as the “heroes”

@@leoncritiques at this point, Salem is the real hero. Gathering all the relics, summoning the gods and wiping the humans and the“heroes” off the face of Remnant. Sure she’s doing it for a selfish motive to die, but she’s stopping the “heroes” from “saving” the rest of the world. #Salemisahero

@@leoncritiques at this point, Salem is the real hero. She may be trying to get the relics for a selfish motive to die, but by destroying the world, she’s ending the suffering of Remnant and stopping the “heroes” from “saving” anymore people and defeating the “bad guys” (Ironwood, Ozpin, Cordovin, V9 Jaune, etc…) I say V9 Jaune, because the second the paper pleaser told them about the tree, they immediately turned on him.

Oh no, not another issue… Best faith interpretation of the scene, the Cat was focusing on Alyx being their ticket out of the Ever After in the same way that they focused on Ruby being their ticket out. Therefore, the Cat didn’t even consider using Lewis to get out, and that’s why he got so mad at Alyx for going back on her word. But even then, that’s still stupid. Alyx died because the Cat didn’t think to use Lewis as a backup in case using Alyx fell through. And this isn’t even considering the fact that Alyx didn’t say she was never going to return to Remnant. She just wanted to fix her mistakes first. So, had the Cat been more patient and helped her fix those mistakes, she could have held up her end of the bargain and taken the Cat with her to Remnant.

To be fair, I was speaking in a bit of hyperbole with that line. I still think Volume 9 is the worst written Volume of RWBY, and it’s a strong contender for one of the worst written narratives in the past few years, but there is far, far worse stuff out there. Easiest example, Velma has a slightly more coherent plot (emphasis on slightly) and it’s worldbuilding is a more coherent than V9, but I would still argue that it’s a way worse show due to it’s atrocious comedy and horrible characters. Also, Turner Diaries and ZOG’s Nightmare sound absolutely abhorrent, so thank you for dissuading my curiosity by just spoiling them.

Oh man, I freaking wish it was half. Full disclosure, Volume 9 has basically turned into my obsession at this point, and I’m confident that know way more about how bad it is than anyone else on this planet. When I wrote and recorded that line at the end of the rant, I had found numerous other issues with the Volume that I didn’t even consider. While editing the videos, I kept on finding more and more writing problems, hence why there are several instances of me putting “Additional Context” on the screen. Since publishing this rant, there have been dozens of helpful comments that have highlighted other issues with the writing that I neglected to mention, which has only made the list grow longer and longer. And finally I’ve gone back over the Volume again, this time to write my full, in-depth Critique of Volume 9. I’m about halfway through writing the Chapter 7 Critique script, and while I have found some points of good writing here and there, I have legitimately found at least an additional hundred writing issues in this Volume. Granted, a good number of these issues are small, but there are some massive issues I’ve uncovered. At this point, I’m pretty sure this 3 hour long rant covers, at best, a FOURTH of the writing issues present in Volume 9. ONE FOURTH. And that’s the best case scenario. At worst, this 3 hour rant might only be covering a FIFTH of the writing issues. This Volume is just bursting at the seams with problems. And I genuinely hope that I’m wrong about most of them, because I do not want to live in a world where Volume 9 has hundreds upon hundreds of writing errors.

When it comes to Jaune, as I said in my reply to you in Part 1, I would be far more forgiving towards Jaune if Team RWBY & JNPR had as much development as him. As it stands right now, though, Jaune has received significantly more screen time and development than any of his peers, and I just wish that the titular Team got as much attention from the writers as he does. I’m perfectly fine with him moving up from a deuteragonist to a protagonist, but it feels like him becoming a protagonist came at the expense of Team RWBY. I won’t deny the possibility that I might be subconsciously biased against Jaune, but I do genuinely think that I’d be more willing to accept his screen time if even half of the other characters got his level of development.

I suppose it’s not impossible that the Tree is sending people to specific points in time, especially with that the Blacksmith says in Chapter 10. But there is some additional context from external sources that throw a wrench in things. Coincidentally, that additional context directly relates to your next point. The flow of time of the Ever After and Remnant are, in fact, different. Kerry confirmed that Jaune had been down in the Ever After for 10-20 years (I use 20 years since it seems more plausible), and the second RWBY Beyond episode that focuses on Jaune tells us that Alyx and Lewis are from Vacuo before the Great War. The Great War lasted a decade and ended 80 years ago, so Alyx and Lewis fell into the Ever After, at minimum, 90 years before Jaune fell. If Alyx and Lewis are from over 90 years in the past, yet Jaune has only been here for 20 years at most and spent up to 10 years waiting on that beach, then time has to flow differently. Justice League X RWBY Part 2 even confirms that time dilation occurred… I think (the way it’s worded in that movie is so vague that they might not even be referencing the Ever After). So, with that additional context, the most likely answer is that Alyx and Lewis arrived in the Ever After over 90 years ago, then Lewis left the Ever After sometime before or during the Great War, and published the book during or After the War (my money is on after because publishing a book that makes everyone happy and became everyone’s favorite after the worst war in Remnant history feels thematically poignant). Small side note, I just want to say that it is beyond stupid that I needed to go to not 1, not 2, but 3 separate sources to get all the information necessary to know an approximate age for how old The Girl Who Fell Through the World is. I already do enough research with online school, I don’t want extra homework just to understand what’s even happening in this show. Now, it’s not impossible that Lewis’s name could have been lost to history while his book persisted and became beloved. You could even explain it away by saying that Lewis published the book, died in the War, and the book went on to be famous without his influence. But I still find it highly improbable that his name was forgotten, especially when you compare it to the real world book this story is based on. Alice in Wonderland was published nearly 160 years ago, yet we still know that it was Lewis Carroll who wrote that book. And the reason why I’m frustrated by this vagueness over when the book was published or why no one knows that Lewis wrote the book is because Jaune knowing who wrote the book would completely undercut his distrust of the Tree. This is something I didn’t even realize until way after I made this video. The reason he distrusts the Cat and the Tree is because he thinks Alyx sacrificed Lewis to the Tree to get home, and that the Tree’s Ascension essentially killed him. But if Jaune knew that Lewis wrote the book, then he would know Lewis would have had to get home in order to write the book. Now, Jaune describes Lewis as kind and clever, so he would know that Lewis wouldn’t kill his sister to get home, so, unless Jaune assumes that Alyx killed Lewis and used his name as a pen-name (which would be one hell of a leap on logic), Jaune would have to conclude that both siblings returned to Remnant and just decided to not include Lewis in the story. This means that he wouldn’t assume that Ascension or the Tree killed Lewis, thus he’d be more willing to accept that the Tree is the way to get home, and he might have even let the Paper Pleasers Ascend in this alternate timeline. And if that happened, then the second half of the Volume would have to be rewritten to account for this change. This is why this vagueness is so irritating. The plot is reliant on this lack of information in order to justify Jaune distrusting the Tree, yet even with all the additional context from other sources, this lack of knowledge does not make much sense.

Okay, I will admit, I did let my frustration over Jaune get the better of me at the end, and I was partially over exaggerating for dramatic/comedic effect. I don’t hate Jaune in concept, or even much in execution. I don’t even hate the idea that Jaune occasionally gets more screen time than Team RWBY. I’m a show with as large a cast as RWBY’s, it makes sense that other characters would get attention. What I dislike is how much screen time and development he’s gotten in comparison to Team RWBY, to the point where it feels like he’s overshadowing them in narrative importance. Over the course of the story, Jaune has gotten to experience genuine character growth and has taken the spotlight for some very significant emotional beats (Look no further than him fighting Cinder in V5 or him killing Penny in V8). By comparison, Team RWBY has been rather stagnant in terms of character development. If Team RWBY were all as well developed as Jaune, I wouldn’t blink twice over him being so well developed. But the fact that none of Team RWBY have even half the development he has is frustrating to me. And it gets even worse when you throw in the rest of Team JNPR into the equation, because Ren, Nora, and Pyrrha also don’t have anywhere near the development that their leader does. Again, in isolation, Jaune is perfectly fine as a character. But in context with the character writing of the rest of Team RWBY & JNPR, it feels like the writers are prioritizing Jaune over everyone else, and that’s what irritates me

@@leoncritiques @leoncritiques Yeah that's entirely fair, I 100% agree that it is frustrating that the TITULAR CHARACTERS of the show have gotten much less personal character development in comparison to him. In ANY other series, be it an anime, TV show, comic of web series as RWBY started out as it would still be just as egregious that someone starting out as a supporting character but became a main one got so much more personal character development and growth by comparison than the main characters that the series started out about. However, I will have to heavily disagree on the Cinder example in V5. Other than Ruby and arguably Qrow who witnessed Cinder kill Pyrrha atop the tower, who was ONLY THERE because Jaune called them begging for help to save her, not a SINGLE other character there had any personal vendetta against Cinder. Obviously they hate her and want to take her down for what she did, but it wasn't PERSONAL for them like it was for Ruby and Jaune. And in my opinion, despite having witnessed it, Jaune SHOULD'VE been the one to take the spotlight in that moment there because he was by far the most effected by Pyrrhas death. Visibly least, as seen when he's actively sleeping less to train himself and become stronger so he could protect his friends in the future. He's even so enraged by her when they meet again and what she says that he outright tries to kill her, but is obviously BY FAR outclassed and would never come close. Even though Ruby didn't jump in like he did, you'd have expected some kind of more intense or pained reaction from her than everybody else(unless I'm misremembering, in which case my apologies for the false claim). So while Cinder is most definitely a main villain for the whole cast to deal with, he has the most personal reason to want her dealt with(imo at least). I do agree on that Penny one though, I hated that moment SO MUCH when I'd heard about it and still hate it. Regardless of him taking any spotlight or character development from other characters, there is absolutely NO WAY in hell that he couldn't have healed her with his Semblance. You're(not you specifically, just generally) not convincing me that Penny injuries were any worse than Weiss literally being impaled through the stomach, it's just not gonna happen. And even if it wouldn't have fully healed anything, it would've had her stable enough for him to pick her up and run.

Double post cause I can't edit it for some reason... If this did happen then it was likely during a "dig through fairy tales" session. We do know they've done the recycle ideas thing as Corsic and Fennec from volumes 4 and 5 were cut faunus henchmen that were originally intended for roman, before making them Adam's henchmen later on instead.

Oh yeah, I remember Scarlet and Sage. Both appeared in the background of Volume 2, then they each had one line in Volume 3, then they were cast away into the novels, to be forgotten like the rest of the poor fools from the Vytal Festival. Such a shame, I really liked Sage’s design. Also, the members of Team SSSN that CRWBY forgot about just so happened to be the black guy and the gay dude. That an unfortunate coincidence…

@leoncritiques As far as we know, the only guy man in all of Rement.

@@alexrussell6399 Actually, there is one other canonical gay man in RWBY. Nolan Porfirio, last surviving member of Team BRNZ. He’s the guy who uses a cattle prod as a weapon. He and Scarlet are in a relationship in the books, as far as I’m aware. So, there are only two gay men in Remnant, and them being gay is something you could only know by reading the books. As far as the show itself is concerned, the only gay male representation is a still image of two dude holding a heart shaped bamboo plant in Volume 5. Throw in how they handled Clover and Qrow, and it’s pretty clear that CRWBY sucks at gay male rep…

RWBY Beyond: Not gonna cover it in a video. Most of RWBY Beyond is kinda pointless filler punctuated by bait to get the audience invested in Volume 10. I didn’t have much to say about it, but I made a community post talking about it, so check that out if you want my full thoughts on it. Justice League X RWBY: I got a new job recently, so I’ve gained back a lot of free time to work on that project as well as some smaller ones, so expect a video on that duology some time in the future. Volume 10: Now that we know that VIZ Media has bought RWBY and brought Kerry on board, it feels pretty certain that Volume 10 is going to be made. If and when V10 comes out, whether it’s fully animated or just a manga, I’m gonna cover it. I’ll also be covering whatever else VIZ might do with RWBY, such as if they reboot or remake the series. RWBY Ice Queendom: I plan on reviewing that piece of fan content after it releases since it seems rather interesting.