RWBY Volume 3

[Black Aeronaut]

Bob Schroeck wrote:

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We just finished the last three eps in one go tonight. I'm not happy with where things are, but I'm not supposed to be, and I'm kind of disgusted at everyone who's going "Well, damn, it's no longer a happy-go-lucky circus of awesome curbstomps. I'm gonna stop watching."

Dammit, people. We're at the part of the story where, were this a book, the heroes would just be discovering that the bad guys are out there and are a real threat. It's necessary at this point for the good guys to get kicked in the balls, hard and multiple times -- it sets them up to take things seriously and fight their way to the end to triumph against great odds. Everyone going "dafuq? I'm qutting this" -- it's like getting to the end of Fellowship of the Ring and deciding that because the heroes aren't going to tromp merrily together to Mount Doom unopposed by anything they can't kill with a sneeze that the rest of the story is going to suck.

Bob, I'm not quitting on the show.  I'm just taking a break until things in the show get better.  Right now, my depression is such that I cannot really afford to watch something that's gonna play with my emotions like this.  And from some of the spoilers I've seen in this thread, I think that was a good idea for me.

Bob Schroeck wrote:

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Bob Schroeck wrote:

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By comparison, if RWBY were a twelve episode run, this is taking place at about episode 8.

How do you get this? Monty Oum's plans for RWBY were laid out for ten seasons, as I recall. By that measure, this would be "third episode" territory, not eighth.

I stand corrected -- I'm watching someone's recording of the RWBY finale Livestream on YouTube right now, and Lindsay Jones has just mentioned that Monty had twentyseasons of RWBY plotted out.  He told/showed her because he wanted to know if she'd be willing to play Ruby all the way up to an adult.

TWENTY!?  Holy shit, and we're hitting territory that's this dark already?  Dunno if I can handle it...