CRWBY designed such a beautiful and badass character like Sienna Khan and did nothing with her and she existed for all of one scene (with some added in Adam's short after the fact but the damage was done). It's a reflection of RWBY when you think about it; all style and no substance.
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.
i rambled a bit, but i hope my points make sense. this show could've been so much more if it just had some focus.












