#ambitiousend

[illusory-torrent]

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.

[saltwukong]

I don't have a CR account and I ain't gonna be caught dead supporting RT so am I right to assume the first episode is underwhelming? I mean they still have 9 episodes to go so there's still a tiny chance things improve but we've been let down way too many times before...

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.

Jeff Williams does not appear to have composed for this volume. That or they just stripped his name from the credits for leaving. Either way, it shows--the music is fucking butchered. Save for dramatic moments, almost the whole episode is in total silence with no score, and not in a stylistically appropriate way. The score's just absent.

[unofficialadamtaurus]

They prematurely handicapped Blake's personal arc before it even began by having her leave the White Fang before the show starts. Cutting out the juicy development that could've arisen with a team RWBY that had one member with divided loyalties. Instead they're all good from the get go.

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).

And as much flak as canon rightly gets for the WF arc, there was genuine division on the team when Blake's past was revealed...even if it ended up going absolutely nowhere.

[dragynkeep]

Sun is Asian with tanned skin. Neptune is Greek with olive skin. Sage is Indian with brown skin. Scarlet is white and gay. Plenty of representation in SSSN. They're all good looking so they could've locked in a big female fanbase too. But CRWBY in their misandry and ignorance, never utilized them.

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. ✨

i'm tired of crwby tryna handle marginalized characters.

[fromshadowstosun]

For the few blacksun fans and content creators that are left, there will always be a home for us no matter what direction the show goes. I'm happy to have interacted with so many in this community and enjoyed plenty of cute arts and fics.♥️

☺️❤️❤️❤️

thank you everyone

[spacefaegoddess]

Sun blushing is stupidity absent in the show.

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

Blake giving Sun finger guns as a joke and he blushes so hard that Neptune thinks he’s gonna pass out

[solar-pxwered]

I wonder if they're gonna refuse to put any new blacksun moments in the new Chibi just so we won't get any ideas. I mean in the show they're split up but it would be odd for Blake and Sun not to share any scenes when they're all together in Chibi.

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.

Ah, well, c'est la vie.

[illusory-torrent]

Here's hoping the anime gives more things for Sun to do instead of pretending he never existed like the show did. Granted he might just be written out again after the recap but one can hope.🙏

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

i'm grateful we're getting fed again. good shit.