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It really is just so disheartening to know that RT can basically do whatever the hell it wants cause people just love RWBY so much. Took one week and like two to three animators to get everyone back to loving it. RT will have no reason to have learned anything. Thinking it might just be best for me to block the tag and topic across social media cause I’m so disgusted by this situation. 

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What a stupid nothing burger all this RT drama turned out to be

People are already confirming their just gonna go back to supporting RT and RWBY cause some people at CRWBY said to just see the show through and support it.  What a waste of everyone’s time. 

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Penny turning human and dying immediately pisses me off so much. I think it's obvious the main reason they did this was just so she's deader than dead and won't be back a third time. Penny never desired to be human before and its such a better outlook that someone who is a robot can experience humanity and feelings just as any other person can but they had to screw it all up just to ensure a permanent death. That Pietro never learns about his daughter's transformation and subsequent death sucks!

There is literally nothing good about Penny being turned human and then dying. There's not one single speck of good that I can even point to as a "at least we might get this" from the situation.

The way they transformed Penny? Horribly done, F- quality level, wish they had acted like it was actually important and had Penny - oh I don't know - be a part of the conversation about her own fucking body instead of having Ruby and co tell somebody else that Penny's body has nothing to do with her and must be removed and turned into a body they can see as their friend that they like. Also wish they hadn't either had Ambrosius break his own newly established rules to avoid breaking the rules when he had other options that were actually much more interesting, or that souls can just magic themselves up their own flesh and blood bodies but this time without shoes and gloves. The way they dealt with Robot!Penny going out? Horribly done, F- quality level, wish they hadn't specifically animated her to grip her head and REACH OUT TO THEM like she was in pain while we see through HER EYES as they abandon her to a horrible fate and the 'perfect' version of her walks off happy go lucky. The way that they had Penny act like she didn't get hugs before and somehow hadn't grasped emotion and wasn't a full person before? Is there a grade lower than F-? Because thanks, I hate it with my whole being. They can seriously screw off for that, Penny was a real fucking full person as a robot with all her nuts and bolts, and the fact that they had Penny and Ruby act like she wasn't was one giant middle finger both to the character of Penny and Ruby and the early seasons, but also to fans of Penny who identified with her and her struggles - specifically Neurodivergent and trans people. The way that they had Penny just not struggle with her new flesh form at all and then not be around to do much experiencing it, thus making the transformation essentially pointless because it provided no new challenge or depth or interest to Penny's character? F- again, pathetic, boring, useless, stupid.

Warning, discussion of suicide and suicidal tendencies beneath the keep reading

The way that they had Penny just assume that Jaune couldn't heal her and wrote off her suicidal tendencies she'd been acting like she had all season long after begging her best friend to kill her and having Ruby say no? Oh God, I can't even talk about how disgusting and triggering the way that they handled that was. There was no good to be had there, and the way they did it by making Jaune and his choice more of a central focus than Penny... Literally blurring her dying form so we can see Jaune's eyes reflected on his sword as he thinks about the moral horror of killing her on the grounds of saving power rather than even trying anything else...

Like, are moral dilemmas fun to write for and is Jaune in a vacuum a good character to deal with that? Yes. But RWBY does not exist in a vacuum and Jaune and Penny barely talked, Jaune has a tendency to outstrip Ruby in terms of story arcs and important moments, Jaune has a bad history as a character specifically with dead redheaded women, and this wasn't handled as a moral dilemma and as something Penny or Jaune might be wrong about or as something they tried with all their might to avoid. Whether or not the RWBY writers intended for us to believe that it was the only choice, they didn't convey that properly, and having Jaune acting as the focus to the scene rather than Ruby, Penny's father, or Penny herself... Big giant yikes from me. The way that they had one of Penny's big last moments used to propel forward the less interesting, less beloved character of Winter? (Sorry Winter fans, just my opinion,) which they in turn used to try to further put down the character of Ironwood, seemingly because Ironwood can't be right about anything, have any good traits, or do anything good and Winter needs to reject every single thing she once wanted, liked, or thought in order to achieve Ruby-level fandom hero worship? D! Minus! I'd give them an F, but then I'd have to see them in summer school. And Winter getting the Maiden powers was actually something I wanted in volume seven, but too little too late, I no longer want it and it was so badly done and they drained Winter of the interest and challenge she could provide as a character once they had her act like she'd never believed any of the things she actively was trying to fight for beforehand, so now I don't want it and I'm gonna count it as also getting an F-. I know longer want Winter in the show at all because I'm so soured towards her character after all of this shit with Penny. And finally, the way that they had Pietro just not part of the equation at all, as if Penny and everyone around her and the writers who had their hand so obviously pushing her along her thrown together 'story arc' forgot that she even had a father? Again, I'm asking if there's a grade under F- I would like to pay Gordon Ramsey to yell at MKEK for me over this? Thank you. I would like him to ask MKEK if they have two seconds and then give his "Come on, guys!" and "You're delusional!" And "What a shame," stuff, and then maybe, just maybe, they'll realize that having Penny completely seemingly forget her father exists isn't even as bad as them forgetting that one of their few disabled people of color characters exist and just leaving him in the tundra with no mention of him was terrible. Like, what were they thinking?

And now we're going to get Jaune grief and maybe Ruby grief and maybe anti-Oz and anti Ironwood stuff about this, when maybe MKEK should've just left Penny dead if they were going to do this sort of thing. Penny is one of the few things in RWBY where instead of saying "good concept, but they did it badly" or "I might not like the concept, but it could've been good, they just failed at it," I actually full on think it was one hundred percent a mistake, a bad concept.

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Did volume 8 make anyone else quit RWBY?

WARNING: This is gonna be me shit talking volume 8 of rwby. You don’t wanna see that, don’t read it. Simple. 

I stg this volume did everything in it’s power to make me dislike this show. Pointless squabbles amongst the cast, Ironwood becoming stupid evil villain crazy, poor fucking Penny being abused, hacked, and beaten cause RT didn’t know what to do with a maiden super robot so they just had her getting beat up all the time. 

Characters like Yang, jaune, and Ren making stupid choices and reacting like children to certain situations. Winter being made out to be this tragic figure that has lost so so much compared to Ironwood when she stays by his side until he goes crazy enough to try and drop a nuke on the city of mantle. 

Why are the stupid portal ways all connected like some weird rainbow road shit when you can just, idk, make each door way go to their own portal into vacuo? Why are Cinder and Neo even allowed to go into the portal realm? Why did they try to make Cinder out to be this tragic character with the most predictable past of having an abusive step mother? She’s still fucking evil. We’re not gonna feel bad for her when she just tried to murder Penny and then goes right back to being a bitch. 

Emerald being trusted by the group/ ‘going good’ was so rushed you can tell the M & K just wanted to use her for one thing and then drop her. 

Penny being made human just kinda throws the whole ‘even as a machine you have a soul and are alive’ thing. I swear it was just so they could have Jaune’s sword be covered in actual blood instead of her green blood instead. 

And then there’s Penny’s death itself my god. 

Her death scene is this: Cinder throws fire at her feet, Penny puts her guard up, puts it’s DOWN, takes her eyes OFF cinder, and Cinder one shots her with her stupid plot device Grimm arm. Jaune who let me remind you has healed mortally fatal wounds and supposedly gotten stronger ‘has no time to heal her’ and so has to kill Penny. 

Penny is killed by Jaune. I’m not even sure these two have every even been in the same scene before but hey I guess RT has a hard on for Jaune being around soon to die red heads huh? 

And then we’re made to feel all bad for Winter (Who can’t even beat up Ironwood after he just got his shit rocked like 30 minutes ago) when she becomes the winter maiden and doesn’t even stop Cinder from taking the Relic and the ‘killing’ Jaune and Weiss.  

Oh and I’m so glad Ironwood just mercs Weiss and Winter’s dad so I guess now Blake, Yang, AND Weiss’ big backstories have been wrapped up now? Just gotta wait for Ruby to find her Grimmified Mom or whatever. Or not because I have zero plans to watch volume 9. 

I swear to god man this volume was so so bad I feel bad for past me being so excited to see it that I bought a first membership. If the fandom were so good I’d block the tag all together. 

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I know this is petty but-

Lowkey the first thing my mind went to when I saw the new Roosterteeth and RWBY drama was “Well at least that’s more people hating on RWBY who’ll stop supporting this bs show.”