A werido's home turf.

Do not judge my tastes.

[the-odd-one-in-space]

I rewatched all of RWBY recently after volume 8 left me deeply upset for months.

(I uploaded this to Reddit, now I wanna see people's reactions on Tumblr.)

Honesty, up to volume seven the show feels like a slowly progressing fun time that starts out interesting but slow.

It gets better and better but I can see why volume four and five weren't the greatest to weekly viewers.

Six felt like the right amount of slow and action, though looking back now- I kinda don't like how Yang and Blake kill Adam. Don't get me wrong, the guy was a major **** but I kinda don't like how so much of the show tries to sell this 'humanity above all' thing but it feels like RWBY try to off their villains a little too often.

Volume 7 is where the cracks form for me. Penny's death and return being written into a joke feels kinda… sour. Like there's no crying? No shock and awe and disbelief. It's 'Penny's back!' and then either Yang or Blake drop a 'oh just like Penny'. Weiss should've played a bigger role and it's weird how the faunus dust miners plot isn't really brought up too much. I liked Mantle and wish there was more juxtaposition between it and Atlas.

Penny's moments kinda hurt to watch when you know not a lot of it matters in the end. Idk if this is a bad take but Winter was kinda hard to like at times. Clover's death feels pretty obvious to me that it was coming. Qrow having it good and not getting hit with something big like that would've felt too cheesy.

Ironwood becoming a villain doesn't bug me, what bugs me is Yang and Blake not talking with RW about informing Robyn about Amity.

Volume 8 just felt so. Depressing. Everything was so bleak and I genuinely had to step away to watch some owl house or something cause it gets so devoid of hope. Also knowing how it ends makes so much of the 'Keep Penny alive stuff' feel kinda. Forced? If not forced than just being put on for show to make the viewer feel sad for something so avoidable. Not a fan of Weiss' dad dying without her being involved, feels liked disrespectful to her whole arc being to out grown her dad's control over her.

Also still hate Jaune being the one to take out Penny. It's just way too much. Also couldn't listen to 'friend' just closed and tab and had to go outside.

I'd say RWBY is still decent, but imo they made volumes 7 and 8 way too big and some of the character deaths feel like a result of that. I don't think I'll ever be as big a fan boy as I was but maybe that's just because volume 8 ended and fucked me up at a bad time in my life. Maybe if Penny hadn't died I wouldn't have so much problems with the later volumes but I can't say.

Anyone else feel this way or think I'm just being too big of a baby?

[swapauanon]

Honestly the one point I majorly disagree with here is on Jacques' death.

In the end, he was a dangerous villain, but a noncombatant. Team RWBY aren't assassins, and it would have reflected poorly on Weiss to kill him in cold blood.

The Bees killing Adam worked because he was actively a threat to them and couldn't be subdued nonlethally. Jacques, lacking an Aura or Semblance, wouldn't have served as a physical adversary the way Adam had to Blake.

He posed far less of a direct threat to Weiss once she's out from under her thumb, so defeating him consisted entirely of taking away the power he had.

All of Jacques' relevance to the world of Remnant was tied to the control he exerted over the Schnees, so once that was gone, he was basically nobody.

Besides, if it wasn't for Weiss,he wouldn't have been in that cell in the first place.

That said, you are absolutely right about Penny and now I'm left wondering which girl will die for Jaune's character development next.

[the-odd-one-in-space]

Oh I didn't mean I wanted Jacques to be KILLED by Weiss or Winter, I just wish they had BEEN there to see it. Or took notice of it. If they did and somehow I've missed that on both watch throughs let me know-

And for Bees I get that Adam was an active threat but I kinda wish something along the lines of; his own weapon malfunctioning and blowing up in his face, making him fall off the ledge with his sword.

[swapauanon]

Honestly, that death suits Ironwood more. Adam dying to a weapon malfunction would've been a copout.

Like, the entire point of that final confrontation with Adam was to show that there won't always be a peaceful solution, because some people will not rest until you are dead.

Blake HAD to kill him for that story to work.

And I think it's a better triumph that the Schnees don't care that Jacques is dead. All that matters is that he's out of their lives and can't hurt them anymore.

[the-odd-one-in-space]

Both of those takes are fair- Though I will add on that it's kinda dumb Ironwood can even fight after he literally got his shit rocked like 30 minutes ago lol.

[the-odd-one-in-space]

I rewatched all of RWBY recently after volume 8 left me deeply upset for months.

(I uploaded this to Reddit, now I wanna see people's reactions on Tumblr.)

Honesty, up to volume seven the show feels like a slowly progressing fun time that starts out interesting but slow.

It gets better and better but I can see why volume four and five weren't the greatest to weekly viewers.

Six felt like the right amount of slow and action, though looking back now- I kinda don't like how Yang and Blake kill Adam. Don't get me wrong, the guy was a major **** but I kinda don't like how so much of the show tries to sell this 'humanity above all' thing but it feels like RWBY try to off their villains a little too often.

Volume 7 is where the cracks form for me. Penny's death and return being written into a joke feels kinda… sour. Like there's no crying? No shock and awe and disbelief. It's 'Penny's back!' and then either Yang or Blake drop a 'oh just like Penny'. Weiss should've played a bigger role and it's weird how the faunus dust miners plot isn't really brought up too much. I liked Mantle and wish there was more juxtaposition between it and Atlas.

Penny's moments kinda hurt to watch when you know not a lot of it matters in the end. Idk if this is a bad take but Winter was kinda hard to like at times. Clover's death feels pretty obvious to me that it was coming. Qrow having it good and not getting hit with something big like that would've felt too cheesy.

Ironwood becoming a villain doesn't bug me, what bugs me is Yang and Blake not talking with RW about informing Robyn about Amity.

Volume 8 just felt so. Depressing. Everything was so bleak and I genuinely had to step away to watch some owl house or something cause it gets so devoid of hope. Also knowing how it ends makes so much of the 'Keep Penny alive stuff' feel kinda. Forced? If not forced than just being put on for show to make the viewer feel sad for something so avoidable. Not a fan of Weiss' dad dying without her being involved, feels liked disrespectful to her whole arc being to out grown her dad's control over her.

Also still hate Jaune being the one to take out Penny. It's just way too much. Also couldn't listen to 'friend' just closed and tab and had to go outside.

I'd say RWBY is still decent, but imo they made volumes 7 and 8 way too big and some of the character deaths feel like a result of that. I don't think I'll ever be as big a fan boy as I was but maybe that's just because volume 8 ended and fucked me up at a bad time in my life. Maybe if Penny hadn't died I wouldn't have so much problems with the later volumes but I can't say.

Anyone else feel this way or think I'm just being too big of a baby?

[swapauanon]

Honestly the one point I majorly disagree with here is on Jacques' death.

In the end, he was a dangerous villain, but a noncombatant. Team RWBY aren't assassins, and it would have reflected poorly on Weiss to kill him in cold blood.

The Bees killing Adam worked because he was actively a threat to them and couldn't be subdued nonlethally. Jacques, lacking an Aura or Semblance, wouldn't have served as a physical adversary the way Adam had to Blake.

He posed far less of a direct threat to Weiss once she's out from under her thumb, so defeating him consisted entirely of taking away the power he had.

All of Jacques' relevance to the world of Remnant was tied to the control he exerted over the Schnees, so once that was gone, he was basically nobody.

Besides, if it wasn't for Weiss,he wouldn't have been in that cell in the first place.

That said, you are absolutely right about Penny and now I'm left wondering which girl will die for Jaune's character development next.

[the-odd-one-in-space]

Oh I didn't mean I wanted Jacques to be KILLED by Weiss or Winter, I just wish they had BEEN there to see it. Or took notice of it. If they did and somehow I've missed that on both watch throughs let me know-

And for Bees I get that Adam was an active threat but I kinda wish something along the lines of; his own weapon malfunctioning and blowing up in his face, making him fall off the ledge with his sword.

[the-odd-one-in-space]

I rewatched all of RWBY recently after volume 8 left me deeply upset for months.

(I uploaded this to Reddit, now I wanna see people's reactions on Tumblr.)

Honesty, up to volume seven the show feels like a slowly progressing fun time that starts out interesting but slow.

It gets better and better but I can see why volume four and five weren't the greatest to weekly viewers.

Six felt like the right amount of slow and action, though looking back now- I kinda don't like how Yang and Blake kill Adam. Don't get me wrong, the guy was a major **** but I kinda don't like how so much of the show tries to sell this 'humanity above all' thing but it feels like RWBY try to off their villains a little too often.

Volume 7 is where the cracks form for me. Penny's death and return being written into a joke feels kinda… sour. Like there's no crying? No shock and awe and disbelief. It's 'Penny's back!' and then either Yang or Blake drop a 'oh just like Penny'. Weiss should've played a bigger role and it's weird how the faunus dust miners plot isn't really brought up too much. I liked Mantle and wish there was more juxtaposition between it and Atlas.

Penny's moments kinda hurt to watch when you know not a lot of it matters in the end. Idk if this is a bad take but Winter was kinda hard to like at times. Clover's death feels pretty obvious to me that it was coming. Qrow having it good and not getting hit with something big like that would've felt too cheesy.

Ironwood becoming a villain doesn't bug me, what bugs me is Yang and Blake not talking with RW about informing Robyn about Amity.

Volume 8 just felt so. Depressing. Everything was so bleak and I genuinely had to step away to watch some owl house or something cause it gets so devoid of hope. Also knowing how it ends makes so much of the 'Keep Penny alive stuff' feel kinda. Forced? If not forced than just being put on for show to make the viewer feel sad for something so avoidable. Not a fan of Weiss' dad dying without her being involved, feels liked disrespectful to her whole arc being to out grown her dad's control over her.

Also still hate Jaune being the one to take out Penny. It's just way too much. Also couldn't listen to 'friend' just closed and tab and had to go outside.

I'd say RWBY is still decent, but imo they made volumes 7 and 8 way too big and some of the character deaths feel like a result of that. I don't think I'll ever be as big a fan boy as I was but maybe that's just because volume 8 ended and fucked me up at a bad time in my life. Maybe if Penny hadn't died I wouldn't have so much problems with the later volumes but I can't say.

Anyone else feel this way or think I'm just being too big of a baby?

[the-odd-one-in-space]

I feel like a sad sack (RWBY v9 'predictions' )

So from the like two things I learned from from other people watching trailers cause I don't watch em i had a dream of Jaune going on a solo mission in candy land to the queen of hearts to get Penny's heart fixed at the expense of his own. And if that ain't sad of me idk what is

[willowcrowned]

there's something so compelling about stories where a character's virtues intensify into flaws that lead to their downfall. loyalty and love becoming so all-consuming that compassion outside of them ceases to exist. duty overwhelming any moral compass until order becomes more important than justice. selflessness so intense it becomes self-destruction. let me watch while whatever saved the hero in the beginning destroys them. let me see them fall to their own worst impulses disguised as what once made them good.

[the-odd-one-in-space]

I hate when writers do this but to the 'bean' characters. You know the ones. The happy go lucky innocent ones that are naïve and love people and are generally loved by everyone- When writers have those characters torn apart by either being too trusting or self sacrificing or making a real point to make the premise of that seem 'childish' or just insult that style of character.

I just wanna enjoy a cute funny character in moments where a show isn't taking itself seriously.

[the-odd-one-in-space]

Here's a tip to DND or Rp people. If you want your character to date someone elses, but they're in a relationship already, don't fucking ask them to get dumped so you can have your characters date. Just about the shittiest thing you can do in that situation.

[the-odd-one-in-space]

[the-odd-one-in-space]

oh you know RT knows they fucked up with volume 8 when they turn to MORE nostalgia bait by remaking the first few volumes of rwby

[bibivanna]

Good morning 🐝💖

[the-odd-one-in-space]

God this is the one part of rwby I'm going to miss-

I might come back to watch the show if these two finally kiss.

[the-odd-one-in-space]

Weird Pokémon Idea

Y'all think there's a weird black market in some parts of the Pokémon world just for eating food looking Pokémon? Like they full on eat the whole of some food based or edible Pokémon? It's like a weird underground thing that really shows how some people have so little regard for Pokémon.

[blurds]

this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in weeks

[the-odd-one-in-space]

Am I stupid or is there literally nothing we aren’t already expecting that’s gonna happen in volume 9(or the volumes leading up to Vacuo)?

Like we all already know, the characters are gonna be sad, they failed, they’ll morn the loss of their red headed friend and then pick themselves back up cause they have to never give up and then get the relic in the new place they’re going to. Hmm. That sounds familiar.

Like. It’s just volume 4. Again. Like what is gonna be different? “Oh boy we’re not in remnant anymore!” Like it’s not just gonna be another metaphorical adventure about self forgiveness and getting past grief.

[chaucer-blackwood]

A) Just because something is expected doesn’t necessarily make it unsatisfying to watch. Forgiveness and getting past grief are good and important themes, and I like a story that deals with them.

B) They fell down a bottomless black void onto a magical other-dimensional island that we had no idea existed up until this point, and we no absolutely nothing about it, what it will mean for the world building, or what will happen to them there. It’s a pretty safe bet something unexpected is gonna happen; a bunch of them did just to get them to this point.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Yes, our heroes will go through a grieving process and recover from it, because that’s what human beings do and it makes sense and is fulfilling for the plot, themes, and characters. I know everyone’s obsessed with spoilers and twists nowadays, but the thing is, “expected” does not equal “bad writing”. If they all spontaneously transformed into dice it would be unexpected, but that certainly wouldn’t make it good.

[haltraveler]

Also we’ve literally exited the entire known setting and have been dropped into a completely unfamiliar situation which we have next to no details on. There’s plenty of room for surprises even if the characters’ emotions are “predictable” aka consistent with what the characters would feel in the given circumstances

[the-odd-one-in-space]

Honestly my main issue is that if Penny's death wasn't something you know the whole of the next volume is going to be about, I'd be more excited about it. Or care. Cause Penny's death has me 90% sure I should drop the show. Cause if it was just them all second guessing themselves and having to deal with getting back together in this new world and THAT was just the MAIN AND ONLY FOCUS I would be excited cause it's just as focused on personal self contained character growth and whatever dangers are around in this new world.

But no. We had to lose Penny, and now everyone is gonna be sad about that. Almost like Penny's death was purely just a bad writing choice and it's going to negatively effect future content in comparison if she was just thrown into the backend. And I can't find a png of kermit sipping tea rn so picture it. ;-;

[the-odd-one-in-space]

Am I stupid or is there literally nothing we aren't already expecting that's gonna happen in volume 9(or the volumes leading up to Vacuo)?

Like we all already know, the characters are gonna be sad, they failed, they'll morn the loss of their red headed friend and then pick themselves back up cause they have to never give up and then get the relic in the new place they're going to. Hmm. That sounds familiar.

Like. It's just volume 4. Again. Like what is gonna be different? "Oh boy we're not in remnant anymore!" Like it's not just gonna be another metaphorical adventure about self forgiveness and getting past grief.

[the-odd-one-in-space]

I hate that when the new volume of rwby comes out, I'll have to unironically unfollow RWBY based creators cause I actively don't wanna know anything new about the show.

[laidaninja]

Welcome to the Ninth House

[the-odd-one-in-space]

Anyone else in the ‘I used to be a huge RWBY fan boy until Volume 8 put me in such an emotionally depressed mode I now hate it’ club?  Oh and Penny fans get into this club free of course. We know you’re hurting too.  

[viv-psd]

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