Now that Season 1 of RWBY has concluded, I decided to sum up my thoughts on it.
It is.....okay. Not great, just....okay.
Don't get me wrong, the fights are awesome, the animation is great and I like the voices and it has great humor. At least for the first 10 episodes. Episode 8 was amazing and is the highlight of the entire series. The monsters, the fights, the humor and the teamwork are all great. And 9 and 10 got some good laughs and an awesome Weiss fight and good character development for her and Ruby.
And then came the Four Episode Long Cardin arc. Oh God...the cardin arc. Let me put it this way, that arc, is the knife in this series's back, the albatross around it's neck, the mongoose to it's snake...all that crap. Why? Simple. Because Cardin is, to be frank, an utterly pointless character. He beats up on Jaune. Whoopdy friggin doo! Except this required turning Jaune, the guy who had the balls to go at it with a GIANT Scorpion with just a small shield and sword, and the guy who came up with the plan to beat it in the first place, and who jumped to the aid of his friends against it, into a total wimp for no real reason. And at the conclusion of the arc, what happens? Oh yeah, Jaune beats up another giant monster all on his own, therefore confirming......exactly what we already knew. Soooooo......why not just have Jaune bitchslap Cardin and save us the sheer pointlesness of it all? He's clearly tougher than Cardin going by the boss fights he's been in so there's no reason for him to be having trouble.
And speaking of Cardin.....he is a pointless character. Aside from what I mentioned above, he has ZERO personality besides asshole. He's an asshole to Jaune and a racist asshole to a little rabbit girl less than half his size. That's it.
And another thing! The guy blatantly pulls shit like luanching Jaune away from the school into the forest in a locker...RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE TEACHER AND NOTHING HAPPENS! I'm sorry, but I'm calling bullshit on that. There is no fucking way that Glinda could have missed that happening and Cardin should have been either kicked out or at the very least gotten his ass whipped up and down the school by her.
BUT NOPE! NOTHING! And we are subjected with four episodes of this stupidity.
He's the Mark James of RWBY.
THANKFULLY, episodes 15 and 16 bring back the characterization with some very nice revelations about Blake and Weiss and the Faunus and White Fang as a whole, plus a cool fight at the end of 16.
The problem I have with this is, it felt crammed in at the end there. The idea of Roman Torchwick attacking the school with an army of men and battleships had a lot of potential. Instead, Robot Girl from out of nowhere pops up and casually pwns everything.
Here's what SHOULD have gone down.
Jaunedice: Part 1, Cardin is bullying Jaune. Part 2, Jaune kicks Cardin's ass. Boom. Done and done in two episodes.
Blake and Weiss's argument: Two episodes, that was very nicely paced and at the end, Roman's forces arrive.
Torchwick Parts 1 and 2: The students and teachers of Beacon fighting it out with Roman, his henchmen and their attack ships in a two part epic battle that ends with Roman escaping.
THAT would have been a major improvement instead of boring us with four episodes of bully filler. It just brought down the series as a whole and made it all seriously drag.
As I mentioned in one topic relating to the bully character. If one HAD TO put said character in then at least give the character layers. Especially if one is planning on keeping said bully character.
ReplyDeleteShow us why the character is doing that or at least show us when he's NOT being a dick 24/7.
But yeah despite the cool fights and character interaction the series,IMO, wasn't all that. Especially when compared to Red vs Blue.