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Namtab are we Rwbying tomorrow
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Feb 26, 2016 18:39
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You know Baal I'm getting a lot of use out of your avatar reminding me to listen to more queen.
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Feb 26, 2016 19:47
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As you should, Queen owns
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Feb 26, 2016 20:05
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For people itt the rwby synchtube is probably gonna be next weekend, and may be either all of rwby or just the last two episodes of the season, depending on suggestions/how sadistic I feel
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Feb 29, 2016 00:21
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I haven't watched any of the third season yet, so I'd prefer the whole thing. Or just all of season 3, if that's an option.
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Feb 29, 2016 06:17
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Decided to sit down and watch season 3. It was a big improvement over the first two. Animation, acting, and dialouge was still pretty bad, but I was enterained. The battles were pretty cool and, once they started killing people off, it was fun seeing who'd go next. There was still some dumb moments, but this city siege actually got accross that the Grimm are dangerous instead of the dumb s2 siege and cutting out the dumb, student side characters in s4 seems for the best: the cast was getting bloated.
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Mar 2, 2016 20:39
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Can I just say that after seeing Yang lose an arm, Weiss forcibly transported back to Atlas and Blake on the run that I just want season 4 to start already? Why did Pyrrha have to die? Yeah, she was based on Achilles but that doesn't you have to follow the myth nearly to the letter Monty. Dammit that character arc between her and Jaune was just starting to get really good too. I really don't want them to go by history for Jaune though. That would be the shittiest thing to do.
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Mar 6, 2016 18:12
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The Yang thing was really dumb and contrived, too. Someone who fights with their fists is very obviously going to know that you don't charge with your arm outstretched to punch someone because you get no force that way at all. Not like it matters because she's gonna come back in S4 with a bionic Darth Vader arm with even more dakka built into it but hey.
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Mar 8, 2016 07:32
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Nah, it's even more obvious that she's then going to use said bionic arm to break Mercury's legs off in the finale, or something.
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Mar 8, 2016 07:42
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That's if she's not still an emo gently caress to set the tone on how ~serious~ the series is, now.
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Mar 10, 2016 11:33
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Let me tell you what Rwby needed was a loving plot with backstory pulled completely out of its rear end and stakes for these lovely villain characters no one cares about
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Mar 10, 2016 11:46
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The series' strength is entirely in its characters, and that includes most of the villains. Roman was phenomenal, Cinder and her team are also at least a bit interesting. The bullshit backstory and "all these fairy tales (which we never bothered mentioning before) are actually real!", on the other hand, is bad, and what I feel like was the only real ball drop in S3.
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Mar 10, 2016 17:22
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The Shortest Path posted:The series' strength is entirely in its characters, and that includes most of the villains. Roman was phenomenal, Cinder and her team are also at least a bit interesting. Roman is fun I guess. How is cinder interesting.
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Mar 10, 2016 18:22
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Monaghan posted:Roman is fun I guess. How is cinder interesting. I guess seeing all of the ways she can pull a "master plan" out of her rear end is interesting?
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Mar 10, 2016 18:44
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The Shortest Path posted:The series' strength is entirely in its characters, and that includes most of the villains. Roman was phenomenal, Cinder and her team are also at least a bit interesting. Also Cinder's main point of interest is the whole 'who is the chick, why is she doing this, how is she able to talk to grimm and get them to listen' mystery bit. I'm willing to predict that the answers to the above questions are going to be more of the 'but we really should have had hints of this earlier' type.
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Mar 10, 2016 22:01
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Cinder and her team are not even a little bit interesting. Everything goes their way constantly, she's one of the worst acted characters, and the other two are so comically villainous it's boring rather than funny. Neo and Roman are great, but one got locked up for an entire season and the other barely does anything. Like if you want Cinder and Group to effective or interesting villains why has every interaction with them been showing how evil and lovely they are? There's really not room for ambiguity here and any sort of sob story is going to be lovely and tacked on, which they will have.
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Mar 10, 2016 23:37
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True, interest is subjective. Here's mine and why: Cinder: passing interest for the reasons stated above but I'm already prepared to be let down by them. Mercury: interesting because we have gotten a teaser about his past. Now I want to know more, like why he had to get his legs replaced, what was the deal with that fight we weren't shown, does it have anything to do with his dad, what was his dad like, why was he an assassin AUGH! There's still a lack of motives but unlike with Emerald the implications are much, much clearer. Also no longer true that they haven't had any setbacks, but I agree that their first actual setback being at the usual 'mid-season' climax moment makes for weaker villains. It's one of the reasons Ramon is better than them after all.
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Mar 10, 2016 23:58
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Baal posted:Cinder and her team are not even a little bit interesting. Everything goes their way constantly, she's one of the worst acted characters, and the other two are so comically villainous it's boring rather than funny. Neo and Roman are great, but one got locked up for an entire season and the other barely does anything. Like if you want Cinder and Group to effective or interesting villains why has every interaction with them been showing how evil and lovely they are? There's really not room for ambiguity here and any sort of sob story is going to be lovely and tacked on, which they will have. I think Merc and Emerald work well enough outside of the villain team because they are jerks which is a simple enough characteristic for Roosterteeth to write decently well and can occasionally be used to make jokes. Cinder is still the most boring person on the show though and since most of their scenes are with her they also spend most of their time being incredibly boring. But like, if she disappeared I don't think they'd be too bad.
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Mar 11, 2016 00:14
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Baal posted:Cinder and her team are not even a little bit interesting. Everything goes their way constantly, she's one of the worst acted characters, and the other two are so comically villainous it's boring rather than funny. Neo and Roman are great, but one got locked up for an entire season and the other barely does anything. Like if you want Cinder and Group to effective or interesting villains why has every interaction with them been showing how evil and lovely they are? There's really not room for ambiguity here and any sort of sob story is going to be lovely and tacked on, which they will have. I have not watched since season 1, nor do I plan to but I can almost bet you are correct with your last line. Why not take one of the most overused anime tropes of "no they weren't really bad all along because"? I also assume that there is not going to be any real drama or pathos associated with Yang and it's just an excuse for a super cool robo arm because of course you'd add that.
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Mar 11, 2016 00:16
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SyntheticPolygon posted:I think Merc and Emerald work well enough outside of the villain team because they are jerks which is a simple enough characteristic for Roosterteeth to write decently well and can occasionally be used to make jokes. Right, but that's all they've been. Like Mercury and Emerald have more to them than Cinder, but at the end of the day, they're still her petulant lovely minions. They've never been out for themselves, doing their own stuff, they show up solely to do her bidding and put her plans into action. The one thing they have for themselves at this point is their meetings with Cinder in the past and those don't paint a pretty picture of them as characters either. Like Roman is an rear end in a top hat, but he's at least affable and funny. What do Emerald and Mercury have? They are smug and Emerald sometimes acts nice and then says she hates being nice.
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Mar 11, 2016 00:31
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I want to be powerful
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Mar 11, 2016 01:03
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Baal posted:Right, but that's all they've been. Like Mercury and Emerald have more to them than Cinder, but at the end of the day, they're still her petulant lovely minions. They've never been out for themselves, doing their own stuff, they show up solely to do her bidding and put her plans into action. The one thing they have for themselves at this point is their meetings with Cinder in the past and those don't paint a pretty picture of them as characters either. I guess I just think that unlike Cinder it is possible for them to be somewhat entertaining? I mean remove Cinder and all they've got is being smug and mean, which is pretty boring and one-note but that's still an easy combination of characteristics for them to be involved in jokes or do things. Which is more than I can say for some characters, not least of all Cinder who's only characteristic is 'Evil'. I mean, sure she's smug as well but at least with the other two their smugness is occasionally petty or used for a gag rather than just existing to show they're evil.
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Mar 11, 2016 01:08
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Namtab posted:I want to be powerful ummm... have you not checked your avatar lately?
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Mar 11, 2016 01:26
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Darth Walrus posted:ummm... have you not checked your avatar lately? Karen is already powerful. But it's not enough. It's never enough.
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Mar 11, 2016 04:17
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I mean, let's face it. The villain with the most personality, Roman, is never gonna come back. The next runner-up, Adam, feels like a really ham-handed take on an abusive lover. Beyond that, not much of anything. Emerald and Mercury, AFAIK, haven't had much (if any) characterization independent of Cinder. Aside from their flashbacks, everything they've been doing has been at her beck and call. Cinder is... Cinder. And I'm half-seriously willing to put money on Salem going the "I want to destroy the world because I'm EEEVIL" route. They'd probably be at least somewhat better if they had more than part of an episode to get fleshed out.
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Mar 11, 2016 05:58
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Regalingualius posted:They'd probably be at least somewhat better if they had more than part of an episode to get fleshed out. RWBY.txt
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Mar 11, 2016 06:03
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Namtab posted:you should watch madoka, then post in the madoka thread I smell a trap
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Mar 11, 2016 10:40
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Regalingualius posted:I mean, let's face it. Roman's dead and Adam is trash. Adam could be developed into an interesting character if they bother to flesh out his backstory and we get to see him slowly turning into a psychopath but that will never happen so  Cinder, Emerald, and Mercury have had more character development than most of the extras, sadly. Neo is mute and has the best aesthetic of any character in the show, I'd probably call her my favorite character just for that despite knowing jack poo poo about her because of being mute. Basically I like those four because of the potential they have once they start developing more in season 4. Cinder can intelligently communicate with Grimm and has an enormous power-tripping complex despite being like 17 years old, Mercury killed his dad and lost his legs for it. Those things will be explained, probably. Or not! It's not like Roosterteeth has a good track record for elaborating on things at all. I guess I just like the villains because there's only a dozen good characters in the show and there hasn't been much development for any of them other than RWBY, Jaune, and Pyrrha.
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Mar 11, 2016 14:38
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I've been watching RWBY for a while myself, I really enjoy the show. Yeah it's got a lot of flaws, but I like the fact that each volume they've shown quite a bit of improvement on those flaws. I feel like the show suffered the most because of the super short episodes. It seemed to me like they were trying to squeeze too much into such a short amount of time. Also I think that the story seems bad, but is actually well written. Right now we have so many questions about what the hell is going on, and we don't get many answers. They foreshadowed a lot of what was going to happen, it was just very subtle. Which I personally think makes the series more interesting. A few things that I wanted to point out after going through this thread are: - Monty had planned the story out up through the girls reaching adulthood before he died, and as far as we know Kerry and Miles are going to follow that story as best they can. - Ruby is not a maiden, silver eyes ex machina are some other kind of power. Some of the other characters on the show have silverish eyes, but that seemed to be another error on their part Ruby is the only one who is supposed to have the sharingan. - Roman is unfortunately dead, they didn't think he was going to be as popular as he was. He was actually supposed to leave the show a lot sooner. - Salem is not the winter maiden, CRWBY (that's what the RT calls themselves) confirmed this in one of their streams after the end of volume III. - The two main teams (RWBY & JNPR) had themes for each character. RWBY is based on fairy tales/disney princesses (red riding hood, snow white, goldilocks, and beauty and the beast). JNPR is based on historical/mythical heroes that crossed dressed... which I thought was super weird (Joan of Arc, Thor, Achilles, and Mulan). Anyways I just wanted to share some things and my opinion. Maybe it will make everyone hate it more, or not. I don't really care 
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Mar 12, 2016 21:19
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Namtab when's the next simulwatch, I need to be in the know so I can tell people they're overthinking it properly. Also Baal what's your new AV from?
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Mar 12, 2016 21:26
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Fire Emblem Fates
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Mar 12, 2016 21:33
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SolomonGrundy posted:- The two main teams (RWBY & JNPR) had themes for each character. RWBY is based on fairy tales/disney princesses (red riding hood, snow white, goldilocks, and beauty and the beast). JNPR is based on historical/mythical heroes that crossed dressed... which I thought was super weird (Joan of Arc, Thor, Achilles, and Mulan). RWBY was obvious but I didn't see the Mulan connection there. It's probably my least-watched of the animated disney films 
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Mar 12, 2016 21:44
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Baal posted:Fire Emblem Fates And before anyone asks, yes it's good
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Mar 12, 2016 22:08
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Mulan is unobjectively the best Disney movie, hth
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Mar 12, 2016 22:09
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Luna Was Here posted:Mulan is unobjectively the best Disney movie, hth Certainly follows the grand old Disney tradition of the best, catchiest song being the one we're least supposed to agree with.
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Mar 12, 2016 22:17
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I'm glad Nora is actually based on Thor, thank you based Monty.
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Mar 12, 2016 22:20
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I never caught onto the JNPR theme other than Jaune being based on Joan but that's pretty great. Also have a great video: https://www.tumblr.com/video/polaroidmax/139577664755/500
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Mar 12, 2016 22:57
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EponymousMrYar posted:RWBY was obvious but I didn't see the Mulan connection there. It's probably my least-watched of the animated disney films Yeah I don't know if it goes much past because they're both Asian. Maybe we'll get more character development in volume 4.
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It occurred to me while on a long drive today that RWBY is basically Naruto with fancy weapons.
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