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Ghoul King said:
It's sort of ironic that you're accusing this reviewer of not watching the series when you don't seem to have actually read my post, since I alluded directly to the part where Aang doesn't react within the pilot pair of episodes (To learning it's been 100 years, which directly implies he's never going to see eg Gyatso again), and then the series immediately gets to establishing appropriate angst the very episode after the pilot. (Where he specifically learns about the annihilation of his people) The dissonance, and it being a clear product of being the pilot being the pilot (As made obvious by Episode 3 quickly 'fixing' the issue) is exactly my point.
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And my point is that even in the pilot, it's clear that Aang is totally clueless about the war and the deaths of the Air Nomads, doesn't realize how long he's been gone and doesn't really understand it even when he's told. When people tell him they've never seen an Air Nomad, he doesn't grasp the implication, and nobody ever actually tells him. He still talks about how he's going home after this. There's no reason for him to angst in those first two episodes because he has no idea what's happened while he was gone.
 
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    • Aris Katsaris said:
    Then why do you people keep focusing on *underage* drinking, if you meant drinking in general? Why do you keep babbling about teenagers this teenagers that?
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    Because it's brought up in the trailer, with the line about 'aren't you a little young'.
    Aris Katsaris said:
    Why does that guy react to my simple comment about drinking not being the same as drunkenness with the assholish implication that I have a fucking emotional investment to drinkintg, and why do you pretend that was a remotely acceptable response for him to make to my comment?

    So, no it isn't strawnanning, it isn't me being deliberately oblivious to his point, I'm addressing the exact points he is making. He treats drinking as leading to drunkeness, I say it does not. He focuses on underage drinking. I say there's no sense in that.

    My points address his argument and yours completely and to the point. If you disagree, fine, but don't be an asshole.
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    calm is good Everyone is to remain calm and friendly, or begin taking short vacations from the thread. Posts like this do not help.
     
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    • Aris Katsaris said:
    My point is that I've drunk hundreds of times, and in my 38 years of life I've only been drunk once, and that one mildly. So you better be very careful about restricting healthy well-balanced people's freedom, because *you* have a drinking problem to the point you think that drinking 'tends to lead to being drunk'.

    There are probably a thousand people that drink responsibly for any single person for whom drinking will lead to them being drunk. So no, for the vast majority of people drinking doesn't 'tend to them being drunk'.

    So that's my point, and I don't give a damn about whether you personally care about it, since you started by psychoanalysing me over the internet just for the horrible crime of saying drinking isn't the same as being drunk.

    EDIT: And btw your horrible drinking laws contribute to teen drunkenness, as it means the first alcohol of teens will inevitably be done without adult supervision and treated by them as some sort of cool rebelliousness. So if you wanna argue for your horrible anti-drinking laws, your drunken teenager assholes are actually an argument against such laws.
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    lol oh dear I've worked out where the problem is

    when I said "particular emotional investment of yours" I meant the show not drinking booze

    I mean it was pretty clear that I was talking about the idea of "drunken hunter with transforming rocket launcher teapot" not "young person gets mildly tipsy in real life" (and I even joked about that distinction earlier) so maybe take a breath and we can all go home in one piece

    EDIT: Having said that, I'm sorry that I came across as attempting to judge your personal recreational habits. That was absolutely not my intention, and I apologise for any distress or offense caused.

    I only meant to address fictional things, not hurt someone's actual feelings.

    Can we make peace?
     
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    TheOtherSandman said:
    Won't lie, I would watch the shit out of the Torchwick Hour of Villainy.
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    Torchwick can be fun to watch, yes. But why is Torchwick fun to watch?

    Its because of his voice actor, Gray Haddock. Haddock also voiced Banesaw, and was able to give that unnamed character more personality with two lines than most of the rest of the cast showed in two seasons. He is a legitimately talented guy.

    If Miles "check out my Sokka impression" Luna was voicing Torchwick, I don't think you would feel the same way about the character.
     
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    Leila Hann said:
    Torchwick can be fun to watch, yes. But why is Torchwick fun to watch?

    Its because of his voice actor, Gray Haddock. Haddock also voiced Banesaw, and was able to give that unnamed character more personality with two lines than most of the rest of the cast showed in two seasons. He is a legitimately talented guy.

    If Miles "listen to my Soqqa impression" Luna was voicing Torchwick, I don't think you would feel the same way about the character.
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    That is true, I don't think I'd like TorchMiles.
     
    Lupercal said:
    Sooo...

    Rather then talking about the Yellow trailer, lets talk about Jaune! That will make people calm down and enable civil discourse. /Sarcasm

    From the Reddit AMA earlier today/yesterday. @Leila Hann don't click on the links. The AMA had unmarked spoilers for the whole show.



    So according to the writers, Jaune isn't a Self Insert Mary Sue. Just a Mary Sue.
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    Monty: "Jaune is the key to all this. If we can get Jaune working... 'cause he's a funnier character than we've ever had..."
     
    Leila Hann said:
    Torchwick can be fun to watch, yes. But why is Torchwick fun to watch?

    Its because of his voice actor, Gray Haddock. Haddock also voiced Banesaw, and was able to give that unnamed character more personality with two lines than most of the rest of the cast showed in two seasons. He is a legitimately talented guy.

    If Miles "check out my Sokka impression" Luna was voicing Torchwick, I don't think you would feel the same way about the character.
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    If I'm honest, Miles is much better voicing a certain villain character from the later seasons of Red vs Blue.

    EDIT: Or what The Narrator said.
     
    A relevant Quote about Aura:

    "Did Aura become a bit more complicated than you originally expected it to be?"
    Everything became more complicated than we originally expected, haha. Monty used to live by "the rule of cool" and would frequently add things that he wanted our characters to be able to do. It was more or less the job of Kerry and myself to come up with how those things could fit into the world of Remnant. It was a lot fun, but nowadays it's all very difficult to manage, haha. -Miles
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    Man, that's not 'making shit up as you go along'. 'Making shit up as you go along' is 'the world is a vast, undefined place: let's fill in the details of the town five seconds before you're going to crest over the hill and actually see it'. This is 'so having established several critical details about the setting and set the basic nature of where the story is going, let's arbitrarily insert new stuff into our old stuff that's not readily reconcilable with the old stuff'.

    Also: once again we're hearing that Monty is the reason the show is such a mess. He even was the one that insisted on the focus on Jaune. (Which sort of surprises me less than it should, having seen the Dead Fantasy videos) Now I'm really curious about later seasons.
     
    I'm reminded of back in the '90s when a bunch of artists at Marvel started thinking that they could also write the books, even though they didn't have any experience with writing.
     
    Ghoul King said:
    Man, that's not 'making shit up as you go along'. 'Making shit up as you go along' is 'the world is a vast, undefined place: let's fill in the details of the town five seconds before you're going to crest over the hill and actually see it'. This is 'so having established several critical details about the setting and set the basic nature of where the story is going, let's arbitrarily insert new stuff into our old stuff that's not readily reconcilable with the old stuff'.

    Also: once again we're hearing that Monty is the reason the show is such a mess. He even was the one that insisted on the focus on Jaune. (Which sort of surprises me less than it should, having seen the Dead Fantasy videos) Now I'm really curious about later seasons.
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    Something that I find distasteful is that after Monty died there was a trend in the RT releases, comments, and interviews. Specifically they put all the praise and blame on Monty. So seeing them throw Monty under the bus for all of Jaune's flaws is just another example. When it is praise they are building up their "appeal to authority" - listen to Monty! Monty is the genius! When it is blame they are hiding behind Monty's gravestone. Why are you picking on someone who has passed on? Someone who cannot defend themselves?

    I don't know if it is intentional or not .. but it is still distasteful.
     
    Carrnage said:
    The question is. Are they being dishonest when they say it was monty's idea?
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    From what I can tell they aren't inventing evidence. But at the same time they are also intentionally hiding another part of this. You see Monty couldn't do everything by himself. Miles is the voice of Jaune. And based on what they have said it was a collaborative effort.

    What they are doing is putting all the blame on Monty for something that they are also at least partially responsible for.
     
    Nicholai said:
    From what I can tell they aren't inventing evidence. But at the same time they are also intentionally hiding another part of this. You see Monty couldn't do everything by himself. Miles is the voice of Jaune. And based on what they have said it was a collaborative effort.

    What they are doing is putting all the blame on Monty for something that they are also at least partially responsible for.
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    Kerry also takes a lot of the blame on himself. (At least for Jaune) Miles specificly noted that he tries not to write for his own characters, from what I know about RvB he avoided writing Felix scenes as much as possible as well and in that show he is head writer.
     
    Apologise for the double post.

    This is not to say that the actor has no control over their character, particually when they are also writers. Miles absolutly bares some of the responsability for Jaune and RWBY's other problems. This was only in the context of whether Jaune is a Self Insert or not.

    Terrible spelling because I'm posting from my phone.
     
    It's also worth noting that they only said that Monty wanted a character "of that archetype" on the show, which is hardly surprising considering how common a trope it is in anime. They don't say which of the character's aspects or storylines were Monty's idea and which were Kerry's.
     
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