RWBY Thread III: Time To Say Goodbye

Stop: So gotta few things that need to be said real quick.
so gotta few things that need to be said real quick.
We get a lot of reports from this thread. A lot of it is just a series of people yelling at each other over arguments that have been rehashed hundreds of times since the end of the recent Volume. And I get that the last Volume - and RWBY in general, really - has some controversial moments that people will want to discuss, argue about, debate, etc.

That's fine. We're not going to stop people from doing that, because that's literally what the point of the thread is. However, there's just a point where it gets to be a bit too much, and arguments about whether or not Ironwood was morally justified in his actions in the recent Volume, or if RWBY and her team were in the right for withholding information from Ironwood out of distrust, or whatever flavor of argument of the day descend into insulting other posters, expressing a demeaning attitude towards other's opinions, and just being overall unpleasant. That tends to happen a lot in this thread. We want it to stop happening in this thread.

So! As of now the thread is in a higher state of moderation. What that means is that any future infractions will result in a weeklong boot from the thread, and repeated offenders will likely be permanently removed. So please, everyone endeavor to actually respect the other's arguments, and even if you strongly disagree with them please stay civil and mindful when it comes to responding to others.

In addition, users should refrain from talking about off-site users in the thread. Bear in mind that this does not mean that you cannot continue to post tumblr posts, for example, that add onto the discussion in the thread, with the caveat that it's related to RWBY of course. But any objections to offsite users in the thread should be handled via PM, or they'll be treated as thread violations and infracted as such.
 
Last edited:
Ugh. I don't have the right words to communicate what I want to communicate. I just have this feeling that the show would probably be better off having Qrow killed off, since it might do stuff like end up causing a ripple effect that'd help the pacing of story and character progression, and whoever ends up killing him could be used as a legit seasonal antagonist. At the very least, him dying will be more interesting than him just being around acting like a Debbie Downer to fill airtime
 
Last edited:


Miss the old choreography, since they got bigger budget is there any chance they can hire Dancers like Oum?
 


Miss the old choreography, since they got bigger budget is there any chance they can hire Dancers like Oum?

I mean, the problem isn't really the budget, it's finding and hiring the right people. Monty was a prodigy, being both a skilled choreographer and animator. People like him are rare, and probably have a better job already.
 
And yet the actual writers refuse to confirm the ship.
I should note that Blake's VA had serveral tweets where she outright said "Canon" but had to delete them. And Kerry's response was a refusal to confirm but it was along the lines of more or less "Wait and See."

And let's not delude ourselves here, you honestly think they would do this if Bumblebee wasn't going to be canon?
 
Homophobes, salty shippers and people who just want to hate on the show because it gives them attention have no lows to which they will not stoop in order to make their opinions seem valid.
Calling everyone who doesn't like your personal ship homophobic or haters.

Stay classy, Mook.
I should note that Blake's VA had serveral tweets where she outright said "Canon" but had to delete them. And Kerry's response was a refusal to confirm but it was along the lines of more or less "Wait and See."

And let's not delude ourselves here, you honestly think they would do this if Bumblebee wasn't going to be canon?
Let's focus on that last part. You are asking if I believe the writers, who have repeatedly teased both B/B and B/S throughout the entire show, who immediately put their first lesbian character on a bus the first episode after the volume she was introduced even though her backstory literally revolves around Atlas and faunus bigotry, who dropped their second lesbian couple as quickly as they introduced them, writers who answer to no network and yet only had their first confirmed LGBT character after five whole seasons, would tease the fanbase with Bees but not make it canon?

Yes. Yes I do.

Now I won't deny that the last volume has a lot of BB coding and is probably canon, but 1) it ain't over 'til it's actually confirmed, and 2) even if it is canon, I firmly believe it won't be a healthy relationship. Like Yang is certainly no Adam, but there's an uncomfortable amount of clinginess coming from Yang when she has a complete mental breakdown over a friend she has known for maybe 4-6 months at best leaving, and brushes off Weiss' claim of "I'm sure Blake had her own good reasons" with "But what if I needed her there for me?" IMHO that is exactly what Blake does not need in a relationship.
 
Last edited:
but 1) it ain't over 'til it's actually confirmed
Y'all realize you're basically black knighting the heck out of this situation, right?

2) even if it is canon, I firmly believe it won't be a healthy relationship. Like Yang is certainly no Adam, but there's an uncomfortable amount of clinginess coming from Yang when she has a complete mental breakdown over a friend she has known for maybe 4-6 months at best leaving, and brushes off Weiss' claim of "I'm sure Blake had her own good reasons" with "But what if I needed her there for me?" IMHO that is exactly what Blake does not need in a relationship.
Sure Yang's reaction wasn't the healthiest but she had just dealt with her mother and the massive abandonment issues she caused. And at no point in Volume 6 did that sort of clinginess come up again.
 
Well when they start using "the Monty excuse"...
The weirdest thing about the whole Monty thing is how two-faced many fans will be about it. It feels like one moment they're saying "how dare you claim RT aren't following Monty's vision" but in the next breath say "Well Monty was a shit writer and I'm glad they had writers ditched what he intended."
Y'all realize you're basically black knighting the heck out of this situation, right?

Sure Yang's reaction wasn't the healthiest but she had just dealt with her mother and the massive abandonment issues she caused. And at no point in Volume 6 did that sort of clinginess come up again.
I have no idea what black knighting even means. But at the end of v5, Blake pulls out the old White Fang banner and talks about looking to the future while giving a meaningful glance at Sun. That's just as much B/S coding as the handholding in the v6 finalewas B/B coding. Yet B/S isn't official.

The mental breakdown I was talking about was after volume 3, where she seems far less worried about the loss of her arm and is more broken up about Blake leaving her. That's kind of creepy. And the whole Raven situation? Blake's *just* a friend. She does not have any obligation to Yang whatsoever. And Yang seemed pretty damn bitter at Blake and refused two separate attempts at reconciliation until they suddenly got over it off-screen.
 
The weirdest thing about the whole Monty thing is how two-faced many fans will be about it. It feels like one moment they're saying "how dare you claim RT aren't following Monty's vision" but in the next breath say "Well Monty was a shit writer and I'm glad they had writers ditched what he intended."
Who is saying that? The most I've seen is "Monty was more focused on what's cool then what's make sense"

I have no idea what black knighting even means.
 
Last edited:
As far as I'm concerned they I think they wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't canon and or going to be made canon next volume.

RT isn't dumb, they know better than to engage in bury your gays like they feared doing with the pilot, have talked openly about LGBT+ characters since the start, Arryn and Barbara have been going wild with Bee tweets as have several other high ranking people who work on RWBY and that is ignoring all the story focus and build up.

Long story short, I cannot conceive of a world where they'd be doing all of this if BB wasn't set, because they simply are not that dumb.

Sure Yang's reaction wasn't the healthiest but she had just dealt with her mother and the massive abandonment issues she caused. And at no point in Volume 6 did that sort of clinginess come up again.
Also she had her reputation ruined, her home destroyed and lost her arm trying to protect her partner who she may already have been in love with and was generally traumatized, anyone acting like Yang didn't have a right to be deeply impacted by what went down is ignoring literally everything that happened.
 
Well, only in V3. After that, she walks around Anima without a single person batting an eye.
(Shrugs) She was deeply impacted at the time, following that we see her interact with one dude at a fueling station in V5 and after that Mercury being a criminal is a known fact. It could have been handled better, but regardless, the situation at the time was really bad and ignoring that (as well as everything) to make Yang look unreasonably clingy has no ground to stand on as a debate tactic as far as I'm concerned.
 
Back
Top