User blog comment:Imosa1/Here's a RWBY Review/@comment-24262164-20140529054613

I tend to disagree with the early parts of the review but then at the half way point start loving it.

First of all I can't help but think he gave the red trailer a bit too much credit. Yes, the whole thing was chilling and artistic but... I dunno, to me it seems a bit formulaic as far making an "interesting looking video". That's not to say that the formula is bad, but I'd give praise to the attempt to make this series happen, not to the subject of the series.

Second, I think he describes the characters as being too 1 dimensional. While I agree with him, that instances like Blakes interest in room decoration is strange and out of place, I'm still willing to accept that this is actually her character and we were just given a bad instance to see it. Weiss' appology to Ruby might have followed all the critiques that he mentioned but it also might be a bit unrealistic to expect things to be patched up so cleanly. Again, I see evidence of Weiss' deeper character but I see it presented in a bad way. I guess that means that I lay the blame with the possitioning of the screen we're watching through.

Essentially, everything beyond 4:50 is very near the mark for me. I don't see an issue with introducing bullies to make Juane's character develope, because it makes sense to me that the monsters are being more or less controlled, leaving these students to deal with mundane issues like this; however, I put emphasis on mundane. Cardin is a bully for the sake of being a bully, and Juane plays the weakling for the sake of playing the weakling. I've argued multiple times that the premise for the whole arc is so faulty that this whole arc basically has no reason to exist.

His comment on the racism is also valid for me. I mean I can see how the racism is just happening elsewhere but he is right that some racism in the school sure would drive home the point about there being racism in the world. In the end though that whole dinning hall scene is pretty hard for me to sit though since our heros are doing jack shit to help the person who's suffering from the thing they are all agreeing to hate. FFFFFFFUCK, I am so glad these characters aren't the heros in my school.

Leading up to 8:05 when its like hes reading my mind and as such I have nothing to add.