Jan
26th
2019
Remnants, RWBY, and Gen:LOCK · 11:48pm Jan 26th, 2019
Hey y'all!
So, I'm so sorry about the long wait. Fact of the matter is, I am a piece of shit when it comes to sticking to schedules. Don't worry, the chapter is almost done, so hopefully I'll have it fully edited before the month is over.
RWBY's volume six finale aired today! For FIRST members, anyway. This has been a fantastic volume, and while I feel that it didn't end as strong as it started, it was still a fun ride. Nothing in it really affected what I have planned for Remnants, though, so don't worry if you're not caught up.
In other news, Rooster Teeth launched their brand new series today: Gen:LOCK! I've watched the first episode and the show definitely has promise. I'll be keeping an eye on it.
See you soon!
-Qrow
I agree about the ending. This final chapter felt more like some epilogue or falling action for the volume. It raised some questions, but the conflict felt pretty uncomplicated. The only questions in this were "Will the heroes abandon Argus," which was answered really quickly, and "Will Ruby fail and get eaten" (an obvious "no"). Unless you're just REALLY invested in Ruby's character, there's nothing here that leaves you pondering the ramifications after you've stopped watching.
It's also no where as thrilling as the other finales, or other climaxes from this volume. Caroline in her mech gave us a huge staged fight to watch, but everyone just flies around the leviathan like it's a set-piece; none of them actually even touch it. The train fight had fantastic choreography with the Grimm, but now the Sphixes and Manticores are just in the background. Definitely no person-to-person fighting like we just did with Adam. The Apathy made us feel horror and had foreboding build-up, but the Leviathan just pops up and doesn't do anything except walk forward and open and close its mouth. And though I'm glad that Ruby herself is moving forward (and excited that RT decided to give Summer Rose a rigged model), her eyebeams don't come anywhere close to the tension of the final Adam confrontation.
Speaking of which, I'm surprised with the backlash and how many people were apparently betting on him getting some kind of redemption.
5003045
...people thought Adam was going to be redeemed? I think they were watching the wrong show. Is he the best character in the show, no, but I like him as a tool to further Blake and Yang's characters.
I mentioned this to my friends, but while I enjoyed this season, I thought it had too much set-up, and not enough plot advancement. I did really like the Apathy episodes, though. They flowed really nicely, and the Grimm only exasperated the feelings the characters already had, what with Ozpin and Salem's shared history, and the latter's immortality just recently revealed.
5003035
Fuckin' love this intro.
5003045
Agreed 100%. Some pretty visuals and some nice callbacks don't carry an entire finale.
Also, I have yet to meet an Adam apologist who wasn't literal garbage.
5003076
I'm fine with not a whole lot of plot as long as the characters can carry the rest of the volume. I felt that Volume 6 did that pretty well, for the most part. But for a finale to have little to nothing in terms of substance other than a 1 second shot of Summer, that's pretty lame.
5003087
That's a fair assessment. As soon as the Leviathan showed up at the end of last episode, I knew exactly how this finale was going to go. Shame, really, since the characterization was really strong in this season, and the fight with Adam was gorgeous. Kinda mad about him destroying Blake's coat, tbh. Just a minor thing on top of everything else about him, but still, she looked badass in it.
5003087
The critics of how Adam’s ultimate fate went, come from three camps. The first are your run of the mill bigots and homophobes (whether consciously or subconsciously). They simply can’t accept a possible queer relationship as anything but ‘forced,’ intrusive.
The second are people, who had a mental picture of Adam after the Black trailer (before we knew anything about him), as this mysterious and dangerous badass fighter and uncompromising revolutionary, and they simply were unable or unwilling to accept him as what he was most likely always intended to be, a deeply damaged and flawed abuser with a need to control everything in his life and surroundings. So they think CRWBY 'ruined' Adam or some even deny that he is abusive. Another prime example of fans not being able settle a preconceived or predicted plot progression.
(Although this doesn’t mean they’re using the bizarre coping mechanism some fans have with dealing with disappointment, where everything they loved was thanks to Monty, and M&K are the devil. They need a man’s death to justify why a show doesn’t satisfy them like it use to.)
The last group seem to be people who think Adam could have had a lot more potential had he been allowed to survive the battle. I politely disagree, since actual death provides meaning in of itself for the character, and the story as a whole. Of those three groups in my eyes only the last one has any ground to stand on.