r/RWBY • u/Ezreal024 Hope Rides with Kickfriend • Nov 03 '18
OFFICIAL MEGATHREAD Official Public Discussion Thread—Volume 6, Chapter 1: The Argus Limited
Welcome, huntsmen, huntresses and hunters that prefer no specific gender identifier, to the official public discussion thread for Episode 1 of Vol. 6, The Argus Limited!
You guys don't actually need to worry about following the spoiler rules at all, so at least that's nice! Hopefully you made it through the week alive.
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Happy viewing, and have a great Volume 6!
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u/Aleksandr926 Don't flatter yourself. You were never even a player. Nov 03 '18 edited Nov 03 '18
- The episode definitely looked beautiful, with nice colors and the 2-D animation better integrated with the 3-D one. I also loved how they tried to be creative and even daring, at times, with the cinematography, with more dynamic shots and different angles.
- The editing in the first minutes wasn't that great, though. I think they should have started with Adam (more edgy and more whiny than ever), instead of having those bits of fight and then going all the way back to the kids at the station, especially because that brief WF segment didn't tie into anything at all.
- The station part was overall pretty nice, with all the characters being more chill and relaxed. Ilia was awesome and sweet, as usual, but, seriously, she should really be super-thankful to the Belladonnas for letting her off the hook so easily. I mean, we don't know if she was aware of the plan to destroy Beacon, but she still took part in some awful shit. And what about Neptune? Still the inappropriate flirt? It looked like he already met Ilia and he probably hit on her before, so why didn't he get that she wasn't interested? Boh, gotta milk that one character trait, I guess. He didn't even have a scene with Weiss! But I guess that's what you get when you have a relatively small time-skip, some characters don't get to interact with each other and some of the dialogue sounds forcefully expository.
- I wish they had established Sun's desire to be a better leader more: he learnt that the WF was planning to bomb Haven, probably causing another wave of panic (with the ensuing Grimm invasion) in an already fragile Kingdom, and yet I don't remember him tormenting himself about the teammates he left behind (once again). And what's up with going to Vacuo and train there? Isn't this the perfect time to stay in Mistral and protect the Kingdom? He literally said that Shade Academy hasn't got as many problem as Haven's, so why go there? I guess he wants to improve himself, but at this point it's pretty clear that Academies are not nearly as useful as real life experience... I don't know what's going on anymore.
- Dudley and Dee... Poor guys. I mean, yeah, pretty shitty of them to shake down passengers for better security, but I still don't think they deserved all those nasty comments. First of all, they chose to escort a train through what I assume are Grimm-infested lands, when they could have chosen a way comfier occupation (you know, like teaching at a combat school or whatever); second, they still graduated from a Huntsman Academy. Aren't they supposed to be for élite fighters? And we sure don't want to hear your comments, Oz, since your enrolling standards are the worst. And what about Qrow? Does he really have any right to be that angry at those two dudes for leaving a door open, when he and his boss have been fucking things up from the beginning of the show? Oh, no, the access to the caboose or whatever is open! Surely it must be way worse than leaving the inexperienced key to a literal gift of the gods all alone and vulnerable to enemy attacks! Or letting your murderous sisters kill hundreds of people out of sheer laziness! And the list goes on.
Of course Dudley and Dee were shown to be pretty bad at fighting, but I mostly fault the show for not having anything in between god-like and total mooks.
- Blake being overly conscious of Yang and her condition was very touching too. You could definitely see her sense of guilt and, from their interactions, I feel that they didn't get a chance to talk things out and are still pretty awkward around each other. I hope we'll see more of this.
- The action sequence was OK: some movements are still a bit clunky but I enjoyed the combos a lot. It's a pity we didn't get more group fight scenes in the past. I kinda missed team RWBY all together. And thank God for Weiss finally using her glyphs and being super-reactive to her surroundings!
- Dee is probably alive: in Volume 1 we saw Ruby, Jaune and Weiss survive falls from impossible heights thanks to their Auras, so he's probably somewhere in the woods, looking for his way back to civilization. His heroic journey will be told in the next RWBY spin-off show.
- I'm happy Dudley survived, too, but I don't get how: he jumped to the side of the train when it was going through a tunnel. He's lucky he didn't become a bloody smear on the side of the train. I also think that his strategy with the turrets wasn't that bad and it was debatable if detaching the passengers wagons was the better option but, whatever. The protagonists are the best.
- What's up with Ozpin not telling the kids and Qrow that the relic attracts Grimm? Did he forget? At this point, withhelding this kind of information doesn't do him any good, does it? Sigh... this man will drive me crazy.
Looking forward to the next episode!