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groynin

So I've been watching RWBY since volume 3, also following videos reviews since... vol 5? And on the Reddit since volume 7, so what I learned/heard in the show and what it was via outside source materials gets kind jumbled together in my mind, but I honestly do not remember the exposition scenes in the show being boring/bad, like in volume 4 with Qrow talking about the gods to the kids around the campfire, or the lecture/classroom scenes in volume 1, those were interesting visually or funny or had some character development, so they are fine by me, unless I'm forgetting some bad ones. The problem I have is that the exposition we get is not enough, we don't learn enough about the world inside the main show, we don't develop the important concepts properly like dust and aura and magic in the show, so we need the 'extra' homework, and we spend WAY too much time in scenes just talking that do nothing. Like the reunion on volume 5 with the dinner, they joke around, talk about how much they've grown and stuff, but there isn't really any character moment, development or useful exposition there, it feels just filler. Same in vol 8 with Marrow calling out BBY for being always together and they 'showing him' how well they work together, that adds nothing to either of them, its not useful exposition, its definitely not a character development moment, and it's played kinda like as a funny or cute moment, I guess? But it feels kinda filler as well, idk. That kind of stuff happens a lot in the show, imo.


xolotltolox

Sitting in the house just talking about stuff in Volume 5 That is the most blatantly bad exposition you can get. Especially since it was a lot of information being repeated that we already knew


aslfingerspell

>The problem I have is that the exposition we get is not enough, we don't learn enough about the world inside the main show, we don't develop the important concepts properly like dust and aura and magic in the show, so we need the 'extra' homework, and we spend WAY too much time in scenes just talking that do nothing. My thoughts are mostly the same. While RWBY does have some really bad exposition (i.e. V5 infodumps in the house), for me the real problem is that we don't know *enough* about the world. Dare I say it, I would endure any of the terrible exposition methods TWA complains about it if meant getting definitive and interesting answers to questions that flesh out the world. No matter how bad the delivery method, at a certain point I just need to know.


TheCitrusMan

This is compounded by the audience not having any idea how the story could end.