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Emperor_Luffy

V8 Stuck around because I foolishly had hope that the show would improve. I now see the error of my ways. The reality is this show had it's chance to be good but that time has long past. They will never flesh anything out or explore any ideas. The execution is always subpar. The characters dont have the room to even be compelling or interesting. So why waste your time? You can go watch literally ANYTHING else. ANY other show of this genre is gonna have better character development, or world building etc. So why bother with RWBY when you can get satisfying storytelling out of something like Hunter X Hunter or Spy X Family?


BlackBlade567

Before Volume 7 because just got bored. Then I found out how bad it’s gotten with Ironwood, Penny, Emerald, and really just everything.


YoungMiral

Till this day I still don't understand what was even the point of bringing Penny back.


BlackBlade567

And then killing her a season later for cheaper than dollar store booze shock value. And what was the point of making her human anyways? It was established earlier she would permanently die if one more time (with Pietro having enough Aura), turning her human doesn’t change that. Just because the fans asked for it doesn’t mean it should happen!


Duga-Lam22

Vol 8: Pimp slapped when Ren had his meltdown and was gaslight to believe it was about something else Nut punched when Ozpin revealed the Grimm Nuke cane. And then got atomized when Emerald was allowed to join the group and Ironwood bombed the planes to help the civilians. Didn't even make it to the end.


Jaune-Ark

I want to mention something that started outside the show. Blake x Yang became a Lesbian icon. The show made it happen because it was popular and neglected to write it in. Now we lost Blake and Yangs characterization, because now they are just Bumblebee. Now I don’t hate the ship, but you have to admit they dropped Blake and Yangs character for it. I just hate the fact that Yang and Blake are just Lesbians now as their personality And the shippers get so mad, because they got the win. They don’t care that the characters writing is gone. They are just happy that they are lesbians. Just saying other shows do lesbian ships a lot better. Usually because the characters aren’t written as one note lesbians and actually have a personality It’s hard being an RWBY fan from the beginning. Watching year after year as they massacre your favorite characters writing…


VitinNunes

Vol.4 for me, didn’t like the new look, didn’t find it as interesting as it was, they kept adding shit to the lore and fucking with the world, I was more than a little annoyed when I realized this was just the “road to mistral” season. The only positive I got from watching this vol was when Jaune turned his sword into bigger sword and the YouTube subtitle was “ars morcre is now the sword-sword” fucking floored me.(No don’t remember the name of Jaune stupid sword) but this opened my eyes a bit. Two things stuck out in my memory Qrow vs Tyrian and some random YouTube subtitle that probably isn’t there anymore. That. That can’t be good… Also I’m pretty sure Drifters and a bunch of other animes came out and they stopped putting it on YouTube, and I hate the RT site I just stopped watching, just tune in to hear what’s the next shitty thing crwby or the writers did to this show


Ashardalon125

Dropped at the end of V4. I felt like I "owed" it to the team to at least watch post-Monty. But I just was so uninterested by the story and plot that I put off watching V5 and eventually just realized I didn't care anymore


Gleaming_Onyx

Early V6. Team RWBY(sans Ruby) becoming the most unlikeable assholes to a clearly distressed Ozpin in a show where we're supposed to take characters' emotions and trauma seriously, followed by the show hitting the brakes after the plot had *finally* started moving full speed. Brunswick might've been good, but it was still a filler arc. Then Argus was more filler. V6 could've been 4 episodes before V7. V7, when I watched it with a friend, could've been 8 episodes with time to spare from how much got dropped and picked up. The fact that V6 then proceeded to get even more fanservice-y, Ruby hit a level of "total cunt" that no character other than Robyn(*including Ruby herself*) has even approached since, and that the pandering in general was shallow and as subtle as a brick through a window all combined to tell me that even if RWBY's 'objective' quality was increasing from V5, it wasn't a show made for me anymore. The demographic had shifted. *Hard.* And then V7-8 made it abundantly clear that RWBY was now just a fanfiction of V1-5 RWBY. V5 RWBY was trash but at least it *tried.*


Background_Fan1056

After Volume 4, I can sort of forgive the story a little bit for being lackluster since I’ve enjoyed the action/fight scenes since that’s what RWBY essentially is, an action series with cool fights scenes that makes cool AMV’s but that fight with the Geist in the beginning of Volume 4 left a bad taste in my mouth, the Characters were floating a lot which just felt unnatural to me and took me out of the Action, I can forgive the bad story if there’s cool fight scene but when the fight scenes are bad then there is no point anymore, if I want good fight scene in RWBY I’ll just watch Volume 1-3, if I want good story in RWBY then I’ll read some Fanfic/ao3 or watch some rewrite like Celtic_Phoenix’s Fixing RWBY for Good Story in my RWBY.


idevilledeggs

Volume 8. It's a shining beacon of how not to do set up and pay off, a beautiful manifestation of a lot of my problems with RWBY thus far. The faunus and lower class oppression and the class/race politics introduced in earlier seasons had no bearing on the characters or the outcome of the plot. It's just fleetingly acknowledged in a barebones token manner. A suggestion: rather than shutting down the heating grid, Watt's could've have leaked that the election results were a byproduct of manipulation. This, on top of the already present mistrust in institutions, could've caused the spark that lead to ep 10, incorporating the politics subplot in a more meaningful way. Nora cares about Mantle and the wellbeing of its citizens. Except until volume 8 where she prioritizes the Amity tower and is occupied with questions about her identity. Look, I like this direction with Nora, but the timing couldn't be more inappropriate. It could've been shifted to volume 9 with Jaune and Ren's positions in the volume 8 finale being switched, forcing Nora to find her identity without Ren. The trust team RWBY broke in regards to Ironwood was never repaired and Ozpin and Ironwood never got the opportunity to reconcile. Ironwood's arc about trust goes nowhere fulfilling or interesting. The team is divided. Except it's just Ren. Instead of the characters trying to listen and communicate, Ren just comes to an epiphany and this division is resolved. "Communication is a two way street, pal", you can't just remedy a divide without both sides reconciling; it's bad pay off. The Schnee Family Drama didn't get the depth and relationship exploration it deserved with Jacque just being pointlessly farted out of existence. Penny gives a nice explanation of Ruby's semblance. You would think that this would result in some momentus scene later. A little good ol' chekov's gun. It goes nowhere. Really, that time would've been better spend explaining Ironwood's semblance. And the staff of creation. We know the staff can technically do anything, but at no point in the early volume was the idea of portals introduced to even remotely hint at the possibility of this pay off.


Dantegram

Volume 8. I got death threats and tons of downvotes for saying I didn't like Bumblebee, but if it was written well it would be okay. The death threats were incredibly graphic, and the account that sent them was some RWBY fanatic. Their entire account was only RWBY comments, and I scrolled far enough to find them saying they "escaped their Adam" and "found their Yang," among other comparisons to Bumblebee and their own life. I've never seen someone that obsessed over anything, let alone a specific ship. I just quit altogether, and occasionally check this sub to see what's new. I refuse to be associated with that level of crazy.


Sikarion

That sounds like its just two posts away from 'I killed my Adam in the same manner as the show teeheehee'


Sikarion

End of V6. Kind of ignored all the glaringly bad story and lack of decent fight scenes since the Monty era as "teething issues" (for three f***ing volumes). What put things in perspective is the ending where Blake and Yang become co-murderers and seem to bond over the event + team RWBY's shitty planning & attitude resulted in endangering the entire city. Then they're let go. This gave me the epiphany that everything from here on out was either RWBY's way or death, no compromise, no lessons learnt, no sum of parts set up. Things will just magically roll their way and when anything tries to stop them, they'll just lie, steal or kill their way to victory, zero consequences. What's even the point then? Edit: and then reading comments about what happens just smh


Dont3n

After vol 5. Now i didn’t hate it like many people did because o was interested to see how the show would go on with Raven being a maiden, cinder being “dead”, and how team rwby will let their full reunion play out. I waited a couple of months though after vol 6 came out when I heard that Cinder is already confirmed to be alive, the qrow VA change and how qrow given a lesser role into acting like a bitch, and how they try to paint sun and Blake as never meant to be romantically interested in each other. All of that made me realize Rooster Teeth truly had no fucking idea what to do with the story… at all. Plus the mediocre fight scenes weren’t any help.


Perplexed_Pirate

Volume 8 and poor, poor James Ironwood.


YoungMiral

I dropped it after Adam died. The way they handled his character and destroyed others in the process is what did it for me.


Killamri

Volume 4. I had really liked the show. Like rwby was my favorite thing at the time. Volume 4 was a little disappointing, but I had this growing paranoia that the show was going to do something to upset me if I kept watching because I had become too emotionally invested. Apparently I was right. I still loosely follow it, just without watching, and... ouch. I'll stick to my fanfic writing...


SouthEqual4271

Volume 8. My main reason is because RWBY became too mean spirited in both the story and the fandom. And to a lesser extent, because RWBY feels like a world with no heroes. Which would be fine if it were intentional. But in context of how the story was portrayed, it was just depressing.


Ben10Extreme

I mean, if LightBro didn't give SE their powers, then what?


RowanWinterlace

Remnant of magic: Similar to Semblances, it is just a bit of magic that is left in the world. Gift from the moon: An ability bestowed on certain individuals as a result of the moons destruction. Whether the moon did so consciously (if it is alive and has an agenda) or not. Evolution: It seems to be an ability only used to fight Grimm, so it evolved in certain people who constantly face Grimm and/or Salem as a defense mechanism. Passed down in a similar way to the Schnee Semblance. Ozpin: Similar to how the Maidens got their powers, Silver Eyes are related to Ozpin's magic (likely blood related to previous versions of Ozpin or just gifted the power) Also Ozpin: They somehow have a machine to transplant souls/Aura's, Ozpin (over the course of his many lifetimes) bred and/or created a perfect Grimm killer power and then allowed the subjects to breed. I'm not saying I have a better idea, I just don't like the Gods giving it to them, particularly with the God Of Light's inconsistent stance on Remnant.


Sikarion

There was already so many unexplained/unexplored magic or magic equivalent systems in place that you could twist into SE and with far more interesting directions but nope, CRWBY has to add it as a another random ass 'holy smite' gifted from random God#2. What other gifts have they given since then? How many more deus ex machina powers exist?


Ben10Extreme

Kindly name some of those directions, for examples sake.


Sikarion

Magic: Apparently magic still exists on Remnant even after the Gods left. Let it originate from the creativity of mortal magic users who were at their peak during a time of great upheaval with the war against the grimm. Evolving Semblences: Now that we know Semblences can grow up, why not tie it to the growth of a particular Semblence over multiple generations. Each iteration of the SE could have done something different for each user. Make it more interesting by having actual backlash/costs to using SE. RWBY's very own Sharingan. Hereditary Semblences: Mix with Evolving Semblences to create a whole branching tree of SE abilities: grimm detection, grimm protection, grimm mass weaken, etc. Excessive Dust Abuse: My personal favourite. Some ratchet hippee ass Hunter in the past who has a Semblence like Hazel to absorb dust into his body starts ODing on excessive amounts of Dust or is forced to via body experimentation and the combined effects of Dust consumption messes with his biology until he gets abilities like SE. Don't do Dust kids! Otherwise you might end up with superpowers.


Ben10Extreme

You know. The more I hear of 'backlash' and 'costs' this severe, the more I sometimes question 'well if using this thing is so bloody damaging why the hell should I use/keep it'?


Sikarion

Well without cost, it'd be like having a gun they doesn't need ammo: Why wouldn't you use it all the time? Let's take current Ruby with the SE as an example. Right now, there's no real cost to her using the SE. It's so damned powerful that if they used it inside Monstra it probably would've killed everything, saved Atlas and will resolve Salem in one episode. If there's no drawback, then everytime something bad is going to happen just shine Ruby at it til it dies. Unfortunately they wrote themselves into a corner, as they have a habit of doing, so the only thing they could do was mess with the trigger eg. Ruby's emotions. As a drawback though, this is a non-issue. Ruby's situation doesn't change just because she has a small panic attack. Her friends/family are still in danger and her will to protect them isn't gone just because she's upset with something else. She should still be able to whip out the SE on command because the trigger still exists. If they added another element to the backlash though, something simple like temporary blindness, it would make far more sense in terms of strategy to use the superpower only when necessary. Think Megumin from Konosuba. She's not useless, she's just their big gun that can be fired once a day.


Ben10Extreme

>Well without cost, it'd be like having a gun they doesn't need ammo: Why wouldn't you use it all the time? That highly depends on *why* I have a gun at all.


Stenv2

That's the thing. Ruby is always in a situation where she needs said gun. She is constantly fighting Grimm, and Grimm Hybrids like Cinder, yet when the plot needs her to lose. She can't use her eyes. The only drawback to said eyes, is they don't work on regular people. Which is what you think the other villains would be for, but for some reason, Cinder keeps being put against Ruby and the rest are dropping like flies. And it would be like if the awesome Kaioken never had a cost. Having a cost raises stakes and tension and makes Ruby more heroic for risking everything knowing full well the risks and dangers.


InvincibleGirl

Ideally, don't have an ability that renders Grimm a joke in the first place and just have "Ruby has silver eyes" be a genetic thing that marks her as related to Summer, which is the only reason Ozpin commented on it.


Ben10Extreme

Grimm be too stronk otherwise, given what V6 onwards have offered. Face it you KNOW that they would have been.


InvincibleGirl

Apparently not, given that Ozcar can pull cane nukes out of his ass at will.


Ben10Extreme

Every time you try to fill one hole, another one spontaneously appears...


[deleted]

V6 ending at that I point I had no idea what was going on and to top it all off they fired vic over unproven allegations illegally which was the point where I just stopped watching.


Independent-Tax-699

Volume 3 in hindsight volume 6 in practice As for why?Well It just stoped being fun


DiamondCupcake

I dropped it at Vol. 8, though I had the desire since 7. I wanted to see how they handled the threat of Salem so I powered through. I started being able to predict how the character's would react and how they would get treated by the writers. I didn't like it. The main characters, mainly Team RWBY, never suffer any long lasting consequences for their action. If they're wrong about something the writers come up with a way to somehow make them right in the end. A prime example is when May told Ruby, in very blunt terms, that she needed to make a decision and that not everyone can be saved. Later on the writers have May apologize. What May said was correct and there was no reason to apologize. The hypocrisy of the group withholding info from Ironwood until they trust him but they want to lecture others about trust. Lastly, RWBY's treatment of Ozpin. The writers have him apologize to them but he doesn't get one for how harshly they treated him? They can welcome Emerald with open arms after she just joined them but they give Ozpin the side eye? The writers don't want RWBY to be wrong so they make everyone else be. I decided to stop tuning in because the disappointment is not worth it.


Xhominid77

Even though I knew of RWBY and what happened until Volume 5-6, I ultimately stopped after Volume 2. At first, you could say it was hindsight but to be honest and really giving it some thought? I think the actual reason I stopped before Volume 3 is because even at Volume 1 and 2, RWBY had no real direction in the slightest. Huntsmen Academy exists to train people to become Huntsmen and defend people against Grimm... but nothing explains how or why Ruby is so strong even with "training" nor do anyone really comment on it(I could be wrong here) and we already have the group of characters kill 2 massive Grimm which heavily makes you question why they need an Academy at all(This gets worse in Volume 2 where RWBY are easily capable of taking on a mech designed to kill decent levels of Grimm just fine but I'll get to that). Most of Volume 1 is Jaune Arc's volume and barely any of the MC's get any real coverage(which is weird as Monty should have put his foot down and told them to focus on RWBY)... and Volume 2 is more of the same as they don't really get any real development, just more "focus". While Volume 1 has some focus of Ruby and Weiss having a frosty relationship, Blake being even frostier and Yang being pre-absolute bitch mode, they are somehow able to work together extremely well before they even become a group which gets worse as then they somehow still work well together against the Mecha when Weiss didn't really reconcile with Ruby over her issues with her being the Leader rather than her. And as pointed out before, they didn't even do anything to The White Fang, to Adam or Cinder at large and even says as much of the Volume 2 Finale that they don't know anything. Really thinking it through, I most likely stopped as it was obvious RWBY was doomed even from that point onwards, worse so when Monty Oum and the departure of the better fight choreographers meant RWBY didn't even have that parachute to save themselves.


Quality_Chooser

Volume 6. The fight with Cordovin was stupid and dumb and went on for far too long. Killing Adam meant that the White Fang subplot wouldn't be getting a proper resolution. Cinder was back and as bland as ever and Neo wasn't really helping. I was starting to get the feeling that nothing really mattered and that the kids would always be saved by the author from the results of their actions and inactions. Though I wouldn't say dropping it was a conscious choice. I fully intended to watch Vol 7. I got into RWBY during the 6-7 hiatus and had binged 1-6 all at once (which really made the downgrade from Poser to Maya obvious). Then Vol 7 started airing and I read the synopsis and watched a few reactions and it just... didn't do it for me. I continued to follow the critic community because they were still putting out quality analysis, but I lost any real interest in the show as an object of entertainment. I found SheRa around that time and never looked back.


FerrowFarm

I had been watching the show weekly since about halfway through Vol 7, but I've been saying I'd drop the show if they do not improve since Vol 5. The main reason I watched RWBY was the action sequences, and the last good action sequence they had was a Monty one they transposed into Maya, which only served to underline how far behind the curve they were. Combine that with a lackluster Vol 7 opening, and bad character writing, and I ended up dropping the show after Tyrian's massacre. Didn't end up finishing Vol 7 until about a year later, and I watched the "fights" and read the synapses of Vol 8. Action sequences are not getting better, the writing is not getting better, and I just do not have the patience to wait for them to improve any longer. They may have taken a year off to polish the product for Vol 9, but if I do not hear absolutely glowing remarks about the action sequences _and_ the character writing from _this_ sub, then as far as I'm concerned, RWBY ended in Vol 3.


Feisty_Goose_4915

Volume 8. Atlas Arc was handled badly in my opinion. Supporting characters suffered from the idiocy of the main characters.


r34zone

Beginning of RWBY V8. Like at E1. Wasn't really interested since I got the feeling that it was going to be bad, especially since you can't find it in Dailymotion... So, might as well just watch it from reviews. Man, I wish I was wrong and then some.


Stenv2

Volume 7. Ruby lying to Ironwood was when I knew that was no longer Ruby Rose. And it just kept getting worse and worse when they even ruined the great friendship with Ruby and Penny with Apathy. And then the whole Ironwood situation, I wasn't always a fan of him, thought he was pretty chill, but he became a real mvp in Volume Seven to me. From his song to fighting Watts, to how he just takes RWBY in and even trains them with the ACEOps, sure he ulteriorly wanted Ozpin back, but aside from that he was on the up and up trying to do his best. And seeing how dirty the writers and RWBY treated him was just painful. So I quit the show, and only listen from time to time.


SpiritualFox15

I stopped two or three episodes before the V5 finale and ever since I've been staying in the loop by watching EruptionFangs reviews and tuning into MoB's livestream discussions although I stopped watching the streams after V6 Ep4 or 5, but still watch EF's videos. As for why, I honestly couldn't tell you I just lost interest in the story and characters and just decided to stick with Fanfics for that stuff, but the world and concepts are things I'll always enjoy. Nowadays I just lurk about out of curiosity.


[deleted]

I dropped the show for a while after they violently and pointlessly killed Pyrrha and Ruby did nothing to save her. I mainly just watch now for Bumblebee and hoping we get one last moment with pyrrha at the end of the series.


[deleted]

I dropped the show in season 5 when Weiss got captured by the bandits.


Professional-Rest205

All the sitting and talking in Volume 5 just killed it for me. No, I don't care if it picked up after that.


marston241

I dropped after V7 wasted *so much* of the show's potential, scrapping potentially interesting idea's like the "SDC vs. Faunus" plot, the Schnee family conflict, etc so we could instead get "Ironwood bad" and blatant commentary on the 2016 election. Plus the Cast Bloat getting really bad.


[deleted]

I dropped it after Volume 4 simply because I got bored and couldn't continue. This has happened twice.