The RWBY Thread

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autobot314

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The RT Podcast tonight will be made viewable to everyone, not just sponsors.
 
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Contrabardus

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#152
Sad news indeed. It's a fun show.

Wonder what this will mean for the series?

It could be the end of it, or it could be continued by whoever was helping him. He's the creator, but who knows how much he had written already or how involved he was in the actual production end.
 
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AJ_Katon

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#153
I heard that he had been working on the stories for decades. Maybe it'll be worth 3 more seasons?
 
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autobot314

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#154
Supposedly, he had about 9 seasons worth of ideas and story in envelopes.
 
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KurokamiDG

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#155
Watched the podcast; they were just reminiscing about how much of a badass Monty was to them.

That tribute video at the end had me tearing up. It's just fucking sad man.
 
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AJ_Katon

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#156
autobot314 said:
Supposedly, he had about 9 seasons worth of ideas and story in envelopes.
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Now that is the kind of passion I need to work on myself.
 
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grant

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#157
And I was considering seeing how much it would cost to get SFDebris to do a review at some point (the stumbling point was how the hell do you price a review for a series where the episodes never go above 20 minutes and how do you do a review of something that short?)

Well maybe I'll try anyway.
 
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autobot314

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If anyone missed the RT Podcast dedicated to Monty last night, Rooster Teeth posted it here.
 
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jaredstar

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#160
grant said:
And I was considering seeing how much it would cost to get SFDebris to do a review at some point (the stumbling point was how the hell do you price a review for a series where the episodes never go above 20 minutes and how do you do a review of something that short?)

Well maybe I'll try anyway.
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you would likely have to do a series review rather then an ep by ep review
 
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grant

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Fortunately it's less of a moot point since apparently they're planning on continuing the series. If it ended with his death I would have given up since pretty much everything would go unexplained and pretty hard to properly review.
 
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autobot314

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#162
The most recent episode of Death Battle, a remastered version of Samus Aran vs. Boba Fett, has a tribute to Monty, both a quote at the beginning, and something at the end.
[video=youtube]http://youtu.be/EcZCZ8ZNHMc?t=11m47s[/video]
 
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grant

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#163
Cool, but did the sound cut out at the end, or was it made without any in the first place?

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From the YouTube video, Audio removed due to copyright. Of course.
 
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autobot314

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#164
Burnie's one month journal.
Burnie said:
burnie Cast & Crew


One Month On
It was early February, about one week after you died. I was standing at the top of a snowy hill in upstate New York, watching my boys sled down a hill and climb back up. Growing up in Texas, they had never seen snow and this was the year I was determined to change that. Ashley and I talked about canceling the trip after you passed, but you always told us to move forward. And years ago I told myself that nothing would pull me away from my time with my children. In my mind, you and I had said goodbye already. We said it when I stood in that hospital room in the setting sunlight after you had already taken your last breath. When I put my hand on yours and thanked you for being in my life. I thought of that as my goodbye.

So there I was standing on the hill in early February, watching the boys make their runs. They would sled down the hill, then climb back up while arguing about who had dragged the heavy sled back to the start more times. And when they reached the top they would ask me if I saw. You know the way that kids do. Watch dad, look. Did you see? And I would say that I did. And then back down the hill they would slide. It went on like that for a while. Sliding and climbing and them asking did you see and me saying I did. As though there wasn’t anything else in the world to see. The day was as close to perfect as days get.

The snow started then. Big snowflakes, fat. Some as large as half-dollars. So big I could hear them falling and plop plop on the snow around me. If you had put them in one of your movies I would have said they looked too fake. And you would have done your half-smile, half-shrug and said yeah but big snowflakes look cooler. And that would have been that.

The boys asked me if I saw their last run. Did you see? I said you bet I did. One more run, boys. Snow’s here and it’s time to call it a day. So they nodded and they slid down the hill, laughing and whooping and making the day almost perfect one last time. At end of the run when they reached the bottom of the hill, they seemed suddenly so far away to me. Just two blurs through all that thick, unreal falling snow.

And as the boys began climbing back up the hill, I watched that snow start to fill in their footsteps and the channels the sled had dug through the powdery hillside. I watched it slowly covering the tracks of their day. And I had this moment of panic. A dark, black thought that my boys would climb the hill and their footsteps would fade away, buried flake by flake inevitably by the falling snow. There would be no evidence of their time there. No one would know about all the joy they felt that day. I thought of the fleetingness of all we do, each of us. The efforts we put in to our lives and our work in the hopes that either might be relevant for a year or two or a decade. But then slowly, inevitably they are covered over by time and lost to all but those who were there and cared to remember. And after that… gone.

The boys were halfway up the hill when I could hear them joking, talking about the day. Debating over which run was the best. Arguing and jockeying in that weightless manner that only children have. It reminded me of sledding with my brother when we were children, but my memories of those days were not of sleds or of words. Those details had been lost to time long ago. The memories had transformed to something else I couldn't grasp anymore but that had nonetheless drawn me back to the hill that day to share with my boys. The way my own father had been drawn to do the same. In ways I had no ability to comprehend, but that no snow could bury.

I realized that joy isn't a thing that lives and dies. It’s not something we make on our own or keep to ourselves. It’s something that is handed to us by those before us, around us. And we take it and we shape it and add to it and pass it on. And in those moments it becomes a part of us and we of it. My boys would carry the joy from that day in unrecognizable ways, for as long as they could carry it. And when the day comes that they can no longer carry it, they will have long since passed it on to the people in their lives. In ways I will never see and to people I may never know because I won't be there.

And then I thought of you. And all the beauty you added to the joy while it was in your hands. You didn't just add to it, you made it fight and you made it jump and you made it dance. People came from everywhere to watch and I was one of them and it was beautiful. I thought then of all those people you touched who would take that joy and build on it and shape it and pass it along. And the people they passed it to would in turn do the same and so on and so on. And the joy you have made will live and breathe and move forward in so many ways that we as people can’t and in so many ways that we as people can’t even imagine.

So, I stood there at the top of that hill, amidst all those drifting, giant snowflakes and I did the only thing that made any sense to me at all. I cried.

I cried at the beauty of that thing.
I cried about all the future days of your short life that would go unlived.
I cried about that great joy untethering. Out of your hands now and already moving through the universe, passing from person to person through all of time.
But mainly, I suppose I cried because I missed my friend.

And then the boys reached the top of the hill.
They asked me if I saw.
I said that I did.

And then we went home.

Goodbye, Monty.
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AJ_Katon

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#167
I'm ready for the ongoing escapades of Team JNPR. Bring on the pancakes!
 
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zerohour

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#168
I'm torn between wanting a Breather type season where they just show off, and more revelations of the dark designs Cinder and her allies are working up.

Probably going to get a bit of both, leaning towards the second as the season progresses.
 
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ragnarok1337

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#170
The newest Death Battle is out, and the combatants are Yang and Tifa. Both are beautiful, badass fistfighters, so the matchup makes sense thematically. However, the outcome was surprising. I'm not butthurt like most of the loser's fandom, but I can honestly say I did not see this outcome coming.

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IOf8F6ChKs[/video]
 
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Contrabardus

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#173
Not so sure RWBY belongs in the Anime area. It's really a cartoon, but whatever. It's splitting hairs and I'm not really complaining, just pointing out that it's not really anime any more than "Red Vs Blue" is Anime.

As for DB, they have a consistent history of stupid outcomes and poor reasoning.

They try to blame it on the fact that there's going to be a certain amount of fan rage just because of the nature of the show, and to a point that's true, but the simple fact is that they kind of suck at doing what they do. Even when they get it right, it's often for the wrong reasons, they're often stilted towards whoever is paying them to promote whatever is being marketed, and they generally don't know much about they characters they're pitting against each other.

It's produced by sellouts and pretend nerds.

While far from perfect, the 'SP Beatdown' series does a better job rationalizing their outcomes and all they are is a popularity vote. They just settle the outcome with voting and then justify it after the fact. While this often leads to an incorrect outcome, they still manage to do a better job of explaining why things go the way they did most of the time. Even an unlikely or plain wrong outcome will have an at least partially reasonable level of explanation for why.

I suppose that SP Beatdown has a built in excuse for when they have a wrong outcome as well because it's a voting based show, and that doesn't hurt either. Plus, they usually have the alternate endings for those who don't agree with the voting and DB is pretty final about their outcomes and has a far more 'suck it' attitude towards those who don't agree with how things turned out.
 
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ragnarok1337

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RWBY is on Crunchyroll and in the Anime section of Netflix, so it's close enough. I realized a long time ago Death Battle is full of shit. As long as you accept that, you can enjoy the matches. It's like an Alien vs Predator or Freddy vs Jason movie. Don't take it seriously. I thought this Death Battle was fun to watch, even if I thought Tifa should have won. But what is SP Beatdown?
 
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Contrabardus

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#175
ragnarok1337 said:
RWBY is on Crunchyroll and in the Anime section of Netflix, so it's close enough. I realized a long time ago Death Battle is full of shit. As long as you accept that, you can enjoy the matches. It's like an Alien vs Predator or Freddy vs Jason movie. Don't take it seriously. I thought this Death Battle was fun to watch, even if I thought Tifa should have won. But what is SP Beatdown?
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I know. That doesn't make it Anime though. Inspired by and in homage too, yes, but not really actual anime. It's just a western animation, more commonly known as a cartoon. Anime is kind of region specific. It gets put in with that sort of animation because it's an action comedy that isn't produced by Disney for tweens. It's no more Anime than Adventure Time, Kim Possible, or Ben Ten are though, but it's made for a slightly older audience and has more mature themes in it so it gets lumped in with the stuff from Japan on sites like that.

I don't really care that it got tossed in this area, I'm just pointing out that it's a bit out of place. It's close enough that it's not even a little deal that it's been misfiled a bit.

You don't know about Super Power Beat Down?

It's kind of like Deathbattle, but the results are decided by fan voting. Also, instead of MUGEN animation they use epic cosplay, sets, and special effects.

They get things right a hell of a lot more often than DB does, plus they create and post alternate endings for the episodes so you can see the other result. They're also better about rationalizing the how and why of the victories. The acting is decent for a web series and they've gotten a few guest stars to pop in and do some work for them. The pre-fight format is a bit cheesy, but the battles themselves are usually impressive for web videos.

The next show is Optimus Prime vs Iron Man. Voting is open for it on the site.

I've got Tony for that match. Prime is a badass alien robot, but Tony kind of deals with that sort of thing all the time.
 
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