Yeah, I'm still not letting this go. You know, the quiet part nobody ever says out loud is that a lot of Bumbleby fans are really just Yang fans, and I’m sure Rooster Teeth noticed considering Yang gets to stay in character while Blake has been replaced by some weirdo who didn’t even bother to act like her while wearing the shittiest Blake Belladonna costume in the world. Matter of fact,
A while after your first version of these reviews went up, I read someone on tumblr say that every popular fandom ship consists of one character that fans like, and one character that they can tolerate enough to self-insert into to, and I immediately thought of this.
It would also explain why 99% of Arkos content turns Pyrrha into some sort of constantly thirsty sex maniac who just wants to get railed by Jaune.
On the use of 'fairy tale' I think you're right about Alice in Wonderland, although personally I would be willing to extend a bit more grace to Hans Christian Anderson's work, for me the difference being that Anderson was writing in the fairy tale style, whereas Carroll wasn't (although I accept you could argue that the content of Anderson's stories doesn't match with real fairy tales, regardless of stylistic choices).
More to the point, though, or at least on the RWBY point, it's strange to me both that the characters talk about them being in 'a fairy tale' when they know exactly what fairy tale they're in and also, based on later information, specifically around Jaune, this story doesn't seem like it can have been written all that long ago. Dates and times are of course vague in RWBY, but Jaune doesn't look that old, most of his hair is still blond, he's physically in his prime, I'd put him at his fifties rather than his sixties, which means that this book is probably no more than about 50 years old. Time enough for it to become a classic, sure, but for the characters to describe it as a fairy tale? It just doesn't sound right to my ears.
Something that was discussed on a discord server was the idea that it would have been interesting if all four characters hadn't necessarily read this book, some only knew it through cultural osmosis, or through a movie adaptation, and were a bit more clueless as to what was going on.
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Date: 2023-11-16 10:38 am (UTC)From:Yeah, I'm still not letting this go. You know, the quiet part nobody ever says out loud is that a lot of Bumbleby fans are really just Yang fans, and I’m sure Rooster Teeth noticed considering Yang gets to stay in character while Blake has been replaced by some weirdo who didn’t even bother to act like her while wearing the shittiest Blake Belladonna costume in the world. Matter of fact,
A while after your first version of these reviews went up, I read someone on tumblr say that every popular fandom ship consists of one character that fans like, and one character that they can tolerate enough to self-insert into to, and I immediately thought of this.
It would also explain why 99% of Arkos content turns Pyrrha into some sort of constantly thirsty sex maniac who just wants to get railed by Jaune.
On the use of 'fairy tale' I think you're right about Alice in Wonderland, although personally I would be willing to extend a bit more grace to Hans Christian Anderson's work, for me the difference being that Anderson was writing in the fairy tale style, whereas Carroll wasn't (although I accept you could argue that the content of Anderson's stories doesn't match with real fairy tales, regardless of stylistic choices).
More to the point, though, or at least on the RWBY point, it's strange to me both that the characters talk about them being in 'a fairy tale' when they know exactly what fairy tale they're in and also, based on later information, specifically around Jaune, this story doesn't seem like it can have been written all that long ago. Dates and times are of course vague in RWBY, but Jaune doesn't look that old, most of his hair is still blond, he's physically in his prime, I'd put him at his fifties rather than his sixties, which means that this book is probably no more than about 50 years old. Time enough for it to become a classic, sure, but for the characters to describe it as a fairy tale? It just doesn't sound right to my ears.
Something that was discussed on a discord server was the idea that it would have been interesting if all four characters hadn't necessarily read this book, some only knew it through cultural osmosis, or through a movie adaptation, and were a bit more clueless as to what was going on.