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52 – Volume 8, Episodes 11 and 12 | Table of Contents | Volume 8 Final Thoughts (Part I)

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With this post, Volume 8 will be finished. All that will be left will be to do the Final Thoughts and Volume 9… However! There’s also my own advisory, which is that this post contains mentions and descriptions of violence and gore. Please be warned.

Also, this is one of my most image-heavy posts ever, since it’s a finale that’s, well…a nonstop mess. Constant action it would be a disservice to not relay to you—resulting in a post layered with over 50 of the fucking things. I might post a gif-less version later.

Well. Let’s do this. There’s another epilepsy warning in front of this one.

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Alternate Title: I Don’t Care!

I hate this. Nothing about this is enjoyable. Fuck.
 

V8E6, “Midnight”

48 – Volume 8, Episodes 1 and 2 | Table of Contents | 50 – Volume 8, Episodes 6, 7, and 8

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Alternate Title: Oh, Sorry, Were You Busy MURDERING PEOPLE?

Why do I feel like I’m heading down a dark tunnel? Let’s get into it.
 

V8E3, “Strings”

RWBY Volume 8

Written by Miles Luna, Kerry Shawcross, Eddy Rivas, and Kiersi Burkhart
Directed by Kerry Shawcross, Connor Pickens, Dustin Matthews, and Paula Decanini
Produced under Rooster Teeth

Alternate Title: The One Where Miles and Kerry Escaped the Basement

RWBY, Volume 8.

The first three volumes of RWBY had an inspiring rise stylistically but couldn’t be claimed as a good story, and came with much frustration around certain events. The fourth volume was a downward slope, the fifth a crashing at the bottom, and the sixth a pile of burning wreckage. Surely, we were far past any chance for improvement.

And then came Volume 7. A stunningly, excellently-written season whose only real flaws were not being the prettiest, until the very end. Despite myself, I liked Volume 7 a lot, because there was no doubt of skyrocketing levels of quality. But all the same, the note it ended on did…seem a bit unfavorable. It did end with me enraged and disappointed, nonetheless.

Volume Four was the recovery season. Volume Five was the garbage season. Volume Six was the damage control season, and Volume Seven was the season that almost made it. But if there is a theme to be had for this volume, is is derailment—no one leaves this volume totally happy with the plot or characters. You thought Volume Five was a trainwreck? Wait until you see this one.

Hear me when I say that Volume 8 is almost a step-by-step guide of what not to do with your series, especially after its only truly great entry. Volume 8 is something worse than bad—it’s spiteful. It’s what happens when authors go out of their way to stomp on their own series, and a lot that fans happen to like about it. Let’s get into it.

Here are the counts:

46 – Volume 7, Episodes 11 and 12 | Table of Contents | Volume 7 Final Thoughts

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Alternate Title: The Train Crash Continues

*muffled, behind a veil* The text is staying blue because I’m that pissed off. You just couldn’t fucking let it be, could you? You had to kill him off. I wasn’t even that into him as a character, but by god, you’d better believe I am ready to unleash unholy fury now.

We are still on the twelfth episode of Volume 7, “With Friends Like These”. Qrow has to choose between chasing Tyrian or being with Clover in his dying moments.

44 – Volume 7, Episodes 4, 5, and 6 | Table of Contents | 46 – Volume 7, Episodes 11 and 12

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Alternate Title: It's Still Good!

Well, uh. Huh.

There’s no easy way to say this, guys. Rooster Teeth decided the plot of Volume 7 of RWBY was going to be a recreation (with some dramatic and fantasy elements added) of certain real-world political events with massive consequences for the citizens of certain countries.

I’m…still baffled that they chose this route.

Volume 6 Final Thoughts | Table of Contents | 44 – Volume 7, Episodes 4, 5, and 6

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Well. Uh.

Nowhere to start but at the beginning, I guess.

 

Volume 6 Finale | Table of Contents | Volume 7

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RWBY Volume 6 is pretty much the only kind of season of RWBY that could’ve followed Volume 5: completely unexpected, jaw-dropping yet underwhelming, and totally incapable of fixing anything.

Let’s start where we usually start, which is story…

It's been months since Tears of the Kingdom came out, but I only just now bothered to finish it, and that says very bad things. Things so bad that I decided to make a Dreamwidth post on it that no one's going to read.

It's a fun enough game, but it absolutely isn't measuring up to the beauty of Breath of the Wild as a sequel, and it certainly didn't meet my high hopes to finally have a sequel as amazing as Majora's Mask.

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