Hey Guys!
I´m honest, I do like this serie to a extreme (not like One Piece for example) but for some minutes let me turn off my "Rwby fan" glasses. So lets get to it.
Eager to check out crazy, over-the-top fight scenes with imaginative weapons? Well, RWBY Volume 3 certainly has that, as well as a healthy helping of sadness and despair (wich i like).
With the unfortunate death of series creator and main fight choreographer Monty Oum, the rest of the team has had some impossible shoes to fill. Expectedly, the fight scenes in Volume 3 are a clear step down from past seasons something that sadly plagues a season that spends a large portion of its run time on a fighting tournament. Fights penned by Monty Oum tended to tell a story or give character insight. This is largely missing from the tournament fights of Volume 3. Instead, we are treated to little more than fight choreography with flashy effects.
RWBY Volume 3 is the first truly dark chapter we have seen in RWBY thus far. It starts somewhat weakly as your standard “tournament arc” of a fighting story. However, the back-end of the season serves as a climax to everything before it as all the villains plans come to a head. Along the way, we learn more about our main cast and see them continue to develop as they near adulthood.
Ruby herself is a rather static character: noble, innocent, and pure. While the rest of the cast struggle with becoming adults, Ruby is only 15. So instead of watching her change this season, we see why she is the way she is namely, the introduction of her uncle Qrow. In Ruby’s eyes, Qrow is a classic rogue adventurer. He travels the world going on adventures and helping people, which is exactly what Ruby wants to do.
Yang’s big character notes come as she is forced to deal with the consequences of being outsmarted rather than outfought. While we, the audience, know what is really going on, Yang has to deal with the idea that the world views her as either a sadistic bully or a psychotic. When even Blake reveals her doubts, Yang is on the edge of having her spirit broken a break that is completed with the loss she suffers in the season’s climax.
Blake, on the other hand, continues to struggle with her past, her former abusive relationship with White Fang leader, Adam, and her tendency to be a scaredy cat (pun intended). Running away from her problems, or rather the fear that she will run away from her problems, rules Blake’s actions. She sees herself as a coward and tries to prove that she isn’t one. And, in the climax, this fault is clearly her undoing when she enters into a fight she has no chance of winning.
While Weiss wants to be a protector of all, she is, nonetheless, prejudiced against Faunus because of the terrorist attacks against her friends and family when she was growing up. She hates Faunus but knows that one of her best friends is one, and a former terrorist at that. And while Weiss has made great strides in accepting Faunus since season one, prejudice isn’t something that can just be turned off. Yet, in the climax of this season, Weiss’ sense of right and wrong finally overcomes her prejudice as she selflessly puts herself between a Faunus classmate she barely knows and an incoming mortal blow.
While last season focused mainly on Jaune when it came to characters outside the core team, this season focuses on Pyrrha. From day one, Pyrrha has been the golden child of the academy, living up to any and all expectations. But unfortunately, this has crafted her into a person who feels the need to live up to said expectations. Over the course of Volume 3, she is forced to choose between what others expect of her to sacrifice her very spirit to become a living goddess; and what she truly wants to become a huntress and live alongside Jaune.
One of the minor yet nagging problems in RWBY Volume 3 is the transitional scenes that serve to set up the fight scenes and other cool moments. The worst of these involves a group of robots turning on Weiss and Blake. The villain-controlled robots shoot at the two girls, causing them to fall to the ground in surprise. Instead of continuing to shoot (and kill them), the robots instead stop firing, move in to surround the girls, then wait for the two to get up and arm themselves before the battle continues.
Of course, the darkest moments come with the deaths of (at least) two prominent supporting characters. The first of these deaths is Penny. Narratively, the point of this death is to add tension and danger to the story, if Penny can die, then no one is safe. However, to people familiar with this trope, the tension is actually lowered. With the “shock death” out of the way, remaining characters are usually safe. Moreover, while graphic, Penny’s death almost feels like the cheapest possible version of the trope since, after all, Penny is a robot and that calls the permanence of her “death” into question.
While Ruby and our other heroes have faced victories and defeats alike over the past two seasons, Volume 3 is the first truly dark chapter in the story. The latter half of the season has psychological breakdowns, torture, and dismemberment. (Side note: Blake’s decapitation and Yang’s dismemberment are both perfectly, artfully framed and wonderfully shocking, again thanks to the greatly improved direction this season.) Of course, the darkest moments come with the deaths of (at least) two prominent supporting characters.
What’s great, though, about this “shock death” trope is how it leaves us totally unprepared for the second death: Pyrrha’s. From her introduction in the first season, it was more than a little obvious Pyrrha would die after all, she is based on a legendary figure famous for dying (Achilles). However, the death of Penny only two episodes before called this into question as the “shock death” was already out of the way. Even as Pyrrha heads into her suicidal battle against Cinder, it seems like she will somehow make it out alive, especially once Ruby and Weiss head off to rescue her. Because of this, the scene has real shock and weight when Pyrrha is brutally killed in front of Ruby.
Going forth into their fourth season, the creators of RWBY need to be careful. They have created a lore-filled world with numerous unique weapons in addition to various forms of magic. While there are clearly rules behind each, many have not been explained in the show proper, though many have been in podcasts and live events. While the show is comprehensible at current to casual viewers, it is quickly approaching the point where this will no longer be true. While godlike powers and crazy weapons are no doubt cool, without clearly defined limits, tension and drama can quickly disappear from a story built around combat. If you don’t know what’s possible, you can’t know if you should be worried or not.
Although the fight choreography is an (understandable) step down from previous seasons, RWBY Volume 3 is a marked improvement in both story and cinematography. It is a strong ending to RWBY’s first arc, bringing together past seasons’ lingering plotlines and showing that there are real, mortal stakes for our heroes.
Tell me what you thought of rwby volume 3 and what do you expect from volume 4.
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