Quick thoughts on the vol 3 DVD commentary summary.
- A lot of the commentary for the early eps makes RWBY sound poorly planned as a show. What was Cinder’s original plan? Was there one? How do you suddenly shoehorn the maidens, a major plot point, into the show without fully considering its impact on all other aspects of the RWBYverse and the way powers work in it? What does it have to do with silver eyes, if at all? Was the original plan to focus more on the silver eyed folk?
- Until vol 3, no pre-production and storyboarding was not done for every scene, nor was director at each mocap session. Wow.
- I’m actually glad they scrapped the alternate ending to the NDGO/SSSN fight. That outcome would’ve been terrible.
- Alas for the Pyrrha/Nora vs Sun/Neptune fight. Wonder if that could make it into an extended edition.
- They really love Qrow and think he’s a great character. I foresee being salty in vol 4. Just when they made Jaune decent tsk.
- They’re trying to make the manga’s canon stay canon. Hopefully that remains true because manga Weiss is awesome.
- Kind of want to see more about Mercury now but at the same time I’d rather they spent more time developing Ruby first.
a-bag-of-dice asked: The problem is it wasn't a decent motivation. She is just scaring people so she can make it easier to get what she really wants - Amber. This has nothing to do with 'nations and wars' this is a plan to finish getting godlike powers.
Power is like money. You don’t actually want the money for money’s sake, you want what money can get you. People want power so they can do something they couldn’t without it.
I’ve written previously about the (arguably) chauvinistic coding in the way the show has set up the system for transfer of the Maidens’ powers. Cinder’s speech points out something similar. Not the chauvinism, but the fact that a few men in a secret organisation controls the world’s important institutions with little accountability.
Regardless of any gender issues, that’s rarely a good thing. So while I’m sure Cinder wants the power, I think her speech contains some of her internal justifications for doing what she does.
Also, personally I do hope that Cinder has a more complex motivation than “MOAR POWER”. I don’t really have high standards for RWBY’s writing but vol 3′s improvement has surprised me.
It would be disappointing to me if her sole motivation was just power, because it means the show has a cardboard villain, and if anything vol 3 has shown the writers are capable of better.
bisexualowain asked: Do you think it's possible that Summer thought of both Ruby and Yang as she was dying? Ruby for obvious reasons and Yang because now this means Yang has lost two mother figures, and it made the Summer maiden powers go wonky because there wasn't a clear cut answer? (I'm super in it for the Gay Moms ride but this is another alternative I see). The Brotherhood of Dick(bag)s says the power was never split before, admittedly, but I´m not too sure of how reliable they'd be.
Heh I think a maiden thinking of several people may have happened several times, I’m sure Summer wasn’t the only Maiden with several children, although the power would then just choose one candidate. Won’t say it’s not a possibility, but on this I’d take the word of Team Garbage Old Men that there has been no precedent on a split.
It might mean that Ruby isn’t the only possible candidate for Summer Maiden though, and Raven might be fucking around with Yang because of it.
Cinder didn’t have to choose Yang, any of the other candidates could’ve broken Merc’s leg and gotten the same effect. If Raven and Cinder are connected, I think Raven either has plans for Yang or is trying to make her stay out of whatever’s coming.
And all this presumes Summer was a Maiden, which the show hints at but has never been 100% confirmed. What if she wasn’t?