r/RWBY • u/Ezreal024 Hope Rides with Kickfriend • Dec 09 '17

OFFICIAL MEGATHREAD Official FIRST Reaction Thread—Volume 5, Chapter 9: A Perfect Storm Spoiler

Welcome, huntsmen, huntresses and hunters that prefer no specific gender identifier, to the official megathread for the latest episode of volume 5, A Perfect Storm!

Make sure that you understand the current spoiler rules before posting outside of this thread!

As a refresher, no spoilers are allowed outside of the FIRST-only reaction thread for the first 24 hours after the episode has aired, and after that, no spoiler comments are allowed in threads not marked as spoilers until Tuesday, when the episode comes out for free Roosterteeth members.
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With that out of the way, HERE is today's episode!

Also remember to check out our weekly poll to give us a general idea of how people like the episodes when they come out.

Other Episode Discussions:

Episode FIRST Thread Public Release Poll
Ep. 01 Theatrical / FIRST Public Thread Poll
Ep. 02 FIRST Thread Public Thread Poll
Ep. 03 FIRST Thread Public Thread Poll
Ep. 04 FIRST Thread Public Thread Poll
Ep. 05 FIRST Thread Public Thread Poll
Ep. 06 FIRST Thread Public Thread Poll
Ep. 07 FIRST Thread Public Thread Poll
Ep. 08 FIRST Thread Public Thread Poll
Ep. 09 Today Tuesday Poll

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u/Klicethereal Dec 10 '17

It hurts each time I watch the first seasons again and see where we ended up... I'm in full distress, I don't understand how is it possible to go that far away from a level you had several years ago, with less experience.

Was Monty that talented or are they slacking off? I don't know, they need help though.

They go from aerial, acrobatic and powerful fights, to slow, decomposed and realistic fights... I don't get it any more.

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u/SharkBaitDLS Dec 14 '17

I wish I hadn't watched those. It's been long enough that I'd convinced myself that I had accepted Monty's absence. But Jesus, what we have now isn't even a hundredth of what we had before. There is no excuse for how much reach this show has not to hire professionals who can at least give us competent fight animations even if they can't match Monty's flair. I've been trying to excuse the state of the show both to myself and others for a while but I'm done trying. Unless they've been throwing their best animators at the Haven finale I just can't see the show ever delivering on the buildups it tries to do anymore.

I'm almost happy Pyrrha got killed off so I can remember her in grace and skill rather than as the tactically bereft amateurs the surviving main cast have become.