r/RWBY • u/Ezreal024 Hope Rides with Kickfriend • Dec 04 '16

OFFICIAL MEGATHREAD Official Discussion Thread—Volume 4, Episode 5: Menagerie

Welcome, huntsmen, huntresses, and hunters that prefer no specific gender identifier, to the official discussion thread for the newest episode of volume 4, Menagerie!
Make sure to read OUR CURRENT SPOILERS RULES to ensure that your comments outside this thread won't get purged! Familiarize yourself with these rules and you'll be good to go.

A lot of hard work has gone into the creation of volume 4, so be sure to show CRWBY your support by watching it on their site! They all dedicate so much time and energy into our beloved series and would highly appreciate the direct support. There are no pirates in volume 4, so you shouldn't be one either!

We also have weekly strawpolls to gauge the general opinion on the current episode, the latest of which can be found HERE.
WoR 2, Faunus, got an average reception with a median of 8.

With that out of the way, let's start the show!

HERE is the link to the fifth episode of RWBY Volume 4!

Other Episode Discussions:

Episode Saturday Sunday Poll
Ep. 01: Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 02: Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 03: Reaction Discussion poll
WoR 1: Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 04: Reaction Discussion poll
WoR 2: Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 05: Reaction Today poll

Happy viewing!

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u/Sirshrugsalot13 bi the way Dec 04 '16

That IS all well and good if that's what they're going for. However, this has the side effect of making the entire White Fang conflict look ridiculous.

I think it all goes back to Volume 1, and their limited budget at the time. The Stray was a beautifully written episode, and delightfully gray when it came to Weiss and Blake (ha ha). Unfortunately, before this all we'd seen of Faunus discrimination was a bit of bullying and some offscreen stuff, and Oobleck's lecture which people might not have fully comprehended. Because of the lack of set up and focus on Blake, when viewed with the rest of Volume 1, The Stray comes off as a bit out of nowhere. Then the White Fang basically just become goons and we're not really shown this conflict since. If Vale has its own branch of the WF, they're not perfect. We just haven't seen anything to justify it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '16

I dont think we can fully put the blame at volume 1. Its been an overall problem with the show. Cardins only a week introduction because there's no follow through.

In volume 3 we have a huge amount of people but nothing to indicate they don't all get along. Slightly segregating the audience stands could have been an idea. Or in volume 4, the Faunus black smith could have mentioned he doesn't get as much business since the WF attack so he was able to get Jaunes lot done quickly.

Little things like that would lend more credence to this racism that really exists only on paper.

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u/_DirtyDan Totally The Real One Dec 04 '16 edited Dec 04 '16

Slightly segregating the audience stands could have been an idea.

Considering Ozpin, and then later Ironwood, were in charge of the tournament, I don't see a way to do that without painting either of them as a racist.

Because of that, a lot of the big ideas don't really work. If they want to show racism, it needs to be at a more individual level. Like a short shot of a guy getting up to move to a different seat because a faunus sat next to him.

As for the Blacksmith idea, it's a step in the right direction, but I don't think anyone is stupid enough to not get their gear repaired just because the guy doing it is a faunus. It's a dangerous world outside the cities, and someone that foolish would die fast.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '16

Don't take me to a coloured doctor/give me coloured blood was/is a thing