JP3 vs. RWBY Episode 6: The Ace Critic Returns!

So, this is something I didn’t want to write.

Believe it or not, I really did want to have fun with RWBY this year. Yeah that ‘fun’ was derived from mocking its inept directing, mundane story, wooden voice actors and screeching soundtrack, but it was still fun nonetheless. And, for the first few episodes, I really did enjoy myself. ‘Good’ was still a few light years away, but at least I didn’t want to pull out my teeth and curse the day I heard of Monty Oum’s little fantasy world.

Then Episode 5 happened and I swiftly shut my mouth. I’ve had the complete episode review drafted for days now, but never uploaded it because I still, naively, wanted this to be a fun experience for me. So I waited and, by some divine judgment, just as Episode 6 was released The Streamy Awards, an online organization, announced that the winner of their Best Animated Series was…RWBY. That makes two groups that have decided that RWBY is the standard for the Internet’s growing animation sector.

I followed up that joyous news by watching Episode 6. So, yeah; I haven’t been in the best of moods for the past few days. And I have no one but myself to blame. I knew when I started this series that it wasn’t going to be pretty to be a critic. Anytime you speak contrary to a group blinded by their own fandom, you’ve committed yourself to swimming upstream with one arm tied behind your back. And that, along with the false hope that SOMEONE on this production team was competent, caused me to slack off. I will not do that again: not so long as this crap heap exists and the world tries to keep it on a pedestal.

So strap yourselves in kids because I’m back…and this time I’M PISSED OFF.

JP3 vs. RWBY Episode 2: Why So Serious?

So, who else had fun laughing at RWBY this week? Just me? I’m starting to wonder if you guys have a sense of humor! Not a sense of humor in the Rooster Teeth sense; that will get you killed. Here’s the thing, Rooster Teeth and the bulk of the fandom want the rest of us to watch RWBY like they do: one episode at a time without connecting the entire series together. It may sound ridiculous, but if you do you can ignore a great deal of its shortcomings and just focuses on the things it did right in that one episode; thereby making the entire series better because at least THIS TIME is better than LAST TIME.

Is everyone following along? Good. Because if you’ve being reading my reviews and keeping the dots connected with me, you were laughing along with me with Episode 2. In a competent series, a lot of plots points would have landed home and paved the way for an exciting new season of intrigue and action. Since RWBY is roughly fifty light years away from ‘competent’, we instead have a minor cluster that will lead into a cluster fuck of epic proportions by season’s end.

But I’m getting ahead of myself aren’t I? Let’s get back to the hard work of being the island of sanity in this ridiculous fandom. This is Episode 2 of Season 2: Welcome to Beacon! And, to help with the experience, here is some appropriate music to laugh along with!

VNs Now Radio Is Live TONIGHT!

Tonight on the live show, JP will be discussing the return of RWBY from RoosterTeeth and how it’s being defined by a fandom mostly made up of people forcing themselves to like it. After which we’ll have music from the best up-and-coming musical artists in the EVN community! The stream starts tonight at 10 PM EST/9 PM CST on Mixlr here! Hope to see you guys all there!

Sound Off Episode 8: RWBY and You!

Fresh off viewing the first episode of the popular Internet series, RWBY, your host JP3 digs into the series to try and understand it’s suddenly popularity and where it has fallen short. This episode directly lead to the RWBY review series I do on the side of VNs Now! Enjoy!

Intro Music: ‘Battle Theme’ from Princess Battles

 

Download the MP3 Here!