mean critique of rwby but also a strange issue I feel it represents well. uh i'll call it "macaroni art syndrome"
i gave this show a watch a few days ago, and to be fair, it was like three unconnected episodes, since i was interesting in seeing how it evolves and if it turns into something interesting (no)
and like, it is such a perfect example of something i see in things? it's macaroni art. it's not at all acceptable in a vacuum but gets sheer sympathetic goodwill for being hapless.
mean critique of rwby but also a strange issue I feel it represents well. uh i'll call it "macaroni art syndrome"
rwby REALLY feels like a "boy we really pooled together resources on this product and did our best to make the facsimile of a show. did you know we did machinima??"
yes. yes i can tell.
It's like, okay i get cheering on creators and cheering on as they do new things and you can see the cracks at the edges.
But stuff like rwby feels like it has a dishonesty to its audience
mean critique of rwby but also a strange issue I feel it represents well. uh i'll call it "macaroni art syndrome"
by dishonesty, i mean that it carries a sense of "hey, we're trying our best and that alone means we deserve to be put on the fridge"
and why I consider that dishonest is because there's a pretense that this is good on its own merits and not "oh look, johnny figured out windows movie maker :-)"
art through adversity, right? limitations shouldn't mean awful "hey, you tried" energy.
harsh rwby critique, "macaroni art"
anyway this is REALLY harsh of rwby but I hope this phenomenon I'm describing at least sounds familiar.
I take note of it because i feel confident most of you here would make something better than rwby if you set out to do so, because you would do more than just desperately tread water, and play to what you're capable of.
and I feel being overly forgiving to an experience like rwby because of what it kinda sorta promises or represents, like, okay now what
re: harsh rwby critique, "macaroni art"
@heatherhorns RWBY is to mid-to-late 2010s indie animation what the major webcomics of the early 2000s were to early 2000s webcomics. They show potential and a lot of people get into it because it’s all that’s available, but hopefully something better will come along and get more attention by merits of being good rather than just being there.
re: harsh rwby critique, "macaroni art"
@fluffy good point, damn!
i've long had a fascination with those webcomics that model themselves after newspaper comics and aim just about as high. and it really does feel like it's playing to the exact same thing.
re: harsh rwby critique, "macaroni art"
@heatherhorns ah yeah, Kevin & Kell is still going, isn’t it?
re: harsh rwby critique, "macaroni art"
@heatherhorns I have tried to enjoy RWBY and I just can’t get into it, and I really do not see what’s so great about it. And watching criticism/synopsis videos of it tell me that RWBY really is the Penny Arcade or Sluggy Freelance of anime. It was there early on and it got fans by merit of being there at th eright time, but it’s never had a particularly good plan and if it were to start out today it’d have to be a LOT better to get the following that it has.