Absolutely Fantastic

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

I was excited when i stumbled into this show in late 2016, i really was. i watched up until the newest episode and followed along. the season felt lackluster that's why, I was excited for volume 5 (That's a completely different story.) The action scenes were bad. The only stakes to keep me watching were, will weiss escape her father? Will Qrow (one of the main characters at this point) die?? this volume just felt bad. maybe, it had to do with the greediness of rooster teeth. they took this show and ran it through a corporate filter as soon as Monty passed.

After the intensity and level of the previous volume, this one was a little disappointing. A lot has changed, and with the deaths of last volume, that was entirely expected. With everything going on, it just makes sense in how the characters took the turns that they did. Weiss, Ruby, and Blake all had strong stories (especially Weiss), but Yang's story felt a little weak. I'm not saying it was bad, but given everything that happened, and how little time is spent with her, that story just feels like it's missing something. Then there's the new villains. Most of them we still don't really know a lot about, but Tyrian gets some good screen time. He's a strong enough villain, especially as we watch his already damaged mental state worsen towards the end, but I almost feel like he was trying be a copy of a familiar Dark Knight villain. Oh, and there's Salem. She's intimidating, and obviously has some serious power, but I don't feel like she's a solid character yet. She's just there. Overall, this feels like too much story, though. We get a lot of exposition, and plenty of world-building, but with only 12 episodes, it felt a little too much. On top of that, the pacing took a hit. For a 2-hour volume, it felt a little longer. However, the backstory for Ren and Nora was great, and overall, the volume was good. I wouldn't say it's bad, and I wouldn't say it's the worst of the series so far, but it's definitely a step back from what made Volume 3 so great.

There was so much people loved about the original RWBY. The lighthearted feel, the lovable and realistic characters, the jokes, so much was lovable. Then, Volume 4 took over. Sure, stuff had happened in the months we missed because the team was too lazy, I mean because it ignored Ruby. Ruby turned from the cute, lovable, silly main character to just a bland person with PTSD. Nobody bothered developing Yang, they just said "she know has depression". Weiss' change was long but great, it should how she changed overtime. But they dumped so many characters. CFVY, Neptune, Adam, and plenty of others. I found no joke. Sure, Ren and Nora got a backstory, but they all changed. Jaune became a skilled fighter, Ren just got sad, and Nora was no longer the obsessive but cute with a dark side. She was just bland, like everything. The new outfits are bland. It's all bland. The action looked nice, but the scenes were bland. I know the characters aren't gonna die, so the fight scenes were the same as exposition scenes. Nothing sparked my interest. This isn't RWBY, this is blandness the anime.

This season made me want to drop RWBY altogether, it's so bad. It's a huge shift from how I originally felt, because you have no idea how excited I was for this season when last season ended. This season further showed one of my biggest problems with this series. There's no payoff. It just goes on and on and adds things and silently changes or gets rid of others. Anything that ends has a shitty abrupt conclusion(sup Torch and Neo), or things that should have one don't. CFVY was hyped all Volume 2, and they did basically nothing in Volume 3. What happened to them huh? Couldn't have had them help Yang clear her name when she got framed? I mean they did fight Mercury and Emerald and encountered his semblance. They just went like "Oh hey they noticed something fishy in their fight with Mercury too. Funny huh?" And that was it. What even happened with that Yang got framed plot element anyway? And they had team RWBY fight Cinder's crew in the openings of two volumes, and that fight never even happened! (I mean, in a serious way with stakes. Yang and Pyrrha fought Mercury but not in a life or death kind of situation. Pyrrha fought Cinder in a serious fight, but Pyrrha's not part of team RWBY, so technically not even a main character got to fight Cinder. Then Ruby hit her with a solar flare so that's not even a fight) They built Cinder's crew up for 2 whole seasons, destroyed Beacon, and now they're second banana to these new baddies we don't even know without even really fighting the main 4 characters. Anyway, this season feels like filler, and doesn't do anything fulfilling in it, because the "character development" sucks.