[RWBY] so I'm rewatching from the start and realizing two things

One, they had a LOT more foreshadowing in the first two seasons than I picked up on

Two, this is fundamentally a show about how survivors process trauma. Like... every character. From their introduction.

except MAYBE Jaune?

I don't quite think "not being good enough to get into Beacon" counts as trauma.

anyway, I liked it the first time around and I loved that it just kept getting better. but the second time around I like it even more.

also Blake pings EVERYONE'S gaydar, like.

"girls winking at Blake" is such a continuous thing I just don't know how to deal

Jaune is late to the trauma train but

Boy howdy

And yeah say what you will about early RWBY, but the amount of stuff that comes up later is honestly amazing

(I will say a lot about early RWBY and very little of it positive)

legit. yeah, Jaune catches up.

Honestly though, it being a show about processing trauma is why I stick with it

I couldn't finish s2 after Monty died.. is it worth catching up on?

early RWBY into and of itself is not nearly as good, but it did know where it was going, and it did have girls winking at Blake

That Cozy Cat : The pacing slams into a brick wall for a couple of volumes while the staff recovered but I'd say it's Good Again now.

That Cozy Cat : s3 is about five times better than s2, and each successive season after that is better than the one before by a significant margin

It's a very different show than how it started but mostly in a positive way

that's good, cos I'd heard kinda mixed things

pacing is not one of its strengths

and I loved Monty's heart into it so much that knowing that his baby was continuing on without him really hurt

but the character work is amazing

v3 is good, v4 and v5 suffer from pacing/the ex-head of RT animation kneecapping them, and v6 and v7 are good

I also think that Jaune's arc is kind of exactly that. Like he's this privileged kid who didn't feel good enough, but was so sheltered in comparison. So when trauma hits him it kind of consumes him because he's never dealt with it before.

agreed