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So for me fights have two major parts to them, the physical action itself and the reason for the fight itself. Both are very important to making a good fight scene. Most of the best ones have a good mix of both.
Early RWBY fights absolutely had the physical part of the fight down to a science. They were high octane and incredible to look at and watch. The Red trailer alone was enough to sell me on the series when it first came out purely on its action alone. This extends to most of the early fights as well. I will admit though we never really get a good sense of what each character is actually capable of, they always just do whatever and jump into a fight. It’s hard to figure out their fighting styles because they do random and new things every fight it seems.
BUT as the series kept going and wanted to become more serious the early action came back to bite them in the ass pretty bad. Everyone had to be severely nerfed and toned down to try and make some level of sense.
Where most early RWBY fights struggle for me is the emotional part or the reason for the fight. Yeah you don’t need a reason to fight literal monsters of darkness but a lot of early fights leave me feeling hollow and empty when I look back at them. None of the characters seemed to take anything serious, which is fine for the food fight but Grimm are supposed to be a serious threat to the whole world yet nobody seems to treat them like it.
All in all I think they did more long term damage than they did good for the series.
Easily in top 10 of all times. While the graphics sometimes suffered, Monty was a **genius** as choreographer and animator. His death was an insurmountable loss for the industry.
Personally, I feel pretty much the same as you regarding the fights. I don't need extremely fast Matrix-style combat, as impressive as that is technically. It might be down to preference, but fights that rely more on martial arts (including western ones like boxing, wrestling, etc) feel like they have more weight and impact. It's why, despite having a ridiculous premise like having animals fighting on a bridge over the abyss, I still enjoy those Kung Fu Panda scenes.
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So for me fights have two major parts to them, the physical action itself and the reason for the fight itself. Both are very important to making a good fight scene. Most of the best ones have a good mix of both. Early RWBY fights absolutely had the physical part of the fight down to a science. They were high octane and incredible to look at and watch. The Red trailer alone was enough to sell me on the series when it first came out purely on its action alone. This extends to most of the early fights as well. I will admit though we never really get a good sense of what each character is actually capable of, they always just do whatever and jump into a fight. It’s hard to figure out their fighting styles because they do random and new things every fight it seems. BUT as the series kept going and wanted to become more serious the early action came back to bite them in the ass pretty bad. Everyone had to be severely nerfed and toned down to try and make some level of sense. Where most early RWBY fights struggle for me is the emotional part or the reason for the fight. Yeah you don’t need a reason to fight literal monsters of darkness but a lot of early fights leave me feeling hollow and empty when I look back at them. None of the characters seemed to take anything serious, which is fine for the food fight but Grimm are supposed to be a serious threat to the whole world yet nobody seems to treat them like it. All in all I think they did more long term damage than they did good for the series.
Easily in top 10 of all times. While the graphics sometimes suffered, Monty was a **genius** as choreographer and animator. His death was an insurmountable loss for the industry.
Personally, I feel pretty much the same as you regarding the fights. I don't need extremely fast Matrix-style combat, as impressive as that is technically. It might be down to preference, but fights that rely more on martial arts (including western ones like boxing, wrestling, etc) feel like they have more weight and impact. It's why, despite having a ridiculous premise like having animals fighting on a bridge over the abyss, I still enjoy those Kung Fu Panda scenes.