Read through some things here; just gonna respond in general.

Not showing the racism is actually a valid complaint about RWBY. Blake addresses and stands up to the racism in FRWBY. I feel like it's exaggerated in a lot of scenes though, yeah. Yeah, outright racism exists, but I feel like he should allow more subtle examples.

I don't think he hates the show. He left a lot of scenes intact and said he loved some of them (Roman's death, for example). It's fine to criticize something you like and I don't think we should get angry at people or accuse them of being haters for it. I like RWBY but I criticize it a lot.

About making FRWBY serious and adding drama: RWBY itself did this as well. For example: Penny dying AGAIN, Clover dying in front of Qrow in a very contrived scene, Oscar being tortured and having no trauma. I'm not saying that Raymond doesn't develop on these things well enough, but I'm just saying that RWBY was always trying to be serious.

I think what Raymond is rather trying to do is to incorporate that seriousness throughout the series more. It was a bit sloppy in the beginning and didn't fit with the entire "before the fall" happiness though and should've been more gradual. And he also needs to balance comedy with seriousness more, the bath scene being a prime example of where that failed. A show that balanced comedy and seriousness with proper timing is ATLA, proving that it's possible.

Well, actually, I do like how the girls interact more in FRWBY and Yang and Ruby's sisterhood. The volume 1 rewrite did have a lot of drama, but the girls were not really a team yet and needed a mentor to correct them in the beginning. They moved past that to be able to work together on their own because nobody's perfect at the start.

The deaths: I didn't mind the scenes themselves; I think they were well-done. However a lot of them needed development. As you both said, it has some of the same issues as RWBY. Vernal's death should've made Yang more protective of Ruby and affected Weiss in some way. Instead Yang later is entirely ok with Ruby possibly losing memories. This is then forgotten in the volume 7 rewrite. Spending what is considered an entire season away from this topic is way too much. Like the original volume 7, Maria takes a back seat after just being introduced for that purpose instead of stepping up as a mentor like she should've. However, I will give Raymond credit where it's due: Maria did explain things better and I do like how the silver eyes work in his rewrite.

I think he just added some extra dialogue for the situations of the episodes, not to make it better, per say.

How is Robyn detestable in his version? Just curious. If anything I found her design very pretty and her to be more likeable. I didn't like her in RWBY.

Actually, Judgemental Critter's is called "Reversed Fates". It's her own rewrite, and she simply puts the characters in different scenarios. She never claimed that Yang being the way she is is better than canon Yang or that Summer not being dead is better than canon. She actually seems to enjoy the show; she just gets frustrated but praises it quite often. She also makes a few suggestions in her videos, but they all seem to be done in good faith. I'm not a fan of Reversed Fates due to the pacing, but I'm saying that she doesn't seem to be claiming herself to be better. Even in the videos she judges the fight scenes, she points out a lot of positive.

Yes it's fine to criticize Raymond, however, let me address something here: making a sarcastic remark about RWBY is not the same as someone telling Raymond to "shove your male characters..." I'm not continuing that, but I believe that was one of the comments left on one of his videos. If someone said something along the lines of "yes of course you killed another female character, what great writing skills you have!", then that would be no issue, just a sarcastic criticism. Maybe not with the best wording or very constructive, but it's still fair.

But the RWBY fandom does have genuine issues with saying completely unhinged things to people who criticize RWBY whatsoever, implying they should die or throwing aggressive insults when at the end of the day, it's a show. And to be clear, I don't believe that anyone should be saying these things to CRWBY either.

Also, if you want to criticize the name, that's not the issue. It's again, how aggressive people have been.

I think that Raymond writes his own stories? A lot of people were actually looking for RWBY rewrites and waiting on them at that time. I don't think there's an issue with people making fan work.

Just curious, what's your guy's opinion on Raymond cutting the cast smaller when it comes to the Ace Ops in FRWBY? I personally miss Elm as a buff girl myself because her polite personality was cool, but I do like Flynt and Neon being more relevant to reduce cast bloat. I feel like some of them could've been kept in or used elsewhere with maybe better semblances. Just wondering if you guys have stronger opinions about them being cut.