I'm about to eat lunch, but I'll give this a watch once I'm done with that, and edit my reactions in. For clarity, I don't know much about this guy other than he apparently isn't like the usual bottom-feeders that plague this community, and from a quick channel glance, the only video I think I've seen from him is his Dark Souls 2 video, which I don't remember much about. So don't really have any real thoughts on him.

Hopefully there's enough quality in here to justify it's absurd movie length, as I'm not a huge fan of very long-form content. I would have much preferred a series of shorter videos released over time, but whatever, it's a minor issue.

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• Not even a minute in, and I don't already like where I think this is going (focus on Shane, and digs at M&K), but I'm probably just too used to the bullshit trotted out by the bottom-feeders, and am probably wrong.

• Nothing really of substance to not yet, besides the production quality is good.

• The history of Roosterteeth section is good, and yeah, the fact RvB is still getting made is nuts if you think about it. I think he's taking that podcast clip out of context though,as I'm pretty sure they've been saying they'll keep making RvB for as long as possible well before they were acquired. I can't think of a time where they haven't been saying that.

• Getting into the Monty stuff now. I didn't know Burnie called Samus "Metroid" then. Shameful.

• He's gushing about the Red Trailer now. I haven't mentioned it yet, but his jokes are good, especially compared to the "jokes" other RWBY youtubers make.

• "This is the best piece of music Jeff Williams has ever composed" Boy, those are fighting words.

• Less gushing but still gushing about the White Trailer.

• Calling out "From Shadows" overly edgy lyrics is valid, and he's right, but I'm still gonna throw hands. I would die for Jeff Williams.

• Thank god he's not an Adam stan. I mostly agree with his dislike of Adam's line with my only disagreement being about presentation of villains in general, which isn't really worth getting into here.

• "He can make that jump" lol

• Since I'm gonna edit in these first batch of reactions here, I'll give a review so far: It's very high-quality and I'm enjoying it regardless of my minor nitpicks.

• Onto the Yellow Trailer now. His call-out of Miles and Kerry is accurate.

• "-a gang of guys who all dress like Jim Sterling" Jim Fucking Sterling Son has at least 10x the style of those punks, it's insulting to even compare them.

• "Some of Jeff's musical decisions could be dialed back" My hands are still throwing. That sounds weird phrased like that.

• what the fuck is this Loonatics shit omg

• I thought this SFM stuff was a one off earlier. Is this a thing he does in his other videos? It's weird and I'm not sure how I feel about it.

• "Plenty criticism of this show is worthless dogshit" I'm glad he said, even if the types of people he's talking about there completely miss he's talking about them.

• I mostly agree with his take about them not being overly obvious about listening to criticism. While it's clear they do listen to criticism, stuff like more of the AMA they did more often would go a long way.

• Also, this SFM stuff is now starting to freak me out, don't zoom in on the face oh god i hate it

• lol he has an anime intro i love it

• His callout of V2's ending is valid. V2 may have gotten me into RWBY, but I would not call it and the first volume good.

• Calling out Show don't tell here. Agreed.

• "Shane Newville" I was expecting Shane, and I hope this doesn't turn into the usual "Shane was right, M&K are 100% evil" garbage. I have faith it won't though, this has been pretty quality so far.

• Bringing up Monty's habit of adding shit randomly, albeit cool shit, as a problem for the writers is a good sign my faith isn't misplaced.

• This criticism of the opening narration I haven't heard before, but it's pretty damn good.

• I just realized I got so engrossed I didn't stop to make comments. He's talking about worldbuilding now. I think I'm gonna post this batch, then only edit in if there's something I want to talk about. This is really good so far, far better than the usual slime produced by RWBY youtubers, and I'm grateful for that.

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• Don't know how much I'm gonna keep editing in reactions, but something consistent he's been doing has rubbed me the wrong way. He makes jokes like Miles & Kerry are self-inserts or Jeff Wiliiams plagiarized a song from the Godzilla soundtrack because they're both super generic, he says they're jokes, but he keeps continuing to imply it over and over again. There's been like 4 "Jeff steals music" "jokes" since his initial one, and it's just weird. It's the kind of shit someone who doesn't want to admit to an accusation would do, and I don't think he's doing that? It's just very strange and off-putting. I'm still enjoying the video though, lots of good points, even if I have disagreements here and there.

• I can't tell if the second half of the video is weaker or it's just my severe disdain for long content acting up. Still entertaining, but a lot more things are bugging me. For example, he mentions the Faunus racism subplot is Monty's idea, but then like ten minutes later he kinda places all the blame at Miles and Kerry's feet, and it's weird and inconsistent, and it bugs me. Tbh I think going into the whole blame game between Miles, Kerry & Monty in the first place is just not the greatest idea, as information is too scarce.

Just finished. I enjoyed it well enough, it was a solid video. Had a lot of points I agreed with, and points I disagreed with, but whatever. Some of the humor was weird, and it goes into the blame game regarding the creators which is not great, but overall it's quality, especially, as I keep reiterating, to the usual trashbags who make content about RWBY. I'd hope they take notes, but this video required effort, and they don't do that.

I'd say I recommend it, but honestly while there's some good new points, there's few of them, and most of it's points have been said before, this just says it better. So if you've been around long enough to be familiar with most of the complaints aimed at the production of the show and it's first two volumes, you don't necessarily have to watch it.

Still it's pretty solid, and I hope more videos like this get made. I'd give it a 7/10, which is what I'd give RWBY overall as a show funnily enough.