Honestly, the show's been rolling downhill at increasing speed in just about every metric since Monty Oum died. The Faunus-human conflict turning out to be an absolute dud was just one factor in its decline.
My hope is that after Ice Queendom (and probably Volume 9, which has just been delayed into next year...) finishes airing, the new penny-pinching management at Warner Bros-Discovery will sell the IP off to SHAFT or really just about any other studio prior to shuttering Rooster Teeth so it can be rebooted, it's mind-boggling how they've made such an absolute mess out of something which started out with so much fun potential back in 2013. It'd be very difficult to do worse than they have.
Honestly, the show's been rolling downhill at increasing speed in just about every metric since Monty Oum died. The Faunus-human conflict turning out to be an absolute dud was just one factor in its decline.
My hope is that after Ice Queendom (and probably Volume 9, which has just been delayed into next year...) finishes airing, the new penny-pinching management at Warner Bros-Discovery will sell the IP off to SHAFT or really just about any other studio prior to shuttering Rooster Teeth so it can be rebooted, it's mind-boggling how they've made such an absolute mess out of something which started out with so much fun potential back in 2013. It'd be very difficult to do worse than they have.
Unironically fanfics do RWBY better than RT at this point, and I've read way too much RWBY fanfic at this point.
Rwby is what happens when you have writing by fandom and community. That's why bumblebee is a thing and why adam got turned into an obsessive ex bf.