I love Divide. You can FEEL Salem's hate and vitriol for Ozpin. It's also like Sacrifice, in that it's a song you should revisit every volume to see how it's meaning evolves with every new bit of lore you get. Also, in case it wasn't obvious, Salem's fairytale inspiration is the Wicked Witch of the West.
"The Blinding eyes, that burn a yellow flame. The embers that remain" This is a Cinder reference. Yellow eyes that used to burn metaphorically, but now burn literally; and her name is actually a synonym for embers, as the remnants of a fire: 'Burnt to cinders'
I also feel like that might be a reference to Yang. Red like roses, mirrors will shatter, no one that will rise above, etc. I'm not positive what, but I'm sure one of those lines matches the rest to reference Yang.
In regards to divide, they've cut off their ability to communicate with the other kingdoms by the end of volume 3, and the last thing the other kingdoms saw was Atlas attacking innocents and a bunch of other stuff like that. So they've effectively prevented any reliable way of working it out through words quickly, allowing the time for doubt to grow.
Also, Salem has one of the all-time greatest villain songs right here. (Speaking of which, keep an ear out for the section that starts "Form your armies, dream your dreams" - that's her leitmotif)
1:46:12 No need to apologize. This song hits way too close to home for anyone who's lost a really close good friend or family member way before their time. Which is probably just about everyone over 20 or maybe even younger. I, for one, tear up slightly every time it comes on. As it brings up memories of a particular friend. It's just a natural human reaction. And to the few people who would give Beef grief about it because they don't understand; While I hope you'll learn some empathy, I sincerely hope you don't get to the point where you fully understand anytime soon. Because I wouldn't wish that feeling on anyone, and you're luckier than you know to have made it this far without it.
I love your insight about Mirror Mirror Pt. 2 and you're so right! Just because you were provided with all the material things you needed and wanted, it doesn't mean you yourself as a person grew up happily! It doesn't matter the things you have but the love and care you were given and how you were treated.
1:15 When it Falls 11:12 I'm the one 24:08 It's my Turn 42:05 Not Fall in Love With You 56:48 Neon 1:05:42 Mirror Mirror Part 2 1:24:47 Divide 1:39:27 Cold 1:48:42 Time to say goodbye
Anyone else genuinely keep track of the days passing in terms of every other day being “RWBY Day” on Beef’s channel? Like I legit schedule time in my day to listen to this wholesome man be himself and talk about one of my all time favorite shows
In "time to say goodbye, you were wondering who it was about. Near the end of the final episode of volume 3, Qrow talked about constantly being on missions from Ozpin. He also talked about how "he went on missions to keep you informed" to the inner circle. Imo, the section where they talked about "are we heroes keeping peace, or are we weapons pointed at the enemy..." the people singing are all the huntsman like Qrow, (and even Ruby) who are sent to fight the mysterious person behind it all.
Oh, and Salem is spouting NOTHING but facts. remember, Remnant is NOT EARTH. The rules are different. primarily in that humanity is conveniently more or less gathered in four 'pots'. the connection between which can be broken with one easy clip. as observed at the end of season 3.
There's a certain song here that I think is worth a revisit later after a certain point in the show. I hope you'll give it another listen when we eventually get there
(Spoiler free) There's a few times this happens, and I love it. For example, after finishing Volume 3 and listening to Divide, is the first time that Sacrifice from Volume 2 gets recontextualized. Since Divide talks about (ostensibly) Ozpin sacrificing people for his goal, and Sacrifice is someone (ostensibly Cinder) saying they refuse to be sacrificed for someone's goal. It made people think Cinder was someone Ozpin used and discarded at some point, and she bore him a personal grudge, or that she was a freedom fighter in the classic "the bad guys are actually the good guys" trope. The speculation each volume is such fun.
A delusion is something along the lines of tricking yourself despite being shown and knowing reality... Blindly forcing yourself to believe what you want to believe instead of reality... An illusion is just hope, whether founded or not, of something happening either by your own hand or something else...
When It Falls: Yeah the sheer guts of this song in terms of 'We're warning you! It's gonna get baaaad' is kinda amazing (can be oddly hilarious once you get past the v3 pain and it finally clicks that we were so used to 'dark edgy' songs in the OSTs seemingly having nothing to do with the show that we discounted them being as the literal warnings as they absolutely were intended to be, but that might just be me~ XD) Damn if I don't love the twisted call backs to Red like Roses part (Red once more being compared to blood, white going from snow to eye whites, black from a 'beast descending from shadow' to being swallowed by them, and yellow not burning with inner light but actual fire), and I'm pretty sure the 'picture' all four twisted up like that make is Cinder: red theming on her clothes, very pale white skin, black hair and burning yellow eyes + her wording in the broadcast being referenced by the song (in show: "This was not a tragedy. This was not an accident. This is what happens when you place your trust, *your safety* in men that in the end, are nothing more than men". In 'When It Falls': "This was not tragedy, not an accident. You placed your faith in fools now you'll smoother in lament"). I'm The One: The little ad lib bits are great; like yeah Em and Merc are bad guys but those little moments really add an odd sense of friendship/comradery that I think is so distinctive to those two
"life just makes sense" Going to be honest here, That one broke my brain. I also admit that I'm generally a pessimistic person. But while I do think the absolute barebone rules of life are clear (eat, sleep, exercise, and find ways to stay in a habitable temperature range to live). But there are so many aspects of life that just, do, not, make sense. Also some really interesting philosophical thoughts and perspectives you've thrown out here in during some of the songs. I am honestly curious if you are going to hold on to those beliefs and ideas to the end of the series, or if they're going to be challenged and/or altered.
I think the tapping/clicking sound is your computer/electronics/speakers picking up on cellular or wireless data transmissions - do you keep you phone next to your recording equipment? Try putting it away somewhere - my stereo monitors will do this if I don't keep my phone away from them.
"Are we heroes keeping Peace, or are we weapons pointed at the enemy so someone else can claim a victory?" THAT is Hope-killing doubt right there. And he thinks Salem is arrogant.
It's definitely Sun to Blake. You can tell based on when it is played in the show (it's when Sun and Nep are dancing after their tournament fight and Blake blushes and calls them dorks)
"Not Fall in Love with You" is about Black Sun. I won't elaborate, because elaboration would spoil some stuff. But it's placement in the show all but confirms it, being played right after the Team SNNN/Team NDGO fight.
don't know if you picked up on it bt the like "Your girlfriend's purse" in I'm the one is ofc a reference to Coco's handbag gun and the "bloods gonna stain but it won't be mine" is about their pre-battle banter
We did see the kind of father Mercury's father was when Cinder picked him up... the father trained mercury into being a merciless killer and he was violently abusive until mercury had enough and killed him and burned his house but he got his legs destroyed at the same time... which one happened firs... who knows... was his father breaking his legs what made him fight back? did his father break his legs because he fought back? but there was no implication about any other defiling... i think it was more because his father is who turned a child into a killing machine...
@Jorge Silva I wondered if the wounds to his legs weren't the result of a fight, punishment or accident, but Marcus deciding another way to hone his son into the perfect assassin: force surgery on him to remove his legs and replace them with prosthetic guns. And Mercury reaching his breaking point while still recovering in bandages, having that final bloody, blazing battle to end his father.
@@serendipitish but I think the way his legs looked in the flashback seemed like his original but destroyed legs so probably before he replaced them, i remembered him saying something that gave me that impresión but wouldn't bet on it either... So maybe...
On Mirror Mirror part 2, I'm a bit surprised you didn't comment on it, but about the line: "Some believe in fairy stories, and the ghosts that they can't see. I know that I could do so much, if I could just believe in me." It is pretty intuitive so maybe I don't need to say anything, but I love the concept of "if people can even believe on the supernatural, how can I not believe in something I already know?" It's such a good and creative way to put insecurity, it's the idea that she has confidence in herself, but at the same time doesn't believe in her abilities. I guess maybe I just love this line so much because I think it fits me perfectly too. I'm someone who is very confident in my abilities, maybe even to the point of being arrogant. But for some reason I never really manage to accomplish things like I'd expect to, and those repeated failures make me feel like I can't do anything. It's a strange feeling, I can honestly feel like I'm amazing at something while at the same time have no faith in actually doing it properly. In a way, how good I am at the things I fail at just makes me feel even more pathetic than someone who's bad at it, it makes those failures seem inexcusable. Anyways, that's the problem with Weiss songs, they make you get super introspective every time you listen to them.
FYI, I added a couple of fan-made covers of RWBY songs to the end of my Volume 4 playlist. Make sure you go through the _entire_ playlist when you get there.
If you rewatch the opening sequence, the part where they are all falling in a ring,. Pyrrha breaks away from the ring and falls away from everyone else. Foreshadowing much?
On the lyrics for I'm the One, there's the line: "I'm the one who was ripped from the earth and exposed to the sun" While it probably has more meaning than that, my first interpretation was that "ripped from the earth" alludes to him loosing his legs and "exposed to the sun" would be him being taken under Cinder, who is usually represented by something related to fire in these songs like "burning" or "embers". The line is pretty ambiguous though.
Love seeing your analysis of Salem's (Woman at the end scene, name was in the credits) psychology from Sacrifice and Divide. And your fault analysis of her plans, because I can check which faults she has accounted for and which she has not.
This is your partner in crime MetroidMan, and I agree. Just starting the video and I'm super excited to see his reaction to some songs, specifically cold and Divide.
Divide is BY FAR my favorite song in this Volume, it's not even close. It's not only very impactful and powerful in it's meaning, but also gives so much insight into Salem's character, it sounds amazing and it somehow manages to even be intimidating. I live everything about it. Not my favorite RWBY song of course, there are several I definitely like more, but it's still one of the best.
The problem with the song for Cinder's little goons is that it is entirely undeserved. True, Emerald could run circles around any human foe without them knowing she was even there. But Mercury...a dude with metal gun-legs? whose greatest attack is in-world impossible, seeing as how he has NO way to control the shots once they're out? He's arguably a bigger joke than Jaune. I just cannot take him seriously. (and if peeps tell you Emeral can fool grimm...don't believe them. there is NO proof of this. Just because they don't care to react, don't mean they don't see her. If nothing else, she would be chock full of fear for them to sense. so the fact the thing did not react means it probably knew to identify her, as well.)
Actually, Mercury's trick ISN'T impossible by in-world standards. But the info on what makes it possible is only found in the World of Remnant videos. And even then you have to put disparate bits of info together for it to make sense. So... S P O I L E R S P A C E World of Remnant: Dust says that Dust can be activated and controlled with Aura, although doing so requires a great deal of mental discipline that's rare in modern Remnant. The ammo used in guns such as Yang's gauntlets and Mercury's legs use Dust, Ergo, Mercury's ability to control his shots after firing them is a result of him mastering the discipline of Dust control, and what Mercury does with his shots is really no different from what Cinder and Glynda did when tossing shit at each other in Episode 1 of Volume 1.
Cold is one of my personal favorite RWBY songs. It reminds me of... let's just say Jhune isn't the only one to loose someone important to them. I believe that "fall in love with you" song Is actually Is Neptune singing to Weiss. I couldn't possibly imagine Jhune saying "you totally rock, you're wicked, and cool" To anybody. Also there's A-line where the Person talks about a type of champagne which I highly doubt Jhune would be familiar with. Neptune cares about his image "cool" And since he is such a "lady's man" I'm sure he'd know a lot about champagne.
There is a line saying “you are my sun”… What if it’s Neptune to Sun? It mentions being next to them and they were next to each other when the song plays lol. Seriously though, I don’t think Neptune cares that much about any girl specifically, he just appreciates women in general… He’ll hit on every girl, all the time… I guess it could be to girls in general… I think it fits Sun and Blake most though… The personality is very Sun and he clearly has a thing for Blake… That’s the obvious option, in my opinion… He’s not high class, but he seems relatively knowledgeable, so he might know about champagne… Or Neptune told him? I don’t know… I think Neptune is more focused on himself… I definitely don’t think Neptune makes sense.
I think I read somewhere that "Not Fall in Love With You" was a song Jeff wrote years before, and just added it to _RWBY_ without actually having written it for the show. In which case, it could certainly fit for any of these pairings.
I could not agree with you more on your tangent about Superman needing to protect anyone. It is why injustice happens and superman turns evil is cause the constant pressure and expectations of everyone finally broke him.
With the Delusions and Illusions thing... The best I can come up with off the top of my mind is that Illusions are crafted by someone else and affect a larger population(The illusion of free will, if you've ever heard that old saying before, for example), and Delusions are crafted by the mind of a single individual, and only affect said individual. Emerald's Semblance seems to lean more towards the Delusions side of things, except she forces those delusions onto people for a time. Though, even if it were illusions, the way it works definitely fits more into the delusions space again. Why? It seems to fuck up the individual's logical and critical thinking skills whenever it's used on them. Otherwise, there is no excuse, with how we saw it in the show, for Pyrrha to have reacted the way she did. She SAW those swords just APPEAR out of thin air for no reason. For all intents and purposes, she should not have panicked. She should have been able to realize something is wrong, and just accept the defeat. If she was thinking rationally and didn't have her ability to think clearly being tampered with by Emerald's Semblance, that is. But, that's just a theory, and the reality is more than likely sloppy communication between the writing/animation teams. Still, it's an interesting thought, and actually makes Emerald much more terrifying. It also explains why she went for her and not someone like say, Neo, who's illusions are way more useful.
I looked it up to make sure Illusions are something wrongly percieved or interpreted by the senses; so optical illusions (Pretty obvious lol), that trick where people make you think your arm is a dummy arm and then hit it, or phantom sense over VR games. Delusions are a peculiar self-deceptive belief firmly maintained despite being contradicted by reality or rational argument, usually caused by some form of mental disorder; so the people in zombie stories who keep their zombified loved ones heads in a bag, or the king sitting in his castle while the kingdom is invaded refusing to call for aid. There seems to be some overlap between the two, with something like a hallucination being either depending on the persons willingness to accept it wasn't real. In the case of Emerald, I think that when Coco thought she saw Yatsu but then was shown he wasn't there, she immedietly became aware that he was never there in the first place, so an illusion. On the flip side, after Yang attacks Mercury, she refuses to believe that he didn't attack her (Which was the reality) despite seeing the replay herself, so a delusion (at least until Yang comes to terms with it, but I'm not sure if a delusion that is cured retroactively becomes an illusion or not, so maybe not?)
I would highly recommend watching Vol 4 trailer at some point whether its before or after the first few episodes is fine, but it is epic, so definitely consider.
Since I bingewatch your reactions and know that you already finished Vol9. I just want to add a thing about "it's my turn". Even if the music video has Weiss, I think the song work for her and Blake. They both have a older figure tell them lies to shape their mind and controled them.
Ripped from the earth and exposed to the sun is reference to one of Mercury's many inspirations, that of Icarus who flew too close to the Sun. I've always suspected this is one of those 12-volume foreshadows we will see an epic fall from greatness (in his mind) at some point in the future.
Actually everything "she" is saying in her song about making them burn is completely right... there is no "wrong" to her words... That is a great and solid strategy... Whether she CAN do everything she says and plans is a whole different thing though...
about Weiss; She is not afraid to sing these songs in public. presumably her father does not care to react. It's just noise to him. as for why he restrained her; surely you know that 'certain things' are expected of the 'higher born' of society? and other things, correspondingly, are frowned upon.
Not Fall in Love With You can't be Jaune, not only because of context but mainly wording. The way the lines are written are absolutely not Jaune-like in the slightest, but they definitely sound like the way Sun talks. Just look at lines like "You totally rock, you're crazy and cool" or "You're my PYT, my cherie amour", those are absolutely not things Jaune would ever say. And there is the context too. The lyrics don't fit Jaune in any point through the series, he wasn't into Pyrrha at the start and when he started to be, he was already noticed that she was into him. There was never a point Jaune would feel like he should conceal his feelings for her
If Emerald's semblance was illusory, everyone in the stadium would have seen what Yang saw and it would not have had the same effect. But since she only effects the mind of her target, it causes delusions. No one could believe Yang because they all watched her just attack Smercury for no good reason. Honestly Em's semblance is one of the most busted in the show.
"You're banking on people not having good communication skills." -Beef "The [communication] tower must not fall" - Ozpin "Lmao" - Kevin (The Grimm Dragon) O the further i get through your reactions the more I can't wait till you get to THAT episode hehehe Well off to binge your v4 reactions now that you're done :p
Comment 2: Mirror Mirror Part 2: Weiss's songs do indeed progress along with her character, to the point you can sort of track their progress in universe: Mirror Mirror being her in v1 when she was still self isolating and judging, Mirror Mirror part 2 around v2 and the early parts of v3, and then shifting fulling into It's My Turn in fits and starts after that (though the song in show plays in a fight before MMp2 does~ XD). And yeah that 'her self reflecting' fits, though there's also of course the actual Snow White referencing; from what I understand a core part of the design for all our team RWBY girls is that they have elements of both their title fairytale girl AND said fairytale's villain so Ruby is both the innocent cute girl but also has 'wolf like' eyes and that black neck ruff, Weiss is both the sweet, singer Snow White and the vain, judgemental stepmother/witch, Blake is both the Beauty and a bit beastly, and Yang is Goldilock but has a 'bear like' build with her gauntlets giving her 'claws' in a way. So... Yeah. When Wiess is asking the mirror stuff she's kind of taking the role of the evil stepmother talking to herself but is trying to self reflect healthily on all the stuff good or bad in her head rather than an attempt to ego trip and excuse her jealousy of others. Well the context of that "I'm might change it all" is right after she was talking about her doubts and loneliness so logically it's an indication she's finally starting to feel hope~ XD n show too, they specifically have this playing as her dad tries ringing her and she very deliberately hangs up and smiles, so to Weiss... Hanging up on her dad must be the conscious choice to no longer be filled with doubts and loneliness anymore. Divide: You might be a tad overly optimistic but that's not inherently bad; just. Keep in mind that for all hope WILL eventually win, there can and often is a shit ton of despair and death that happens first and people do struggle to have the hope needed to overcome stuff (plus, you know. On a microscale, abuse and despair take the lives of innocent people all the time and corrupt/mess up even more; it's why stories, and heroes and people who have hope and work hard trying to fix those things matter so very much
I tend to go with that view for the perspective of the opening songs too. Also, about the openings: Opening 1 - This will be awesome! Opening 2 - Seems like shit's gonna go down though. Opening 3 - OH GOD, SHIT IS GOING DOWN! Opening 4 - Shit sucked... Everything sucks... Opening 5 - Ok, I'm over the shit now. Now we're gonna kick ass! Opening 6 - Scrap that, it still sucks. But we'll just keep moving forward! Opening 7 - Yeah, it's all good, we'll definitely manage it somehow! Opening 8 - No we won't! Nothing's good! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!! Opening 9 - Where can I find therapy again? I don't feel so good...
Time to say goodbye is basically for all of the cast but none more than Teams RWBY and JNPR from Blake’s experience in the white fang to Ruby and Weiss growing up, Yang would soon lose a lot as would team JN*R but at it’s core I feel that Ruby is supposed to be singing. Also note that the song was introduced originally in V1 it has possible ties to all of the first 8 volumes so again as Cinder said in the beginning….. “You’ll know what you need, when you need to know it.” It will all make sense. Grab your security blanket, a snack, some glow sticks, and like I always say. Buckle up buttercup.
Watching his denial during his "analysis" of Divide is terribly amusing on so many levels. She certainly seems to have done a good job up until this point, no?
Not Fall in Love with you iirc is a song Jeff wrote when he was part of a band/boyband kinda thing I love his singing but I really want a "remix/redub" of the song with a younger singer
Rewatching the Vol 3 opening is super rude when you notice the imagery with the words. When they are all falling holding hands, Pyrrha is the first to let go an fly off. It hurts every time. Mercury talks more about his Father and their relationship in the future. "Defiled by a Father" doesn't refer specifically to SA, but is something along the same vein. Keep it in mind for a few seasons. As a chronic rewatcher of this damn show, the music and the foreshadowing for things is INSANE and literally right in front of your face the whole time. No matter how amazing you may be at story telling or writing or production whatever's, there are just some things that people will forget about or not notice until they watch the whole thing over again. It blows my mind every time I learn something new Weiss' father is the scum of the earth. I have never hated a character in a show more then I have hated him 🙂🙃🙂🙃 I did enjoy your Superman rant ☺️ BlackSun is a good ship, and I would not be mad about it. However, I love me some Bumblebee. Sun is a great guy and an amazing friend to Blake. He deserves to have someone love him like he loves Blake, but I just don't see her having the same feelings for him. They are great tho. For the song I see it as more of a puppy love then a hard earned love born from growing through pain and becoming better people. I think you nailed it with Weiss and the Mirror. I haven't watched RWBY Queendom yet (yeah call me a fake fan whatever lol) but from what I have heard the anime is much more Weiss centered and something about "Nightmare" characters but idk lol You learn the lie later 🙂🙃🙂🙃
remember when you reacted to mirror mirror part one and said that if Weiss felt like the loneliest one why was she being such a bitch to Ruby and everyone else? well the answer is because being alone was the price of feeling safe, so she didn't want to be friends with anyone just so they could tear her down later and hurt her more, she was still being a bitch of course but now we have context lol.
People communicate, but the way things were arranged, things are pretty bad at this point. People around the world were watching the Vytal tournament, then after the revelation that Atlas, who had already occupied a foreign country, Vale, with lots of soldiers, warships, and mechs in the name of 'security', have secret robots disguised as young teenagers, only to see Atlas robots gunning down innocent civilians in the streets during a Grimm attack before before all communication across the world it cut off, leaving everyone in the dark. The Kingdoms can't communicate with each other anymore outside of physical mail and letters through Grimm-infested land, and it really looks like Atlas took the opportunity to attack Vale after their secret was exposed. People can try to talk all they want, but aside from Atlas admitting to gross negligence that resulted in the death of tens-to-hundreds of thousands of people, things look very bad for them in the eyes of the other nations.
1:03:17 I'd be more surprised if you didn't to be honest. Regardless of feelings on the rest of the show, everyone seems to agree the soundtrack is great.
11:35 I'd say Yuri would be a much better/perfect Sonic voice, than Shadow. Especially due to his performance Spider-Man, who is already a very quippy and high energy character sounding character, much like Sonic. If anyone, I feel like Vic Micnogna (Qrow's VA) would make a perfect Shadow voice tbh. His vocal range sounds similar to the previous Shadow VA Jason Griffith, and he has that deep raspiness like Shadow's current VA Kirk Thorton.
It’s funny how you compared it to Superman because the just made a Justice League x RWBY movie. They also have comics of it. Also Weiss is saying Mirror Mirror because she’s reflecting on her life. Also her character allusion is Snow White “mirror mirror on the wall”.
Unfortunately the "having proper conversation with somebody" is entire nations rather than just small groups of people, and that mob mentality be hittin' hard in the best of times
Weiss is best girl idc what no one says ❣️ she's my favorite of all the rwby characters but of course I love the others too but her songs and just her and how she is throughout all the volumes. Oh also uuuh idk if Salem is actually scared of well anyone really, I'm not gonna spoil anything but just don't underestimate just because she seems confident I'd like to say the same for cinder too even though I'd be less scared of cinder then Salem but yeahh I can't wait for you to find out more.
Everyone is entitled to their own best girl, but I will say out of the 4 girls in team RWBY I think Weiss definitely had the most character development from the start.
He simply gave his opinion on it, instead give more in-depth reason as to why it’s Sun and Blake. My own reasoning is that Jaune was head over heels for Weiss and Phyrra wasn’t even in his radar until the end so doesn’t make sense for it to be Jaune…this is in perspective of the guy and lyrics makes sense and also not make sense for Jaune to Pyhrra as well as Sun to Blake. So misunderstanding here is common. Edit: On terms of the song divide, I agree with you on that lol… it foreshadows much more than it leads on.
1:37:35 "You're banking on people actually not having proper communication skills and that's not how life works. People communicate" Actually not, I 100% disagree with that will all my being. You'd be surprised by how much people do NOT do that. Baking on people not having proper communication skills is actually a really good call, it's extremely likely to pay off. The thing about humans is that while they can be incredible and unbelievably competent, there is a MASSIVELY bigger number of utterly incompetent and useless people around them. It might be extremely hard to stop one person from accomplishing something, but as soon as there's multiple people working on one thing, it becomes infinitely more likely for it to go wrong. The more people there are the more unstable they become, it's just how things naturally go. If there's one thing I learning in my life and one thing that every new experience I have cements more and more, is that in a general and broad sense, people as a whole are always FAR more incompetent than you'd expect them to be. You mentioned conspiracy theories before and they are a great example, just look at the sheer number of people who fervently believe the stupidest of things. Everything you try to look at things in a larger scope, it's clear that somehow people are MUCH dumber than anyone would expect. That is why propaganda works so unimaginably well, it's why political campaigns make so little sense. And it's also why Cinder's speech in the Vytal festival worked so well. It's actually hard to believe how many things in this world could be solved with simple conversations and weren't. The same can be said for how many things are so easy to solve in principle but so impossible in practice simply because the masses cannot ever follow logic. If you say something to a huge number of people, most people WILL NOT understand what you said at all, regardless of what it is, that is as certain as the laws of physics.
heres what i gotta say bout divide : i think he missed some of the points but whatever. the point of the song is to tell that salem WILL win, period. and she doesnt view her actions on the road to victory as evil or wrong. this is a song from salem to ozpin, so it makes sense that salem sees ozpin training countless young people to fight in a secret war, without them knowing, and a war they wont win, thus sending innocent children to die for a lost cause, and salem thinks that what ozpin is doing is infinitely more evil than what shes doing. salem believes what she is doing is the nature of things, they way it MUST be, and that ozpin is literally fighting nature, the natural order of things and is wasting lives on a futile effort, which just furthers her own ideas of what ozpin is as a person, thus reinforcing her own beliefs in herself and what shes doing. its kinda like what thanos said "it was never personal, but i am going to enjoy wiping your annoying planet from existence". i still think the beef interpreted the lyrics mostly wrong, he got some right but didnt truly get the point of the song, its not a villain saying "im going to attempt to do this and hope it works out" its THE villain saying "this is whats going to happen and you cant do anything about it because its already to late and partly your fault" salem thinks shes right...and she is. nothing that is said during this song or her speech at the end of vol 3, she is 100% right and nothing stated is wrong. salem believes she is a force of nature, one that cannot be stopped, and sometimes, as long as you believe you can do something or that you are something, is enough. salem knows that its wat easier to corrupt and sow mistrust, doubt and spite amongst the populace than it is to rally them behind a single, common cause. salems major bet is that she bets on basic human/faunus nature, to be distrustful, warry of outsiders, violent and stubborn. its way easier to cause negative emotions than positive ones, hence why the grimm being attracted to negative emotions is a possible world ending threat, because you cant just cut off half of the entire emotional spectrum of every single person in the world, and when it comes down to the one moment that counts, most people will have negative emotions like anger, fear, selfishness or pride, which makes sense given thats how people work, and that is what salem bets on, thats her main weapon, all shes doing is giving a focal point to channel and generate those emotions, thus fueling her efforts even more
Salem saying its not a tragedy because its their fault for trusting a fool, goes against the traditional meaning of the greek tragedy, a terrible ending brought by by your own mistakes/actions.
You attribute Sun's song to Blake...to JAUNE??? yeah, no. does not work at all. listen to the voice and the words he uses. Jaune could never do that, not even in his own mind. He's much too stupid. I mean, Sun's no Einstein either, but he's Careless. not Stupid. (and if you're using Flyntorwby's videos, he reputedly got his info direct from crewby. so, yeah. Wait wait wait. BLAKE to SUN?????? boy did you misunderstand EVERYTHING. look at the picture again. HE is pushing on HER. She's undecisive at best...and would probably leave if he'd not held on to her wrist.
It's kinda funny seeing you shit talk Salem while listening to Divide. One thing I've noticed is that you seem to do so for every single villain, you talk about them all as if they were all stupid, cowardly etc. regardless of how clearly competent they might be. For example, after Cinder made a ridiculously well crafted plan that was near certain to succeed at least to some extent, you called her dumb. Or when Ironwood was presented as this iron handed enforcer, you immediately started calling him a bitch and a coward, the exact opposite of what he was shown to be. And now we've got Salem, who is being constructed as this terrifying, cunning and extremely competent world threat aiming at humanities extinction, and you immediately start dissing on her as if she wasn't anything worth note, despite the fact she's essentially trying to solo humanity and is actually doing a good job at it. Not a critique by the way, it's clear you're just insulting them and not actually ignoring the abilities they displayed. I just find it fun how much commitment you put in it, you definitely own your word of being a believer in shit talking.
This comment is about "I'm the one" and is barely a spoiler. It's just a reference to a line far later in the series. In "I'm the one", mercury being defiled is probably a reference to his father taking his semblance from him. It's not explained at all how he did it, but it's a unique representation of a person's soul. So it's kinda messed up.
"This is not a tragedy. It's not accident." This was Cinder's speech at Amity colosseum.
Though Cold is portrayed as Jaune singing to Pyrrha Jeff Williams actually wrote it as a tribute to Monty.
I love Divide. You can FEEL Salem's hate and vitriol for Ozpin. It's also like Sacrifice, in that it's a song you should revisit every volume to see how it's meaning evolves with every new bit of lore you get.
Also, in case it wasn't obvious, Salem's fairytale inspiration is the Wicked Witch of the West.
Beef's stare when he realized When It Falls was the Big Middle Finger moonlighting as foreshadowing was just perfect!!!
-Also, Parkster here
Not fall in love is generally thought to be Sun to blake, and it plays at the end of suns match when he winks at blake and she blushes.
"The Blinding eyes, that burn a yellow flame. The embers that remain" This is a Cinder reference. Yellow eyes that used to burn metaphorically, but now burn literally; and her name is actually a synonym for embers, as the remnants of a fire: 'Burnt to cinders'
I also feel like that might be a reference to Yang. Red like roses, mirrors will shatter, no one that will rise above, etc. I'm not positive what, but I'm sure one of those lines matches the rest to reference Yang.
In regards to divide, they've cut off their ability to communicate with the other kingdoms by the end of volume 3, and the last thing the other kingdoms saw was Atlas attacking innocents and a bunch of other stuff like that. So they've effectively prevented any reliable way of working it out through words quickly, allowing the time for doubt to grow.
Also, Salem has one of the all-time greatest villain songs right here.
(Speaking of which, keep an ear out for the section that starts "Form your armies, dream your dreams" - that's her leitmotif)
1:46:12 No need to apologize. This song hits way too close to home for anyone who's lost a really close good friend or family member way before their time. Which is probably just about everyone over 20 or maybe even younger. I, for one, tear up slightly every time it comes on. As it brings up memories of a particular friend. It's just a natural human reaction. And to the few people who would give Beef grief about it because they don't understand; While I hope you'll learn some empathy, I sincerely hope you don't get to the point where you fully understand anytime soon. Because I wouldn't wish that feeling on anyone, and you're luckier than you know to have made it this far without it.
I love your insight about Mirror Mirror Pt. 2 and you're so right! Just because you were provided with all the material things you needed and wanted, it doesn't mean you yourself as a person grew up happily! It doesn't matter the things you have but the love and care you were given and how you were treated.
1:15 When it Falls
11:12 I'm the one
24:08 It's my Turn
42:05 Not Fall in Love With You
56:48 Neon
1:05:42 Mirror Mirror Part 2
1:24:47 Divide
1:39:27 Cold
1:48:42 Time to say goodbye
I believe that second to last one is Cold.
@@Great_Olaf5 Thank you
Anyone else genuinely keep track of the days passing in terms of every other day being “RWBY Day” on Beef’s channel? Like I legit schedule time in my day to listen to this wholesome man be himself and talk about one of my all time favorite shows
Jep... and everytime it is not a reaction to episodes of the main show, I get more and more uneasy im my chair XD.
In "time to say goodbye, you were wondering who it was about. Near the end of the final episode of volume 3, Qrow talked about constantly being on missions from Ozpin. He also talked about how "he went on missions to keep you informed" to the inner circle.
Imo, the section where they talked about "are we heroes keeping peace, or are we weapons pointed at the enemy..." the people singing are all the huntsman like Qrow, (and even Ruby) who are sent to fight the mysterious person behind it all.
He just... He just said Salem was afraid...
Oh, and Salem is spouting NOTHING but facts. remember, Remnant is NOT EARTH. The rules are different. primarily in that humanity is conveniently more or less gathered in four 'pots'. the connection between which can be broken with one easy clip. as observed at the end of season 3.
There's a certain song here that I think is worth a revisit later after a certain point in the show. I hope you'll give it another listen when we eventually get there
(Spoiler free) There's a few times this happens, and I love it.
For example, after finishing Volume 3 and listening to Divide, is the first time that Sacrifice from Volume 2 gets recontextualized. Since Divide talks about (ostensibly) Ozpin sacrificing people for his goal, and Sacrifice is someone (ostensibly Cinder) saying they refuse to be sacrificed for someone's goal.
It made people think Cinder was someone Ozpin used and discarded at some point, and she bore him a personal grudge, or that she was a freedom fighter in the classic "the bad guys are actually the good guys" trope.
The speculation each volume is such fun.
A delusion is something along the lines of tricking yourself despite being shown and knowing reality... Blindly forcing yourself to believe what you want to believe instead of reality...
An illusion is just hope, whether founded or not, of something happening either by your own hand or something else...
I don't know if anyone told you but the giant dragon Grimm was given the name Kevin by the fanbase
When It Falls: Yeah the sheer guts of this song in terms of 'We're warning you! It's gonna get baaaad' is kinda amazing (can be oddly hilarious once you get past the v3 pain and it finally clicks that we were so used to 'dark edgy' songs in the OSTs seemingly having nothing to do with the show that we discounted them being as the literal warnings as they absolutely were intended to be, but that might just be me~ XD)
Damn if I don't love the twisted call backs to Red like Roses part (Red once more being compared to blood, white going from snow to eye whites, black from a 'beast descending from shadow' to being swallowed by them, and yellow not burning with inner light but actual fire), and I'm pretty sure the 'picture' all four twisted up like that make is Cinder: red theming on her clothes, very pale white skin, black hair and burning yellow eyes + her wording in the broadcast being referenced by the song (in show: "This was not a tragedy. This was not an accident. This is what happens when you place your trust, *your safety* in men that in the end, are nothing more than men". In 'When It Falls': "This was not tragedy, not an accident. You placed your faith in fools now you'll smoother in lament").
I'm The One: The little ad lib bits are great; like yeah Em and Merc are bad guys but those little moments really add an odd sense of friendship/comradery that I think is so distinctive to those two
"life just makes sense" Going to be honest here, That one broke my brain. I also admit that I'm generally a pessimistic person. But while I do think the absolute barebone rules of life are clear (eat, sleep, exercise, and find ways to stay in a habitable temperature range to live). But there are so many aspects of life that just, do, not, make sense.
Also some really interesting philosophical thoughts and perspectives you've thrown out here in during some of the songs. I am honestly curious if you are going to hold on to those beliefs and ideas to the end of the series, or if they're going to be challenged and/or altered.
I think the tapping/clicking sound is your computer/electronics/speakers picking up on cellular or wireless data transmissions - do you keep you phone next to your recording equipment? Try putting it away somewhere - my stereo monitors will do this if I don't keep my phone away from them.
"Are we heroes keeping Peace, or are we weapons pointed at the enemy so someone else can claim a victory?" THAT is Hope-killing doubt right there. And he thinks Salem is arrogant.
#1 UNCLE
2:50 "the embers that remain" are what is left of Pyrrha after the fight with Cinder.
It's definitely Sun to Blake. You can tell based on when it is played in the show (it's when Sun and Nep are dancing after their tournament fight and Blake blushes and calls them dorks)
yeah, tho im quite certain that originally it was a song Jeff made for his wife back when he was in highschool i think
Time to say Goodbye (acoustic) is the acoustic version of the Volume 2 theme song. So you have to think of it in that context.
"Not Fall in Love with You" is about Black Sun. I won't elaborate, because elaboration would spoil some stuff. But it's placement in the show all but confirms it, being played right after the Team SNNN/Team NDGO fight.
don't know if you picked up on it bt the like "Your girlfriend's purse" in I'm the one is ofc a reference to Coco's handbag gun
and the "bloods gonna stain but it won't be mine" is about their pre-battle banter
The final acoustic is about the students of Beacon overall.
Glory has been waiting for this!
52:48 I think if it’s Jaun’s pov it would be durning the time he was going for Weiss since she wouldn’t look his way being the ice queen to everyone.
We did see the kind of father Mercury's father was when Cinder picked him up... the father trained mercury into being a merciless killer and he was violently abusive until mercury had enough and killed him and burned his house but he got his legs destroyed at the same time... which one happened firs... who knows... was his father breaking his legs what made him fight back? did his father break his legs because he fought back? but there was no implication about any other defiling... i think it was more because his father is who turned a child into a killing machine...
There is another option to how he was defiled, but that would be a spoiler to talk about now… It could easily just be the beating anyway.
@@KitsyX thanks. I forgot about that.
@Jorge Silva I wondered if the wounds to his legs weren't the result of a fight, punishment or accident, but Marcus deciding another way to hone his son into the perfect assassin: force surgery on him to remove his legs and replace them with prosthetic guns. And Mercury reaching his breaking point while still recovering in bandages, having that final bloody, blazing battle to end his father.
@@serendipitish but I think the way his legs looked in the flashback seemed like his original but destroyed legs so probably before he replaced them, i remembered him saying something that gave me that impresión but wouldn't bet on it either... So maybe...
He was defiled, and it is explained how in a future scene
On Mirror Mirror part 2, I'm a bit surprised you didn't comment on it, but about the line:
"Some believe in fairy stories, and the ghosts that they can't see.
I know that I could do so much, if I could just believe in me."
It is pretty intuitive so maybe I don't need to say anything, but I love the concept of "if people can even believe on the supernatural, how can I not believe in something I already know?"
It's such a good and creative way to put insecurity, it's the idea that she has confidence in herself, but at the same time doesn't believe in her abilities.
I guess maybe I just love this line so much because I think it fits me perfectly too. I'm someone who is very confident in my abilities, maybe even to the point of being arrogant. But for some reason I never really manage to accomplish things like I'd expect to, and those repeated failures make me feel like I can't do anything. It's a strange feeling, I can honestly feel like I'm amazing at something while at the same time have no faith in actually doing it properly.
In a way, how good I am at the things I fail at just makes me feel even more pathetic than someone who's bad at it, it makes those failures seem inexcusable.
Anyways, that's the problem with Weiss songs, they make you get super introspective every time you listen to them.
Yang Gang! Yang Gang!
RWBY music went HARD
FYI, I added a couple of fan-made covers of RWBY songs to the end of my Volume 4 playlist. Make sure you go through the _entire_ playlist when you get there.
Caleb!
If you rewatch the opening sequence, the part where they are all falling in a ring,. Pyrrha breaks away from the ring and falls away from everyone else. Foreshadowing much?
Your Rival here, very cool that this video is out now
9:19 you made me yawn too dammit hahaha, I tried so hard not to. I enjoyed the reaction. Keep it up!
On the lyrics for I'm the One, there's the line:
"I'm the one who was ripped from the earth and exposed to the sun"
While it probably has more meaning than that, my first interpretation was that "ripped from the earth" alludes to him loosing his legs and "exposed to the sun" would be him being taken under Cinder, who is usually represented by something related to fire in these songs like "burning" or "embers".
The line is pretty ambiguous though.
It'll be really interesting to hear your opinions on Ozpin ans Salem three volumes from now.
Love seeing your analysis of Salem's (Woman at the end scene, name was in the credits) psychology from Sacrifice and Divide. And your fault analysis of her plans, because I can check which faults she has accounted for and which she has not.
Queen Kuty here!
So excited to see you Beef V3 has an absolute banger track. And dont worry Cold makes us all feel things
This is your partner in crime MetroidMan, and I agree. Just starting the video and I'm super excited to see his reaction to some songs, specifically cold and Divide.
@@evanchauvey5417 just his stare at When it Falls killed me
Still amazed at how much lore of future seasons is in the soundtrack. Shows how much it's planned out.
Song lyrics, intro's, character quotes, everything is something in RWBY :)
suggestion: you could watch a bit of rwby chibi at the end of every episode- thought it was a kinda neat idea, if anything
Divide is BY FAR my favorite song in this Volume, it's not even close.
It's not only very impactful and powerful in it's meaning, but also gives so much insight into Salem's character, it sounds amazing and it somehow manages to even be intimidating.
I live everything about it. Not my favorite RWBY song of course, there are several I definitely like more, but it's still one of the best.
It'll be very interesting to see how your views on Salem evolve as the show goes.
The problem with the song for Cinder's little goons is that it is entirely undeserved. True, Emerald could run circles around any human foe without them knowing she was even there. But Mercury...a dude with metal gun-legs? whose greatest attack is in-world impossible, seeing as how he has NO way to control the shots once they're out? He's arguably a bigger joke than Jaune. I just cannot take him seriously. (and if peeps tell you Emeral can fool grimm...don't believe them. there is NO proof of this. Just because they don't care to react, don't mean they don't see her. If nothing else, she would be chock full of fear for them to sense. so the fact the thing did not react means it probably knew to identify her, as well.)
Actually, Mercury's trick ISN'T impossible by in-world standards. But the info on what makes it possible is only found in the World of Remnant videos. And even then you have to put disparate bits of info together for it to make sense. So...
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only content left before vol 4 is the ruby trailer and the world of remnants
Cold is one of my personal favorite RWBY songs. It reminds me of... let's just say Jhune isn't the only one to loose someone important to them.
I believe that "fall in love with you" song Is actually Is Neptune singing to Weiss. I couldn't possibly imagine Jhune saying "you totally rock, you're wicked, and cool" To anybody. Also there's A-line where the Person talks about a type of champagne which I highly doubt Jhune would be familiar with. Neptune cares about his image "cool" And since he is such a "lady's man" I'm sure he'd know a lot about champagne.
There is a line saying “you are my sun”… What if it’s Neptune to Sun? It mentions being next to them and they were next to each other when the song plays lol.
Seriously though, I don’t think Neptune cares that much about any girl specifically, he just appreciates women in general… He’ll hit on every girl, all the time… I guess it could be to girls in general…
I think it fits Sun and Blake most though… The personality is very Sun and he clearly has a thing for Blake… That’s the obvious option, in my opinion… He’s not high class, but he seems relatively knowledgeable, so he might know about champagne… Or Neptune told him? I don’t know… I think Neptune is more focused on himself… I definitely don’t think Neptune makes sense.
@@KitsyX that's some fair points.
I think I read somewhere that "Not Fall in Love With You" was a song Jeff wrote years before, and just added it to _RWBY_ without actually having written it for the show. In which case, it could certainly fit for any of these pairings.
I could not agree with you more on your tangent about Superman needing to protect anyone.
It is why injustice happens and superman turns evil is cause the constant pressure and expectations of everyone finally broke him.
With the Delusions and Illusions thing... The best I can come up with off the top of my mind is that Illusions are crafted by someone else and affect a larger population(The illusion of free will, if you've ever heard that old saying before, for example), and Delusions are crafted by the mind of a single individual, and only affect said individual.
Emerald's Semblance seems to lean more towards the Delusions side of things, except she forces those delusions onto people for a time. Though, even if it were illusions, the way it works definitely fits more into the delusions space again. Why? It seems to fuck up the individual's logical and critical thinking skills whenever it's used on them. Otherwise, there is no excuse, with how we saw it in the show, for Pyrrha to have reacted the way she did. She SAW those swords just APPEAR out of thin air for no reason. For all intents and purposes, she should not have panicked. She should have been able to realize something is wrong, and just accept the defeat. If she was thinking rationally and didn't have her ability to think clearly being tampered with by Emerald's Semblance, that is.
But, that's just a theory, and the reality is more than likely sloppy communication between the writing/animation teams. Still, it's an interesting thought, and actually makes Emerald much more terrifying. It also explains why she went for her and not someone like say, Neo, who's illusions are way more useful.
I looked it up to make sure
Illusions are something wrongly percieved or interpreted by the senses; so optical illusions (Pretty obvious lol), that trick where people make you think your arm is a dummy arm and then hit it, or phantom sense over VR games.
Delusions are a peculiar self-deceptive belief firmly maintained despite being contradicted by reality or rational argument, usually caused by some form of mental disorder; so the people in zombie stories who keep their zombified loved ones heads in a bag, or the king sitting in his castle while the kingdom is invaded refusing to call for aid.
There seems to be some overlap between the two, with something like a hallucination being either depending on the persons willingness to accept it wasn't real.
In the case of Emerald, I think that when Coco thought she saw Yatsu but then was shown he wasn't there, she immedietly became aware that he was never there in the first place, so an illusion. On the flip side, after Yang attacks Mercury, she refuses to believe that he didn't attack her (Which was the reality) despite seeing the replay herself, so a delusion (at least until Yang comes to terms with it, but I'm not sure if a delusion that is cured retroactively becomes an illusion or not, so maybe not?)
each song speak about event that happend or will happen. at the end of the intro of volume 1 it speal of something er learn in the future
I would highly recommend watching Vol 4 trailer at some point whether its before or after the first few episodes is fine, but it is epic, so definitely consider.
Since I bingewatch your reactions and know that you already finished Vol9. I just want to add a thing about "it's my turn". Even if the music video has Weiss, I think the song work for her and Blake. They both have a older figure tell them lies to shape their mind and controled them.
I love how the acoustic versions of songs can completely change how they are meant, and where they could beat be appreciated in the RWBY timeline
from forshadowing to fact
Ripped from the earth and exposed to the sun is reference to one of Mercury's many inspirations, that of Icarus who flew too close to the Sun. I've always suspected this is one of those 12-volume foreshadows we will see an epic fall from greatness (in his mind) at some point in the future.
Actually everything "she" is saying in her song about making them burn is completely right... there is no "wrong" to her words... That is a great and solid strategy... Whether she CAN do everything she says and plans is a whole different thing though...
I just realized that we love laughing at people who react to this series is so we don't cry.
A spark extinguishes itself thou... that is why it is a spark and not a flame... but yeah, a new spark even if from the same source and happen...
about Weiss; She is not afraid to sing these songs in public. presumably her father does not care to react. It's just noise to him. as for why he restrained her; surely you know that 'certain things' are expected of the 'higher born' of society? and other things, correspondingly, are frowned upon.
I swear I tear up every time I listen to cold after season 3. it was just like rubbing salt in the wound that she was gone-
Not Fall in Love With You can't be Jaune, not only because of context but mainly wording.
The way the lines are written are absolutely not Jaune-like in the slightest, but they definitely sound like the way Sun talks. Just look at lines like "You totally rock, you're crazy and cool" or "You're my PYT, my cherie amour", those are absolutely not things Jaune would ever say.
And there is the context too. The lyrics don't fit Jaune in any point through the series, he wasn't into Pyrrha at the start and when he started to be, he was already noticed that she was into him. There was never a point Jaune would feel like he should conceal his feelings for her
Not Fall in Love with You was written years before RWBY, it just got reused in the show but wasn't written for the show.
If Emerald's semblance was illusory, everyone in the stadium would have seen what Yang saw and it would not have had the same effect. But since she only effects the mind of her target, it causes delusions. No one could believe Yang because they all watched her just attack Smercury for no good reason. Honestly Em's semblance is one of the most busted in the show.
Rhis channel reminds me of older good rwby days tbh
"You're banking on people not having good communication skills." -Beef
"The [communication] tower must not fall" - Ozpin
"Lmao" - Kevin (The Grimm Dragon)
O the further i get through your reactions the more I can't wait till you get to THAT episode hehehe
Well off to binge your v4 reactions now that you're done :p
nooo his newest rwby vid was took down darn
Opening 1 hits differently after Volume 3 doesn't it?
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Mirror Mirror Part 2: Weiss's songs do indeed progress along with her character, to the point you can sort of track their progress in universe: Mirror Mirror being her in v1 when she was still self isolating and judging, Mirror Mirror part 2 around v2 and the early parts of v3, and then shifting fulling into It's My Turn in fits and starts after that (though the song in show plays in a fight before MMp2 does~ XD).
And yeah that 'her self reflecting' fits, though there's also of course the actual Snow White referencing; from what I understand a core part of the design for all our team RWBY girls is that they have elements of both their title fairytale girl AND said fairytale's villain so Ruby is both the innocent cute girl but also has 'wolf like' eyes and that black neck ruff, Weiss is both the sweet, singer Snow White and the vain, judgemental stepmother/witch, Blake is both the Beauty and a bit beastly, and Yang is Goldilock but has a 'bear like' build with her gauntlets giving her 'claws' in a way.
So... Yeah. When Wiess is asking the mirror stuff she's kind of taking the role of the evil stepmother talking to herself but is trying to self reflect healthily on all the stuff good or bad in her head rather than an attempt to ego trip and excuse her jealousy of others.
Well the context of that "I'm might change it all" is right after she was talking about her doubts and loneliness so logically it's an indication she's finally starting to feel hope~ XD
n show too, they specifically have this playing as her dad tries ringing her and she very deliberately hangs up and smiles, so to Weiss... Hanging up on her dad must be the conscious choice to no longer be filled with doubts and loneliness anymore.
Divide: You might be a tad overly optimistic but that's not inherently bad; just. Keep in mind that for all hope WILL eventually win, there can and often is a shit ton of despair and death that happens first and people do struggle to have the hope needed to overcome stuff (plus, you know. On a microscale, abuse and despair take the lives of innocent people all the time and corrupt/mess up even more; it's why stories, and heroes and people who have hope and work hard trying to fix those things matter so very much
I tend to go with that view for the perspective of the opening songs too.
Also, about the openings:
Opening 1 - This will be awesome!
Opening 2 - Seems like shit's gonna go down though.
Opening 3 - OH GOD, SHIT IS GOING DOWN!
Opening 4 - Shit sucked... Everything sucks...
Opening 5 - Ok, I'm over the shit now. Now we're gonna kick ass!
Opening 6 - Scrap that, it still sucks. But we'll just keep moving forward!
Opening 7 - Yeah, it's all good, we'll definitely manage it somehow!
Opening 8 - No we won't! Nothing's good! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!
Opening 9 - Where can I find therapy again? I don't feel so good...
You are the first person I've seen correctly identify Cold as for Monty.
Time to say goodbye is basically for all of the cast but none more than Teams RWBY and JNPR from Blake’s experience in the white fang to Ruby and Weiss growing up, Yang would soon lose a lot as would team JN*R but at it’s core I feel that Ruby is supposed to be singing. Also note that the song was introduced originally in V1 it has possible ties to all of the first 8 volumes so again as Cinder said in the beginning….. “You’ll know what you need, when you need to know it.” It will all make sense. Grab your security blanket, a snack, some glow sticks, and like I always say. Buckle up buttercup.
Watching his denial during his "analysis" of Divide is terribly amusing on so many levels. She certainly seems to have done a good job up until this point, no?
Not Fall in Love with you iirc is a song Jeff wrote when he was part of a band/boyband kinda thing
I love his singing but I really want a "remix/redub" of the song with a younger singer
Rewatching the Vol 3 opening is super rude when you notice the imagery with the words. When they are all falling holding hands, Pyrrha is the first to let go an fly off. It hurts every time.
Mercury talks more about his Father and their relationship in the future. "Defiled by a Father" doesn't refer specifically to SA, but is something along the same vein. Keep it in mind for a few seasons. As a chronic rewatcher of this damn show, the music and the foreshadowing for things is INSANE and literally right in front of your face the whole time. No matter how amazing you may be at story telling or writing or production whatever's, there are just some things that people will forget about or not notice until they watch the whole thing over again. It blows my mind every time I learn something new
Weiss' father is the scum of the earth. I have never hated a character in a show more then I have hated him 🙂🙃🙂🙃 I did enjoy your Superman rant ☺️
BlackSun is a good ship, and I would not be mad about it. However, I love me some Bumblebee. Sun is a great guy and an amazing friend to Blake. He deserves to have someone love him like he loves Blake, but I just don't see her having the same feelings for him. They are great tho. For the song I see it as more of a puppy love then a hard earned love born from growing through pain and becoming better people.
I think you nailed it with Weiss and the Mirror. I haven't watched RWBY Queendom yet (yeah call me a fake fan whatever lol) but from what I have heard the anime is much more Weiss centered and something about "Nightmare" characters but idk lol
You learn the lie later 🙂🙃🙂🙃
Divide doesn't have spoiler art, you've seen both those characters, the Grimm was the Dragon/Wyvern.
remember when you reacted to mirror mirror part one and said that if Weiss felt like the loneliest one why was she being such a bitch to Ruby and everyone else? well the answer is because being alone was the price of feeling safe, so she didn't want to be friends with anyone just so they could tear her down later and hurt her more, she was still being a bitch of course but now we have context lol.
People communicate, but the way things were arranged, things are pretty bad at this point.
People around the world were watching the Vytal tournament, then after the revelation that Atlas, who had already occupied a foreign country, Vale, with lots of soldiers, warships, and mechs in the name of 'security', have secret robots disguised as young teenagers, only to see Atlas robots gunning down innocent civilians in the streets during a Grimm attack before before all communication across the world it cut off, leaving everyone in the dark. The Kingdoms can't communicate with each other anymore outside of physical mail and letters through Grimm-infested land, and it really looks like Atlas took the opportunity to attack Vale after their secret was exposed.
People can try to talk all they want, but aside from Atlas admitting to gross negligence that resulted in the death of tens-to-hundreds of thousands of people, things look very bad for them in the eyes of the other nations.
1:03:17 I'd be more surprised if you didn't to be honest. Regardless of feelings on the rest of the show, everyone seems to agree the soundtrack is great.
Just saying, when you find out what's the "lie" in time to say goodbye, you will feel that the song is also for you, who actually believe in that lie
11:35 I'd say Yuri would be a much better/perfect Sonic voice, than Shadow. Especially due to his performance Spider-Man, who is already a very quippy and high energy character sounding character, much like Sonic.
If anyone, I feel like Vic Micnogna (Qrow's VA) would make a perfect Shadow voice tbh. His vocal range sounds similar to the previous Shadow VA Jason Griffith, and he has that deep raspiness like Shadow's current VA Kirk Thorton.
It’s funny how you compared it to Superman because the just made a Justice League x RWBY movie. They also have comics of it.
Also Weiss is saying Mirror Mirror because she’s reflecting on her life. Also her character allusion is Snow White “mirror mirror on the wall”.
Unfortunately the "having proper conversation with somebody" is entire nations rather than just small groups of people, and that mob mentality be hittin' hard in the best of times
Revisit time to say goodbye when you hit v9
Especially "Time to Say Goodbye"
@@jeffreysmith236 fuck meant time to say goodbye and messed up the name
Weiss is best girl idc what no one says ❣️ she's my favorite of all the rwby characters but of course I love the others too but her songs and just her and how she is throughout all the volumes.
Oh also uuuh idk if Salem is actually scared of well anyone really, I'm not gonna spoil anything but just don't underestimate just because she seems confident I'd like to say the same for cinder too even though I'd be less scared of cinder then Salem but yeahh I can't wait for you to find out more.
Everyone is entitled to their own best girl, but I will say out of the 4 girls in team RWBY I think Weiss definitely had the most character development from the start.
@@AshunPhubu well I get that I more meant for me sorry i know that everyone has their best girls I completely understand if it's different than mine.
ALSO WEISS IS THE BEST NO CAP
No, It's about Sun and Blake this is why u have this art in song.
And about Divide: You know nothing
He simply gave his opinion on it, instead give more in-depth reason as to why it’s Sun and Blake.
My own reasoning is that Jaune was head over heels for Weiss and Phyrra wasn’t even in his radar until the end so doesn’t make sense for it to be Jaune…this is in perspective of the guy and lyrics makes sense and also not make sense for Jaune to Pyhrra as well as Sun to Blake.
So misunderstanding here is common.
Edit: On terms of the song divide, I agree with you on that lol… it foreshadows much more than it leads on.
Neon's absolutely right: only Harris Milstead could be Divine
Soo, i don't think anyone mentiond it cooments, but you seem to have edited in some of you're chibi reactions into this aswell?
1:37:35 "You're banking on people actually not having proper communication skills and that's not how life works. People communicate"
Actually not, I 100% disagree with that will all my being.
You'd be surprised by how much people do NOT do that. Baking on people not having proper communication skills is actually a really good call, it's extremely likely to pay off.
The thing about humans is that while they can be incredible and unbelievably competent, there is a MASSIVELY bigger number of utterly incompetent and useless people around them.
It might be extremely hard to stop one person from accomplishing something, but as soon as there's multiple people working on one thing, it becomes infinitely more likely for it to go wrong. The more people there are the more unstable they become, it's just how things naturally go.
If there's one thing I learning in my life and one thing that every new experience I have cements more and more, is that in a general and broad sense, people as a whole are always FAR more incompetent than you'd expect them to be.
You mentioned conspiracy theories before and they are a great example, just look at the sheer number of people who fervently believe the stupidest of things.
Everything you try to look at things in a larger scope, it's clear that somehow people are MUCH dumber than anyone would expect. That is why propaganda works so unimaginably well, it's why political campaigns make so little sense. And it's also why Cinder's speech in the Vytal festival worked so well.
It's actually hard to believe how many things in this world could be solved with simple conversations and weren't.
The same can be said for how many things are so easy to solve in principle but so impossible in practice simply because the masses cannot ever follow logic. If you say something to a huge number of people, most people WILL NOT understand what you said at all, regardless of what it is, that is as certain as the laws of physics.
heres what i gotta say bout divide : i think he missed some of the points but whatever. the point of the song is to tell that salem WILL win, period. and she doesnt view her actions on the road to victory as evil or wrong. this is a song from salem to ozpin, so it makes sense that salem sees ozpin training countless young people to fight in a secret war, without them knowing, and a war they wont win, thus sending innocent children to die for a lost cause, and salem thinks that what ozpin is doing is infinitely more evil than what shes doing. salem believes what she is doing is the nature of things, they way it MUST be, and that ozpin is literally fighting nature, the natural order of things and is wasting lives on a futile effort, which just furthers her own ideas of what ozpin is as a person, thus reinforcing her own beliefs in herself and what shes doing. its kinda like what thanos said "it was never personal, but i am going to enjoy wiping your annoying planet from existence".
i still think the beef interpreted the lyrics mostly wrong, he got some right but didnt truly get the point of the song, its not a villain saying "im going to attempt to do this and hope it works out" its THE villain saying "this is whats going to happen and you cant do anything about it because its already to late and partly your fault" salem thinks shes right...and she is. nothing that is said during this song or her speech at the end of vol 3, she is 100% right and nothing stated is wrong.
salem believes she is a force of nature, one that cannot be stopped, and sometimes, as long as you believe you can do something or that you are something, is enough. salem knows that its wat easier to corrupt and sow mistrust, doubt and spite amongst the populace than it is to rally them behind a single, common cause. salems major bet is that she bets on basic human/faunus nature, to be distrustful, warry of outsiders, violent and stubborn. its way easier to cause negative emotions than positive ones, hence why the grimm being attracted to negative emotions is a possible world ending threat, because you cant just cut off half of the entire emotional spectrum of every single person in the world, and when it comes down to the one moment that counts, most people will have negative emotions like anger, fear, selfishness or pride, which makes sense given thats how people work, and that is what salem bets on, thats her main weapon, all shes doing is giving a focal point to channel and generate those emotions, thus fueling her efforts even more
Let the man figure things out ffs
Senia Sounding off
Which season was ignite? I thought it was 3?
It's 5.
@@NotAnEvilMastermind thank you
Salem saying its not a tragedy because its their fault for trusting a fool, goes against the traditional meaning of the greek tragedy, a terrible ending brought by by your own mistakes/actions.
You attribute Sun's song to Blake...to JAUNE??? yeah, no. does not work at all. listen to the voice and the words he uses. Jaune could never do that, not even in his own mind. He's much too stupid. I mean, Sun's no Einstein either, but he's Careless. not Stupid. (and if you're using Flyntorwby's videos, he reputedly got his info direct from crewby. so, yeah. Wait wait wait. BLAKE to SUN?????? boy did you misunderstand EVERYTHING. look at the picture again. HE is pushing on HER. She's undecisive at best...and would probably leave if he'd not held on to her wrist.
It's kinda funny seeing you shit talk Salem while listening to Divide.
One thing I've noticed is that you seem to do so for every single villain, you talk about them all as if they were all stupid, cowardly etc. regardless of how clearly competent they might be.
For example, after Cinder made a ridiculously well crafted plan that was near certain to succeed at least to some extent, you called her dumb.
Or when Ironwood was presented as this iron handed enforcer, you immediately started calling him a bitch and a coward, the exact opposite of what he was shown to be.
And now we've got Salem, who is being constructed as this terrifying, cunning and extremely competent world threat aiming at humanities extinction, and you immediately start dissing on her as if she wasn't anything worth note, despite the fact she's essentially trying to solo humanity and is actually doing a good job at it.
Not a critique by the way, it's clear you're just insulting them and not actually ignoring the abilities they displayed. I just find it fun how much commitment you put in it, you definitely own your word of being a believer in shit talking.
All Ozpin really needed was Beef to confidently shoot down the logic of Salem's plans
Lol don't be ashamed to have RWBY songs on your Spotify playlist, I have literally every RWBY song on there XD
This comment is about "I'm the one" and is barely a spoiler. It's just a reference to a line far later in the series.
In "I'm the one", mercury being defiled is probably a reference to his father taking his semblance from him. It's not explained at all how he did it, but it's a unique representation of a person's soul. So it's kinda messed up.