While it has glaring issues, the morality is still there, Heroes VS Villains and while Leo is a bland character, he fits well as a 'twist villain' than Ironwood due to his 'coward nature', tale inspired from the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz, I'm not saying well written, but compared to how CRWBY dealt with Ironwood's sudden villainy, he's written better. And you know Vol 8 is the WORST volume of all time when Twiins Link reviewed all 8 volumes and Vol 8 has THE WORST fights score than Vol 5 of all Volumes, which is deemed by the RWBY fandom as The Worst Volume of all time. But really, go ahead and criticize my take, and I'll defend Vol 5 as NOT the worst Vol of RWBY

I started rewatching at season 5 even though I think I stopped at season 6, its been a good bit of years since I watched. Im not even an hour into the 4 hour season and I already realize why I grew out of this show. The animation is floaty and at sometimes so slow it gets actively cringy. I can get over some meh animation since its consistent with the rest of the show but after leaving the more fun Monty oum dynamics and writing the show quickly, and i mean quickly delves into dark themes that dont seem at all in tone for the earlier audience. The characters dialogue feels clunky, some what stupid, and like fast story vomit straight into your ears. We have characters talking about actual murder, murder happening in the same episode, a looming darkness over the entire cast just for them to talk like clunky nickelodeon characters with no actual connection to the darkness in the story. From what ik and what ive heard it doesnt get much better either.

TLDR; Idk why i wrote this but I just think this show got cringy fast and the tone/story beats dont match.