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I haven't posted to the wikia all volume but I think that Vol 7 was great. Something similiar to Ba Sing Se except Ironwood slowly loses his mind overtime instead of being evil from the beginning.

They sold his transition really well and it didn't feel forced or that he was acting out of character. He will do anything to win. There is symbolism in that, he had to sacrifice his arm to beat Watts and now he feels he needs to sacrifice Mantle to beat Salem. He is very consistent. I don't think the Volume works without this transformation or if his reasons are stupid.

Ultimately, we know that it was Ozpin who placed his supporters in positions of power which means that he is the one who put Leo as headmaster of Haven and Ironwood as headmaster of Atlas. Just another reason to hate Ozpin.

I have to say that Vol 7 is even better than Vol 3. Vol 3 was weighed down by the poor tournament fights that lacked a narrative or character development.

Problems for me lie in that the Ace Ops were defeated way to easily and Qrow makes that dumb decision. We know from the World of Remnant that Qrow does hate Atlesians but that is no excuse.

Concerning the earlier parts of the volume's I can see if some people wanted to see a riot in Mantle if only to add in some action and weight behind the political developmnts. I disagree here. RWBY's crew has a terrible track record with animating large crowds. Its time intensive, it requires a lot of character designs, animation rigs, nobody can be standing perfectly still, ect. There was a reason we had shadow people in volume 1. Having a huge crowd fighting against Atlesian police would have been an animation nightmare and would have taken resources away from the fights and the end. The CRWBY realized their limitations and worked around them instead of trying to show off the worst side of their face.