Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35086897-20180410025240/@comment-30530552-20180413160141

While this subject is better suited for another thread, I'll give my best answer here.

Lately it's moreso been because of A) a large number of combatants, B) poor planning, and/or C) not polishing the product out/finishing in a timely manner.

Haven was bad because it had a lot of combatants to focus on at once, and the fact that each fight was animated as if it were in a vacuum with no other fights happening. With 15 characters to keep track of during the 1st of 4 episodes, it was much harder to use everyone effectively without losing too much focus. Not to mention when Weiss got impaled, everyone stopped. Even Mercury, who has actually killed people before and shouldn't have any qualms about finishing the job while Yang's distracted.

Yet, it got worse in episodes 12 and 13, where Lionheart has several shots where he's literally standing there in frame and animated, but just standing there, as if they had no idea how to utilize him. One would think with less combatants (RVC went in the Vault, while Weiss and Ruby were out of commission and being protected by other people) that it wouldn't be as bad, but the Leo issue was ever present. In episode 13, Vernal was dying off-screen the entire R v C fight, only to reappear after she should've gotten crushed by rocks to shoot Cinder. THEY EVEN INTERRUPTED RY vs. EM just so Blake could half-reunite, while EM stand there and do nothing until Yang starts to run AND don't do the proper things to stop her that are in-character. (Seriously, what is that Emerald dive when she's fully capable of ensnaring with her chain!? Why does she wait til it's too late to dive outside of stupidity for plot's sake.)

Episode 14 was slow and dragged, but at least everyone was at least sort of moving or engaging.

At least with the other fights with fewer combatants, it was less prevalent.