User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5Finale - Anti-Climax - Impressions/Recap/@comment-24857712-20180125221009/@comment-26018514-20180127092524

Better yet, they could have shelved Haven's fights entirely for an exciting first half of next volume... I mean think about it, all the fights they fucked up and omitted had they been properly choreographed and actually shown could easily have stretched through 6 episodes, while Blake's fight earlier could have been made the season Finale, actually been fleshed out and realized with all 3 fights fully animated so the characters entry points made sense, they could have added training the Faunus and sailing with them to Mistral as scenes.

Put Vernal Vs Weiss, Yang or another named, competent Bandit earlier in the season(as a taste of action, not neccesarily another full fight), shown SOMETHING redeemable to Leo's character other than the 2D stickman of a character they gave us whose most valuable contribution to development was telling Raven she's a coward like himself(at least give the reason the bastard thought he would live), show Yang actually needing her new outlook on combat and using it to win.

What they gave us this Volume is original draft Volume 2, what they needed was to be smarter than that, people would have been annoyed by the missing stuff from the OP again, but at least they would've gotten over it again... there is nothing they can salvage from this volume, what's done is done and aside from the one pretty fight and that beautiful genius Jeff Williams whose new songs were barely used... they can't fix it now.