Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25025248-20150719005825/@comment-24993958-20150720181445

Kev.soupie wrote: But that is where I ask you guys whether you are a lover or the hater of this series, if you are given a chance to direct, write, or animate the show by the RT after monty is dead. What would you have done? I’d…try an keep future volumes focused around a theme.

Conceptually speaking, all volumes between the first and the last have a harder time if they want to be good. Unlike the first volume they don’t really have a beginning, and unlike the last volume they won’t really have an ending.

However volume 1, for all its faults kept a strong focus of fitting in, particularly with the stray theme; you had Ruby, Jaune and Blake, and to a lesser extent Weiss, Penny and Sun who, for various reasons did not fit in due to various hurdles they had to cross and, much like the ending theme of volume 1, all find at least one good friend by the end of the volume.

Volume 2 on the other had lacked a central theme…I don’t know if it’s because it got split in two or they didn’t think about it, but as a result feels to me like the worse of the 2 volumes, not helped by an abrupt end that acts purely as a setup for the next volume without the payoff the ending of volume 1 had, and the introduction of too many characters that where there just to be there.

So, for better or worse, I’d end up being a lot stricter when it comes to adding extra scenes mid volume with the hopes of releasing midvolumes that you might want to watch again someday, but not because you are marathoning the whole show, but because it had something there that made it stand out on it’s own.