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SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

And many other things in the show were not necesary either. The Qrow vs Winter fight, the Jaune Arc in Vol.1, the Yang-Raven Dreamesque scene... 1. Qrow vs Winter led to establishing Qrow's relationship with an attitude toward the Atlesian military and its Specialists. It also led to Mercury spotting Qrow, since it was pretty hard for him to miss the huge group of students eagerly watching professional Huntsmen fight. They screwed up on the script, considering, as far as we saw, Mercury never saw Qrow's scythe, though he almost turned his sword into a scythe. Either way, they presented that stuff in a way that was actually interesting for the audience to watch. They also introduced summoning in a way where, when Winter started talking about it in the next episode, it wasn't something that came out of absolutely nowhere, since we'd already seen her do it.

2. "I guess... I'm just trying to say that... you've always been there for me... even when I didn't deserve it." - Jaune Arc, Destiny. The Volume 1 Jaune arc was a badly-written way of adding to the Arkos plot, revealing that Jaune snuck into Beacon, and getting Pyrrha to start giving Jaune secret training lessons.

3. That one was, indeed, un-fucking-necessary. It ruined the air of mystery from No Brakes, it apparently didn't happen, and it was never mentioned again.