Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-30530552-20180102163330/@comment-14138255-20180102204302

2001:8A0:D208:7601:AC9A:1ABB:6BAA:64AF wrote: WC-83 wrote: Well, finally this Volume has things happen. But there was such little optimization with its time.

With all the time they were fucking around in the house, they could have done things like experience Mistral's underbelly or visit Pyrrha's mother. Something to help the Volume out. No matter how they would like to have it, RWBY is not a movie. They have to stop treating it as such because the show suffers because of that. What is the obsession with Pyrrha's family? We don't know them, we don't care for them. And honestly it would be just awkward fake condolences, since the main characters don't know them either and she's been death for at least over a year in RWBY verse too. Let it go (hey, I'll let Frozen go when you stop wanting unnecessary scenes with characters we don't know and couldn't mean less to us and would only waste time as if this volume didn't have enough filler!) Wasting time is sitting in a damn house doing nothing. That's what most of RNJR has done. They could have at the very least gone outside and engage in some Pathos, or just some kind of stimuli other than literally the comfort of home.

Instead of Oz and Qrow on a couch because it's 4 o'clock and everything stops for tea, they could have spent that time bumping into Mistral's poor district and realize just how morally grey their job really is. Or even just train in a public part of the city like a boxing ring, just something to give us the impression they aren't just fucking around in the house.

Seeing Pyrrha's mother and delivering the bad news is more of a personal thing, but aHappy New Yeargain, it's Pathos at least. Not Yang and Weiss learning about Ozpin's nonissue of a secrets or discussing semblance and friendship to vomit inducing guitar, but raw emotion.