Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27276671-20160214220907/@comment-25936766-20160516005630

H3adHunt3r wrote: My prediction is that tone of RWBY Volume 4 and beyond will be similar to an anime version of Game of Thrones... If Miles did that, viewers would drop like flies, and the fandom would rise up in arms against RT. The Cerebus Syndrome in Vol.3, especially the multiple deaths of important and loved characters, was already very polarizing.

If more major heroes and villains start dying like crazy again, especially so soon, it won't have a happy reception. Same if all the kingdoms are reduced to dust. It's too dark and contrasting with what came before it for the fandom to accept it. It would need to be that dark for multiple volumes for that to happen, and even then the fandom would still be divided over it, especially if it keeps getting even darker.

Here's my predictions for Vol.4: It will be like Vol.2, in terms of darkness and tone. It won't be smiles-and-rainbows like Vol.1, but it won't be death-and-ruin like Vol.3's last episodes.