Talk:Yang Xiao Long/@comment-31903320-20170504032354/@comment-71.175.63.159-20170513063959

@ChishioKunrin

As well-though out as it sounds, your version of Volume 4 would have been incredibly depressing to watch, no offense.

People were already upset with the dark/depressing turn the last half of V3 was and the writers have stated that RWBY isn't intended to be a sad slog of a show. I think people forget that they also time-skipped /so/ that characters wouldn't be grieving quite so much. Time had passed. They'd learned to cope. Same way people do in real life. I was quite happy with how they acknowledged Pyrrha's death and the way in which RNJR was still hurting. Yang and Blake obviously have varying forms of PTSD. I don't need to see either of them get triggered multiple times to know that. I don't need to watch Yang struggle to do basic every day tasks to know life without an arm is difficult. I don't need to see characters constantly angst to know they've been and are still suffering. It was blatantly obvious how very not okay all of these protagonists still were.

I'm not saying V4 was perfect, and I'm fairly certain the writers themselves have acknowledged that there was stuff they could have done better, but I strongly disagree that "more angst/focusing on everyone's grief and misery" for another volume would have made it better.