User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/"They are just standing around and talking"/@comment-34633327-20171126210248/@comment-4010415-20171127154740

So, basically, it's like the Paladin fight - they made someone act like an idiot just to make the fight happen.

Seriously, there's no reasonable thought process behind jumping into a stolen mech with the emblem of the terrorist organization that you're helping painted on it and running through a populated city and down a busy highway in it. Did he want people to know the White Fang has stolen mechs? Especially since Ironwood had just shown off a hologram of said mech to the public earlier that day. It's all around stupid, and the "NPCs" ignored it because them actually acknowledging it wouldn't have been good for the plot. I feel like Monty went "I want them to have an epic mech chase followed by a battle with said mech" and looked for a way to force it into the show.

But anyway, basically, my point was that the fight scenes generally tended to happen either when they could actually feasibly happen and make sense or when they had the protagonists near enemies they could fight and decided to force them to fight.

In Volume 5... when have any of the protagonists been in a situation where there could actually reasonably be a fight, aside from the Lancer fight and the Shitty Bandit fight? That's the big problem there. They've written themselves in a corner in terms of viable fight scenes for the time being until Cinder gets off her ass and attacks Raven's camp.