Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-6500074-20130829103240/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140109113305

The Devil's Advocate WP wrote: It really just is just a matter of time. Were they able to have longer episodes then it would mean less time gaps or more logical time gaps. Gaps lasting weeks or months are still pretty common in episodic works because certain things simply cannot happen in a very short time frame. They needed to allow months to pass in order for them to start up the Vytal Festival arc and that means they had to allow for gaps in time between the episodes. Longer episodes might have allowed for some stories to fill in the gaps a little, but there would have probably still been a need for lengthy gaps. This.

Also I always found it really weird how in some shows just plays out like one fuck-up after another. I mean this is still a school at the end of the day. What are the odds that Ruby would defeat Roman and then RWBY would complete their initiation, move into their dorm, find out Blake was a faunus, defeat  Roman again, perform in the Vytal Festival Tournament, defeat Cinder and Roman and then have their world fucked up by the Creatures of Grimm ALL in one neverending queue of "we're here to keep you busy" stuff. The timeskips make sense, there's got to be at least some days at Beacon that are just plain boring "Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Jaune, Pyrrha, Ren and Nora have banter" which would be a waste of time developing.

Back on topic:

Almost certain it's not a one shot. I believe Monty has been hinting at weapon redesigns for Season 3

https://twitter.com/montyoum/status/397123230864908288

Which implies that there's potentially another 80 episodes to come (an assumedly 16 more in Season 1 Volume 2, 32 in Season 2 and 32 in Season 3 going off of the length of Season 1)... and even then the simple fact that they are overhauling the design of main character weapons implies that we could be seeing a Season 4 and possibly even beyond given it's current success.

As for the episodes themselves, I feel like they could be better executed. For example some episodes (like the Badge and the Burden parts 1 and 2) play off so closely to one another that they could literally be one episode and should have been. More episodes the length of Ruby Rose, Stray, Players and Pieces and Black and White would be awesome, even it means the number of episodes per volume drops from 16 to 10.