Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-2238912-20190322145423/@comment-32346149-20190323032547

73.Anon.52 wrote: hell the saddest part of V5 was the easily miss-able B plot of Qrow finding everyone in the area worth a damn to be dead. If you think the saddest part of that volume was the offscreen demise of a bunch of characters who had zero dialogue, and who we never even saw for that matter, then you probably missed that part where Weiss got impaled by a flaming javelin and almost died in Jaune's arms. And that was quickly remedied by the deus ex machina moment that followed.

And I have to ask. Did it ever occur to you why that B plot was so missable? Because characters with absolutely no development are hard to care about. That's why volumes 4-6 are not only not sad, they're emotionally stunted to the point where that statue scene in volume 6 was the most emotionally resonant scene in all 3 volumes. And that scene only works because of recycled grief from volume 3, which only further proves my point.