Talk:Jaune Arc/@comment-27762836-20170213142030/@comment-4010415-20170213203309

Because volume 4 was a transition volume, like volume 2. Remember how volume 2's ending felt incomplete with so many questions to answer, and then volume 3 completed it?

Volume 4's ending isn't meant to be an "ending", it's meant to be a place for volume 5 to pick up so volume 5 can actually have things happen. In order for big things to happen, the story has to actually set the pieces up and build up for it.

The stuff in volume 3 couldn't have happened the way it did without


 * Introducing Mercury and Emerald earlier on. If they hadn't been introduced until volume 3, it would've felt like they were thrown in our faces just because they were important then.


 * Cinder having Mercury and Emerald study the competitors, including Pyrrha, thus finding out Pyrrha's Semblance was polarity.


 * Cinder putting a virus in the CCT.


 * Pyrrha finally telling Jaune that she had feelings for him at the dance.


 * The breach happening, so Cinder could accuse Ozpin of going overboard in trying to get his students to win the tournament to make up for failing to prevent the breach.


 * Also, the breach led to Torchwick getting arrested and being held in Ironwood's ship. Remember, Emerald and Mercury handed him over to Atlas' soldiers, which means that was part of the plan.