User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E8 - Blake Sucks - Impressions/Recap/@comment-71.28.57.128-20171210025626

My response to the Volume so far...

This volume so far seems to be playing catch up. They showed faunus discrimination which is 4 volumes late.

They showed (a tiny bit) how Beacon's fall affected Ruby. That is 1 volume too late.

Showed an lgbt character. That is a few volumes late.

Ren's explaination of Semblence was better than Pyrrha's in V1 so while we didn't need it twice, I would replace Pyrrha's lines with Ren's in a heartbeat.

Hell, even Oscar asking for his cane back. That should have stayed in V4.

Weiss needed a fight in V4 so Weiss vs Lancers should have been in V4. I would have ended the volume after she landed but before she is found out by Raven. That way we, the audience, feel like Weiss has spent time struggling in the wilderness. And if Raven finds her a few days after the crash, then it would also be less contrived than what we got. i.e. Someone sees the ship go down. Raven organizes a looting party. Raven tracks Weiss for days. We don't need to see all of this but fills in the gaps.

Is it bad that it took 5 volumes to establish some of these things? Yes but it had to happen. I'm just happy it was in V5 and not V6.

My response to your blog

1. Ratings is the most important thing about a show. It determines when it will end, how fast character arcs have to finish, quality, talent, ect. Saying that "only C.E.O's care about them" is ridiculus. I watch the ratings of al my TV shows much more closely than the actual shows.

2. Insulting other cultures is always a plus. They deserve to be insulted. They aren't American.

3. They were going to the nocturnal section.

4. You forgot Weiss. Weiss was written as an asshole in V1 just to move move the plot. Then she magically stopped in V2 when the plot didn't need it anymore.My point is that they developed an asshole character into a relatable character even though I always liked bitchy Weiss.