User blog comment:PerhapsTheOtherOne/Speculative Spitballing: Goliath/@comment-173.58.100.7-20150608180157/@comment-4010415-20150608184209

My personal reason for hating Breach: Because it was their chance to finally show the Grimm as being the threat they keep pretending they are.

They open the series with Cortana talking about how the Grimm are such huge threats to humanity that everyone is isolated to four kingdoms. She later tells us, in WoR: Kingdoms and Grimm, that basically, villages and nomadic groups outside the kingdom walls are constantly in danger of being annihilated overnight. Oobleck went on and on about how the Grimm were such a horrifying destructive force in Mountain Glenn.

But whenever we see people fighting the Grimm, the Grimm are just weak little shits. Aside from the giant Nevermore and the giant Death Stalker each requiring a team of four and the right environment, at least.

No Brakes hyped things up so much, it was amazing! I remember watching No Brakes and feeling a sense of dread at the end of it, like "Holy shit holy shit, shit's about to go down, oh shit, they can't handle this, holy shit! I can't wait another week!" And then Breach came out, and it just felt... underwhelming, as far as the Grimm went.

The crew failed to drum up tension about how many Grimm there were and how the Grimm are supposedly such powerful, dangerous fiends. One thing that would've helped a lot would've been if they had actually shown civilians clearly in danger, out of Teams RWBY and JNPR's reach. Also, if they had ended Breach without Ruby saying "A lot of people got hurt." Seriously? Hurt? Hurt? Way to downplay the Grimm even more.

I can understand Atlas' army doing a number on the Grimm because it was, well, an army. They had strength in numbers... and robots, I guess. But then CFVY just hops in and slaughters everything, making it look as if a Grimm invasion actually would not be a problem. Ever. At all. Team CFVY are students, for fuck's sake. Maybe I'd understand if they're fourth-years, but we don't know if they are or not.

The crew sacrificed showing why humanity is still penned up in kingdoms for "Let's make a badass fight scene and make Team CFVY look totally boss!"