Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-95.133.42.171-20171108122846/@comment-92.112.25.69-20171114071549

@Spirited As far as I can say now, the timeline in V5 is rather... messy. It's not only about Blake's arc - same with JNRR, Oscar&Crow (V5x5 spoilers here). I just don't get why RT decided to do this. It's always difficult for the writer to play with chronology and get a good result.

@Fandom user Frankly, I doubt that those jokes are the reason. What I'm talking about is an actual tempo of storytelling. People complained a lot about JNRR walking the whole V4, same was with the rest _WBY. Though for now the situation changed for RW_Y - but not for Blake. She makes pointless circles around Menagerie - oh, I see RT's purpose here, though this time I really may call it a bad writing. They push RWBY characters from A to B, from B to C etc - though they don't fill these gaps with some interesting content: world building, character development, general story exposition and so on. That's why Volume 4 (and Blake's and Ruby's arcs in V5, for now) feel empty and uninteresting. Merry have to stop wasting RWBY screentime for nothing. It's there's great problem - along with "show not tell" and helding several storylines at the same time. If they can't deal with it, RWBY's plot will get mere and more messy and the story itself will suffer more and more.