User blog comment:Jkphantom9/Some of my honest opinions about RWBY so far/@comment-3387274-20150607205639

Well, I think Neo is holding together quite well for a last minute emergency addition. Raven, clearly, was meant to be a hook to end the volume, and not really have much of a role apart from suprising us, for now. She'll hopefully look a lot better retroactively when we know who she is and where she came from.

The issue, really, is the pacing; they can't seem to balance plot, characterisation, and backstory, effectively, so some characters vanish or are delayed, and others crop up at the last minute, and so forth. I could rant about this a lot, but it seems every major problem with RWBY comes back to it