Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141003002601/@comment-11188061-20141003094301

VedranTheII wrote: Monty and co. If you are reading this for the love of all that is holy and unholy on this planet DON’T LET THEM FIGURE OUT THEIR ANSWERES IN NEXT EPISODE.

If there was one crippling flaw with volume 1, it was that you fixed your conflicts faster than you set them up…from a viewer’s perspective at least. The last 3 arcs of volume 1 all had a conflict that came in 1 episode and disappeared the next, meaning I did not have the time to let the conflict properly sink in, and consequently I did not feel as happy as I probably should have when they figured out the answer…because it didn’t feel like a big deal. It might have been, but it didn’t feel like it. And this is coming from someone that had to wait for the weekly update. The situation is likely going to be worse to someone that is watching the show in one sitting.

I realize while typing this that the volume is long done so this isn’t going to do anything but please, take a look at what you did with Weiss and Yang in Volume 2 so far, then take a look at what you did with the last 3 arcs of volume 1. More of the former and less of the latter would make your show exponentially better…in my opinion of course.

Actually, I rather like how RT handles these issues.

To begin with, they really AREN'T A BIG ISSUE. The conflicts are seriously pea small, and it's the Japanese animes that blows them completely out of proportion (especially the 'I will protect al the things that are important to me', so fucking exagarrated I roll my eyes every time I see them pop up).

So Ruby and Weiss had an argument at the beginning. It was a petty matter to begin with, and the way to solve it is for one of them to step down their high horse, calm down, and talk it out. Which they did, and it got resolved really quickly.

Jaune Arc and Cardin. This issue was actually dragged out quite some time ad in their tmie as well, so there's no real problem there.

Blake and Weiss. This all started because Weiss couldn't keep her mouth clean and Blake too hot headed to admit she's wrong. Thanks to the suspension bridge effect (or whatever the hell you call it), Blake manages to overcome her reluctance to come clean with Weiss and admit her own faults. Weiss had twelve hours to mull over the issue, and decides it's not worth souring the team mood. Done nice and clean.

Blake's dilemma in Volume 2. Again, it really isn't a big issue. All it takes was for someone to convince Blake that she needed to take breaks as well, and trying to shoulder all the burden in the world at once won't make things right, and that tiny bit of time for Blake to think by herself and accept it. Which is shown and done in 2 episodes.

Honestly, I think these conflicts are all really well done. I despise watching some trivial sentimental issue being dragged on for ages (see FUCKING Bleach for example, I don't know how Ichigo lives to know that his one issue takes A HUNDRED of pages/episodes to solve, like fucking hell MOVE ON ALREADY).