Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20180123171649/@comment-80.192.76.76-20180124023555

71.30.17.231 wrote: Remember in V1-4 when a fight scene would start and it would continue until it was over? I miss those fights. Hazel's fight against the allies was so chopped up and heavily edited that it feels more like a highlight reel than an actual brawl. Qrow vs Raven, Emerald vs Ruby, and Yang vs Mercury all felt this way.

Its almost as if it was a video game and these were just cutscenes intermixed into the boss fight. RWBY vol 4 felt a lot like a video game and Vol 5 more so. It does make me wonder whether RWBY should have been a video game from the start.

V5 can be summed up as "A missed opportunity."

While we all have our favorite ideas about how things should have gone down they could have streamlined a bunch of dialogue. This volume wasn't 14 episodes. More like 12 episodes and 2 WoR.

I basically agree with this. The chopping up of the fights was so....."why?" It just made no sense. Had this episode had a team fight it would've been pretty good by my standards (aside from Adam's bit at the start - that was necessary for plot resolution but it was rather lack lustre). Skipping it was just so dumb. Skipping chunks of fights only works when you have a really large battle which is functioning as a sort of background event to the main characters. It makes sense to skip then, just showing us small snippets so you can tell how it's going over all. Really, really not sure what M&K were thinking with this. As some have suggested, I suspect they either ran out of money or time or both.

Brining back WoR is a must next volume. It was sooo useful and helps avoid conversations that waste time in show explaining things that characters should already know. I'm fine with less episodes and more WoR. They really help with the worldbuilding.

My only hope is that RT gets a boot up its ass as a result of this and knuckles down for Volume 6. Volume 3 was great after all and some bits of V4 and V5 were good. Breach is a good example of that - bad episode but they recovered well in V3.