Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4141313-20180428014423/@comment-27648673-20180605073737

I'm the kind of person who can just sit back and enjoy something despite its faults, so even though I recognize RWBY's writing issues, I'm going to keep watching the show anyway.

That said, there's a lot RWBY could do to improve exposition. Even after 5 volumes, we're still pulling the "make characters oblivious to plot/world elements so we can have someone else explain to them and the audience" move. It made sense in Volumes 1-3, and maybe even Volume 4, but from now onward I really think we should be doing exposition in a bit more of a subtle manner, with more foreshadowing and bit-by-bit information, or exposition through the environment. Most of our main cast knows everything to do with the world and the main bad guys now, and don't need long sit-down-and-talk scenes.

For example - let's say the team has just arrived in Atlas and CRWBY wants to highlight Faunus discrimination in the Kingdom. They could have Weiss, Blake, or Ilia explain the severity to the rest of the group... or, they could show anti-Faunus signs like the one at the bar in Mistral, a notable lack of Faunus in certain areas, homeless Faunus, Blake and Sun getting weird looks or getting mistreated, an abundance of Faunus in poorer residential areas, etc. They could show Weiss seeing a Faunus in the Atlesian military and being surprised, or a bunch of kids looking at Blake and Sun like they've never seen a Faunus before and imitating their Faunus traits. There are a lot of different ways they could show Faunus discrimination in Atlas without outright explaining it.