Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20190126081959/@comment-24032889-20190127093622

VerBeeker wrote:

I loved this season...it actually felt alive...if that makes sense. It had a personality the show has lacked since Volume 3. I agree completely. I think part of it is that there were no mini-timeskips whatsoever. Part of what threw V5 off was it went from "a month until" to "two days until the Battle of Haven" just like that. And Volume 4 was a collection of scenes that basically all had mini-timeskips between them.

Volume 6 took place in the span of a week. Episode 1 and Episode 5 took place in the same day. Blake said farewells to Sun and Ilia in the train station and went to bed in Brunswick Farms that night. The next day was 6-7, then 8-9 was Day Three, and 10-13 might as well have been Day Four (though we don't know how long it took them to plan and execute the airship heist, just that it wasn't still nighttime when they did). And that's it. And of course Cinder/Neo and the Salem's Domain group were mini-timeskips, but for the most part, this Volume didn't feel like even the characters took any time to slow down, save for the small breather they had in Argus.

It took up to nine months (6-8 month timeskip plus about a month of village hopping) to get to Haven. It took four days to start and finish the journey to Atlas (after a two week timeskip.) And those four days were filled with a lot of great character moments and world building along with some of the best fights the series has ever had, certainly in a long time at the very least.