Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24032889-20190105161936/@comment-27797856-20190106013411

RaijinRising wrote: BerserkerPhantom wrote: RaijinRising wrote:

I can't wait to see this become more of a perfect storm. Nah. This is Volume 4 2.0, where nothing happens bar some set-up. Whether the setup was silver eyes, Jinn, Oz/Salem backstory, whatever, it doesn't matter. I'm not a fan of this pessimism. There's real stakes here. There weren't stakes in Volume 4 outside of the Tyrian encounter and maybe something bad happening to Qrow or Sun to an extent.

Literally everything that happens in a show is setup until we get to the series finale. What happens here is going to have serious repercussions whether bad or good, and I'm going to be here for it. Call it setup or call it payoff (because there is indeed a hefty amount of payoff here too), but it's still a lot of fun to watch.

Edit: An example of payoff would be finally getting to the relay tower after it was mentioned twice in Episodes 7 and 8. Also, Adam confronting Blake again. We might not be getting payoff for things that were setup in Volume 1, but that doesn't make it worthless. I'm just saying that because the premise of the two arcs seems to be relatively the same (at least atm): An interlude from point A to point B.

Volume 4 was all about getting to Leo/Haven.

Volume 6, so far, seems to be all about getting to Ironwood/Atlas.

I also don't agree that every arc is a set up for the finale. Volume 3, for example, had the Vytal Festival, and Volume 5 finally explored the set-up with Raven.

I'm just gonna assume that the rest of the arc is fluff 'till we get to Atlas and patiently wait for Volume 7.

Winter's re-appearance would redeem it though :D