Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170126040344/@comment-27082610-20170202013928

RWBY has almost the same number of episodes as FMA with less than half the runtime, and that's without counting OVAs or movies. Avatar's individual seasons out run almost the entire series of RWBY thus far. This is apples and oranges.

There is not space for a scene every episode that would take up a third of the entire episode to be focused around supporting characters. Ironwood cannot just "check in" with Glynda. They aren't even on the same continent and communications are down. And again, we're talking about supporting characters. Focus is meant to stay on the mains. That's why they're called main characters.