Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161120163758/@comment-26018514-20161124073648

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote:

Are you trying to convince me or yourself? Do people really want this to get dragged out? I can sort of understand wanting as much of the series as possible, but dragging it out can also diminish the series. ...

Presuming the mid-volume climax and volume finale are around 20 minutes with regular episodes around 15 minutes, that gives nearly two hours to advance the plot. You can do a lot with that much time, even splitting it between five storylines (I'm including the Cinder storyline). Episode 3 was pretty much the "where are they now" arc concluding. The end of this recent episode involved Yang making progress, so I would say this arc up to Episode 6 will be mainly "where are they going" with there being some answer to that for each provided by the mid-volume climax.

1. No, I'm considering the equation again from all the angles I can think of that will effect the plot.

2.  I'm not particularly fond of rushing a plot... we were quoted 20 Seasons, RT has previously shown their estimates to be undersold, and quite frankly I don't see them rushing this and making things better... the last times they rushed shit we got Breach and Silver Eyes solving problems faster than they occurred. Honestly when Anime in general are prolonged they typically would be better off except they end up adding tons of irrelevant Filler, because rather than wait for source material to pile up, the studio would rather get paid. Luckily, RT IS the source, so they don't have that issue... at all.

3. There doesn't really seem to be that much time left to pop out huge arc objectives... sure we might get 2 more 20+ minute episodes, but if a fight takes more than 2-4 minutes(and we should expect longer fights around twice that long during the midseason and finale),, that entire extra time should all be fight scenes, not plot movers... And we don't have 5 stories counting baddies, we have 7-8(Oscar, Tyrian, Hazel/Adam), and it would be odd to not have at least some other side stories like Qrow & Raven, or new characters. We also are going to need a plot hook for next season AFTER the conclusion if this Arc's build up if it isn't just a lead-up to RWBY re-uniting next season

4. Yang hasn't really progressed though, all she has done is reached the mental point to move forward, no training or travel plans have been set. Blake and Weiss are still farther behind than that, but it only shows how slow the plots progress is.