User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/If you were Monty Oum.../@comment-11188061-20141214055803

Mm.

I personally think that it's a director problem with this one. You can write an absolutely fantastic story, but coming up with a equally awesome script and act out an equally awesome scene is really hard.

Let us suppose that next Season will also have a total of 12 Episodes with the same length. In that case, I seriously can't see them wasting space depicting fun scenes such as the cafeteria food fight anymore (it's appropriate and seriously cool for Volume 2 honestly, but to do something similar again at Volume 3 is really unacceptable).

Nor could they waste time on making something like dance scenes (I wasn't expecting the full blown disaster many people seemed to have deluded themselves into believing, but it was seriously disappointing) unless they're directly contributing to the plotline. And I don't think there's anymore excuse to do them, because prom night is over and very few people wants to see Team RWBY do a freaking drama scene next.

With all being said, the general expectation for the next Volume is obvious: We want to see real conflict. We want to see the main plot riding up to an epic climax and coming to a satisfying closure, so they can 'reset' expectations during Season 2 and not leave us with more teasings instead.

And with all the stuff they're promising in the future, and the main casts all in one place - Penny's predicament, Roman inside Atlesian fleet, Adam appearing, Raven appearing and the Vytal Festival - ffs it's been postponed long enough - there is little to no room for funsies anymore. I absolutely don't mind the occasional RT jokes, but when they take up room that can be used to present the main story it's just bad directing.