Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170511131216/@comment-26018514-20170524192610

PisceanWaterbender wrote: See...I don't think that would've been fair to Weiss, seeing as how you would essentially be condemning a main character to 0 screentime at all. The idea of showing the other RWBY characters outside RNJR's storyline, perhaps snippets in separate episodes, would've been fair to RNJR's grind. Perhaps Oscar and the baddies could be put in their own episodes for nefarious plotting (though given the length of what they showed us, that would not have been necessary). But was this season fair to Weiss? essentially what we got was Weiss being completely ignored by her family for months.... in a room with nothing to do, having apparently stopped training to do... WHAT? I mean at least we know her mother was drinking, but if Weiss wasn't speaking to her family, nor running any part of company operations(which is what she should have been doing that M+K never showed us), nor had A TV or activity like singing or training to do, world internet down... then she got roped into an event we again saw her barely participating in... then the writers wasted time on Marigold for some reason and a housewife we'll never see again... then finally she got back to training

Essentially Weiss got the shaft this season anyways, so I'm just saying it would have been better they cut her out almost entirely to focus on ACTIVE arcs, then next season focus on her arc getting to the point she decided to leave before switching back to the other arcs, then actually showing she had a plan of what she wanted to do in Mistral, showing her getting shit done(escaping) when no-one else was pushing her along(her grand escape as done by the Butler).

I look at this series pacing as though it were any other work... specifically, look at volume 4 as a movie.... with a comparison to a large cast series... like the Fast & the Furious movies, you can see I'm right about this,  Weiss this season was about as relevant to the larger plot as Brian was to every movie since his actor's death(besides the first), especially if you consider that any relevance they would have is only relevant once the members meet up, which would be delayed one more season.

Had this been released as a movie by any large production company... that stuff would have been left on the cutting room floor, especially when they instead could actually have developed a character... as is you could cut just about any of the main 4 out of this season completely without affecting the others, the only 2 with any direct time relation are Ruby and Yang, while we don't even Know for certain yet if Blake is headed to Mistral yet... so logic dictates you follow the most relevant action, which Weiss wasn't(at least not to the point I'm saying one would follow the other's story)... So instead I would focus on her story in the next season keeping in mind it doesn't have to Sync up until switching back to the others.