User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E13 - The Fall of the Fall Maiden - Impressions/Recap/@comment-80.192.76.76-20180118015602/@comment-25936766-20180118135104

Lack of explanations once in a while is fine - if there was some major pace-breaking exposition in every single episode, fights included, it wouldn't be good.

....Of course, that's why they invented World of Remnant. To provide exposition on things without having to do so in the show. By abandoning it, the result is that some things - particularly Aura and Semblance - were explained during some episodes, wasting time that could've gone to more interesting moments.

Like Jaune talking to Oscar alone, or Watts giving Tyrian his tail while mocking him. Anything, really.

That's really one of Volume 5's biggest problems; they didn't bother to put in much before the grand fight, and so we end up with tons of wasted oportunities, and especially a lack of emotional investment in Haven.

With Beacon, we had 3 years, 3 Volumes, multiple small stories, while with Vale we even got in Volume 2, a small sequence showing actual 3D people walking in a 3D environment.

With Haven....until now we had only seen Leo's office. While with Mistral, RNJR apparently has never gone out of that house and just...walked around, to see the sights.

And the one time we were actually shown Mistral, it's with fully-2D images, despite this Volume having a far superior budget, assets and manforce behind it than Volume 2 did.

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The finale better be like 40 minutes. V5's episode length is hardly an improvement from V4 after the first 2 episodes, and in fact it gets so low in length at times that it reaches Volume 2's episode length.

Of course, the longer the episode, the more chances there are for Miles and Kerry to screw up with something. We can only pray. 2017 and early 2018 look like pretty bad times for RWBY, between these episodes and BBTAG's bullshit.