User blog:Noctros/Pacing/Attendance at Beacon

I've hung around here for a while, bantered back and forth on the threads some, and thought I might as well put up a blog post since I wanted to touch on something that hasn't been addressed yet.

We are only eleven episodes in, or partway through chapter seven, and we've just jumped from the first day of classes at Beacon to a whole month into classes. While that could just be due to the fact the characters are mainly doing book work in a number of their classes, I think it also points to another aspect of this series:  Attendance at Beacon will not be the entirety of the storyline that Monty/Kerry/Miles have planned out.

Think about it for a moment. If the whole series (or even the first couple seasons) were going to take place at Beacon, they'd want to make sure that they don't rush the characters through everything too quickly. Instead, we have just blinked past an entire month, while in the background there is evidence that things beyond just what goes on at Beacon is going to be involved in the plot, as demonstrated by the cut back to Roman for a the end of Episode 8.

I realize this probably isn't a big revelation, but it does suggest that the plan for RWBY is to be something more than just 'generic fighting academy anime'.