Talk:Vytal Festival/@comment-26512661-20151221180810/@comment-410526-20151221205407

The problem is that there are all these cool things you could explore, it'd just be impossible to explore it without losing focus. If this were literature you'd probably have an easier time giving more backstory and exploring the paths of other characters, but with only ~12 minutes of screentime an episode, they've done a really good job at just hinting at backstory and letting the audience fill in the gaps.

One thing I really love about this volume is that it feels like (almost) all the other teams are the protagonists of their own distinct stories, which just happened to intersect briefly with the story of Team RWBY, and then continued on afterwards. Like, I could totally imagine an alternate universe where there's a webseries called ABRN, with Arslan as the main character and Reese as her annoying wise-cracking sidekick.

Even the random background characters, like the in the cutaway scenes in "Round One", feel like they're living their own lives separate to the narrative of the show. The amount of attention to detail given to these background characters is really what makes this volume so much more vibrant than the previous two.

Like really, Remnant feels so much more alive now with all these BG characters. It's come a long way from Volume 1, where it honestly felt like only RWBY, JNPR and the people they interacted with actually existed, and everyone else on the planet was (literally) a faceless shadow person.

yeah...I'm not sure where I was going with that but it was kinda relevant for the first paragraph