Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20180120015359/@comment-26018514-20180123064752

Arkantos95 wrote: 73.Anon.52 wrote: Arkantos95 wrote: This episode was the first time I have ever been legitimately bored watching RWBY. ...the pacing lacking this season... ...they will never be able to hype me that way again after this volumes pacing and lack of(including unreasonable ommission of) action... there is just no excuse that can justify how a series like this one in V1-3 could do this in V5. Don't even try to say V2 is better than this. It's not. V5 is the second best volume by pure process of elimination.

And that's sad. I wasn't saying the season was better, I was saying that in those seasons the pace of action was SOOOOOOO much better, if there wasn't a fight, there was character development or comedy... hell at least when you consider the writer was the VA wasting time on the Jaune arcs made sense... now look at this volume, barely any action, vastly subdued comedy, yet when they finally get fights at least half of the fights are just missing for no reason, and what's left is so inconsistent it's like it was less choreographed than a daytime soap Opera... in a medium where EVERYTHING is choreographed/scripted... if you don't write it, it usually doesn't happen in animation, yet in this season for some reason half the characters do nothing during a fight while long uneeded pauses are everywhere even in what was at times repetitve exposition that took 2/3s of some episodes.

If they wanted shorter fights they should have choreographed them that way, rather than cutting Qrow vs Raven so much they might as well have just had her bitch slap him then run away, make Kali look like she was actualy competent before just taking her opponents out Leeroy style while her guards doing the smart looked like incompetent redshirts, actually script out the terrain and visualize shit they cut to make sure it looks reasonable character A got to position B in the timeframe they wanted... hell that fight in the mansion could have been better choreographed by mapping it on placemats and moving characters using D&D like rules and tracking where everyone is by turns.

They don't have Monty anymore so they need to approach things from the assumption they will lack his skills to correct issues he would correct them on, and force themselves to look for problems they won't notice immediately or hire someone who can.