Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24573226-20161224121458/@comment-26018514-20161226050203

SpiritedDreaming wrote: I don't think there's enough time to believably bring them back together by the end of the volume, really. It's only going to be twelve episodes long, if the halfway point remark was correct when they shared episode 6.

Personally, I hope that they remain separate for V5 as well, only joining up again at the end of it. I would agree with you... except they keep doing irrational story breaks/time skips, the ships journey, Weiss's party taking so very little time, Yang's depression taking so little time yet still being stretched longer than her training thusfar, extremely few encounters still seemingly tiring RNJR, the large timeskip before the start of this season yet still RNJR seems far from Mistral proper with little to show of actual combat and combat skill improvement.

In short, I feel they have been missing development cues trying to get to action beats, while forgetting to show the day to day activities that can provide that in their setting, so if their ultimate goal is the reunion, I could see them getting there before the season end... if they already got there(to the part of the story they are rushing toward), they likely will stay separate till next volume.