User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5Finale - Anti-Climax - Impressions/Recap/@comment-35211091-20180405053707

I think the writing team was making compromises. It does feel like there was supposed to be another season. Like it just got all jammed together to get RWBY back together.

If you wanted to be pragmatic about the fight,  have Weiss cast "Haste" on Qrow (also Ozpin, if she can cast twice), have him beat Emerald and Mercury down. Have everyone take potshots at Leonardo so he stays in cover and hammer at Hazel. Not sure how they would handle whoever emerged victorious from the vault but but they would be alone and exhausted.

The Adam/Blake thing. I figure Blake is as fast and skilled as Adam and she's fighting with conviction now. (Compare with Yang who always fought with conviction but lacked skill.) Adam didn't reassess and got laid out for his mistake. (Isn't his semblance where he kills something in one hit? Just throwing ideas around now.) Besides, Blake hurt Adam more by coming to rescue Haven than focussing on him. (He seems... Narcissistic at best and deteriorating emotionally in bad moments.)

Mercury, Emerald and Hazel lived to fight another day. Which means we will watch it when it isn't competing with 2 other scenes. Did it disappoint. Yes. Was it devastating? Not really, no.

Also I figure Hazel losing his sister made me think of what Yang would do if Ruby died. So now I have the idea that team WTCH is the dark version of team RWBY. (A tank character that fights with their fists, a faunus emotionally broken in an abusive relationship, a prominent Atlesian citizen, and a woman with Supernatural powers.) So his motivation makes sense.

Volume 5 had problems but I'm guessing that now that they aren't working off Monty's rough draft they should free themselves up to do the story the way they need to.

I'm trying to be optimistic here.