Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130920042610/@comment-9090085-20130923004850

Angren Túrë wrote: Why are we getting so hung up on the time lapse in the episode? This is interesting.

Good question. I'm guessing it's because many people have trouble with the idea that not everything that happened needs to be shown; they didn't need to show Weiss getting changed for her duel, not when that time could be better spent on Ruby and Weiss's character development in this episode.

as for why it's evening, I don't really know or care; probably 'cause I'm used to shows/games/books playing fast and lose with the time of day. Take last episode: the class was at 9, and the team probably spent a few hours beforehand unpacking, so they got up around 6-7 I guess. which I would think would have the sky be grey or yellow(because the sun is rising), but it looks like it's mid-day. No-one seemed to notice that at all.

Not complaining, mind, just making an observation.

Like I said, I don't really mind; and if we had to sit through 3 or 4 of Ports "introductions", we'd probably be doing an impression of Ruby there.

On a side note, I have always felt RWBY has a fairly fast pace; you just don't notice because (A most of that time is spent on character interaction not plot points, and (B you're waiting a week between eps. But compared to say, .Hack//Roots, where almost 20 minutes of most of the half-hour episodes is spent staring at vistas and the remaining 3-5 minutes is spent on plot points(usually the same plot points we went over a few episodes ago, or the plot of the day), leaving the characters feeling bland. Compared to that, RWBY is rapidly developing it's cast; defeated 2 powerful Grimm; completed the initiation to Beacon, and we're only, what, 70 minutes in?(including into/credits) I would say we are roughly in the "third episode" if this were a TV series, with ep8 being effectively the "end" of the "second episode". Which is why I'm always baffled when people say the show is slow; I don't feel it.

hmm... that was long-winded and fairly off-topic. well, just remember you can use source mode (the [] button) to trim my post down to something manageable.