Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160131163802/@comment-124.188.4.55-20160201044710

While you can kind of justify it in-universe, it sort of ruined things for me a bit with all the students showing up. It looks like the start of something big, but then most of them just hang around in the background, doing and saying nothing. And they're all conveniently either team RWBY's friends or the otherwise-unimportant characters RWBY has fought (and only that one specific half of FNKI). So in other words, they've just whipped out everyone they already had character models for to make up the numbers,

It's not an episode breaker, but it just rang a bit hollow. ABRN and FNKI definitely could've been left out or shown elsewhere in their own fights (alongside all the other missing teams).