Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-79.97.93.179-20140519172222/@comment-86.121.87.6-20140520101120

Look, I think what we need to understand is what purpose did volume 1 have, as Monty has stated he expects the show to last about 7 seasons if I remember correctly.

 As far as I’m concerned the purposes of this volume where: establish the tone of the show, establish the pacing of a volume, establish recurring characters and plot characters for volume 2 and grab our interest while telling us jack; now the ones that interest you are probably the second and last one but bear with me.

 The first one was done fairly ok, but had a major hiccup with the trailers. While the show is more about growing up while fighting monsters, the trailers have probably led a lot to believe the show was purely action, which I imagine may have accidentally put off some potential viewers due to false advertising…AND it also introduces a plot point of Yangs for a future season rather early…I’m not saying this is the cause of her lack of screen time BUT I am saying it ties into my last point.

 Now about the pacing of the volume, let me be the first to tell you that Jaunes Arc was necessary in order to establish that future volumes will have some minor stories that deviate from the main cast. Basically, almost every volume will have a break in the middle of the show where the focus moves to another character for a short time in order to both build the world and give us a breather from the main cast, as well as surprise us from time to time without the need of plot bunnies or plot holes;   In volume one that was Jaune, In volume 2 It may be Pyrrha, and in volume 3…who knows…that’s the beauty of it; so to sum it up yeah they could have explored Yang more in those 2 episodes, BUT the story shift would become more jarring the longer he waited before he did it and I think he made the right choice by establishing in the first volume that he CAN and WILL deviate from the main plot.

 Third one was done pretty well, we have Sun, Penny and Roman that were used to hint at the plot of later volumes, while we were introduced to the main cast and recurring characters personalities enough for us to get a feel on how they would act in various situations; Yang was not excluded in this section.

 Lastly, and probably the most important one…volume 1 needed to be a tease and nothing else; it was designed to leave you wanting more, so it only revealed minor plot points, plot points that can’t easily be solved, and plot points that won’t be important until later in the volume. Notice that although Weiss, Blake and Jaune have received character exploration…none of them have actually reached their conclusion yet, and Yangs, and Romans plot points have been completely left for another volume. Yes they could have started with the main characters plot points and move to the side ones later…except that’s a terrible idea, unless they dragged on their story and left it unsolved till the last volume…no thanks, I’d rather wait.

 To sum it up, YES I think Yang was neglected compared to the rest of the team, and I firmly believe it was intentional.