Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160225225013/@comment-27121183-20160305173427

73.Anon.52 wrote:

This in turn indicates that the next arc originally was the latter part of a season, not a season by itself... so that begs the question... will the separation justify encompassing more than 1.5 seasons? You would be taking one half of the originally planned season and stretching it over a single season so that it ends where it was meant to originally. And I do think there's more than enough going on to justify it being one season as opposed to a half.

Flamegeyser: Even if the focus is Ruby and Weiss, there's still going to be scenes with Yang and Blake because the season was far too much of a cliffhanger to just sweep their stories aside. Especially with Yang's injury.