Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-30530552-20180102163330/@comment-26018514-20180102201100

2001:8A0:D208:7601:AC9A:1ABB:6BAA:64AF wrote: What is the obsession with Pyrrha's family? We don't know them, we don't care for them. And honestly it would be just awkward fake condolences, since the main characters don't know them either and she's been death for at least over a year in RWBY verse too. Let it go (hey, I'll let Frozen go when you stop wanting unnecessary scenes with characters we don't know and couldn't mean less to us and would only waste time as if this volume didn't have enough filler!) Well for one thing, it explains the MC's bringing up their grief again without being the most pathetic character in the scene, for another, it would have allowed someone to exclaim that "we just lost her trainer Fritz* and now you show up!" Bam, we now actually have an organic reaction cueing people in to the fact that yes, that list of names Qrow tracked down are likely dead, not from a characters inference but from their own...

There were quite a few reaction shots that lingered longer than necessary they should have cut out, especially when they failed to place new songs with them. Time is not an issue outside of the movie runtime format... the episode length is not and has not been consistent, and adding another episode or 2 is not an issue fans will care about as long as the action/story balance of the first few seasons is maintained and not extended with truly pointless filler(like the Jaune arcs where he stalked Weiss like 50 times asking the same question).