User blog comment:HazelQuill7445/RWBY Volume 4 Dead Pool/@comment-10390252-20161006162654/@comment-26018514-20161006171312

Why would any RWBY member die 16 volumes before the final episode? 20 seasons is still RT's optimistic end-date and none of them have even finished enough character growth to say they were truly developed.

Meanwhile Salem is the big-big bad behind the scenes... RWBY have yet to confront her or even legitimately defeat her first champion or even her Dragon... even LOTR had Smaug defeated before it started in the Hobbit, This would be like killing Sauron before the ring even made it to Gondor. Sure they could then have made it a wholly political intrigue/corruption piece after that until the ring was destroyed but would that be likely to keep the same interest?