Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160225225013/@comment-26018514-20160305173629

Flamegeyser wrote: Well that doesn't make much sense. Even if you're right, it's very obvious that that' not how things are going. I mean, they've had lots of time to write and rewrite the script, and if they made the separation last just one half of the Volume, it would feel cheap. That way there wouldn't be adequate time given to RNJR, nor would there really be enough time to show them getting back together IMO.

Still though, I didn't know about that whole "Fall" thing, where'd you learn that from? I'm not sure you understand what I mean, overall I agree with you... I would rather the arc encompass more than half a season myself.

What I'm saying is that "End of the Beginning" was likely a mid season cliffhanger(I want to say I heard in one of the streams/QA's this was confirmed like "Fall" was, but I know if I did hear it that it was once and possibly said by someone other than a writer and thus more dubious), meaning if this next arc does encompass more than half a season it originally would have been planned as V3 mid-point to V4 mid-point if it were only a season long.

I cannot see that as being the original plan, and thus find it far more likely to either be .5 or 1.5+ seasons

Then again RWBY's pacing has been far from ideal.

I could easily see them using this opportunity to make each girl from RWBY explore the world and the plots of the forces arrayed against them. Weiss would likely explore the angle of just who Torchwick's source was for Atlas tech(while likely finding Penny/Penny 2.0).

RNJR will explore Mistral's underbelly(with so few clues it will probably be more like flying blind and encountering Pyrrha's family rather than solving anything this season if they get there this season)

Blake will likely discover all sorts of things on the run while Yang discovers more about Adam, gets back her fighting spirit, and eventually gets a replacement arm, likely in Atlas, possibly after searching the criminal underworld or encountering Raven.

"Fall" was stated to be the original S2 season end in one of the interviews/streams or on a twitter release(Idr which one and am not a Sponsor atm so it's hard to check which one). It is also blatantly obvious if you look back at the V2 opening as the Yang vs Merc fight choreography was used in "Fall" yet nothing from after that episode was used.