User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/How to improve RWBY: an opinion./@comment-108.197.228.37-20141113053636

I think the length of the episodes is a strong influence on how much spotlight is given on the characters. back in V1, the episodes were less than 10min long, and ppl believed that the 'Jaune arc' burned too much precious time, leaving very little for the actual main characters of the series. now in V2, the episodes are much longer, so we can get some real, not-as-abbreviated characterization. Unfortunately, this is offset by the large number of characters introduced/featured in V2; there's so many characters that as soon as we focus on an individual or a pair's-relationship, we immediately sacrifice time for others (ex. Bumblebee/Yang, Penny, Jaune&Pyrrha, Jaune's feelings for Weiss and his reaction to Neptune, Sun and Neptune, Neo, COFVY, why RWBY became huntresses, Blake and the WF, etc) by focusing on these, even for just a few scenes/seconds, the show sacrificed time for other characters that are favored by other audience members; it's virtually impossible to have adequate characterization for so many characters in such a small amount of time unless we had hour-long episodes in a 30-episode long season.