Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-67.171.134.135-20150521032555/@comment-24891101-20150709191232

Gastropod: As it should be. I don't suggest all worldbuilding be relegated to WoR, as much can be done in the background by implication. I envision WoR as things which most people would be uninterested in, delving into the history, political structure, and other technical details too complicated to explain in-show. And as 82 said, some things are too basic for an infodump, known to all the cast but not to us. Yang's semblance is a good example: there is no way that RWBY was not aware of that before Ruby's awkward explanation. It was shoehorned and forced.

Chishio: They have precious little air time as it is, and they've already been suffering from pacing issues. Besides, in some cases it's absurd to have people unaware of certain things. Aura is the best example; there's no  plausible way that superhumans can be cultural heroes and the source of their power not part of the cultural background. It's the equivalent of the classic knight who slays dragons being culturally lionized yet people being unaware that they fight with sword and lance. For an aspirant to be unaware of this breaks SoD. In your example of exam studying, you'd have to relate it to the main plot, or only have a few seconds of it (probably not enough for more than basic worldbuilding), otherwise it is a poor decision to include.