Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171208180706/@comment-33880711-20171211093135

5.248.214.173 wrote: Well, I guess, I have to thank RT. I'm finally dropping the show.

It was so hard for me to come through V4 as far as that was absolutely awfully shown. They just... left the only way of сharacters' exposition - through telling. Not through their reaction, not through their communication with others: they were just talking about how bad they feel. All four of RWBY.

You know, different characters with different traumas and motivation can not react the same way. But they did.

And that horrible pacing. Cliffhangers for cliffhangers?.. In the first season that were RWBY girls who made the plot move. Now they are just seating and waiting for the plot to move them. Or are passively involved into it. Well, that's not a new thing, we had it back in V3 ch 12: " - I have a plan. - You always do." Though, there was no plan, actually.

It made me laugh: Ozpin told us that they had one month before the attack of Having... And how did JNRR use that? Cooking and eating and sitting in that house? Now we have "two days remaining" the attack and that's just lazy writing, if you ask me.

I was so mad at the beginning - pacing here is ment to be the most important thing, as far as the show has a type of structure that consists of 12-15 little episodes. Do not waste it. It's Stephen King's rule, BTW (not just his, though): if the scene is not required - mercilessly cut it. All good writers do that: make a plan, a general structure, write the main stuff - then get to the rest, and then they look, what needs to be cut off. As a person whose hobby is writing I just can't condone the fact that they didn't to that kind of work. The plot of V4-5 looks like a first draft of the scenario that even didn't get a proper editing.

I was worried when RT told about the increase in the number of episodes in V5. V4 had a lot of... well, I don't know how to translate it in English. In my mother language it sounds like "too much water in the text". Too much some unnecesarry, pointless and unreasonabky prolonged stuff.

I was dissapointed again and again, and this episode was jus a straw that broke camel's back. They will not be improving, they didn't listen to the critics of V4 and I don't want to see my most belowed show becoming worse and worse. It is too painful. So I'll better stop here.

Sorry, just needed to share that. And sorry for possible mistakes. Are you chinese?