Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-14138255-20131019173146/@comment-98.221.42.132-20131207163332

I kind of saw the return to Forever Fall as foreshadowing, personally, and I turned out to be right: the amount of Faunus-related tangental stuff that cropped up in the Jaune arc was all buildup for the Blake development and White Fang/Faunus stuff in episodes 15-16, which I thought was clever. If anything, the lack of RWBY focus in the JNPR episodes didn't bug me so much as the general animation quality in those four episodes did--compared to the first half of Volume 1, episodes 9-114 seem kind of phoned in.

15-16 somewhat make up for that, but I'd rather have consistent quality throughout than a few really awesome episodes scattered throughout a series that periodically dips into mediocre territory.