Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-94.8.221.186-20180402122306/@comment-26018514-20180402165216

^The main thing that ruined V5 for me was that issues that started cropping up in V3, then in V4 became far more systemic(which I attribute to the likely fact that Monty was the one who was responsible for making it work in the first place) just got like 2-5x worse in V5, was the choreography of the scenes.

Far too often the fights(and even in talking/other scenes) would just forget the other characters in the scene exist, dynamics would not be followed(the same character is often not the most interesting one in a scene of back and forth conversation/combat).

Despite this, I liked V4... but I hated the choices made to cut out action packed and worldbuilding swaths of time(Timeskip) for as little development/progress that was made, I'd rather they make at least a few episodes that seem like filler that explain culture or show day to day hazards and challenges now rather than later.

V5 was excellent up to about the end of Weiss's transport ride... after that point I wished they had used the time they had to expand on Raven and the tribe, tighten choreography and ended the season with Blake's family repelling the WF from their home(choreography for this fight was especially bad... Kali's fight was full of plot holes in regards to her angles in concern with the other 2 Belladonna's fights).

The Battle of Haven was even worse in that regard(excepting a few scenes of Raven vs Cinder) but even the best parts were so rushed they easily could have made it an entire season done right when paired with things they should have included in between like the sailing of all the faunus(they really screwed themselves with the timeline they gave between these stories, which was another failing of the season) to Mistral and their training and actually covered Mistral proper.

In short, the main disappointment with these 2 seasons is what they didn't show of these interesting times in an effort to get to other times they were more interested in, because to the audience it tells us that maybe they'll half-ass those times too making it an even bigger waste of time than if they did do filler.