User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/World- Of Remnant/@comment-9464517-20140820000245/@comment-11188061-20140820002426

Episode 3 and 4 is already a massive step up (especially Episode 3) in plot coherence and planning. In the end, they only have so much time to squeeze in every info and story they can into Volume 2, so this is the best way to conduct things for now.

I always feel that relying solely on the anime itself to provide exposition and background info IS by itself insufficient. Say people are dying left and right in the story, and there isn't a moment's rest until humanity wins or loses the war. Who in their right minds will spend time explaining, "Oh, this is Greece. That is Malaysia. That pear-shaped continent is USA. Hmm? It's not a pear? Do I look like I give a shit?" when everyone in the room should have known something like this since ages ago?

And no, RWBY does not have a cross dimension traveller who doesn't know hackshit (oh yeah, hack shit) about Remnant. So there's no real reason for them to go back to primary school classrooms and start all over.