Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6493589-20150619172544/@comment-9464517-20150621110822

Shadow at Morning wrote: The show has a show, don't tell problem, but I think it's exacerbated by the worldbuilding they feel they have to put in the show. Like the contrived bit with Yang's semblance, or with Jaune's total ignorance of a fundamental aspect of his profession. If this sort of stuff, like what varieties of Dust do, is revealed in show, it'll be in contrived and forced fashion. With as little runtime as the show has, that's not good. And really, that's what WoR is for, even if they didn't particularly do a good job of it the first time, rehashing ground already implicit for the most part. For those to be useful, they need to go more in-depth. Right. Exposition is great, but they certainly have been employing it on the show in a particularly forced manner. World of Remnant sure as shit doesn't help with that sort of thing when they only give us tiny nuggets of new information amongst the old, already widely-known material with each new instalment.

I would presume that one of the reasons they set the show in a school was so that important aspects of the show (such as aura, dust, semblances etc.) could be taught to the audience in the format of lessons given to the protagonists by the various professors. Unfortunately, most of the concepts the audience had to be introduced to (e.g. those mentioned above) would already have been made clear to the protagonists at this stage in their lives, which is why Jaune had to play the Dr. Watson figure in "The Emerald Forest" and be ignorant of such things so Pyrrha could play the role of the teacher for him and the audience.