Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20151116021418/@comment-26397825-20151122083719

This could just be seen as the Black Queen Arc of RWBY.

A bit like Naruto had the Wave Arc, and the Sasuke Retrieval Arc, and Bleach had the Rescue Rukia Arc and the Winter War Arc. Part of an overaching plotline, but after they defeat that arc's Big Bad they move on to another one. Sometimes the Big Bad's carry over, but more often than not it's another Big Bad that is being manipulated by the Biggest Bad of them all, who has been orchestrating things right from the beginning (Madara and...Aizen? would be the Naruto and Bleach equivalents).