User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/A look back at V4/@comment-4010415-20171018185317

"Not to mention the question of how Ozpin's Soul travelled to a completely different continent, let alone how it even ended up on Oscar. Then it turns out that Oscar is gonna become Ozpin. Why him? Because. Why did Ozpin choose him? Because."

Honestly, I think Ozpin's soul transfer works the same way as the Maiden powers transfer, only with young males instead of young females.

Qrow said that the Maiden's soul becomes combined with the new girl's soul in a way.

Ozpin said his soul became combined with Oscar's soul.

The last person in Ozpin's thoughts was likely Cinder, but since she's a woman and not a young male, that would cause Ozpin's soul to fly off to a completely random young male somewhere in the world.

Ozpin didn't choose Oscar, and Oscar doesn't necessarily have to have any connection or relation to Ozpin. It was just chance, just like what happens with the Maidens if they think of a man or an old woman before they die.

Volume 4 is honestly such a weird case where so little of significance happened and yet it was also incredibly rushed.

Apparently, in one of those exclusive cast interviews at the Volume 5 premiere theater showing, Miles said that Ruby is actually bottling everything up and is not over the fall of Beacon nor Summer's death/disappearance and all of this will come out at some point.

Have we gotten any hints or foreshadowing toward this? Ehhh... I guess there's the two dreams about Pyrrha...

... and in Welcome to Haven, she kind of grimaces and looks away when Lionheart mentions Penny getting torn apart.

Other than that, though... not really.

In the PlayerOne interview (I believe that was the one), Miles said that Volume 5 has 14 episodes partially because of them learning from their mistakes in Volume 4. Two extra episodes doesn't seem like much, but if each of those episodes is, say, 15 minutes long, then that means an extra 30 minutes. If they're closer to 20 minutes long, that's 40-ish minutes.

What I want:

I definitely agree that, with the split storylines, they really need to actually focus on those and not rush them. Volume 4 was a mess with how those were rushed. They really should've shown more in the daily life of Weiss at home, and now they don't have the opportunity anymore. Hopefully, at some point, they'll fix it at least somewhat.

Hoping to see Ruby be more of a character, maybe with more actual hints at her bottling things up.

Really want the fight scenes to be less of a mess, hopefully with it not being painfully obvious that a whole team of people put the fight scene together in pieces, working separately on it at the same time or something.