Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-174.135.62.244-20160603201323/@comment-25936766-20160803122651

I think what Devil meant was, that in the finale they killed at least 3 beloved characters, including one from Team A2. Implying that yes, people can die in RWBY, even beloved characters.

And then, it would be bad writing if they went all GoT in one Volume, and then everything went back to no-real-deaths for most Volumes afterwards. It hurts the "present" writing due to inconsistency in it's apparent desired mood, and retroactively hurts the Vol.3 finale by making the deaths feel very forced, as if Miles did them for the sake of a dramatic finale and wasn't going to uphold these things afterwards.