>>104858957>Ruby didn't grow in any way. She's the exact same pure good soul with a hero complex she's always been.Was going to type out a paragraph about Ruby being more subdued and serious in V4 but
>>104858993 did it for me. The Jaune scene in the context of V4 RNJR makes perfect sense and could not have been lumped elsewhere.
>Creating some scenery and showing it off is pretty much the platonic ideal of stalling for time.It's not stalling for time to show off another part of a fantasy world. I'm no huge fan of Menagerie or the Faunus, but it more deeply characterised Blake and even plotwise it didn't feel like wasted time given that...
>The V5 plotline does not follow from the V4 plotline at all....you couldn't execute the Menagerie/Faunus part of the V5 plotline without Blake in Menagerie.
>Nothing in Blake's plot in 4 does anything to further it.This is a criticism without any alternative. Blake ran away and later resolved to come back.
>>104858957>Develop character arcsYang and Blake both develop. Arguably Weiss.
>show of inter-character relationshipsBlake/Sun. RNJR. Weiss' family. I didn't care for the latter but there's no way you can argue there were no character moments in V4. The season was devoted to it.
>>104859039>>104859057She doesn't need to change completely as a personality to grow or be more richly characterised. She's clearly struggling more and more over the course of the show, and that is change after a fashion. There are different dimensions to character than just linear personality changes. Ruby moves very slowly as a character and they ought to do more with her, but she does change.
>You don't have to spend a whole season having the character wander around the wilderness just to show off how sad they areYeah, sometimes you do. Sometimes it's better to strip things down and clarify the characters with a simple plot, without overclocking things. Half of V5's issue was the complexity of converging various plotlines into one.