Talk:Sigil of the Hare/@comment-4773581-20131208032521/@comment-4773581-20131208074849

And therein is the entire problem. You are expecting the exposition of RWBY's 5-8 minute two-part episodes, and more-than-10-minute "special" episodes, to provide the same amount of exposition as an average 24 minute episode.

This is, simply put, impossible to do without throwing things like plot and characters out the window entirely. Longer episodes allow for more content, and thus more time for exposition to take up, while shorter episodes require more focus on plot so that the episode isn't just characters sitting around spouting exposition while not actually doing anything. You are expecting that which cannot be done, and you are expecting people to meet your impossible expectation.

Moreover, you're expecting all of that after what has basically been the testing period of the series. Thresholds are fine, but you need to understand that the average length of an episode determines how much overall content can be produced, and thus how much exposition, character introduction and/or development, plot, and miscellaneous scenes (such as comedic and romantic scenes) can go into each episode on average. Holding a series where episodes are 8 minutes or shorter, and where the longer ones aren't even twice that, to the same standards as a series where episodes are consistently 24-ish minutes, which is not only more than double the time of all but one of the shorter show's episodes, but borders on being four times as long as the average episode of shorter show, is completely and utterly ridiculous.

To put it in another way, it's like expecting a six-and-a-half-year-old boy to do as well as his twenty-three-year-old brother when both are put into an adult-level sports match as players.