Slayer_48
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I feel as if a lot of the Mai goal of RWBY was basically scrapped halfway through. Volume 3 and went a whole different direction. You can tell by volume 4 and volume 5 that they just threw together the whole "adventure to Haven" thing as a last-minute call because they needed something else to start with rather than have them rebuild Vale, or stick around for it at least. Felt like that's a huge thing they completely dropped and only dropped a mention of Vale here or there to drive this whole new thing.
I could be reading into this too much, but the whole thing was just off-putting. They destroy one school, and then all of a sudden, for no reason at all, Haven is the next to get hit instead of, I don't know, continuing the search for the Beacon relic?! It gets brought up ONCE in Volume 4, and that's when Salem is demanding Cinder to give her answers, and then ONCE in volume 5 when Ozpin explains the relics to Teams Rwby and Jnr. Other than that, Beacon gets left in the dust as if it never existed. Then, after Haven, it's immediately off to Atlas because they're obviously next. Yet they had salem talk about Vacuo and Shade for a second before they just decided Atlas would have been better.
And then Haven, just like Beacon, is all but forgotten. They create a story, then bury it immediately after its finished, no callbacks, no connections just, "This is done, now let's completely forget everything that happens and create a whole new story. Of course the big bad still needs the maidens and relics, UT that's it. Nothing more."
It REALLY bothers me that they just do this shit every time.