I liked it. I honestly have no idea what people expected, but everyone who says that they could have done a better job can go jump off a cliff. Why are people so goddamn critical and self-entitled these days? If they don't like RWBY, they should stop watching it. IMO, Volume 4 did its job - character development - well. Okay, so maybe not everyone got enough screentime and some issues might have been skipped over, but I know that I, for one, wouldn't have enjoyed seeing more angst and thus I'm glad that Yang resolved her problems as fast as she did. Blake and Weiss's stories were handled well enough and the Renora backstory... Well, it might have come out of nowhere and I admit that it wasn't exactly what you'd call original, but come on, nothing is original anymore these days, let's be real here.



Also, some people don't seem to get that Blake's trip to Menagerie DIDN'T take 6-8 months and Yang's trip to Mistral didn't happen in less than one episode. It's pretty clear to me that we were seeing what was happening to the main characters at different times during the timeskip. Yang probably left for Mistral long before Ruby started writing her letter.