I'd argue it's far worse than Vol. 2. For example, they made Weiss, Blake and Yang OOC with the timeskip as none of it made with their characters or even logic - Weiss hiding in her room for half year and Atlas doing nothing to amend political and business relations with the other Kingdoms, Blake's ship makes no sense as she should've reached her destination in a month based on the map of Remnant and my experience of traveling by sea, and nothing in Yang sparked knowing that Ruby - the little sister that was demonstrated she cared for very much - went on a dangerous journey to find dangerous people in the dangerous world of Remnant.



That's only a few things that ruin this entire season, and that's just the tip of the spear. There's the shallow development, the forced story of having Jaune and Sun around, and then not developing Ruby but instead Ren - a character has done or said nothing important and has no reason to exist other to have a shallow revenge plot that offered nothing and was pointless with the worst fight ever, even the voice actor sounded bored and uninterested.



Though I think I'm almost offended by Yang's so called "PTSD" as I'm a part of a family of people serving in the military since Yang's had to just learn "don't be afraid." Oh, okay, so my great uncle who served in Vietnam didn't get past his night and sudden terrors through strengthening bonds with fellow soldiers or feeling the love and support of his family and friends that helped him recover over the course of several years, it was just being told "don't be afraid." If I was an editor abd Miles told me that idea, I'd probably say "fuck off."



Vol. 4 is the demonstration of horrid and forced writing. I can't believe I'm saying, but the SAO series has better writing than RWBY - that's a pretty low bar for RT to miss.