#if wed regullarly gotten older huntsman visiting Beacon or teaching at the school

[fanstuffrantings]

I'm fully aware of people not liking the switch from Beacon to an open world in RWBY, personally I remember being really excited back in season 3 when the finale hit and we found out we'd be traveling because I legitimately wanted to explore remnant. Them having the group travel to also make Salem's threat feel more "end of days" level was a good idea. However I think the issue was that the set up wasn't great.

Part of the issue with early rwby (and honestly it never really got fixed) is that it doesn't build its world. We know of Beacon and Vale since that's where we are for Volumes 1 and 2, but outside of that we get no real mention of other areas until the episodes where we need them to exist. I think part of this has to do with them not fully deciding what visuals to go with and the limitations of their budget, but I don't really like when that defense is used because we still could've had in universe character conversations.

Ex: Have Weiss be disinterested in reaching out to her family but still checking up on Atlas news regularly to simply see how things are going. Pyrrha phoning home often and her parents giving her updates on the city of Argus. Jaune being from a small town potientially and his parents cluing us into a rise of Grimm attacks which would be abnormal in the area they live in.

I've said it before but the show really would've benefited from one more season before we get people arriving for Vytal. A season to build up beacon and better set the in universe rules.

We don't need a major budget to build the world, but it being prevalent and foreboding with this constant reminder that our group will one day face it would work really well towards bridging their eventual departure from Beacon.

It would make the shift less jarring for people who didn't expect it and add more content for the people who wanted to bulk up the story itself.