The season as a whole has been great, I've enjoyed the arena fights and the ways the main cast's backgrounds have been explored, but everything from PvP to Heroes and Monsters? I cannot say holy **** enough. The action and drama levels were cranked up way higher than I had anticipated. The secretly evil team who were manipulating everything from behind the scenes, hordes of Grimm, the White Fang, Neo, Torchwick, the giant mechs, the military robots getting a hostile takeover...EVERYTHING was attacking Beacon all at once. It was really tense. And while it's rough to watch for the heroes during the more dramatic scenes, it's still a satisfying turn of events in the villains' favor. It was clear that **** was bound to hit the fan during this season sooner or later.
Torchwick's death was sudden, but is fairly fitting. He's a skilled fighter and a strategist, not to mention a sadist, for sure, but getting eaten by some random Grimm just after he finished his rant serves as a good reminder that he's otherwise just an ordinary person who's messing with powers that he shouldn't.
Everything involving Pyrrha's been great. Same goes for Team JNPR entirely.
Also, I knew it was coming, but seeing Yang's arm actually get sliced off during the "fight" with Adam was still a shocker. That was a very rough scene that was well-executed.
My favorite season of the show yet. I do kinda regret not catching up way sooner still, but at least I'm binging it now, and at a time where most of my other other favorite shows (that haven't ended entirely) are on hiatus right now, so this gives me something new to watch and mull over in the meantime. It's been a blast.