Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140921022402/@comment-11188061-20141211233800

LiveandSound wrote: @Vedran:

Monty's not exactly blameless, but regarding the plot, the writers are the ones with the most fault.

You could have an amazingly astonishing AAA+++ story all planned out. But if it's written badly, then it will be a failure. If you let it be written badly, you made a grave mistake. But whoever wrote it badly in the first place, is also to blame.

An example I can think of, it's Umineko When They Cry (When The Seagulls Cry). It has a great story, with many twists that keep you interested, shocked, surprised, has interesting characters, and an interesting concept, as the story itself doesn't make any sense at first. It's the reader's job to look into that nonsense, and analyze it, and find the sense, whether from a fantasy perspective, or a reality perspective. And when you do, it becomes even better. You read the same story about 8 times, each time it's different.

But then, like Higurashi, it got an anime adaptation. Unlike Higurashi, it was bad. Many details were skipped, things were very rushed which completely ruined the drama/horror/suspense effect, many parts became very narmy, and what was a great story with great concept became an absolute shit, with the only good part being the gore. It could have been great, like the original, but it was done badly. It wasn't the creator's fault, but he still let it happen, so he's not 100% innocent.

Which is what's happening here, but in a much lesser extent. RWBY could have been done good, it can be done good, but it's not being done good. Not yet, anyway. It has some good parts, but for most, they are not enough to balance things out. Monty's not to blame for everything, but he's not innocent either. Actually, Umineko turns out to be really unlikable when the 'truth' was revealed; it's Higurashi that's really impressive because it didn't void out the consequences.