Thread:KNN005/@comment-25266931-20170304160915/@comment-25936766-20170330012236

KNN005 wrote: When the co-creator scolded Oum for doing rule of cool stuff was is reasoning that that wasn't the kind of show he wanted to make or that it over-the-top action would come later? Neither. The reasoning was that while it was awesome, from a writing PoV it was flawful, such as:

-Characters doing things that they shouldn't be strong nor skilled enough to do until many seasons later, like Blake slicing the train in half.

-Questionable writing decisions, such as Raven attacking JNPR inside Beacon itself when she has pretty much no reason to even care about them.

Monty wanted to make a cool action show, but unlike his previous works, RWBY actually had a plot, and it wasn't the kind of thing that can work well without decent writing. So it needed at least decent writing, which Monty was not providing with his over-the-top ideas.