Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131108040231/@comment-24278127-20131226110853

BenRG wrote: Just because it's cliché, doesn't mean that it can't be done well. I'd like for there to be some turning point in Cinder's life that made her go bad and it would be neat if this could be associated with the apparent death of Ruby's mother. The thing is though. A cliché can only be done so far until an audience will get sick of it. Typically, displeasing alot of those who aren't interested in seeing another mainstream drama; unless god forbid RWBY is going to continue becoming one of those. Even if its done well, its going to be predictable, which for alot of us defeats the purpose of speculating and creativity.

Thats not to say clichés entirely can't be enjoyable. The things that a majority of the audience "would like" to see happen to certain favored characters usually fall into a certain niche of cliché that media loves to capitalize on. Like, for example, having some dude be the abitrary "hero" for one of these protagonists somewhere along the line and starting one of those typical savior-damsel relationships where they live together happily; I know you fanfictions out there love this one.

Yet at the same time, I don't think we'd really want just a collection of all of these overused plots with the same development. We all say we want a certain "something" to happen to a certain character, fair enough. But how far can an artist draw out our individual tastes and styles happily until they become something that matches a bigger crowd and becomes another typicality entirely; such that its predominantly our story alone?

Thats the challenge I see in creating stories like this. At this rate though, I don't know if Monty will even humor this and may just fall into another abyss of mainstream anime hell. In which case, should such a thing happen, I will have to burn their collection of asinine shonen-anime and just lose interest in the predictable story entirely; watching only the fight scenes like another uninitiated Youtuber.