Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-39492511-20190530044705/@comment-26397825-20190614022729

You talk as though Monty was a better writer than Miles and Kerry, but he outright stated himself he was not. The reason he got Miles and Kerry to write the show was because he knew his forte was animation, not wriitng.

All three of them made the show together. Monty kept trying to do things purely for Rule of Cool, which would have screwed the story even further, such as randomly wanting Raven to attack JNPR in a cafe at the end of V3. A scene such as that makes absolutely zero narrative sense, and would basically force Miles and Kerry to write an extremely bullshit excuse for why she didn't just kill them all there and then.

Pyrrha was always going to die. What they changed was not how she died, per se, but rather that Jaune was no longer directly responsible for her death because the characters developed over time and the initial plan no longer fit the story. That happens in writing all the time. It's not a betrayal of the 'creator', it's acknowledging that the initial plan wasn't going to work and adapting.

And you are literally judging a writer's worth based on one season, ignoring their other accomplishments. Yeah, V5 sucked. Yeah, RWBY isn't withing their comfort zone when it comes to writing. But from what I've heard, Miles did a damned good job the three seasons he was in charge of RvB, and no one complains about his writing there.

It's not that they're bad writers, it's that they've taken a chance to step out of their comfort zone (crude humour, cracking jokes, and soldiers like RvB) and gone into new territory. They're learning on the go and improving as time passes, and while their stuff ups are terrible, you can still point at things and say 'they have improved at this'.