User blog comment:Jkphantom9/Shane Newville: "An Open Letter to All Who Treasured Monty Oum"/@comment-49.151.54.107-20160513022218/@comment-4010415-20160513054840

"I mean if you wanna put them on a bully light then the fact that Shane admits that they did their own thing just to tease Miles really puts onto persective whether they were right or not. Miles was simply trying to protect RWBY from becoming just another Rule of Cool crazy show. Monty, on the other hand, was trying to build RWBY entirely based on that aspect."

^ Reminds me of the Volume 1 Director's Commentary, during Black and White. Miles hadn't seen Black and White until they recorded the commentary, and when he saw Penny cut ships in half, he flipped. his. shit. And not really in a.. good way. More along the lines of a "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME DID YOU SERIOUSLY JUST DO THAT" way. And then he calmed himself down and backpedaled with explaining his reaction, talking about how Monty kept suggesting characters cutting things in half when they shouldn't be at that strength level yet and how he kept teasing Miles with that, and then ended it with saying it's fine because Penny's actually rather powerful so it's okay for her to do that.