Talk:Raven Branwen/@comment-28522425-20161004004445/@comment-4010415-20161011022709

The problem with that is, before they even began writing the script for volume 1, the three of them (Monty, Miles, and Kerry) all sat down and planned out the course of RWBY's story together. They planned out the plot points, the characters' pasts, what all was going to happen, etc. The reason these plans change is, as they once explained in a livestream, sometimes they'll be in the middle of fleshing out the plans in the volume they're working on and realize "Actually, we have an opportunity to make that plot point happen here instead and it'd be better if we do it that way, so let's move it from that volume to this one!"

He could've told Merry what the deal was with Raven attacking JNPR and they decided either


 * It wasn't important, relevant, or necessary


 * The other events of volume 3 took priority and there simply wasn't enough time to include that and nothing else could be sacrificed to fit it in there, especially since part of volume 3 got filled up with the Maidens thing that Monty came up with after volume 2

Then, we have the fact that some of the things that Monty and Shane did (and tried to do before Miles stopped them) was purely because "It would be so cool!" without thinking about how it would affect the quality of the writing.


 * Monty wanted Blake to cut the train in half in the end of the Black Trailer. Miles told him no and that Blake wasn't strong enough to do that yet.


 * The entire thing about the Paladin chase and fight in volume 2 seems like Monty wanting that to happen because it'd be cool and not thinking about how to make it happen in a way where the writing would make sense. And look at how we reacted to it! It was stupid of Roman to go charging down a busy highway in a stolen Paladin that had the White Fang logo painted on it. The only mentions of it have been Ozpin mentioning something about robots and Winter mentioning that Team RWBY had a run-in with the stolen shipment of prototypes. Nothing about the people who undoubtedly got hurt or killed when Roman was tossing cars around, nothing about people noticing "Huh, one of those mechs that Ironwood was advertising the other day caused a bunch of chaos on a highway last night and had the White Fang logo on it", no consequences!


 * Monty directed Breach. It was the perfect time to show the Grimm actually being a threat and show Grimm invading Vale being a problem, but instead, it turned into a curbstomp and was shrugged off, leaving us to wonder "Why do they act like it's such a big deal for Grimm to invade if they can clean it up that easily?"

What if Raven vs JNPR was one of those things?