Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25247233-20160513080632/@comment-14909251-20160520221802

NinjaCatCaitlin wrote: Ok I'm just going to be frank here.

My friend, in a way RWBY ceased being "Monty's project" the day he passed. Yes we all loved him and yes we all wish to see his legacy and love for the show carried on, but you need to accept the fact that a project cannot be treated like the  untouchable property of one now deceased, especially since it was a joint effort to begin with. Give credit where credit is due.

Its been said before that Monty was an animator first and foremost. A brilliant one, and a truly creative mind whose aesthetic vision for this show was astounding. But a long term story writer he was not. He mapped out major plot points sure, but you need to get from A to B on a path that makes sense. A show can have the most amazing fight scenes and character designs, but if it isn't carried by a story of matching quality it will never reach its potential. Changes need to be made, the creator is not always going to have the best ideas for where the show goes. That is the point of having mutiple writers and people to bounce ideas off. This is what Shane does not understand, that as much as we loved him not all Monty's ideas were necessarily good ones in terms of narrative and that making changes is not inherently a bad thing. Monty is not here, and Shane and others acting like they know for a fact this would not be what he wanted and that the CRWBY is somehow ruining his brainchild is down right outrageous.

The CRWBY would NEVER lift their fingers to Monty, EVER. I'm not gonna suggest that Monty was infallible, but when it comes down to it RWBY would not exist if it were not for him and he had spent more time working on the universe of RWBY than anyone else. His loss means some things he wanted were never going to happen simply because he was only one who knew about it or he simply hadn't conceived of it yet. That said, when I feel a creator's wishes for a work are not being honored it annoys me.

A number of people here talk about it from an impersonal business perspective, but to me it is fundamentally about the artistry of it all. Maybe the creator isn't going to make the best work, but sometimes a work will only be its best when the creator calls the shots. If that can't happen then you want the closest thing. Business seems to be taking priority over the art going off Shane's letter and that saddens me.