Talk:Monty Oum/@comment-25555436-20141221004850/@comment-173.58.251.107-20141223235742

And that's why he fails as a writer for RWBY. He's a main writer, so what he says pretty much goes, if Monty had a better idea, he'd kick Miles off the team and do it himself. For all we know, all of Team RWBY could be kidnapped and mutated into gigantic robots in the next Volume's first episode and the remainder of the volume focuses on Jaune trying to get them back to their original forms, and it would fly with him because he's the fricking writer, he does what he wants and if he wants to get RWBY out of the picture and put Jaune as the starring character for an entire volume if not more, it'll do.

And yes, the Jaune Arcs were rather stereotypical. Guy being bullied by a big guy, then stopping him? This sounds a lot like...just about every "teenage angst'  movie ever made. Guy dealing with a girl who doesn't like him while another guy likes that girl and she likes him? Every paranormal teenage romance movie ever made. And the show is called RWBY, not Jaune. All of the title characters vanished from the main role for about half the volume. Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang did little beyond kill a bird and squabble with each other. Jaune on the other hand gets shoved into a locker and launched into orbit, slammed into a wall, beaten up by a guy, and saves his bully of all people. Then Volume 2 puts him back in the spotlight again, and basically every episode involves him.

Look, I like RWBY, but unless they improve, this show is not living up to Monty's dream. Or maybe, for all we know, it is living up to his dream. Monty can create a great action scene, but little else. There is still hope he'll improve though, there always is hope. Very little, in this case, but hope nonetheless. Kind of like a politician, you don't expect them to do much but you can always hope they'll do something.