Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25025248-20150719005825/@comment-5426254-20150721043811

Well, first off, I'd be living the dream on some days, and a more monotomous hell on the other.

Anyways, I'd do several things. First, apply Live's methods. Second, find inspiration from successful productions: The Dark Knight, ATLA and LOK, and try to find what makes them so successful, and apply it. (Also, raise the age rating and content theme to teenagers/young adults. Makes everything more consistent, and so that I don't have to dumb down the show for kiddies).

I would also use the expansion money coming from Warner Bros. Japan, and the increased funding from FullScreen to hire more people for the production team. That increases production quality and helps efficiency.

The characters will be considerably nerfed. I will not have them dominate with Superpower lotteries such as super speed, or Super Saiyanism. Right now, the good guys are too strong. Even each member of Team RWBY has only one flaw that they need to work on, and then they'd be on Mary Sue levels. Ruby needs to learn Martial Arts, Blake needs to adapt Dust with Semblance, Yang needs to stop kicks, and Weiss needs to be a little physically stronger. One training montage, and they'd be more OP.

On the personality side, they'd have slow, but consistent character development. Also, I will give them consistent levels per volume. And yes, when I add on more diverse demographic characters, I will write them just like everyone else, good story and good character development. I'd take lack of diversity over poorly represented diversity any day.

On the animation department, I would bring in legit martial artists to either mocap on the show, or to bring in their more advanced moveset. Also, make the non-fight scenes decent.

On writing, I would visit TVTropes more often (I already do), jot down a few notes, and twist them in any way as much as possible. Maybe lampshade a few obvious ones and then subvert them.

The problem with the writing comes from cheap jokes, lack of consistency, terrible pacing, and the same structure: Make friends, Fight mid-boss, the Jaune Arc, uncover secret plot, have a strong ally to help you win, bad guy loses, everybody wins, secret plot cliffhanger. I'll be happy to get rid of this BS every now and then.

Also, I will reference socio-political events and leaders, to bring up the intelligence level of this show. Works great when telling a story that has the Faunus Rights Movement.

I will make the Grimm real threats. If the Grimm were really these kinds of pussies, humans and Faunus would be way better right now.

And research more on our world to make Remnant, and to show them a little more often. Not general themes, but specifics. The people have a right to know exactly what's going on in Remnant and how it works.

When it comes to criticism, I will listen to the ones that make the most sense. I will listen to long, in-depth ones to actually make the show better, like YouTube's fatmanfalling. I will also us my brain and common sense to ignore the two main types of haters: The typical, angsty "He's a big fat loser" type, and the preachy, self-righteous puritans we call Social Justice Warriors (SJW) who will nitpick the show for something so fucking meaningless because they interpret it as offensiveness.

Speaking of which, I will not be preachy and design the themes of this show based on a certain SJW socio-political ideology. I'm here to make a good story that's enjoyable to the consumer, and less so to the elitist critic.

Those are my thoughts. What are yours?

-GL