User blog:Gundam Legilis/If you were Monty Oum...

Hello!

I have a question for all of you today.

If you were Monty Oum, how would you make RWBY?

Me? Well, I would do several things. This is my take on it, and may involve controversial topics. You have been warned.

Keep: The team configurations, the color rules, the transforming weapons, the fight scenes, and the time delay into finding the right way to make LGBT characters awesome without offending anybody save for the bigots.

Change: With the new funding for RT, hire more people starting from Volume 3 and beyond. Also, add in supplementary material about the specifics of the four Kingdoms i.e. government, GDP, purchasing per capita etc. Possibly change the target audience for RWBY, raising the limit from kids to growing teenagers, and possibly include some cussing. Also, change its overall stance from prioritizing on the developing on girls to prioritizing on developing on developing of everybody, including guys. They need to have some positive role models too. So far, prioritizing on girls alone, hoping that it will bring equality, is wrong. Focus on everybody for equality by having some guy heroes that save the day and don't get taken out of a fight so easily, having them work together with the girls, and saving each other; that is, having both the equal number of guy damsels in distress situations and the equal number of girl damsels in distress situations.

Add: Imagery and cinematography of Neon Genesis Evangelion, the show that I and Monty both love and theorize about. Further characterization of characters, and ways to subvert the most common tropes pertaining to them. In battles, add in more large-scale battles (no easy task), and narrow victories. Also some topics pertaining to real-life problems i.e. an economic crisis. More characters involving mixed heritages and demographics. In depth yet simple explanations for complicated topics i.e. Yang's Semblance, it needs fixed parameters. More villains, bringing the ratio of intelligent humanoid villains to heroes on a 1:1 ratio. Since RWBY is being introduced to Japan, add more American-style action sequences, namely bank robberies, and car chases, and shootouts. Add in more fight choreography and different martial arts styles (with trained martial artists) and cinematography action i.e. Hard Boiled tracking shots, Cowboy Bebop camera motion. More storytelling options, and deconstruction of several tropes.

Lose: The easy and quickly resolved situations at the end of each volume. The easy defeat of the Grimm (they're supposed to be scary).

That's all for now. How would you do it?

Thoughts?

-Gundam Legilis