User blog comment:Akin.toussaint/Trailers.Did they do more harm then good?/@comment-16763585-20131012172003

I cannot see what the problem is. The trailers were painting the show up as just a straight up string of action scenes? Sure Monty Oum has his best talent in action, but just hearing him talk about his experience with RWBY, I could sense the writer's spirit in his words. Writing isn't just a string of tropes to get from one fight scene to another, not for him. The story lives inside him, spending any free thought checking for inconsistancies, or reliving a glorious moment, or slipping into the shoes of a character. A writer can't help themselves, it is just how they are.

Really if I had to complain about anything in regard to the trailers, its the fight starved people they bring as an audience. Monty Oum writes, and rewrites, revises this story constantly. He and his entire think tank spending weeks, months, constructing the world, smacking down any inconsistancies, making sure everything fits together, deriving the outcomes of hundreds of potential character interactions, laying down the capabilities of Aura and Dust in an easy to understand fashion, and they might even be thinking about the events happening outside of Beacon for the next season. They go through all that work, weaving this story together in a timespan I didn't think possible, and the community skips over all of that because they want to watch sexy girls fighting.

If any of you were around before episode 8, you know exactly what I'm talking about here. We spent five episodes without a fight scene, and the community exploded. Now we have Monty throwing out fights like a zookeeper hurls meat, into places where they don't fit, just to relieve the communities almost sexual tension.

So in conclusion, I think the trailers actually do a lot to improve on the story. The fault here lies in this obsession for fights people have, even if it doesn't mean anything.