User blog comment:Zathronas/Zathronas - Let's talk about the elephant in the room/@comment-10380701-20160209123251

Monty himself isn't perfect, as stated once again. I'd like to point at Breach for reference of his low points. He directed that. He's a beast animator, yes. But he's not exactly the greatest man when it comes to story and episodic pacing. This is coming from a guy who greatly respects everything he did.

M&K took RWBY to some very high levels these past few episodes, even without some input on Monty in terms of animation. (With the exception of PvP I think? I heard some stuff that Pyrrha vs Penny was his final work) So even without him, RWBY won't have problems standing high.

What's more interesting is that his protege, Shane Newville, left the company around some months ago as well, but we barely saw a dent in RWBY's animation quality.

With that said, the only reason I defended Ren's chance of dying in your previous blog was on account of the season finale being eerily close to the day Monty died. That and he did have some manner of character development this volume, being equal to Jaune this time, as he didn't get that much development this volume as well. Ren not getting development right now is mostly on account of shit going so south and the fact that the Cinder Arc is almost over.

If Vale falls and everyone is forced to relocate to another kingdom, maybe in a non-school environment, we'll finally get to see more development from JNPR.

Until then, I stand by my ground that RWBY and JNPR are unkillable.