Talk:Nora Valkyrie/@comment-209.58.136.209-20180410181658/@comment-4010415-20180614152411

It's not the reason RWBY's not the same anymore, and it's actually good that they nerfed Coco's gun and temporarily nerfed Ruby's whirlwind move until the Volume 4 Character Short.

Monty's obsession with Rule of Cool hurt the writing.

In the Black Trailer, he originally wanted Blake to cut the entire train in half. The only reason he didn't is because Miles told him she's not strong enough to do that.

Ruby's whirlwind move in the food fight actually fucked over the later part of Volume 2 because fans were screaming "Why didn't she just do the whirlwind move from the food fight to get past the White Fang members?!!" It was no longer believable that she got captured, and fans felt it was stupid. She didn't use that move against the White Fang because she wasn't supposed to be ABLE to yet. Monty threw it into the food fight because "It'd be cool" without thinking about the writing.

The writing says Pyrrha was keeping her Semblance secret. However, in the food fight, Monty had her openly use her Semblance to send gigantic waves of soda cans at Blake, in a public cafeteria in the middle of the school, which had gigantic windows lining both walls, with nothing blocking anyone's view of them. That's not secret. Anyone chilling in the courtyard would've seen her move hundreds of cans with her Semblance. But Monty did it because "It'd be cool."

The writing acts like what happened in Breach is that the Beacon students were having trouble getting the Grimm invasion under control and what saved the day was the Atlas military showing up. However, that's not what we saw... because Monty directed the action part of Breach. It's like "Oh, the Grimm are supposed to actually be a problem in this episode, and the Atlas military is supposed to save the day? Nah, let's have CFVY come in and utterly curbstomp them no problem. They're only second years, but they can obliterate Grimm, lol."

If Coco could still made Death Stalkers literally explode with her gun (whereas JNPR, only a year younger than CFVY, had to throw one in a canyon just to get rid of it), the Grimm invasion at the end of Volume 3 wouldn't have been as much of a big deal.

What has truly made RWBY not the same anymore is that there's no awesome action alongside the writing. The fight scenes are really weak now. Miles and Kerry are able to more carefully try to craft the writing without fight scenes screwing it up, but they're not giving us the awesome fight scenes we miss.