Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-43891221-20190924195001/@comment-32346149-20191025173406

The reason why Nora and Ren will never explicitely be shown to be a couple is because Miles and Kerry are incapable of writing it. Romance is, by far, one of the most difficult things to write, and it requires enormous amounts of experience. Miles and Kerry have demonstrated, time and time again, that they don't have the experience or the capability to do it. So they settle for shipbaiting instead, a skill more in line with fanfic writers.

Consider this; Miles was a lead writer for RvB for 5 years. And during that tenure, he did exactly the same thing he's currently doing on RWBY. Lots of shipbaiting, but no actual romantic development. It wasn't until he handed the keys over to Joe Nicolosi, in Season 15, that there was any substantive romantic content in the show.

This is only one example of how RWBY suffers from the current writers' oversight, and it's yet one more reason why RWBY will ultimately be RT's biggest failure when all is said and done. We all know (even if some of us choose to deny it) that RWBY could be 10 times better than it is right now. We know that Miles and Kerry haven't even remotely tapped its potential.

They need to hand the keys to somebody else. It's not personal--I'm sure they're great people--but they're just not the right ones for the job. They don't know how to make this show the best it can be.