Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25247233-20160513080632/@comment-25936766-20160517144629

Kyuubi10 wrote:

Instead things as they are now would be made exactly according to plan, and anything done against plan is scrapped completely, even if it is a cool original idea. (Or this is what I understood from Shane's letter.) Then you understood it very wrong, because Shane was talking about the opposite, about things not going according to Monty's plan. Had they gone exactly like Monty originally planned, Shane would have never made that letter, or even complained.

Now, about your previous reply to me (TIP: You don't have to quote the entire post if it's too long. You can even erase parts of it and leave the ones you are responding to).

-No. That's just plain bad writing. It's irrelevant if the fight contradicts the story or not. That is different from doing nothing but mindless fights one after another with an excuse plot linking them together, which is what Monty wanted to do. Now, modifying them? Depends on what you mean by that.

-You say it would be overlooked. Why? Just because plot is "the priority", it doesn't mean they would remove or ignore any cool idea. Just bear in mind, "cool" does not mean it would be a good idea. The scene you mention, it's completely harmless, so no one would mind if it was left in.

-Lol, what? Now you're going crazy on the assumptions.

-This was no different, kid. It was the same as always. "Made by an animator"? Changes nothing. If he wanted to show up mindles fights for the sake of cool with story being an afterthought, he should have never made RWBY. He should have never tried to actually make a damn story. But he did, he made RWBY, he tried to tell a damn story, which means that he needed to tell a good story.

Leaving it as an afterthought for the writers to try to fit in while the animators did whatever shit they wanted would make things worse, in every way, and RWBY would have never reached what it is today. RWBY is not mindless fights and the writers trying to fit a plot in. It's an interesting story that has cool, not-mindless fights as part of it.

-You're missing my entire second point there. ''Shane worshipped Monty like a God. If something didn't go 100% like Monty planned, he protested. He could not replace Monty because he would rarely try to cooperate with Miles and Kerry, simply because they didn't think all of Monty's ideas were good ideas, often for good reason''. A trio where 1 is always against the other 2, is not good.