Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25247233-20160513080632/@comment-27087508-20160520125212

Kyuubi10 wrote: SketchyOpus wrote:

I have a feeling we're going to continue to disagree about things, simply because of where we are and where we stand on employment. You see Shane's passion as a good thing they should embrace. I see his passion as more obsession/fanaticism that became a liability.

Now, if he could have handled his passion better and made more logical choices ... Yeh you do make a great point there, and @Someone too obviously.

But in the end the biggest disappointment I have is that RWBY is not Monty's project animore.

And in all honesty I like the direction Rwby is going, the plot seems amazing, especially since the ending of Season 3...but as I did mention before this is RT's RWBY now...not Monty's RWBY anymore.

And if RT is honest about this I will actually be completely fine with it, I just don't want the using Monty's name and "vision" just to please the fans when instead behind closed doors they are doing something else.

That just feels like they are lifting their middle fingers to Monty. Ok I'm just going to be frank here.

My friend, in a way RWBY ceased being "Monty's project" the day he passed. Yes we all loved him and yes we all wish to see his legacy and love for the show carried on, but you need to accept the fact that a project cannot be treated like the  untouchable property of one now deceased, especially since it was a joint effort to begin with. Give credit where credit is due.

Its been said before that Monty was an animator first and foremost. A brilliant one, and a truly creative mind whose aesthetic vision for this show was astounding. But a long term story writer he was not. He mapped out major plot points sure, but you need to get from A to B on a path that makes sense. A show can have the most amazing fight scenes and character designs, but if it isn't carried by a story of matching quality it will never reach its potential. Changes need to be made, the creator is not always going to have the best ideas for where the show goes. That is the point of having mutiple writers and people to bounce ideas off. This is what Shane does not understand, that as much as we loved him not all Monty's ideas were necessarily good ones in terms of narrative and that making changes is not inherently a bad thing. Monty is not here, and Shane and others acting like they know for a fact this would not be what he wanted and that the CRWBY is somehow ruining his brainchild is down right outrageous.

The CRWBY would NEVER lift their fingers to Monty, EVER.