Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4820209-20150202184613/@comment-226878-20150203053528

Well, deep down, everyone had to know Dead Fantasy was never coming back. Monty's work on that was unofficially completed.

As for RWBY, there are plenty of up-and-comers and indies with sufficient fanbases that RT can turn to as replacements for Monty.

Monty Loyalists will suffer a divide as any fanbase does: those who believe that continuing the watch the show with a Monty replacement is somehow a betrayal to the man they loved... and those who think that true loyalty means continuing to watch the show that Monty helped to build because it is still partially his baby. I'm of the latter.

Thinking of it as an actual parent... of a little leaguer. The parent is famous. Then they die. Do you stop watching the little leaguer just because they have a new step-father? Did you only watch the little leaguer because of their famous parent? Sounds pretty f-'d up to me. Little kids can't thrive on hand-me-down secondhand attention or pity. The same goes for this show. Personally, I watched the show because I liked. I didn't watch it because Monty was a part of it. I'll continue to watch it even if turns out like the comics over Snafu... progressively getting worse. Of course, that all rests in the hands of RT to actually continue the project. At the very least, we need one more volume/season to answer the questions and tie up the loose ends.

As for the characters Monty was to voice, Ren and Qrow, I just hope they find someone who sounds like Monty. I remember watching OnePiece and getting used to the sound of Sanji's perpetually congested voice. Then the sky-what's-it arc occurred and his voiced went all nasally and it was just wrong. Of course, they may choose two separate actors to play them now. I wouldn't mind if Ren's voice got deeper (puberty), but I'll be pissed if he starts to sound like Jaune. A man's voice doesn't progress backwards.