Talk:Lessons Learned/@comment-75.83.160.151-20151202215606/@comment-4010415-20151212203736

@Furubatsu More than three seasons, actually. They've said that Monty, Miles, and Kerry sat down and planned out the entire story of RWBY before they even began writing the script for the very first episode. So, Miles and Kerry know exactly what story Monty wanted to tell. It's just that, sometimes, they made slight changes, rearrangements, and additions to their overall timeline, in order to make sure later plot points could happen and when they realized certain plot points could, and in some cases should, happen sooner.

Also... I'm just gonna point out, Monty Oum was NOT the only person who animated Volume 2's fight scenes. Alright? Shane Newville animated Pyrrha vs Mercury and, apparently, Yang vs Neo. The animators just aren't used to having 4v4 fights where everyone is involved at the same exact time.

The most they've done before was 4v1 (RWBY vs Nevermore, JNPR vs Death Stalker, RWBY vs Roman in the Paladin, CRDL vs Pyrrha). The food fight hardly counts, since it was more like a series of 1v1 fights. They're trying to do something they haven't done before.

The rest of the problem with the previous tournament fights is the writing, but in my opinion, it kind of works because it shows how unprepared the protagonists are. They're still first-years. They aren't taking anything seriously, they're not quite experienced enough yet to take on what's coming, etc. Hell, the other tournament fights were probably intended to kind of suck, considering they had Qrow outright say that the fights were a mess.