User blog comment:Jkphantom9/Shane Newville: "An Open Letter to All Who Treasured Monty Oum"/@comment-24113789-20160513051133/@comment-4010415-20160513155516

We have prior evidence (Volume 1 Director's Commentary) of Miles having to get Monty to slow down on the Rule of Cool "cut everything in half!!!" stuff, so to me, what Diego said has some substance to it.

Would you rather RWBY be about explaining what led up to the fight scenes, or would you rather RWBY be about telling us a story that has fight scenes in it? Having the show focus on and revolve around fight scenes with story going on to explain what led to said fights can easily lead to a story that's not really... that good.

I'll be honest, I was starting to lose my hype for RWBY, but Volume 3 revived it. I was really cautious about believing any of the hype that they were trying to raise up for Volume 3 because Volumes 1 and 2 hadn't given us any reason to believe that the show would actually get serious about the story and that the Grimm and villains would ever seem like the threat that they kept saying they were.

And in the middle of talking about the Rule of Cool "cut everything in half" stuff, I can't help but think of how spectacularly disappointing Breach was, from an "Are the Grimm really that dangerous?" standpoint. Coco exploded a Death Stalker and cut a giant Nevermore in half - effortlessly. Why are they afraid of Grimm, again? No Brakes had gotten me so hyped because I couldn't wait to see a serious conflict between the people and the Grimm, for them to finally prove to us that the Grimm are actually the problem that the show kept trying to tell us they were! And then they threw that away in favor of "Look at this awesome fighting, look how badass everyone is, WHOA!"

Breach is why I was so hyped and excited when I finished PvP and realized they had three whole episodes to wrap up the climax! They could actually take their time and let things get serious! They could make sure the pacing wasn't gonna be so fast that everything gets solved in the blink of an eye! The Grimm and the villains were actually treated like a threat, instead of them saying they're a threat and then showing them get their asses whooped! There were moments in Volume 3 where I actually, for once, felt like things could get dangerous for the characters, and I loved it! Volume 2 gave us a little bit of that in No Brakes, sure, but Volume 3 made me feel it more.