Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170918133425/@comment-4010415-20170929070025

One problem he had was that he was never that great at story stuff, and he said such himself. That was the big reason he asked Miles and Kerry if they wanted to help him. Together, the three of them planned out the story of RWBY and created the world of Remnant, and that's something that a lot of fans don't know and don't realize. A lot of fans think that RWBY's planning and foundation was all 100% Monty, but it wasn't. Those fans think that Miles and Kerry are just carrying on Monty's creation with whatever notes he left behind, but they were right there planning it with him.

Stemming from his weakness in storytelling skills was the issue that he had a habit of wanting to do something for the sake of how cool it would be, regardless of what negative effect it would have on the writing. He was more animation-minded, and he had brought Miles and Kerry into the creators' circle to be writing-minded. The problem is, fight scenes had a tendency to be "We'll take these story plans all three of us came up with, and we'll figure out the details of how it goes and write the script for before and after the fight, and Monty will do whatever for the fight." I say that's a problem because, really, the food fight and Breach, both of which were Monty's doing, had a negative effect on the writing, and there was nothing Miles and Kerry could do about that, nor could they foresee it.

Ruby's whirlwind move in the food fight would've come in handy when she got captured by the White Fang mooks in Mountain Glenn, but for whatever reason, she wouldn't do it. For whatever reason, she did a much, much weaker and useless version while trying to get past Mercury in Volume 3. Monty made her do an ultra powerful whirlwind move in the food fight because it would be cool, but Ruby being able to do that before the Volume 4 Character Short posed a story-telling problem.

Breach... The story treats Breach as if the Beacon students had trouble dealing with the Grimm invasion and it was Ironwood's army that saved the day. From what we saw, this is not what happened. From what we saw, it's ridiculous for Cinder to claim that Ozpin failed to protect Vale when the Grimm invaded its streets, considering CFVY's part in the fight. And, of course, Coco had to be nerfed in Volume 3. In Breach, her gun made a Death Stalker explode into pieces like a smashed watermelon, and it also sliced a giant Nevermore in half. In Volume 3, it couldn't shoot through trees. Meanwhile, Ruby had to make an effort to chop off a giant Nevermore's head but easily chopped down a tree roughly the same size as, if not bigger than, the trees Coco was shooting.

And, in the Volume 1 Directors Commentary, from what we can gather from Miles and Kerry, while working on the Black Trailer, Monty had wanted Blake to cut the train itself in half and only refrained from doing so because Miles told him she's not strong enough to do that.

So... yeah, he was definitely not flawless. I feel like, at some point, Miles and Kerry should've sat down with him and Shane and talked to them about having better communication between the two pairs to keep writing and character power levels consistent so that the action scenes that Monty and Shane animated wouldn't have a negative effect on the writing.