Commentaries/Volume 1 Directors Commentary

Notes on Transcript
 * Curly brackets {} are for things they said, while someone else was talking (if heard clearly enough).
 * Horizontal lines are markers that mark 1 minute intervals, since the beginning of that episode.
 * The commentary is continuous, and is meant to be heard in the movie mode on the DVD.
 * Sections in italics mark specific parts of the episode, for example the intro narration or the onscreen appearance of a character.

Ruby Rose
Intro Narration Begins.

1. Monty: Alright.

2. Miles: Oh... My... Goodness, you guys!

3. Kerry: I gotta get my chair.

4. Miles: It's the RWBY DVD Director's Commentary with Miles Luna!

5. Monty: And me. Oh, I'm Monty.

6. Kerry: I'm Kerry.

7. Miles: And we're the writers, creators, those dudes that made this ridiculous show with our brain juice!

8. Monty: You remember a year ago? I was like "we should make an anime".

9. Miles: And here we are.

10. Monty: That's pretty great.

11. Miles: Making something that resembles an anime.

12. Kerry: It's anime-like.

13. Monty: Anime-esque, resembles an anime. We have a jar of jelly beans by the way.

14. Miles: Oh yes, through out this commentary we'll be eating different jelly beans, not knowing the flavors {Kerry: Shout out to jellybeans} because we live life on the edge!

15. Kerry: I actually can't do this, because I have a phobia of jellybeans.

16. Miles: That's more of a reason for you - I'm going in right now, hold on. I got... ladies and gentlemen at home it's pink with yellow splotches and—

17. Monty: Are you serious, Kerry?

18. Kerry: I don't know man, it's just I'm worried that, {Miles (Grossed out) Aww} it's going to be poo poo every time.

19. Miles: (Grossed out still) Aww, it's bubblegum.

20. Kerry: See!?

22. Miles: This sucks!

23. Monty: No the worst one is—

24. Miles: Bubblegum flavor sucks!

25. Monty: We should probably talk about the fucking movie.

26. Kerry: Nah.

27. Miles: How about language?

28. Monty: Oh, so Jen Taylor intro.

29. Kerry: Yeah.

30. Miles: Oh my god, Kerry should we talk about when we recorded Jen Taylor?

31. Kerry: Yes, we absolutely should. So we talked about this at the RTX panel, I think?

32. Monty: I had a doctor's appointment.

33. Miles and Kerry: Oh, that's what that was? (Talking over each other but basically the same point, Miles said "was that" instead of 'that's")

34. Kerry: So yeah, we didn't find that out until it was already time to make the call.

35. Miles: Yeah, you should've told us that you were going to the doctor instead of telling us "Hey, guys, tomorrow we're recording Jen Taylor. Don't worry I'll be there, you guys can be there too". {Kerry - Emphasis on "don't worry".} And then you didn't show.

36. Monty: Twice.

Intro Narration transitions to Roman Torchwick.

37. Kerry: Yeah twice. Um, so yeah we get into the, you know, we're calling in from here and she's in L.A. And we call in and it's like "Oh hey, hey, so yeah we're gonna do this. Um, yes if you could just run through it, how you think you would do it," and she did it. And... it was perfect.

38. Miles: On the first take she nailed the intro.

39. Kerry- Yeah, 100 percent.

40. Miles: And Kerry and I, she's on like her last line. And Kerry and I look at each other and we're like "Dude, we have her for an hour and she got it in the first two minutes, what do we do?" So we just looked at each other and we're like "That was great, Jen, great. Uh, do it... slower".

41. Kerry: "Uh, do it... faster".

42. Monty: Hey look.

43. Miles: "Scarier..."

44. Monty: Look, look, look, it's Ruby.

Ruby Rose first appears on screen.

45. Miles: Hey!

46. Kerry: Heard you on the first look.

47. Miles: Dude, that soul is so simple.

48. (Next line sec is a too quiet, but there was a bit of chuckling.)

49. Monty: Smaller, honest soul.

50. Miles: Honest soul.

51. Kerry: Oh, shout-out to Junior's Henchmen, from the Yang trailer. {Miles: Yeah}. Oh and shout-out to Old Man, in the facial hair, Patrick, voicing the Old Man. Patrick our concept artist.

52. Monty: What about Torchwick?

53. Miles: Gray Haddock, uhh, awesome voice actor of Roman Torchwick, as well as one of our editors and compositors. Very talented man.

54. Monty: Gray has been in anime since I was fifteen years old.

55. Kerry: What flavor did you get right now?

56. Monty: Oh man, why'd you have to ask? That one's gross.

Henchmen start filling dust canisters.

57. Miles: What jellybean flavour was that? Oh, funny story. So these uh, dust canisters, totally based off a wine opener  that's in my kitchen. Kerry and I were writing and I was trying to describe what, like how people would carry around dust in containers and I was like "I mean it kinda looks like, y'know, imagine this wine opener and um... actually no it's pretty much just this wine opener".

58. Kerry: "Yeah, just imagine this wine opener. Just, let's just model this wine opener". I think you actually gave, you brought it in {Miles: (laughing) I did) for the modeler who did it.

59. Monty: It was like, Dick Peppermint flavor I just had.

60. Miles: Oh my god!

61. Kerry: Dick Peppermint? (Chuckles)

62. Miles: I have, I have a solid, bright-orange bean and a kind of see-through orange bean...

63. Miles: ... (Eats jellybean) See-through orange is, watermelon, what!?

64. Monty: So this one is Simmons-coloured.

Ruby kicks one of the henchmen across the room.

65. Kerry: I wonder if it's Dutch Irish? (Reference to ethnicity of Simmons from RvB)

66. Miles: Orange is orange. (Roman gestures to another henchmen to deal with it.) Oh hey, so Ruby's fighting!

67. Kerry: Yeah, so people paid money for this.

Laughing, followed by Ruby kicking a henchman out the window.

68. Kerry: Damn, jellybean discussion.

69. Monty: Oh here we go.

70. Miles: We had, we had a fun time with uh, with Torchwick. He started off, when we first wrote the um, the first five chapters. He was a much, played a much, much much smaller role. But um, god man we liked him so much. (Laughs)

71. Kerry: Yeah. Especially once we got Gray in the booth for him it's like "Yeah, we wanna use him".

72. Miles: More...

73. Kerry: He's really cool.

74. Monty: Yeah. Not to mention his design ended up being really cool too.

Ruby vs Henchmen Fight Begins.

75. Kerry: Yeah.

76. Miles: In this, in this first fight he really is—

77. Monty: Shout out to A Clockwork Orange.

78. Miles: Roman's pretty laid back in this first fight. He's kinda gentlemanly but later on when we get to see him, we, we see how he is kind of a scumbag. Kinda full of himself, kinda a dick.

79. Monty: I actually wish we had more Roman in this show.

80. Miles: I already broke my no swearing rule.

81. Kerry: Darn it, gosh darn it. Diddily do da.

Henchmen defeated and Roman says his farewell to Ruby.

82. Monty: Yeah, but this is some gold by Gray right here.

83. Miles: Who was it, ok, so who was it that put up, uhh... was it our storyboard art, was it Mike who gave him the uh, {Kerry - Fump}  the uh the aimer or no, who's idea was that?

84. (Inaudible mumbling for a sec, to me at least)

85. Miles: Or was that, like, my idea?

86. Monty: No, it was the editors doing sound.

87. Kerry: It was either- well, no, the fump was him, I don't remember who actually decided {Miles: No. it wasn't} the target on it.

88. Miles: I think it was me.

89. Monty: You said aimer again; it's called a sight!

90. Miles: Did I say aimer again? I always call it an aimer because I'm an idiot!

91. Kerry: But then, yeah, that was you.

92. Miles: Ok, shout-out to my own idea and for recognizing—

93. Kerry: Listen (what an?) asshole, Jesus Christ.

A Bullhead rises up next to the roof Roman and Ruby are currently standing on

94. Monty: Oh, and airships, look at that!

95. Kerry: Are you just gonna point out everything that we did?

96. Miles: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, for the RWBY Wiki out there let's name everything. OK: So there's Roman Torchwick getting in a Bullhead, is the classification of airship? {Kerry and Monty- Yes} And throwing some Burn Dust crystals at, uh, at Ruby. And he's all like pew pew (fake explosion noise from Miles followed by Glynda Goodwitch appearing to protect Ruby from the explosion caused by Roman). Glynda Goodwitch shout-out! I love, can I talk about how much I love the Moon in this scene?

97. Monty: Oh, yeah.

98. Miles: Oh my god.

99. Kerry: It's so good.

100. Miles: It's freakin awesome.

101. Kerry: Yeah, one day, one day {Monty: Shout-out} Monty just kinda came up and was like "What if the moon is broken?" And I was like "OK".

102. Miles: When it's, yeah, when it's a crescent moon it's not the dark side of the moon it's just that the moon is kinda broken that way and we're like "yeah, that sounds great".

Roman and Cinder vs Glynda and Ruby Fight Begins as Roman stumbles into the Bullhead cockpit to getCinder Fall's assistance.

103. Monty: Shout-out to me. (group chuckling) And uh, special character here which we'll talk about later I'm sure (Cinder).

104. Miles: Yeah {Monty said something like "and Glynda" but it wasn't clear} And just for the record, if you guys are watching the commentary first before your watching the dvd. This is a bad idea, stop, go watch the movie and then come back.

105. Kerry: Yeah, what are you doing?

106. Monty: Oh not to mention, just a general shout-out overall to, Eileen or Einlee. Who designed the majority of these characters including, uh, Glynda... and well I did Ru, well I did the first four girls but she really fleshed out the rest of the cast which was great cause—

107. Miles: (Gags) Uh, black liquorice. I'm taking this out of my mouth and putting on the desk.

108. Kerry: Why is this on the table? Ughh, there's not a napkin or {Miles: I hate black liquorice!} anything...

Roman tilts Bullhead to deflect Glynda's attack.

109. Monty: So this fight kinda came outta nowhere, too. Uh, just I kinda had one of those days where "I'm gonna do something with snake-rocks". Or I don't know what these are honestly.

110. Kerry: I just, I remember, I remember it was like we got through the rest of it. The, the first part before this and your like "I don't know. I think it needs more..." And were like "Oh, OK, we got like another thirty seconds we can add... Like, we got some time".

111. Monty: And we like making this for RTX {Kerry: Yeah} I was pretty much working on the Yang trailer at the same time as this episode.

112. Miles and Kerry: Yeah, you were.

113. Kerry: So there was, like, we came in the next day and Monty had all this. We were like "Ya, this is great, more".

114. Miles: This is our dumb joke.

Fight ends and the Ruby asking for an autograph scene about to happen.

115. Kerry: Haha, "Can I have your autograph?" (Ruby impression in sync with Ruby)

Scene Change.

116. Monty: Shout-out to Austin for this entire sequence.

117. Miles: Oh yeah, Austin Hardwicke.

118. Monty: It kinda reminds me of, like, Shane came on at the... (messed up a little bit, couple of uh's and the's) RvB Season 10 and he had the first scene. And you just, you throw people right into the fire with this.

119. Miles:Yeah, that's okay why not? Yeah.

120. Monty: You, we just take an animator on and say "Here! Here's one of the longest, most important scenes for a character".

121. Miles: Yeah, Austin, who worked on season 10, he worked on season 10 in more of a technical role. {Monty: Yep} So that when we brought him in for RWBY we brought him in as an actual animator. And then yeah the first thing we give him is "Hey! Here's the first episode, go".

Ozpin arrives to question Ruby.

122. Monty: Some of you would know him as "Pink Haired Animator Guy".

123. Miles: Yes... There's a tumblr for him.

124. Monty: Yep.

125. Kerry: (Laughs) But you know, whatever, he likes to wear hats!

126. Monty:And no shoes.

127. Kerry: Shout-out to Oz and Glynda.

128. Monty: Oh, that's right.

129. Kerry: It was fun, it was fun to come up with these two and their dynamic.

130. Monty:Yeah... Yeah, I mean, goddammit Shannon you're so good!

131. Kerry: Shannon McCormick's the man, also known as Agent Washington, AKA The Great Face, AKA uh The Riddler from DC Universe Online, AKA that one dude from Breaking Bad... that had fake hair.

Ruby eating cookies.

132. Monty: Yep, yep, so much {Miles and Kerry laugh} so much better Ozpin than I could have ever played, dear god. I can't believe we even considered me playing Ozpin.

133. Kerry: Also shout-out to the "That's my uncle" joke!

134. (Laughing).

135. Kerry: You should, you should probably tell this part of the story, Monty!

136. Monty: Alright, I was like you know, there was a read and I was like, and I was looking back at the, you know, the reviews and was like "Now, can we get this line a little more racist please?"

137. Miles: Now again, to explain that joke, just go watch the Rooster Teeth Animated Adventure...

138. Kerry: Something about Burnie watching anime...

139. Miles: No, no, it was "Left 4 Trek", right?

140. (Talking all over each other: something like Miles saying "yeah cause otherwise" and Kerry saying "Yeah I forgot")

141. Monty: God, it's like a reference within a reference cause it's of, it's of, it's a RTAA Animated Adventure that references our po- story that's in one of our podcasts.

142. Kerry: Which is Burnie basically summarising all of anime.

143. Miles: This was...

144. Monty: This is so full circle!

145. Miles: Yeah.

Ruby explaining why she wants to be a huntress.

146. Miles: I think this was the moment when we realised Lindsay Tuggey  is Ruby Rose. {Kerry: Yes} Lindsay Tuggey is one of the most dedicated voice actresses that we've had the pleasure of working with and she also just freaking awesome. {Kerry: Shout-out!} She uh, she came in for her audition with her own script printed out, her lines highlighted, memorized, listening to like high-pitch K-pop dance music {Monty: She would, she would have} she would bring an energy drink and she was like "I'm ready to do this!"

147. Monty: She would have Michael read with her.

148. Miles and Kerry: Yeah, yeah.

149. Kerry: They would just like practice at their apartment at home, just like going back and forth and Michael would do all the other lines.

150. Miles: I would imagine Michael would be like, "Oh, Lindsay, your lines are great, I mean the script is terrible but you did great".

Yang hugs Ruby.

151. (Laughter).

152. Monty: Oh, and here we have Yang.

153. Miles: Aw, Yes!

154. Monty: A lot of people like Yang.

155. Kerry: I think, um...

156. Monty: Dustin did a good job with that very girly bounce right there.

157. Miles: I loved it!

158. Kerry: Dustin, also a fantastic animator on the show.

159. Miles: Hmm, Dustin's so good. So good. {Kerry: Umm} Dustin, I want your beard.

160. Kerry: I gotta say, I think the thing that I'm most proud of...

161. Monty: I love this airship, too.

162. Miles: Yeah, the airship turned out great too.

163. Kerry: Who, uh, who put together the airship?

164. Miles: Well, I mean a lot of people put together the airship but...

165. Monty: Uh, Kristina, one of our concept artists and a good friend of mine, designed a lot of our backgrounds and, and such. She did the airship interior here. And then... I think Corey built it, I think.

166. Kerry: We, we have a ton of people who worked on this project. Uh, at different stages. Oh, so we should probably add, uh, so the DVD, our DVD ships tomorrow. Uh, and it is 3:52 in the morning right now, so we're... wait, I forgot to mention that part because it was so irrelevant to me at this point.

167. Miles: I was going to start off the thing with "What time is it, guys?" And I was hoping one of you would say "Three" and I was going to go "Nah, it's RWBY Time! Shut up".

Hologram Glynda Speech.

168. Miles: Real quick, uh, so that male, that male news reporter...

169. Miles: So obviously in RWBY we always try to have a colour related name, {Kerry: Oh, yeah} for certain characters. We never say but that, that news caster's name is Cyril. His last name is, uh, Ian. His full name is Cyril Ian (Cerulean). (Laughs)

170. Monty: Oh, Jesus, I forgot about that.

171. Kerry: In all seriousness that only showed up in the script. {Miles: Yeah} It only ever showed up in the script, that probably took Miles and I about ten minutes. That was ten minutes of us going "What's his name gonna be? I mean, what if he comes back?"

172. Miles: Oh, dude, yellow is totally pineapple flavored jellybean and it's the best.

173. Monty: No, its the worst... (Camera zooms out from airship window to show Vale) Great score. Music, man, Jeff Williams...

174. Miles: Jeff Williams is pretty awesome. He's good at music and stuff.

175. Monty: Dude, currently, the, one of the songs that just came out is like top ten on four different countries on iTunes.

176. Kerry: (High-pitched voice) Whaaat!?

177. Miles: That was pretty wild.

178. Kerry: That's fucking nuts man...

179. Monty: Ah, swearing.

View change to focus on Beacon Academy

180. Miles: Oh, shout-out to vomit boy, that guy sucks.

181. Monty: Aw man, remember when I thought of, thought of this character for you?

182. Miles: What!? No! That was, oh my god, don't get me started, don't even get me started!

183. Monty: So long ago!

Episode End

The Shining Beacon
Part 1 Starts

1.Miles: You're full of shit!

2.Monty: What're you talking about?

3. Miles: (Laughing) You're full of shit!

4. Monty: I don't know what you're talking about.

5. Miles: Jaune! Jaune was a collective effort.

6. Monty: Oh no, I was saying like we, when you first did reads and I was like "We need like a Sokka character."

7. Miles: We did uh, what happened was, I told Monty I was like "Monty..."

8. Monty: You know what it is? We brought Arryn in.

9. Miles: We brought, it was me and Arryn one night, you were like, I was like "Monty I'mma be real with you, I wanna voice a character in this show." So I went in and I did a bunch of different guy voices: We did the cool guy voice (Monty: Uh huh.) We did a tough guy voice, I did a serious guy voice. And of course (in Jaune's voice) "I got stuck with the nerdy guy voice."

10. Monty: That's what I'm talking about.

11. Miles: And, yeah, and then from there we were like, I remember hearing your laugh outside. This is what, and so, I'm doing lines in here (in Jaune's voice) "Lalalalala Jaune Jaune Jaune" (normal voice) And then outside I hear... (leans away from the mic, and makes the sound of distant maniacal laughter) (Monty chuckles)

12. Miles: And, uh, and that's how I knew, I was like "Okay, so I think I'm gonna be, I think I'm gonna be stuck with the nerdy character!" (laughs)

13. Monty: It's like, yeah, but we also didn't have Jaune at that point. (whispers) I had "Jean".

14. Miles: (Kerry laughing) Yeah, it was Jean, as in Blue Jeans as the idea for his first name.

15.Kerry: Yeah, which was awesome that during uh, during one of like our writing review things. Uh Burnie came up, he was like, he was asking why he was named that and we were like, "Oh, cause we need like a color name."

16. Monty: Yeah it needs to have like this criteria of (Kerry: Yeah) letters and colors.

17. Kerry: Yeah, so he was like "Well why not just use, you know, Jaundice?" And we were like, "Oh, that's a really good idea, we're doing that. We should've done that from the beginning."

18. Miles: Um, so it was Jaune. And then yeah we brought Arryn in, to improv with me and the two of us were just in um, in the booth. And we did this scene, we did this scene where I was like, I think we, we were thinking about having her for Blake. (Kerry: Um hum) And we told her she was pretty quiet, and the scene that we improv'd was it was lunch, she was trying to eat and then Jaune came in and started buggin' her asking her about... I, uh, we were just like Jaune was just bugging her, that was the scene. So I um, I decided to go (in Jaune's voice) "So tell me about this Weiss girl." (normal voice) And in that improv session we were like "Jaune needs to be infatuated with Weiss." (chuckles)

19. Monty: That's when we came up with the Snow Angel line and the whole infatuation with Weiss.

Ruby Sneeze Explosion.

20. Miles: (in Jaune's voice) "Where's that uh, where's that lovely little snow angel you talk to all the time?" (normal voice) And we was like "Ok so this needs to be a thing in the show."

Red Dust Vial rolls next to Blake.

21. Monty: Oh, speaking of Weiss and Blake.

22. Miles and Kerry: Hey!!!

23. Monty: Hey.

24. (Miles and Kerry laugh.)

Blake looks away from Book to pick up Dust Vial.

25. Miles: I read books! (imitating a girl's voice and said in unison with Weiss) "Unbelievable!"

26. Kerry: That soot, uh, that like wiped off of Weiss at the end there almost didn't make it in because...

27. Monty: That's, best last minute idea ever.

28. Kerry: That was seriously like 10 minutes before we hit render on the day of the episode. Every single one of these episodes 1 through... 6, uh, of the chapters last second are put up on our website.

29. Monty: By the way, Kara is so good.

30. Kerry: Yes.

31. Miles: Oh my god. I'll, I'll, I'll be and when I first heard that Kara was gonna be a voice actress I was like "I'm not sure, I don't know what her acting is like." I was like "Ehh..." During the booth, "Damn, son!" (laughs) She, she can play, she can play an ice queen for sure!

32. Monty: Yep, she's really good.

33. Miles: Hey, uh, (chuckles) so we wrote in a crater face joke, guys there's no crater. (laughing) We keep talking about how she blew a hole in the courtyard!

34. Kerry: I knew I forgot something.

35. Miles: (laughs)

36. Monty: That's just hard to do (Kerry: No, it's fine) man.

37. Miles: It's fine.

38. Kerry: That's been, that's been our catchphrase this entire season. (Miles laughs) Right as the season was starting Michael who was in a RT Life video, where he just started pouring water on Gavin's head going "It's... fine, it's... fine." So our entire season, any time there was a problem like that or just something we knew we wouldn't have time to fix it was just "Nah, it's fine."

Jaune helps Ruby up

39. (Monty chuckles)

40. Miles: (In Jaune's voice) "Hey, I'm a secondary character."

41. Monty: I wouldn't say that.

42. Miles: It's true!

43. Kerry: That's definitely how it started though I mean, like when we started we were kinda like fleshing out what was gonna happen this season. JNPR was gonna be very much just like the B team.

44. Miles: B team. Just come in like every once in a while.

45. Monty: Yep.

46. Miles: The more we developed these characters and the more we got into it, it was like "Y'know, I kinda like these characters."

47. Kerry: We didn't wanna push them to the side.

48. Miles: It was a lot of fun, and Monty you, you've talked about this before too. How you wanted to set up these seemingly one-dimensional characters, these archetypes and then kind of over the course of several chapters, break those, those moulds that everybody is so used to...

49. Miles:... Which is kind of risky, like in the first episode you see. Oh we have this, y'know, cliche bubbly girl, cliche like stupid goofy guy. And then, dude, cut to Chapter 7 and all of a sudden you're like, oh, Jaune is aware that he's the stupid guy and he hates it. Or cut to Yang who looks like the cute party girl then any scene with her and Ruby and it all of a sudden she's like, mom, like she's a mother and... I think that was just super, super cool. And uh, uh, little things too that just kinda look like jokes like... Blake, um, one of my favorite Blake moments is when she uh, shows her Ninjas of Love book and she freaks out. Like, solemn characters are great when you show that, they're not always solemn. Those characters aren't always like that.

50. Monty: That's right. People are, people are picking up on that stuff too.

51. Kerry: Yeah, it, I feel like it um... It almost took a little bit of time for the audience to actually trust us. There's some point like, we... Cause we put out the trailers a good bit of time before the actual show came out and uh, I feel like everybody got kind of like there own impression of the character whether it was right or wrong.

52. Miles: Especially for Weiss, yeah.

53. Kerry: Especially for Weiss, yeah. I mean, when you talk about the, y'know, putting one-dimensional characters or seemingly one-dimensional characters out there and it being risky. That was kind of what happened first with Weiss, where we y'know put her out there and everyone was like "Aw this is what you're gonna do with her?" But that's my internet voice.

Part 1 ends.

The Shining Beacon, Pt.2
Part 2 begins.

54. Kerry: But um, as the season goes on she, I think she probably has one of the biggest developments of all the characters.

55. Miles: You understand why she is who she is.

Yang waves Ruby over.

56. Monty: Hey, look, it's Yang.

57. Kerry: I love [Barbara Dunkelman|Barbara's]] read on that so much. (Terrible Yang Impression) "I saved you a spot!"

58. Miles: (Terrible Yang Impression) "Are you being sarcastic?" (Higher Jaune Voice in unison with character) "If only there was another nice, quirky girl to talk to". (Normal Voice as Pyrrha is revealed) Oh my god, it's Pyrrha!

59. Monty: Hey, Pyrrha.

60. Kerry: Shout-out to Pyrrha.

61. Monty: I like Pyrrha.

62. Miles: That's Jen Brown].

63. Monty: Yeah... Yeah who voiced Carolina in Red vs Blue seasons 9 and 10. It was phenomenal.

64. Miles: Wait, so she's now played two, incredibly talented, red-headed, green eyed girls. Her range is incredible.

65. (Monty laughs.)

Weiss leans into frame from behind Ruby while she is telling Yang about what happened earlier with the Sneeze Explosion.

66. Kerry: Just really, no seriously though she's wonderful.

67. Miles: This was what, I think this is the first shot of. This shot right here was the first image we ever tweeted from the actual show.

68. Monty: Yeah.

69. Kerry: That's actually still my most favorited tweet of all time.

70. Miles: I'm gettin' real tired of yo nonsense, Ruby.

71. Kerry: This is actually, this whole scene was actually the first dialogue scene (Monty: Yep.) that got animated. This is basically because Monty, the Trailers were like Monty's fight test (Monty: Yeah.) for all of the models and rigs, but this was like the dialogue test.

72. Monty: The acting test essentially, performance test.

73. Kerry: I remember one night you just like stayed up all night. And you stay up overnight a lot but it's like, like we just came in in the morning and he was like "Look at this, I have this thing".

74. Miles: God, that Dust pamphlet bit almost got cut, and I was like so scared it wasn't going to end up in the show.

75. Monty: We have cosplayers who print that out and bring that to cons with them.

76. Miles: I love that. Dust for Dummies (Putting a voice on) "and Other Inadequate Individuals". (Put-on voice no longer used) Um... Yeah, this episode actually, uh, Kerry and I recorded a version of chapter 2 where we did all of the voices. Because we were trying to figure out the timing, how long like... Because we wrote the scripts, but we, y'know, we had no way of gauging how long, like how many pages equated to minutes.

Ozpin Speech Starting.

77. Kerry: Right, so say for me to give an example in a normal live-action script, it's usually suppose to be a page a minute.

78. Kerry: With RvB, it usually ends up about being two pages a minute. So we had no idea what the count for this would gonna end up being because it could be anywhere in between. I don't even remember what it ended up being. We ended writing like 18 pages per episode...

79. Miles: Something like that, yeah.

80. Kerry: So math.

81. Miles: So math. Yeah, I remembered though, I just remember... I, whenever, whenever you and I would write, you would always... Cause we would, we would write a scene and then we would kinda act it out to see how it would flow. You always would be Ruby and Yang and I think I would be Weiss and Blake. I love, I love (Laughing while talking) reading her lines, (Weiss sped-up voice impression) "The Schnee Dust Company is not responsible for any injuries including (random noises)". (Voice impression finished) I don't remember the lines.

82. Kerry: You had that down at one point.

83. Miles: I did.

84. Kerry: You remembered the lines.

85. Miles: I read that in under, I read that Schnee Dust Company thing in under 10 seconds without any help from post-production or anything.

86. Monty: This scene used to be so much longer, too.

Scene Change

87. Miles: Oh yeah that Oz speech was really long at first.

89. Monty: Not to mention the...

90. Miles: This scene was a little different, too. (Monty: Look at all the corpses!) We, we won't talk about that. No they're fine, they're sleeping. (To Monty)

Yang falls onto sleeping bag next to Ruby.

91. Monty: Oh, shh, shh.

92. Miles: I love this scene!

93. Monty: This scene is awesome!

94. Miles: Because we got pyjamas!

95. Kerry: Yes, we were so worried we weren't gonna get them.

96. Miles: We had to fight for pyjamas, man. Um, cause y'know, we didn't have a ton of time to do this.

97. Monty: Every time, every time there is an outfit change, that's a model that has to get built.

98. Kerry: And it not only has to get built, it has to get rigged.

99. Monty: Rigged, built.

100. Miles: As silly as it sounds, giving them PJs just made them feel so much more like actual people. Y'know, you're not seeing that character...

101. Kerry: (Whispers) They're cartoon characters, Miles.

102. Miles: (Whispers) Don't, no, I wanna believe! I wanna believe!

103. Monty: I love their PJs.

104. Kerry: I love Ruby's pillow.

105. Miles: The corgi pillow. Shout-out to corgi pillow.

106. Monty: Yeah... This scene-

Yang gets hit in the face with the corgi pillow.

107. Miles: I loved, I loved hitting Yang twice in the face!

108. Kerry: Shane did this scene right?

109. Monty: Shane did this little scene and he did a phenomenal job. Cause he knows his stuff.

110. Miles: (After eating a jellybean) Highly recommend the bright orange jelly bellies. Kerry just eat a jellybean! Kerry eat a jellybean.

111. Kerry: (Fake eating noises)

112. Miles: Eat it. Your fa, you're not eating a jellybean. I can see you.

113. Kerry: No, they can't see me.

Yang drags Ruby to see Blake.

114. Miles: (High pitched voice right after Ruby) "What're you doing!?"

115. Monty: It's Blake!

116. Miles: This is an important scene for (Monty: Yes.) Blake. Do we wanna call out what book she's reading? I mean people already guessed online, yeah, I don't think it matters. (Bit more mumbling)

117. (Monty laughs.)

118:Kerry: That was an awkward exchange.

119. Miles: I'm gonna bring it up, I'm gonna bring it up, and then drop it... Ruby introduces herself awkwardly to Blake (whispers) Actually you can just call me Ruby. (whisper finished) This was, um...

120. Monty: This, this, yeah...

''Yang questions Ruby as to what she is doing; Ruby asks Yang to help her as she doesn't know. Ruby grins awkwardly immediately after''.

121. Miles: I love this! I love this, Ruby's smile!

122. Monty: Goofy, those goofy ass smiles are the best!

123. Miles: Oh, man. This was the first time we hinted that Blake's bow was something that was abnormal, was Yang pointing out that she wears it even when she goes to sleep. That was the first time we kinda gave a hint as like "Why is she wearin' a bow all the time? Ehhhh".

124. Kerry: Why is she, Miles?

125. Miles: Uh, because it goes great with her jamjams.

126. Kerry: Okay, that's good.

127. Monty: We should watch the movie.

128. Miles: Nah, but for real though, she got cat ears.

(Laughing)

129. Miles: That's the first time, this cus uh, this season hasn't come out yet. That's the first time I've ever said anywhere on a recorded device that Blake is a Faunus and has cat ears. God it feels so good to say that.

130. Kerry: For the record it is "Faunus". This drives Arryn crazy.

131. Miles: Yeah, she goes (girly voice) "It's not a fauna it's a faunus".

132. Kerry: Yeah, we told her very specifically "You cannot correct people, because we don't want you to seem like you have more information on this than other people".

133. Miles: Yeah. Um, but, yeah, this is a really important scene for Blake. Umm, she's pretty cynical, she's been through a lot. Um, and you know, seeing Ruby's... You know Ruby's kinda naive; she's kinda young; she's kinda optimistic.

134. Monty: Yep. Honest.

135. Miles: I think it reminds Blake of how she used to be, y'know? And then of course, sa, dude! Pro social interaction moves by Ruby noticing that they both like books. That's probably the smartest thing...

136. Kerry: "You like books; I like books". It's like the worst pick-up line ever.

137. Miles: Dude, maybe let's read... I love the cartoony fights!

138. Monty: And then Weiss.

139. Miles: Oh, was it your idea to give her a candelabra?

140. Kerry: Yeah.

141. Miles: Yeah, we wanna, we wanna make sure that Blake had, uh, lots of Belle related items around her. Just a little tip here and there.

Episode End

The First Step
Part 1 Starts

1.Miles: And here we go, Ren Valkyrie and Lie, wait... (Everyone laughs) Jesus Christ!

2.Monty: Holy shit Miles!

3. Miles: I'm so tired!

4. Monty: You fucked that up so bad! Ok let me fix this, Nora Valkyrie and that guy.

5. Miles: (Said while him and Kerry are laughing) Lie Ren... I bring so much shame to my family!

6. Kerry: It is uh, 4:08 am, everybody.

7. Miles: Shut up! Leave me alone!

8. Monty: Did you say Ren Valkyrie!?

9. Miles: I was so excited to introduce the two of them, I accidently shipped them in my brain!

10. Kerry: And, and you, and he took the last name?

11. Miles: Well look at Ren. He's... y'know... progressive.

12. Monty: Well, there's all sorts of, there's all sorts of mixings that goes on with this whole team.

13. Miles: Damn it!

14. Kerry: Yeah, there's uh... Do you want to talk about the, the uh, theme that goes on with JNPR?

15. Monty: Well...

16. Miles: Yeah, do that, talk about smart stuff.

17. Monty: The theme? Well I don't know, should we reveal that? Because there is stuff down the line, y'know?

18. Miles: Umm...

19. Monty: People have guessed and then people haven't, that's the thing. I think we should, uh, leave them a little...

20. Miles: Alright, alright. Well people are still learning who, who.. 'Cause that's the thing, one thing that we, that we... Monty you and I were talking about this it's like, um...

21. Miles:... With the first four girls everybody was like 'Oh who's this character based off of, oh she's Red Riding Hood, she's Snow White, she's Goldilocks, Beauty and the Beast, yada yada yada.' And then once the show started, everybody kinda stopped doing that.

22. Monty: Yeah pretty much.

23. Miles: They, they no longer cared. They just liked these new characters that they were presented and they stopped asking 'Oh, who's Jaune based off? Who's, who's Ren inspired by?'

24. Monty: Y'know, I especially don't want to give away Pyrrha's at the moment considering the stuff that's gonna happen in the next volume.

25. Kerry: Sure, yeah.

26. Monty: Yeah...

27. Kerry: Anyhoo, so we have uh, Nora. Who we just saw for the first time, voiced by Sam Ireland, who voices C.T.

28. Miles: Gahhh, I love Nora.

29. Kerry: She also totally made out with Gavin in that one short. And that other guy.

30. Monty: And that other guy. Um... And then there's Ren. Asian guy, played by an asian guy.

31. Miles: So Ren and Nora... Kerry. I would like, I, I am really proud of Ren and Nora. Would you say so?

32. Kerry: I'm happy with Ren and Nora. I think Ren and Nora is the first time, that Monty kind of like turned us loose on something. 'Cause he had written basically like, short character descriptions of all of JNPR. So we kind of like,

33. Monty: I wrote short character descriptions for all the characters, I had one sentence for Ren and Nora.

34. Kerry: Yes, they were that short.

35. Miles: It was uh 'Ren is an honorable warrior, Nora is a powerful woman'. And I think that was it. And... it came to... when Kerry and I got to this episode we were all like 'Oh man, this is the episode where we have to introduce Ren and Nora. Uhh, what're they like? And we kinda sat on it for a while. We stopped, played some Minecraft, ate some pizza, came back to it. And then we just wrote this scene where we like 'Would it be funny if one of them was a morning person and one of them was not? And that exploded into 'Okay nevermind. One of them is just always energetic and the other one is never energetic'. And we read back that first scene and we were like 'I think we have our characters'. (Laughs a little)

36. Kerry: The way we ended up describing it was uh, essentially they share the same amount of energy. And Nora takes it all, so Ren has nothing left to be energetic about.

Jaune flirting with Weiss

37. Monty: Oh and then there's this scene.

38. Miles: Oh I got to mocap this scene! I got to mocap Jaune.

39. Monty: That's you.

40. Miles: It's so much fun.

41. Kerry: It's the fruitiest Jaune... animation.

42. Miles: Dude, I kept telling people it's like, Jaune talks with his hands, he emotes. (In Jaune voice while Jaune moves) 'And doing things like that and this and'

Weiss pushes Jaune and Pyrrha away from eachother

43. Monty: Also we have Jaune and Pyrrha meeting for the first time.

44. Miles and Kerry: Yeah.

45. Miles: God, look at the three of these.

46. Kerry: You really like to stick your butt out.

47. Miles: Well, shut up.

(Monty and Kerry laughing)

48. Miles: He likes to lean forward. He, he, well the whole point of the scene was that he was gettin in Weiss's business and he doesn't realise it. Like, he doesn't rea, he's trying, Jaune's thing is that he tries to hard all the time and it backfires against him. Like, he doesn't have to try so hard, he'd be fine but,

Pumpkin Pete's cereal box appears

49. Monty: Aw, the cereal box! Oh my god it's so good!

50. Miles: Kerry you did that and when I saw it I like peed my pants I was so happy.

51. Monty: I'm so glad it made it in. I thought it wasn't gonna make it in.

52. Kerry: It almost didn't make it in. Patrick drew all the assets and then kind of at the, we, doesn't look like we're gonna have time so at the very last second I was like 'I'm gonna do this' so I just grabbed everything Patrick had made which we thought wasn't gonna get used and just went woop.

53. Monty: Also Pyrrha. You're so awesome. Not to mention Kara.

54. Miles: (Something followed by Weiss, couldn't hear properly)

55. Monty: Remember, remember, the whole. Part of this scene also needed to establish something that was like a visual joke for me like, coming up soon the whole spearing.

56. Miles: Oh yeah.

Jaune gets "speared"

57. Monty: Over here, it's like,

58. Miles: Jaune gets speared a lot.

59. Monty: I just needed to make sure that the second time we did it he didn't die essentially.

(Laughing)

60. Miles: Oh yeah! That's what you wanted to establish!

61. Monty: That was the reason! I wanted to establish here that it's a thing, for them, that she does this to him and it's okay.

62. Kerry: She saves him a lot. Yeah that's why had the 'thank you' in there.

63. Miles: (In Jaune voice) "Thank you".

64. Monty: Yeah, yeah.

65. Miles: (Pyrrha Impression) "I'm sorry!" I, I realised this, Pyrrha apologises all the time.

66. Kerry: She's proper.

67. Miles: She doesn't need to. Pyrrha's very,

68. Kerry: She's a Canadian.

(Monty laughs)

69. Miles: Pyrrha's our ca (laughs a bit) Pyrrha's our token Canadian character (Laughs while talking).

Scene changes to the cliffs near Beacon

70. Miles: Oh man. Oh I yes! So this, this was cool. This was one of the chapters that I got to storyboard and it's really, really cool seeing it animated when you drew it. Like,

71. Monty: Oh, I mean, first thing I wanted was like some sort sequence where they all showcased their ability to fall from a high distance essentially.

72. Miles: I remember you wanted that and it was like "Oh yeah, how they gonna get there?" It's like "Aw I don't know we'll figure something out." And then one day you're just like "Catapults."

(Laughing)

73. Miles: That was the only word, it was "Catapults". "What does that mean Monty?" He's like "Catapults". "I don't understand".

74. Monty: It's important thematically just to have our characters all be able to have a landing strategy, it's a big deal, and it'll come into play even further down the line. It's a pretty important set up for all our characters.

75. Miles: Oh my god, white jellybean is coconut.

76. Monty: And the fact that Jaune doesn't have one.

77. Kerry: Yeah, or doesn't know anything about it at all whatsoever.

78. Miles: Yeah we really start hinting at the fact that Jaune is not on the same level as all these other characters.

79. Monty: Yep.

80. Miles: I wanna... Somebody made a joke that was uh, the reason we don't see Blake's landing strategy is becuase it would give away the fact that she's a Faunus cause she's a cat, she'd just land on her feet. (Laughs)

81. Kerry: How true you were.

82. Miles: I thought that was really funny.

83. Kerry: It was seriously, it was um, originally we'd like written out... Descri, I think Monty you'd written out decriptions

84. Monty: Yeah. I wrote up pretty, pretty, pretty in-depth descriptions of what they would do to land.

85. Kerry: Yeah. And then we realised "Oh shoot, we don't have that much time. Let's cut it down to just like main three." And then it was like "Ok no wait, we need to add in a few but let's definitely not show Blake".

86. Monty: Yeah.

87. Kerry: And by definitely not show Blake, we apparently decided not put her in this scene.

88. Monty: And then we just said "Hey Austin (Typer Note- Presumably Austin Hardwicke), come up with Ren's".

89. Miles and Kerry: Yeah.

90. Monty: And Yang's, and just do it.

91. Kerry: Yeah. That was a good couple weeks for him, we're just like "Hey Austin, add 30 seconds of animation to this".

Jaune continues to worriedly ask Ozpin

92. Miles: Oh Jaune.

93. Monty: The launch here was done by Dustin (Typer's Note- Presumably Dustin Matthews).

Russel Thrush gets launched

94. Miles: Russel!! Shout out to Russel! (Laughs a bit) Best side character ever that we'll talk about later in chapter 8!

95. Kerry: We have couple Russel stories.

96. Miles: (Still laughing slightly) Oh my god, we have so many Russel stories!

97. Monty: Russel's the current hit of the office.

Cardin Winchester gets launched

98. Miles: Oh and there's Cardin. I love, apparently his landing strategy is just to grab the ground.

99. Monty: Oh, by the way! The aviators spawned entirely by, uh, Austin animating that sequence with Yang flying through the air and I just, I decided to pull up Top Gun-

Part 1 Ends

The First Step, Pt.2
Part 2 Starts

100. Monty: And have that playing.

101. Miles: Wild Zone.

102. Monty: Wild, uh, The Danger Zone. While that, while that was playing back.

103. Kerry: Pretty much every single time there's an animation review, Austin would start to talk and Monty would stop him, go to a computer, put on Danger Zone, and then continue the review for Austin. (Monty laughing) And that'd turn into... I can't remember who had the idea, it was like "Let's just put, let's just put them on." So Caesar just like modeled them in 10 minutes and we just like threw them on in the scene.

104. Miles: Yeah originally when, when we see Yang right here we were going to play a very Danger Zone-esque song but it didn't end up working out. But yeah imagine here (Singing) "Highway through the Danger Zone" (Stops Singing) I think I've missed, I don't think those are the words.

105. Kerry: That's fine because then we can't get sued.

106. Miles: Yeah there you go. Oh man. Oh and this, the "Nailed It" was just adlib, Like we putBabs in the booth,

107. Monty: Barb has some great adlibs.

108. Miles: And I, I like... She was like "What should I say?" And Danel (Typer's Note- Unsure due to pronunciation but could be referring to Daniel Fabelo) and I just started feeding the lines and one of them was "Nailed It" and as soon as she said it, we were like "That needs to go in the episode!"

Pyrrha sees Jaune falling uaing her gun's sight

109. Monty: Here's the reveal on Pyrrha's weapon.

110. Miles: (Makes clicking noises in unison with Pyrrha's weapon)

111. Monty: (Chuckles) Jesus.

112. Miles: Beeyong! I imagine that her spear sounds like a Transformer.

113. Monty: The thumb aim was pretty nice touch by Austin, the way she was aiming it like that.

114. Miles: Hey what's the name of her weapon?

115. Monty: Her spear is calledMiló which is Latin for, er Greek for speak and her shield is called Akoúo̱ which is Greek for listen.

116. Miles: Pretty cool.

Ruby starts running through the forest

117. Monty: Oh man I love this sequence! So this was another one of those,

118. Miles: This was like as anime as we got.

119. Monty: Yeah.

120. Miles: They just start running.

121. Monty: I really wanted to get another Animated Adventures, uh, reference into this show.

122. Miles: And we did!

123. Monty: Yeah.

Ruby's thought bubble is shown

124. Kerry: It, it was scary too 'cause for a little while it was looking like uh, Jordan was gonna be too busy.

125. Monty: Too busy to draw the four frames we needed to animate. (Chuckles)

126. Kerry: Shoutout to Jordan Cwierz. Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures. So great. We're, we're honored to have his rendition of the characters.

127. Monty: I, uh, essentially my descriptions when I came up with this. I was talking about it, I was like "Ruby thinks how Jordan draws".

128. Miles: Yeah!

129. Monty: And that's it.

130. Kerry: It's a pretty perfect thing when you think about it. Just that those cartoons can be used everywhere. (Typer Note- Not sure)

Weiss turns around as Ruby stops

131. Miles: I love the music cue on this.

132. Kerry: Yeah just that single "ding!" Just that, that look in Weiss's eye right there.

133. Monty: (Laughs a little) Oh the whole idea,

134. Miles: (Sings) And I will al (stops singing as Weiss walks away) aw.

135. Monty: The whole idea of making eye contact and forming teams was just really one of the earliest things we talked about.

136. Kerry: Yeah, that was, that was pretty early on and it changed a lot. Oz has, the the, the eye contact was probably the most consistent thing of all of the first five episodes.

Weiss walks through bushes

137. Monty: Yeah, for her to look at one, look at another,  that was fucking hilarious.

138. Kerry: Oz has a definate method to his madness. Like a bunch of people were like "He just leaves so much up to chance." But there's... I think he kinda believes in that because, y'know, the whole world is filled with people that you may or may not get along with. But, whether or not you like somebody, doesn't really matter, if we don't work together, we're all kinda screwed as a people.

139. Miles: Well there's a difference between chance and letting things play out.

140. Monty: Yeah, Oz has a lot of really bizarre methodology that's... I mean kinda of inspired by the way I do things. (Laughs) Y'know?

141. Miles and Kerry: Yeah.

142. Miles: But yeah we get more into Oz, a little later. He's a cool dude.

143. Kerry: Yeah. That's defi, definitely something we've thought about was, y'know, there's a... centricness? I dunno. To the way he works sometimes and it works so... Y'know, that's good.

144. Miles: God!

145. Kerry: And there, there's definitely that to Ozpin as well.

Ruby puts her arm around Weiss

146. Miles: (Whispers) I love this exchange. (Stops whispering) This was done,

147. Monty: Nick,

148. Miles: Perfectly.

149. Monty: Nick animated this so well.

150. Miles: This is exactly how we imagined it.

151. Kerry: I love that. "And I wanna be your friend." Swoo!

152. Miles: Hope you're not allergic to roses lady!

153. Monty: So as someone goes around cleaning up her remaining rose petals apparently. That was a discussion.

154. Kerry: That was, that was a thing that led to a joke that actually might make it in. I don't know.

155. Monty: Oh Jesus. Really?

156. Kerry: Yeah, you'll, I'll remind you later. You'll remember.

157. Monty: Okay.

Glowing red eyes appear in the bushes behind Weiss

158. Kerry: Oh man. Big bad wolf.

159. Miles: Shit's about to get real.

A Beowolf comes out of the bushes

160. Miles: Oh Weiss you done done it... (In unison with the Beowolf) Rawr!

161. Monty: Monster designs by Pat.

Episode End

The Emerald Forest
Part 1 Starts

1.Monty: So Beowolf designs by Pat, Pat Rodriguez, concept artist.

2.Miles: Amazingly talented person.

3. Monty: Among many things.

4. Miles: I wanna cut off his hands and put them on my arms.

5. Monty: (Laughs) They're, the, the monsters being different from like the original, like the "Red" Trailer for example are really just because we had more talent at hand. The "Red" Trailer was pretty much made entirely by me back then so... Y'know, yah add more people.

6.Kerry: I don't think, I don't think pretty much I mean, that was entirely by you.

7. Monty: Yeah, yeah. So like these bears coming up, man.

Ursa surprises Yang

8. Monty: Look at that.

9. Miles: Ursa, ur, these are Ursi. Plural is Ursi.

10. Monty: I gave him like guidelines of like what the, the designs I wanted and he just like, made 'em. So that was fun.

11. Kerry: Yeah we kinda came up with this theme, that was they'd have this almost armor-like plating on them. Bones protruding, they have these red designs.

12. Monty: They follow the red, white, black and a little bit of yellow kind of theme.

13. Miles: In the Death Stalker you got the yellow, yellow crystal stinger.

14. Monty:These guys kinda have like a little bit of hint of yellow in their eyes. It's red, red and yellow.

Strand of hair floats down in front of Yang

15. Miles: (Laughs) So this was um... A bunch of people were like "Does her hair give her power, what's goin on with her hair?" Honestly it's just because, we thought it'd be funny.

16. Miles: It, she's Goldilocks!

17. Kerry: She takes care of herself.

18. Miles: She takes care, and. And a bunch of people were like "Oh, this, this self-confident girl like why does she care what other people think about her?" She doesn't care what other people think, but her hair is something that she takes care of and she really likes it and they're screwing it up.

19. Monty: Yeah.

20. Kerry: There's also one thing too I mean, especially Barbara just being Barbara who she is. I mean, she's been known as blondie in the community.

21. Monty: That's one of the first things actually. I went to Matt and I said "Barbara should play Goldilocks" and that was it.

22. Kerry: Yeah, that was the decision right there.

Blake smiles into the camera

23. Kerry: So y'know, it totally makes sense she'd care about her hair.

24. Monty: Well that's 'Merica.

Scene shifts to Weiss surronded by Beowolves

25. Miles: God people love that. Blake, says so little and people love her so much. And I think it's cool.

26. Monty: Yeah. And then Weiss says so much, people still love her.

27. Miles: Yeah. (Laughs)... So this was uh, really important to Kerry and I to come to like to show that both of, both Ruby and Weiss are absolutely capable but they have completely different fighting styles.

28. Monty: I love the stumble right there.

29. Miles and Kerry: Yeah.

30. Monty: Just, just the, just the... She's so proper all the time but to have her fall over constantly, just make it seem more hilarious.

31. Miles: As talented as Ruby is, she just, she's still young and doesn't really work with others. She's y'know, she's a star pupil, she's a prodigy, she's great on her own. But she's not really fully aware of her surrondings and the fact that some times her being awesome,

32. Monty: Yeah.

33. Miles: Makes other people look bad.

34. Monty: She gets by on natural talent, that's not everything.

35. Miles: It's natural talent and it's also... It's, book learning {Monty: Yeah} vs street smarts, y'know?

36. Kerry: Yeah.

Smoke rising in the distance behind Ruby and Weiss after they fled

37. Monty: Look at that smoke.

38. Miles: (In unison with Monty) Smoke, (No longer in unison) yeah.

(Miles and Monty Laugh)

39. Miles: But yeah this is the first time we see Ruby really... Frustated, she's not used to having to run away from a fight.

40. Kerry: It's, it's interesting too that um, you kinda... Especially these, I don't know what it is about these two episodes, this one and the next one, but they just got rearranged so many times, and one of the things got rearranged was we had... This scene, which was kind of Weiss finally getting like exactly have their wish, or how she felt and all the problems she was having. And that was kind of it and then we saw her, y'know save Ruby.

41. Kerry: But then, we need, we needed a little more time so we thought "Ok, there's a scene coming up, let's do the opposite. Let's, let's show Ruby getting upset for once." So this scene became even more important after that 'cause it was like "Let's, y'know let's get this started, let's like," This is the, I think, the kick off really to their relationship.

Jaune's eyes after hearing gunshots in the distance

42. Kerry: Getting it finalised.

43. Monty: (Laughs slightly) Jaune's eyes. He's uh, he's so freaked out.

44. Miles: Wait, what's up with his eyes?

45. Monty: His eye, he just is, his eyes just went...

Jaune gets hit in the face with a tree branch

46. Miles: (Makes a sound effect in unison with hit)

47. Monty: Wacko. Again! Just now, everytime he freaks out his eyes just go bizarre.

48. Miles: Oh Jaune...

49. Monty: Yeah. Here, so here's some uh, heavy handed exposition (Miles Laughs) about how our characters can sustain bullet hits and sword hits.

50. Miles: It's like a forcefield.

51. Monty: Uh y'know I mean, I mean I do have theories about this sort of thing and how it can be kinda symbolic with, y'know anonymity and projection and stuff, but all... The, it boils down to, we need to be able to tell the story and not have people die.

Scene swtiches to Ren walking through grass

52. Miles: Yeah you wrote, you wrote the uh, this Aura speech that, that Pyrrha gives to Jaune. And then we were like "That's full of really big smart words, let's have Ren fight a two-headed snake while this happens".

53. Monty: (Laughs) Yep, yep.

54. Miles: Confirming that the ki, king tai, I can never pronounce it's name,

55. Kerry: I think it's taijutsu, I dunno it is um...

56. Miles: King Taijutsu.

57. Kerry: So it's, yeah, it's uh, it's the... A king snake is a white and black snake. This is how we think of things (?). So we thought "Okay we've got a snake, it's gonna be white and black, 'cause it's gonna be like yin and yang. Yin and Yang symbol is like the taijutsu symbol or something like that I don't know how to pronounce it. And then a king snake is black and white. So let's call it King,"

58. Miles: King Taijutsu.

59. Kerry: Yeah.

60. Miles: We had so much fun coming up with monster names. I'm still so, I had Beowolf. I was proud of Beowolf. You w, when you said "What if called a giant raven a Nevermore?" I was like "That is hands-down the coolest thing ever. Kerry let's get married."

61. Monty: (Laughs slightly) And so, oh, so we did, Dustin and I worked on this scene together.

62. Miles: (Laughs) I'm holding hands with him right now.

63. Monty: Yeah.

64. Kerry: Jesus Christ.

65. Monty: (Laughs Slightly) And uh, he did the bulk work of the scene and I kinda just uh, y'know, kinda helped out, with some of the camera work and a little bit of the polish and some technical stuff like how to get the snakes to move. I mean, they we needed it to. Also I mean, I, I play Ren so he kinda wanted my input on how Ren would fight anyways.

66. Miles: Which is um, apparently the answer to that is awesomely! There's Jaune's line, I'm just forcing it in there,

Ren is holding off a King Taijutsu head with his hands

67. Monty: Yep, so eventually we get right to it! Oh, except I came up with this last part, I'm like "Aw, y'know, instead of um, just breaking the jaw, which you can't do to a snake".

68. Miles: (Laughs a little) Oh yeah! We realised after we wrote it, we had him break the, he snapped the jaw on a, on the snake. But then we realised "Wait, snakes unhinge their jaws, that doesn't work." (Laughs)

69. Kerry: I still think we could've made it work, I don't know.

70. Monty: So, so, I took the, I took the poses that Dustin made and made the uh... Head exploder shot.

(Soft laughing, possibly Miles)

71. Monty: Which, which people got a kick out of.

72. Kerry: Yeah Daniel who was doing the audio on that, he thought he was he all done. (Monty laughs) And we were like seconds away from the episode coming out and it's like "Ah ok, it's all done. Oh wait, what's this new play blast? Oh wait, did that head just explode?"

(Miles and Monty Laugh)

73. Monty: Yeah.

Pyrrha finishes unlocking Jaune's aura

74. Miles: Pyrrha being very talented, able to tap into Jaune's potential. The entire building is a single... (Inaudible)

75. Kerry: She can't do that.

76. Miles: Oh what? Wait, what is this?

Jaune's cut heals

(Monty Laughs)

77. Miles: Oh my god you guys it's,

78. Kerry: (Over the top Gasp)

79. Miles: He's got a lot of it!

80. Monty: So, so, Jaune, (Miles laughs wheezily) so Jaune's Wolverine right?

81. Kerry: Yes.

82. Miles: Uhh... (Monty Laughs) Yeah,

83. Kerry: Just look at him.

84. Miles: Yeah, you got it. Jaune Arc is actually based off Wolverine. (Monty and Kerry Laugh a little) Redacted.

(Monty Laughs)

85. Miles: Divekick joke.

86. Kerry: Aw, get it.

Nora is revealed from the tree

87. Miles: Oh my god!

88. Monty: Nora, Nora!

89. Miles: Kerry! I cannot praise you enough for this moment!

Nora boops Ren

90. Miles: Boop!

91. Kerry: Thank you. This is the dumbest thing ever.

Part 1 Ends

The Emerald Forest, Pt.2
Part 2 Begins

92. Miles: We, we were writing it, we were writing in your apartment (?) and we wrote that scene and we were originally gonna end it with "I don't think that's, uh, I don't think sloths,"

93. Kerry: "I don't think sloths make that kind of noise."

94. Miles: Or something like that. And then I, we were like, I was like "That's it. That's great." And I stood and I walked to the kitchen to get another slice of pizza, and then your hand, you were lying on the floor and you just pointed your hand in the air and you go "Wait. Would it be too dumb if..." And you explained the Boop thing.

95. Kerry: A lot of, a lot of my suggestions... and ideas in the show come with...

96. Miles: "Would it be dumb if."

97. Monty: And start with you on the floor. {Miles: That was the greatest thing}.

98. Kerry: Yeah.

99. Miles: God that was so good. I laughed so hard when you said she just goes "Boop" and I fuc, I died.

100. Monty: So here we have them looking over. I always, I always feel like in the mov, in the shows and movies and whatever where the kids are in danger. That the adults are still there watching and that they'll jump in at any minute to,

101. Kerry: Yeah, we even had Ozpin say like "You will not be monitored." But it's like yeah, you're gonna be, you're gonna be monitored.

102. Monty: Yeah, yeah,

103. Kerry: Y'know?

104. Monty: I always, like in Harry Potter I al... The dragon's chasing Harry, but I always fig, pic, pictured if it went sour, Dumbledore would be there in a snap.

105. Miles: Spoiler alert for Harry Potter. (Laughs)

106. Monty: Gay Dumbledore would be there in a snap.

Ruby and Weiss are arguing

107. Miles: So this, I, this was a super late scene that we added. (Kerry tries to interject with something like "Yeah this") And it became one of the most important scenes in this whole sequence.

108. Kerry: This is the scene I was talking about earlier that we kind of, added out of the blue. But yeah, I can't imagine this episode now without it. Um, Harley got this scene, who is an awesome animator.

109. Miles: Gosh she's good.

(Monty Laughs)

110. Kerry: I look at that, I look at this scene and all I see is Harley, which is good.

111. Monty: Yeah because she's a woman.

112. Kerry: Yes.

113. Monty: (Laughs) We have a lot of guys!

114. Kerry: It doesn't help, it doesn't help when I see Austin in a scene.

115. Monty: We have a lot of guys.

Weiss says "I'm not perfect"

116. Miles: This line right here... was,

117. Monty: And now kiss.

(Miles and Kerry Laugh)

118. Miles: We, we did this... We wrote this scene late one night at your apartment and Arryn and your girlfriend Stacy were just hanging out in the living room while we were in your incomplete study.

Blake and Yang approach the Abandoned Temple

119. Kerry: It's still incomplete by the way, I moved in three months ago and I haven't had time to,

120. Monty: Shout out to Caesar for that set by the way.

121. Miles: Aw yeah.

122. Monty: You'll see more of it I gurantee.

123. Miles: "You think this is it?" No Yang, I don't.

(Miles and Monty Laugh)

124. Miles: Um, again, just Blake, so much without even saying anything. But yeah that um, you and I were just shouting "I'm not perfect." (Laughs) At each other.

125. Kerry: Yeah.

126. Miles: In that room and we were like "That's definitely, she has to say that." I'm really, really really happy that scene got added.

127. Monty: These ruins. Man.

Scene changes to Jaune and Pyrrha

128. Miles: So ruined.

129. Monty: And then this thing.

130. Miles: (Chuckles) Look at the painting you idiot! (Laughs a bit) Oh man, I was so happy that we got to do the Looney Tune eyeball gag. I really like cartoony stuff.

131. Kerry; Yeah great __ fire scene. He did a really good job with the lighting ___ (Typer's Note- Simply couldn't hear what he was saying for the __, too quiet.)

Screen goes black except for character eyes

132. Miles: Aw it looks so good.

133. Monty: Look at that! It's like a real cartoon! It's great.

134. Miles: I love it whenever a character's pupils get really small 'cause they're scared. Like, I, I, I dunno I just think that's super funny.

135. Monty: Aw man.

Yang picks up the White Knight chess piece

136. Monty: Yang is the best!

137. Miles: (Simultaneously with Blake) "Sure."

138. Monty: Do, do you remember the storyboard where those, those chess pieces were about like a foot tall?

139. Miles: (Laughs) Oh yeah. The storyboard was incorrect!

140. Kerry: Yeah. And so yeah, essentially we, we had that storyboarded by somebody who was off-site and I guess we just didn't explain that little detail to them. "Little" being the pun there. Ah, and uh...

141. Monty: The storyboard she picks up "And how bout a cute pony?" And it's the size of like her head! Or bigger actually.

Jaune tries grabbing the Death Stalker stinger

142. Monty: Aw this is great.

143. Miles: Jaune that is so not the relic, what are you doing? (Laughs a little) You bumbling idiot.

Jaune succesfully grabs onto the stinger

144. Kerry: It, it was funny. Originally the uh...

145. Monty: Grab onto the bladed tail, yeah.

146. Miles: It makes sense.

147. Kerry: So originally uh... Sorry, I went across the room. So originally uh, the idea we had for the relics was that they were actually going to be inside... A like, piece of the monster. So originally Jaune was actually going to see the relic, there. Then we went "No this is getting too complicated. Let's just have be attracted by the big glowy thing."

148. Miles: There was going to be shiny gold piece inside the stinger, but then it just turned out to be a shiny gold stinger.

149. Kerry; That looks relic-esque.

150. Monty: This scene. Uh...

151. Kerry: It looks important.

152. Monty: I love Pyrrha's reaction here.

Jaune gets flung

153. Monty: It's adorable!

154. Kerry: Yeah she, she she kinda turned to it like "I am a strong fighter and, uh, yeah... I'm out."

155. Miles: This direction!

156. Monty: You've got Harley for that scene.

Scene change to Blake looking up

157. Monty: Oh and this yeah.

(Silence for rest of episode)

Episode End

Players and Pieces
1.Monty: Oh man, I shouldn't eat so many jellybeans!

2.Miles: Too many beans!

3. Monty: No,

4.Kerry: Just too many beans.

5. Monty: If you don't, y'know, this scene looks like, you were like, you were watching it and you wonder "How did they get on the fuck of the, the top of the, back of the crow?" If you don't think about it too much, or if you do, it's actually way funnier. 'Cause you just think of just something in your head what the shenanigans they came up with to get on top of it.

6. Kerry: Yeah that was definitely, uh, I can't remember if it was Gray or Daniel (?), um, were like "So when are we gonna see how they got up there?" We're like "Nah. We're just not gonna."

7. Monty: Yeah.

8. Kerry: It's funnier, it it, it's funnier to,

Scene change to Blake looking up

9. Monty: It's funnier in your head! Yeah, it's way funnier in your head!

10. Miles: Bow twitch! Second! Second Uhh, jab it! Not jab, but hint. Second hint of the Faunus!

Cartoon Beowolves and stars circle around Ruby's head

11. Kerry: I think people, people definitely picked up on that one more than the first.

12. Miles: Yeah.

13. Kerry; Probably because it was in your face, like, bow twitch.

14. Monty: Uh-huh, uh-huh.

15. Kerry: 'Cause I,  I took the uh, the same Beowolves from uh, Jordan's thing earlier in uh, chapter 3 just spun them around her.

16. Miles: Jaune stuck in a tree, again.

Nora riding in on an Ursa

17. Kerry: Jaune likes trees man.

18. Miles: Dude, so this is when we're really establishing that, to Nora, fighting Grimm is really just a game,

19. Monty: No big deal.

20. Miles: That she's really good at and loves to play.

21. Monty: Oh we start finally seeing her weapon. A little bit.

22. Miles: Hint at it a bit with that pink explosion.

23. Monty: Yeah. And Ren being tired. Remember how many times I had to redesign because it was Irish?

24. Kerry: Fu, okay,

(Miles bursts into laughter)

25. Kerry: Okay, okay.

Nora's "Queen of the castle" scene

26. Kerry: So for whatever reason, we're doing lines with Monty, I think it's just you and me and uh,

27. Monty: Uh, is that gonna be in the behind, like the behind, deleted scenes?

28. Kerry: Hopefully. It, it'll be there somewh, we'll have it somewhere. Uhh, just for some reason you kept reading that line like your, it was Irish. Think you can do it?

29. Monty: I, I couldn't get out of the, I I don't know.

30. Miles; It's 'cause you where doing it and I said "Monty you're starting to sound a little Irish." And you're like " I sound Irish?" And I go (Puts on stereotypical Irish voice) "It sounded a wee bit Irish."

31. Kerry: You, you did it, you fucked it up!

32. Miles: I, I kinda screwed it up.

33. Monty: And I couldn't get out of it!

34. Kerry: I think we actually like skipped that line, and then went and did other lines and then came back.

35. Miles: Yeah.

Nora interjects exclaiming her name before Ruby and Yang's hug

36. Kerry: The one that's in there still sounds a little Irish.

37. Miles: "Nora!" And then Nora's little dance, her happy dance!

38. Monty: Yeah.

39. Miles: Kinda looks like a potty dance.

Yang frustated with what's happening

40. Monty: Kinda looks like she has to pee, yeah.

41. Kerry: That's okay, maybe she does.

42. Monty: And Yang just totally fed up with everyone.

43. Miles: She's so Yangry right now.

44. Kerry: Oh, shut up Barbara.

(Miles and Monty chuckle)

45. Miles: Tick tock tick tock tick tock.

Weiss is hanging on to the Nevermore

46. Monty: And,

47. Miles: Binoculars.

48. Monty: Bing.

49. Kerry: I remember, uh, Nick who did, did, all these scenes kinda jump back and for team animators. (Typer's Note: No idea for the second half of this line, typing what I hear). But Nick did a really good job with Nora, just kinda having, um, just different image. I think it was Austin's idea to put the binoculars, but Nick did all the little dances with her and stuff.

Jaune prepares to jump and catch Weiss

50. Miles: Ohh, Harley did this falling and catching sequence and it's the best thing ever.

51. Monty: She jumped on it, just knew what to do right away.

52. Miles: She did, I just love the... their eyes moving back and forth and ev, everything about this.

53. Monty: And then the delay.

54. Miles: Made me so happy.

Jaune faceplants on the ground

(Monty: Laughs a little)

55. Miles: (In Jaune voice) Tries so hard. (End of voice) Poor Jaune.

56. Monty: The sound on that right there, her landing on his back. He should have, he should have become like peanut butter(?)

57. Miles: It sounds like he's bleeding internally!

58. Monty: (Something inaudible due to Miles) Jam at this point!

Pyrrha falls in front of the Ruby and the rest of the group

59. Miles: Oh speaking of bleeding internally, hey Pyrrha!

(Laughter)

60. Monty: We have to (?)... He's like Adam!

Ruby charges towards the Death Stalker

61. Monty: Adam the animator who's like "Please have her not be dead!"

62. Kerry: Just add a little bit of wound, 'cause yeah, y'know.

63. Monty: It looks like she's, she's bought it at that point.

64. Kerry: From an animation,

65. Monty: Shortest fight scene ever made by the way

66. Kerry: Yeah. I think we allotted you 20 or 30 seconds were like "Nah".

67. Miles: Dude, oh god man I can't tell you how many revisions the monster fight scene in the Emerald Forest went through. I uh, at one point there was four mo, 'cause, 'cause the thing with the Creatures of Grimm is that... We wanted to establish early on that, they can grow to be outrageously huge sizes. So we see the Boarbatusk in, in uh,

68. Monty: Seven?

69. Miles: Chapter 6. Um, and then, we, in this intial fight scene we were going to have a giant Boarbatusk, a giant Nevermore, a Giant Death Stalker and then another Creature of Grimm, that uh, we did not end up showing in this volume. Um,

70. Monty: And so four, four monsters.

Scene fades to black as Ruby is about to be stung by the Death Stalker

71. Miles: And it was nuts, we had, essentially, monsters killing each other, the, the slingshot was still there though.

Death Stalker stinger frozen in place reveal

72. Kerry: Yeah the slingshot I think was one of the only things that actually stuck between them.

73. Miles: Yeah I'm really glad the slingshot kept. Oh and here we have the ready to lead scene!

74. Kerry: (Laughs a little) The slingshot got to the point where, Miles and I kind of like thought it out a little bit, and we explained to Monty. Monty was like "Okay, y'know, that sounds good." So, but then we had to explain it to Matt and Burnie, and I think we got down to diagrams,

75. Kerry: We got y'know, we were like acting it out.

76. Miles: It looked like we were drawing a football play on the whiteboard.

77. Kerry: "See they're gonna go here, then they're gonna go here, and this is gonna go there and then back and then forward..."

78. Monty: And then when it came down to making it, I just like "I'm gonna do it this way."

79. Kerry; Yeah and it worked out.

80. Monty: And it worked.

81. Miles: It worked great.

82. Monty: All you need is the rough concept to go into it really. Like this used to be an ice dome and I'm like "Let's just use the,"

83. Kerry: Half the ice.

84. Monty: Yeah, just use the ice she's always used.

85. Miles: Who needs an igloo.

86. Monty: Yeah seriously.

Yang hugs Ruby

87. Miles: Man it was,

88. Kerry: ______ right now. (Typer's Note: The underline bit I just can't make sense of. It sounds like "Sign with seren" or something like that. Please inform me if anybody actually understands what is said here)

89. Miles: We were, we were worried that that, that reconciliation scene might be like, too abrupt or too cliche. We tried to give it, we tried to give it something to make it like, this is very much a Ru, like, an adorable Ruby scene and I think we did that with "normal knees". (Whispers something, presumably "Normal Knees" but difficult to tell)

90. Kerry: Which is a very late addition. We, we ended up having to uh, we ended up having to rewrite that scene a little bit because we added that scene I keep talking about over and over again, uh, in the previous chapter. So when we rewrote it we were like, I think it was, yeah you had that idea it was just like "Let's make a callback to that, one of the one off line".

91. Miles: Freaking normal knees.

92. Monty: Oh, uh wait,

Ruby and Jaune hold chess pieces

93. Kerry: Look at those decently sized chess pieces.

(Miles and then Monty Laughs)

94. Miles: My black liqourice jellybean is still just sitting happily (?) on the table.

95. Monty: Oh man there's so many jellybeans in my belly right now.

96. Kerry: See, you guys are all dumb I feel fine.

97. Monty: Someone was yelling at me about that too earlier.

(Miles and Kerry talk to each other while Monty is talking, something about having another jellybean which leads to grossed out noises and)

98. Kerry: Oh no its, NO!

(Miles Laughing)

99. Monty: Oh god it's gross.

100. Miles: It broke apart and it fell! It touched your arm.

Ruby stands on a rock and leads the others

(Discomforted / grossed out noises)

101. Miles: Proud sister moment.

102. Kerry: And this is why I have a fear of jellybeans.

103. Miles: Oh, Blake breaking the fourth wall, staring directly into camera, I love it!

Scene change into overhead shot as a Nevermore flies over, fight scene about to start

104. Monty: Oh and here we go. So I take over from here.

105. Kerry: Yeah this is, this is, this is the part where Monty takes over.

106. Monty: Yeah pretty much.

107. Kerry: And everything gets super super badass.

108. Monty: Was it like a month? A month and a half? Which was crazy  'cause I was like exhausted making this scene.

109. Kerry: I honestly, I don't think was even a month long, I think you did this in like three weeks maybe.

110. Monty: Yeah.

111. Kerry: You did this in an unbelievably short amount of time, on an unbelievably little amount of sleep.

112. Monty: I essentially was like "Let's go large ." I took Caesar's set, that was the thing. I took Caesar's set, that circle thing, and just plussed it times ten essentially, took the geo(?) and the texture and just made a big fortress thing.

113. Kerry: Now something really cool is that uh, Taylor who is our art director on this project and also uh,,

114. Kerry: Y'know, modeler and Caesar and the, all the, what they do is they made things kind of uh, really modular.

115. Monty: Yeah.

116. Kerry: Um, so that yeah you could go,

117. Monty: I could take it,

118. Kerry: You could go play us(?)

119. Monty: I could pick the elements of it and make something I needed to, so there's bridges and columns and... The play by play of like what I need to happen is, uh, it's more detailed than can even go into, it is essentially like, we, we needed, we needed the characters to kinda show their strengths and be, and become a team. So like we have them getting seperated and,

Jaune getting up after bridge is destroyed

120. Monty: Jaune especially the most important points for Jaune like, it was completely different that we (sounds like "had to worry" but is difficult to hear due to the battle sounds actually being fairly noticeable compared to the commentary) about him. Having a plan, right?

121. Miles: Oh yeah. Do you remember his original? The ri, 'cause we had to show, why Jaune can be a leader, and it's essentially that, he acknowledges how powerful his teammates are and that he's not as good.

122. Monty: Yep.

123. Miles: And that their, their lives are more valuable to him than his own.

124. Monty: Also,

125. Miles: And that is his strength.

Nora hits the broken bridge part Jaune is on to send him flying to the other side

126. Monty: Here we, here we showcase Nora's weapon finally.

(Miles Laughs)

127. Kerry: This is the best thing ever.

128. Miles: This is the greatest.

129. Monty: This like, we were, were actually, we, we did a good job of spacing out the fights in this show,

Nora knocks Blake off the broken bridge

130. Monty: And Nora only has one, but man does she have one.

131. Kerry: Yeah.

132. Miles: I... One of the coolest comments I saw online was that people were so happy that nobody had to save Blake.

133. Monty: Yeah.

134. Miles: Blake saved herself and she does some awesome... what do we call, what do we call that move? That shadow move?

135. Monty: Uh, it's just her Semblance it's her shadows. I mean there's not as,

136. Miles: Shadow clones, or whatever.

137. Monty: Yeah but she does clones, or y'know. But it was also important to, there's even like a thread of like, y'know thought there like she's going in and doing recon on the monster, when she comes back and reports there's a late line. (?) It's tougher than it looks! That's like a, that was like a pick up that was just like, yeah that's exactly what she's doing there. That was probably one of the last scenes I made too.

138. Kerry: Yeah I remember it was really important too that, it, she doesn't go back to Ruby,

139. Monty: She reports to Yang.

140. Kerry: She reports to Yang both 'cause she was her partner and 'cause Yang is... She seems more in charge.

141. Monty: Yeah, she really does. The thing though here, it didn't work. Yang goes very headfirst and it, it still doesn't work and she's still here trying to fight while Ruby assesses her team, looks at the tools that are available to her and says "I have a plan".

142. Miles: Let's make a giant slingshot.

Team JNPR battle the Death Stalker

143. Kerry: Yeah.

(Laughter)

144. Monty: Which is just so in character to her because,

145. Miles: This will totally work.

146. Monty: It's so like bizarre and it worked.

147. Miles: So this was, the most similar thing we got to, uh, 'cause... Okay so the original,

148. Monty: We almost didn't have this fight.

149. Miles: The original thing that Jaune did, to show his thing was uh, we had, we had the Nevermore had this attack where he would, it would uh, land and create this torrent of wind. And uh like, what was it? We had, we had the damaged Death Stalker in the trees that was snapping its pincers. And everybody was holding on to trees and stuff and the Nevermore's blowing his wind. Uh, he saw that Pyrrha was gonna fall into the pincers so he used his shield as like a parachute, so that he would go in first and she wouldn't get destroyed.

Nora finishes the Death Stalker

150. Miles: Oh my god that shot!

151. Monty: And then,

152. Miles: Oh my god that shot!

153. Monty: And so then months later, y'know, we get kinda like, into production and the little bit of naysay on like "Oh can we even get this done?" But it's like... And then we really, like we almost, at at, to a point where we almost didn't even have the scorpion fight. And I would not have that.

(Miles Laughs)

154. Kerry: There's definitely is like a "Okay I we have to pair(?) down" and you're like "Nah we're not gonna do that".

155. Monty: It made too much sense. You have a team mem, a team where you got two, two like infantry men with shields,

156. Monty: Who are meant to fight shoulder to shoulder. A speed guy and a heavy. So it's like uh, the sequence kinda played out in my head I didn't know what I was gonna do I just knew I was gonna do it.

157. Kerry: And uh, just going back a little bit. Another thing that kind of, Ruby being where she is in the slingshot is that it, it's the same thing that Jaune, or similar thing I guess, in Jaune that... He realised that his life is less valuable, in the same way, Ruby says "Okay let's do this really dangerous, I'll do the most dangerous part."

158. Monty: Yeah. So it's like the difference between like a leader and a boss essentially, she, she leads by example and takes part in the plan.

159. Miles: Leading by example is absolutely the whole theme of the next chapter too. And also Weiss will never admit that it's a good idea.

(Monty Laughs)

160. Kerry: Yeah.

161. Miles: (Weiss Impression) "Can? Of course I can!" (End of Impression) God I love that.

162. Kerry: Yeah I remember, is  is y'know(?)

163. Monty: That's, that's what I,

164. Miles: You had just seen storyboard handed to you but you knew you were gonna kinda, do your Monty magic but that was like remember when,

Ruby starts dragging the Nevermore up the side of the cliff

165. Monty: That was the one line I really liked and I wanted to keep. So... And here we have, even Weiss up until the end still helping her out in a way that, she couldn't have done this without her.

166. Monty: Ignore the rest of her teammates so it all kinda came into play in a very like,

167. Kerry: It's a very subtle thing but you can actually see Weiss kind of like bend over because y'know she exerted herself so much to do that.

168. Monty: Yeah.

169. Miles: One of the things, going back to this set, that I think is really cool that happened because of it is we also kind of get a glimpse at the ancient world of Remnant.

170. Monty: Yep. That's right.

171. Miles: We see like before all this high tech stuff, the, the humans on the planet,

172. Monty: I love history.

173. Miles: They, they built, they built themselves, essentially up against a cliff like. In a world where they're surronded by monsters they put their backs to a wall and built bridges to kinda keep themselves safe and out of harms way and stuff like that. It's a cool glimpse of the ancient world of Remnant.

Scene transistion to team forming ceremony

174. Monty: And here's, oh yeah,

175. Miles: Ohh, Team CRDL. Dude, shoutout to Russel!

(Monty Laughs)

176. Miles: Russel's my boy! Sky you're okay.

177. Kerry: So this scene, uh,

(Miles and Monty Laugh)

178. Miles: I can't wait to get to Chapter 8.

179. Kerry: This scene I really did not want to composite and then Gray took it and it was amazing, 'cause he did a really good job with all those screens.

180. Kerry: Screens are the worst. They're the best because they have information but they are the worst.

181. Miles: Everybody freaked out that Ozpin didn't have his cup in this scene.

182. Kerry: 'Cause for once he was finally caffeinated. It's late.

183. Miles: Didn't we decide, no, didn't we decide that he actually drinks hot chocolate?

184. Kerry: I don't know.

185. Miles: Was that? I can't remember, we had a talk about, we know, we know: Weiss drinks coffee uh, (Together with Kerry) Blake likes tea, (No longer together) and I think we talked about Oz maybe just uh, we don't know what he drinks but it, it's very possible that it's just chocolate milk.

186. Monty: Couldn't it have been milk, because of the cookies?

187. Miles: I can't remember what it was.

188. Monty: No well, Ruby drinks milk.

189. Miles: Yeah. (Laughs) That was another dumb line that we,

190. Kerry: That was another dumb line.

191. Miles: Aw here we get to see a glimpse, we get a glimpse of uh, Weiss not being too happy about this, this uh. She really should have known when the team was named RWBY.

(Monty Laughs)

192. Kerry: Ah, y'know.

193. Miles: She's not the sharpest tool in the shed I guess. As sharp as she thinks. Oh man and then we get,

194. Kerry: She's probably thinking "Oh it's gonna be awkward having the team named RWBY when I'm the leader WHAT!"

(Laughter)

195. Miles: "Ruby's, poor Ruby's getting her hopes up. Wait what!"

196. Miles: Oh man and then we get to go back to our good friend Roman Torchwick.

Scene transition to Roman's location

197. Kerry: Gray.

198. Miles: Golly man, the music for this scene is so cool. A bunch of people gave, were, were confused by, as to why Roman has dumb cops written on the map. Like "Oh why would you do that? Oh he seems so eloquent, but now he's being childish" But when you think about it no, we intentionally did that because we wanted to show how, that he's strategizing like in the northern end of Vale,

199. Kerry: Is where the dumb cops are.

200. Miles: There are cops. No no, I think it's the southern, 'cause that's in the industrial district I think.

201. Kerry: Whatever.

202. Miles: Yeah and in the south, don't worry about the cops they're idiots, we'll be fine, I'm better than them. Roman's whole thing, he's like god, Roman thinks that he's god's gift to man, god's gift to the world. He thinks he's the shi, oh I'm trying not to curse. He thinks he's the,

203. Kerry: The shit.

(Chuckling)

204. Monty: Men all over.

205. Miles: It's raining men.

The Badge and The Burden
Part 1 Start

1. Miles: (Says multiple "Na" for five seconds to the tune of "Morning" by Edvard Grieg)

2. Monty: Oh look it,

3. Miles: (Continuing tune) Weiss looks cute, with her hair down, {Monty: Look at Weiss' hair} she's precious.

4. Monty: Aww.

5. Kerry: Is that song copyrighted? I have to worry about these things.

6. Miles: Not if you perform it yourself. And...

7. Kerry: That's not how that works!

Ruby appears next to Weiss with a whistle

8. Miles: Ruby. Oh my god.

9. Monty: Oh Weiss falling down again! It's the best.

10. Miles: And uniforms! Oh my god, the internet had a freaking party when they saw those uniforms man. Who uh, did Eileen design the uniforms?

11. Monty: Oh yes she did.

12. Miles: They, she did a great job.

13. Monty: I love the variance too, it's like of course, uh, Yang would wear the thigh highs and Blake would wear the ankle socks and,

14. Kerry: Yeah, it was funny too we uh... When we showed the first episode at RTX we also, we had a couple panels and we showed some concept art of some things that weren't released and one of them was, what the uniforms looked like. But not on any of the characters,

(Monty Laughs in reaction to Samurai Champloo reference)

15. Kerry: We just showed like... That's a uh, that's just a shoutout to Samurai Champloo.

Room decorating montage

16. Monty: Blake is pretty enthusiastic.

17. Miles: Dude talking about Samurai Champloo. {Monty: Oh and here} Somewhere is Samurai Shampoo.

18. Kerry: Yeah it's in here somewhere.

19. Miles: So that prop is somewhere... (Monty and Miles say a word or two but it is difficult to make out) My favorite Blake joke in the entire freaking volume!

Blake holds Ninja's of Love.

20. Miles: Oh I love that moment!

21. Monty: It's funny 'cause neither of you watched Naruto.

22. Miles and Kerry: No, just never watched Naruto (after the simultaneous "No" that is what I could make out fully, it sounded like both of them).

23. Monty: There's a joke similar.

24. Kerry: Oh really?

25. Monty: Yes.

26. Kerry: No I don't,

27. Monty: Maybe that's why you guys were wondering(?). Yeah, no but it's kind of a call out too.

28. Kerry: Sure yeah, absolutely.

29. Monty: Did we go past the Achieve Men poster?

30. Kerry: Yeah we did, we had uh,

31. Miles: Achieve Men.

32. Kerry: We had Patrick uh, just draw, essentially he just illustrate the Achieve Men poster.

33. Monty: Be a boy band.

34. Kerry: Yeah.

35. Monty: The Achievement Hunter boy band poster.

36. Miles: So... This whole episode is essentially, how's Ruby gonna be a leader. It's,

37. Kerry: And how's Weiss gonna deal with the fact that she was not the leader.

38. Miles: Yeah.

39. Monty: Also the fact that they actually have lives outside of fighting.

40. Miles and Kerry: Yeah.

41. Miles: They're, they're still like teenaged girls going to school. And it's cool getting to see Blake, kind of warming up and enjoying this idea that maybe having friends is cool.

42. Monty: Yeah.

43. Kerry: She stands there she's still very polite, still very proper, and kinda to herself but, she's still doing all of the things everybody else is doing.

44. Miles: Yeah. She's actually starting to live, like a normal girl for probably the first time ever.

45. Miles: And she's enjoying it. It, it's cool seeing her, happy and not so cold to everybody, she's starting to open up to these three girls.

(Monty Laughs in reaction to Team JNPR leaning out of their room door)

46. Monty: And there's JNPR.

47. Miles: Oh my god, yeah I,

48. Kerry: Our Scooby Doo moment.

49. Miles: Yeah we wanted to do a Scooby Doo moment and then I realised, I was like "Wait, they'd have to be standing on top of each other to get this shot... Let's make them fall."

Ozpin and Glynda watch Teams RWBY and JNPR run by

50. Kerry: That's something JNPR would do.

51. Miles: Yeah.

52. Kerry: That's, that's one of my favorite things about JNPR, besides Jaune it's a team full of,

Scene transition to Port's classroom

53. Miles, Monty and Kerry: Oh (Not simultaneously).

54. Monty: And here we have...

55. Kerry: Yeah.

56. Monty: Professor Port! Professor Peter Port!

57. Kerry: Played by the awesome Ryan Haywood.

58. Miles: Okay fun fact. Everybody thought that him having a monster, uh, in a cage, was a shout out to Edgar the cow from the Achievement Hunter Minecraft let's plays.

59. Monty: But,

60. Miles: This was written months before Edgar! It was just so beautiful and serendipity. (Laughs)

61. Monty: So much things that happen like that on the show. Can't even begin to describe(?). But yes (Slight Laughter) you guys came up with it first.

62. Kerry: Yeah, it just kinda happened to work out that way. Ryan did a (mispronounces) phenon, phenom uh...

63. Miles: Ren Valkyrie!

Kerry sighs and Monty laughs

64. Kerry: (Carefully pronounces) Ryan did a phenomenal job with (No longer careful and deliberate) this character, I mean we kinda just, we kinda gave him the brief thing, he's very bombastic I think was the word we used the most.

65. Miles: Yeah he, he's, he's... Peter from Peter and the Wolf if he grew up {Kerry: Yeah} and became kind of a uh, creepy, horny prowl.

(Laughter)

66. Monty: Woah, woah, woah! Yeah.

EEEE-YUUP guy shouts

67. Miles: "EEEE-YUUP!" (Laughs)

68. Monty: I still think he should have been redder.

69. Kerry: He can be, he can stand to be a little bit redder.

70. Monty: Yeah.

71. Miles: Shout out to Andrew from the Internet Box Podcast. (Laughs, followed by a chuckle from Monty). Umm, but god one thing I loved about this scene was seeing all the Creatures of Grimm illustrations in the background, that was super cool. I loved,

72. Monty: And Ruby's dumb joke, dumb jokes.

73. Miles: Professor Poop! (Fart Noise) Oh my god,

74. Monty: That, that's the thing I say about Ruby as a prodigy is that, she's, she's not the most studious she's just really good and that's kinda what, how she's counter to Weiss in a way 'cause Weiss is very studious.

Ruby holds up Professor Poop drawing

75. Kerry: W, Weiss goes through all the proper steps to do everything and Ruby's kind of like does things and they're(?) gonna work.

76. Miles: Yeah she's able to do it. Which of course is gonna infuriate Weiss.

77. Kerry: Yeah, yeah. And's it all about, there's, there's a um... There's a thing where it's like, the, the main point that we want to get across is that once you're in a, a leadership position, people will look to you and you have to, like you said earlier you have to lead by example and if you're not... Constantly, like people think "Oh being a leader or like being a boss or being the CEO is the best because you're in charge, you can make all these decisions." But it's like, if you make a bad decision or you kinda look like, idiot,

(Monty Laughs in response to Miles' heavy breathing during the zoom in on Ruby picking her nose)

78. Miles: And pick your nose in the middle of class. Uh, why would people ever want to follow you or listen to what you have to say. Like being a leader is not something that's awesome, it's a huge burden, it's a huge responsibility.

Monster Cage is shown

79. Monty: Oh we've got,

80. Kerry: Could you say it's a badge and a burden?

81. Miles: It is both a badge and a burden.

Part 1 Ends and 2 Begins

82. Monty: Here's the cage.

The Badge and The Burden, Pt.2
Part 2 Begins.

82. Monty: Here's the cage.

83. Miles: Now she's all battle ready in her sweet get-up.

84. Kerry: I like to imagine all of them waiting for her to change.

85. Miles: Yeah. (laughs)

86. Kerry: Hang on guys... (Said too quick to make sense of) real quick.

87. Miles: "Oh, forgot the necklace, gotta go back, gotta go," Necklace is very, important part of the combat skirt.

88. Kerry: That's where she keeps all of her... (difficult to make out but sounds like "inventory").

Boarbatusk reveal

89. Miles: Oh man. I think that was the one weapon that you and I designed.

(Miles and Kerry talk over each other for a moment saying the word yeah)

90. Kerry: This, this is, this is the one thing that uh, it was, it was definately one of those things where it's like "Oh this is not important enough. Uh, you guys can just kinda do it".

91. Miles: Yeah we came up with Oobleck and, uh, Port's weapons.

92. Kerry: Yeah.

93. Miles: We came up part of Oobleck's weapon. But um, there's uh, we just kinda decided y'know he's definately the kinda guy he's, he's gotta have an elephant rifle.

94. Kerry: Yeah.

95. Miles: He's gonna, y'know, he's gonna be that hunter. The blunderbuss! With a battle axe! 'Cause of the axe, {Kerry: Yeah} bu, the thing with the, the huntsman. Y'know, you always think of the, the woodsman, the huntsman, whatever version of Red Riding Hood you've read. It's the, it's the dude in the woods with the axe. It's like {Kerry: Right} that is the huntsmen weapon. And this guy is, (Port Impression) "A true huntsman!" So he's gotta have the axe.

Weiss responds to Ruby's advice with "Stop telling me what to do!"

96. Monty: Oh and we have the, exchange here with Ruby and Weiss it was very,

Boarbatusk Spin Dash

97. Monty: (laughs) And, oh yeah, Sonic the Hedgehog. (chuckles)

98. Miles: Shane added that last minute. (Monty laughs) It makes no sense {Monty: I said,} but I love it, {Monty: I said,} love it!

99. Monty: "Shane, what if it just turned into a ball?" (laughs)

Boarbatusk defeated

101. Miles: She takes that thing,

102. Kerry: Sure, why not.

103. Monty: I thought it'd make things easier.

104. Kerry: Yeah. I, I remember (can't make it out), he was like "Yeah we can do that." And you're like "It would certainly be easier to animate." And he was like "Yeah I might do that."

105. Miles: (laughs) I really do love that, Ruby has her, has her hood on all the time. {Kerry: Yeah} We get into that more, we'll get into that more in the future. But uh...

106. Kerry: Yeah it's actually, there's a scene that got cut that kind of...

Weiss walks away looking agitated

107. Monty: Why so serious?

108. Kerry: Weiss so serious?

109. Miles: (Jaune voice) "Man what's with her?" Gotta get Jaune in every episode, that's my goal. (Monty chuckles)

110. Kerry: That's what you're doing! (Miles laughs) I knew something was amuck!

Weiss and Ruby argue.

111. Kerry: Man they didn't pay their electricity bills.

(All three start laughing)

112. Miles: Ruby looks tired.

113. Monty: (laughs a little) It's late. Or not.

114. Miles: I think it was funny, I, one thing that I really also liked about this scene is that,

115. Miles: In real life, people kinda go back on what they say a lot, like, it's not like in, y'know TV or movies where like a character will say something and that kinda define like, {Monty: Yeah} they will stick to that forever it's like yeah Weiss was totally all about working together as a team... Until things didn't go exactly,

116. Kerry: It's, it's a uh, it's not a form of line but in a way it is kind of a form of line it's like "Oh yeah, I'm gonna say this thing that I don't really mean 'cause I don't think it's gonna happen."

Ozpin begins talking with Ruby.

117. Miles: Yeah.

118. Kerry: And then "Uh oh, it happened."

119. Monty: Yeah it's never, it's never a straight line, it's never steady. Also I mean, same thing with Ruby. She performed well on, in the moment but she's not performing well all the around.

120. Miles and Kerry: Right.

Professor Port on the roof

121. Miles: (laughs) I love,

122. Kerry: I just like that he's like,

123. Miles: (Port impression) "Confess to me your strife!"

124. Kerry: That's my favorite line in the world. I just, I just like the idea that he's just like standing out there like, thinking of previous hunts. (Monty and Miles laugh) All of the ones that got away.

125. Miles: See, it's funny that you say that because I imagine him standing there going "They're out there somewhere, and I'm going to kill them all." (laughs)

126. Kerry: "Every last one of them."

127. Miles: "The thrill of the hunt!"

128. Kerry: In all honesty though he probably went out there to like fart or something. (Miles and Monty laugh) He's sneaking outside,

129. Miles: (Terrible Port impression) "Umm, I was holding that all through lecture."

130. Kerry: (Terrible Port impression) "Umm, didn't want to do it in front of that cute Yang girl." (Monty and Miles express disgust)

131. Miles: (Terrible Port impression) "That was the fart of a true huntsman."

Ruby and Ozpin

132. Monty: Oh jesus.

133. Miles: We are children.

134. Kerry: We're making poop jokes right now.

135. Miles: What are we doing? We already made a poop, Professor Poop remember? (fart noise) Umm,

136. Kerry: I think that was actually me doing the (fart noise).

137. Monty: I like Oz's glasses.

138. Kerry: Yeah there's certainly, there's something very cool about them, very Beatle's-esque.

139. Monty: Yeah, very Lennon.

140. Miles: I li, I like the scene because I think this is one of the first times where, somebody other than Weiss has told Ruby "Hey, not as great as you think, you kinda need to {Kerry: Yeah} settle, just a bit." And this is the, the same thing here, this is the first time probably an adult has told Weiss "Yo! Shut up for a second." (laughs}

141. Kerry: "Listen to what I am saying."

142. Monty: "Calm it down."

143. Miles: "Simmer down now child! Simmer down now." (laughs slightly)... Oh, poor Miss Schnee.

144. Monty: Yeah.

145. Kerry: Why didn't she sit down. (mumbles)

146. Miles: What did you just say? (Talking over Kerry) Why doesn't she sit? There's a bench right there. (Monty laughs) "Good I'll take a load off. (Monty laughs)

147. Kerry: This was um...

148. Kerry: This was, this was a fun scene to do. This is our...

149. Miles: We don't, we, it's funny we didn't write for adults a lot in this show. So whenever we, they do say something it's like "Aw man. We have to make sure that what they're saying is like, pretty true and, they use good words." (laughs)

150. Kerry: Yeah. (Miles laughs over Kerry talking) Yeah, we, we didn't know, kind of what the target audience. I mean we still don't know but we don't, we didn't know who was going to be watching the show so we kinda wrote for, who, kind of who we thought it was gonna be and then kind of what we just wanna watch.

151. Miles: Yeah.

152. Kerry: The kinda shows that, the kinda content that we watch anyway that's like "This is how..." (Don't understand last word)

153. Monty: It's a pretty wide spectrum I gotta say. We're pretty {Miles: Yeah} happy about that. Got a character for everyone.

154. Miles: (As Ozpin) "Man, I need to remember to tell Glynda to pay the electric bill. {Monty laughs a little} Ruby remind me to tell Glynda to tell me to pay the electric bill."

155. Kerry: (As Ruby) "Look man, hallways are dark, (Miles laughs) the sun's setting."

156. Miles: Port's like (Port impression) "Now I gotta go find another place to expel this gas."

157. Monty: (laughs a little) Jesus.

Scene change to Beacon at night

158. Kerry: He's going back to the classroom.

159. Miles: That's how he tortures the Boarbatusk to make it angry. (Pig squeel noise)

Inside of Team RWBY's room

160. Miles: God those books are gonna kill some, (laughs a little, followed by Monty) those beds, those beds. (laughs a little)...

161. Miles: Oh look, Ruby is trying to be a better leader, she's studying. Aww. And her pajamjams.

162. Monty: Where's Weiss been out all this time? Has she just been walking around,

163. Miles: Dude, she's probably went to Starbucks.

164. Kerry and Monty: Yeah.

165. Miles: Just brooded.

166. Kerry: Nah she's been thinking. She's been walking around thinking y'know,

Weiss covers Ruby's mouth.

167. Miles: God that screenshot.

168. Monty: How many, how many, how many gifs are gonna be made of her shushing her like that?

168. Kerry: Yeah. (laughs a little)

169. Miles: (whispers) "Shh, don't speak. (Monty laughs slightly) You're prettier when you don't talk." (laughter)

170. Kerry: I love, I also just in this scene love the way Yang that sleeps, she's just like covers kicked off, (Miles laughs slightly) arms back, just drooling.

171. Miles: My favorite thing was, uh, coming up with how Ruby takes her coffee. (laughs then uses Ruby voice) "Uh, cream with five sugars." Weiss is just like "Seriously you commoner?"

172. Monty: She got the coffee pretty fast by the way.

173. Miles: Dude, (Talking over Kerry) she's just fast. Yeah, dude she, gotta go fast.

174. Kerry: She used a glyph to make coffee.

175. Monty: Sh, sh, she conjured it with a,

176. Miles: She used coffee dust. (laughs slightly)

177. Monty: (laughs slightly) Coffee dust.

178. Miles: (following Weiss) "That's wrong by the way." Weiss, Weiss just can't say "You're good." She has to say "You're good, and I'm gonna be the best too." Love it.

'' Weiss closes the door after leaving the room. '' 179. Monty: Where's she going?

180. Kerry: To change.

181. Miles: She went to the, she went to the bathroom slash closet.

182. Monty: Oh okay, got ya... Look at that moon, phases and shit.

Part 2 End