User blog comment:BenRG/New Teaser Pic From Monty/@comment-24631732-20140324172045/@comment-5999656-20140327215017

It's because from what we've seen of RWBY in volume 1, Monty's not exactly... the greatest storyteller out there, so people have just fallen back to hoping he sticks to what he does best: animate awesome fight scenes. Anything other than that isn't enough to make RWBY stand out.