User blog comment:Varzan Deodinm Beldinm/The "meh" factor of this show has finally gotten to me. ( please read, then judge.)/@comment-173.58.63.97-20131012072840

Look, about as much as I love RWBY (it's the biggest thing to happen to me since Mass Effect, Halo and COD came into my life), I have to admit the JNPR Arc should start to wind down by now. The fact is, the arc was really more of a message about how bullying is wrong. It's the traditional big boy and his gang pick on small boy.

Also, the way the characters are developed is somewhat off. It shouldn't be one episode focusing on another character when Ruby is the main character overall. It should be Ruby working as a duo with the other character in order to give both characters screen time. It was like how they did it in Halo Reach, you'd work as a duo with Jorge, Kat, Emile and Jun to develop their personalities. By relying solely on that person and vice versa, it would become possible for the main character to be prominent, while simultaneously the other character has their personality be developed while also being prominent. Episode 2 nailed it. Jaune and Ruby got completely lost, and had to work together. That's what I want if they are going to do another character development thing. It should be Ruby working with Ren/Nora/Pyrrha something or other to develop the character.

And the teams are a little cliche. You've got RWBY, who are essentially Sailor Moon and her team, you have Ruby, who is Usagi, the energetic little girl, you've got Yang, the Minako of the group, being vain about her hair and even having a similar length and color to boot, you've got Blake, who is like Ami, studying and studying and reading romance novels, and then you have Weiss, the Rei of the group, the stone-cold girl who warms up to the main character.

JNPR serve as a background that becomes foreground group. Jaune is the standard noob. He's got antiquated weapons (which surprising hold up well to modern weaponry), a dimwitted nature, and on top of that he lied to get into Beacon because he has no skills. Still, I respect him nonetheless. Pyrrha's the traditional tough but beautiful girl, and it shows. Jaune really made a mistake with messing up Pyrrha's heart, because he just lost a powerful ally and her trust. Ren is well...Emile-A239. Spiritually, not personality wise. Emile is a stone cold killer with a gigantic knife, too much ammo and a powerful weapon, coupled with a short temper. Ren, well, much like Emile, he doesn't even exist for half the storyline, and when he does appear, it's in a relatively minor role. Emile however, got his big moment at the end of the campaign when it was up to him to help Noble Six. I have yet to see Ren get his "big moment". Killing the gigantic snakes was a good example of one, but I want one that really develops Ren. Nora...the traditional cute psychopath. She's got a love of battle (and by all other means bar love, Ren), and has a smile on her face the whole while. It's amazing. JNPR has become the foreground of the series for now. Hopefully for only one more episode. Otherwise the show should be titled JNPR.

In other words, RWBY has a few things they need to clean up with. Particularly the rendering polygon fracas. And really, Team RWBY needs to take a more prominent role. I think that if they really want RWBY and JNPR to coexist without one taking the lead from the other, they'd have to do a Players and Pieces thing, each team works together, and separately eliminates one major enemy, all the while with Red Like Roses Part II playing in the background (or at the very least, Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley). In other words, RWBY and JNPR take out two major enemies together while awesome music plays in the background. An example could be RWBY taking on Roman while JNPR confronts Crimson.

Despite it all, Monty's done a good job with the tools he has, so I give him kudos for his work.