Talk:Raven Branwen/@comment-74.14.36.91-20160715141448/@comment-4010415-20160716154710

About the cut scene where she attacks JNPR...

First of all, they may not have had time or a good way to slip that into Volume 3. Second of all, I hate to say it, but it seems like Monty (along with Shane) had a habit of wanting to add things to the show/story just because "This would look cool" and not thinking about how that would affect the writing. We've actually seen an example of this in Breach. Perfect opportunity to actually show the Grimm as a threat, and that was thrown away in favor of a really cool scene where CFVY looks badass and powerful. The Grimm were reduced to weak little jello cannon fodder for the purpose of some cool beat-em-up badassery.

Monty was an animator. He thought about how to make things look good. He had Miles and Kerry help him with the detailed parts of writing the story he came up with. That's why they wrote the script using the plotline that they helped Monty lay out. Yes, he was the mastermind behind RWBY, but it seems like he had a tendency to neglect thinking about the actual writing part of the story, in favor of what he wanted to animate.

In the Volume 1 Directors Commentary, Miles actually talked about how he kept having to hold back Monty from putting in stuff where members of RWBY or JNPR completely annihilate something by cutting the whole thing in half and things like that because, as far as Miles was concerned, those characters were not at that strength level yet and should not be shown doing such things so early on. That's why, when he saw Black and White for the first time while recording the commentary, he flipped his shit over Penny cutting airships in half and then calmed himself down and said nevermind, it's okay, Penny can do that because she's powerful.

Why did I go off on a tangent rambling about this? Because it's entirely possible that Raven attacking JNPR could've been part of some "It would be cool" idea, rather than something that would be a good idea from a writing/plot standpoint.