User blog comment:DiegoAnime3000/RWBY Volume 3 has gone into production!/@comment-25555436-20150619174425/@comment-25555436-20150620173421

His biggest problem was that he had no idea of what to do outside combat animation. From a certain angle, it makes great sense; His previous works, Dead Fantasy, Haloid and that other one I don't remember, were all literally 100% combat and 0% story, and there was no need for story.

But then he suddenly had the idea of making RWBY, which was going to have story. However, he didn't have any experience when it comes to actually writing a story that is not just mindless fights. And Miles and Kerry had 0 experience with writing for a show of the kind RWBY was planned to be, so they watched hundreds of Shonen Anime (infamous for Horrible writing, cliché Typhoons, and many other mistakes) to "train". The result was bound to fail even before it began.

Not caring about the use of Clichés is understandable, tolerable at times. However, he had no idea of what to do, "planned" everything apparently yet also it seems he never rechecked his plans or thought of how to carry them out. Which leads to characters being undeveloped while many more are introduced, underwhelming villains, questionable pacing and other writing problems. And not all of these were fixed in Vol.2.

He also did a horrible job as a director. Lack of communication between the different sections of the staff working on RWBY, terrible time management, he didn't even check to see what Miles and Kerry wrote to see if it was good or bad, they just said "we're done" and he said "Ok". And when a lot of people complain about the writing for understandable reasons, his response? "Haters gonna hate".

Honestly, Monty should have started first with trying to achieve his real dream (making an awesome fighting game) before trying to make RWBY. With a fighting game he would have only needed to make different attack animations which he already knows how to do, and fighting games don't need a good story at all (just look at Capcom vs Whatever), only good game mechanics, so even if the story was shit not many would have cared.