Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25247233-20160513080632/@comment-25936766-20160523125304

So, purely ethical? If so....

RT started treating Shane worse and worse, yes. But considering Shane's attitude and reception to RT's decisions, even the ones that are not so bad, for a good part Shane was bringing that treatment onto itself.

Shane implied that as Volume 3 went by, the writers started checking less and less Monty's plan while writing the story, meaning it was going from following to an extent, to some alterations, to not being part of the original plan.

If true, then it's kind of a dick move by them. But considering Monty always shared his ideas with them, that they know a good chunk of the future of the story, and that they were also Monty's friends, I find it hard to believe they simply ignored it like that, instead of at least checking.

Could also be Shane only believing it was the case, due to the growing amount of changes done, his emotional bias and Monty worship, and not working as a writer.

Not letting Sheena provide at least part of the original plan, seems more dickish however. Even if the original ideas are rejected or altered, they should at least consult them beforehand, and being Monty's wife, she's the one who knows the most about the original plan

Now, I do believe Shane when he starts talking about RT doing more unfair, dickish decisions seemingly for the heck of it. This isn't the first time RT has done something like that, after all.

Finally, I believe that most of the people on the team want to honor Monty and are doing so, but not all their higher-ups are interested in doing the same. The team wants to honor Monty's work, the executives want ca$h.