Talk:Episodes/@comment-116.240.123.4-20180121130317/@comment-26397825-20180121175527

Would you believe they already do take into consideration what fans say? Fans complained that there wasn't enough explaining about in-world stuff - now they complain there's too much. They complained there wasn't enough showing, not telling, but when they try to only show fans complain that they don't understand and want to be told how everything works explicitly.

There's also the fact that while RWBY was Monty's brain child, it's not just his legacy; Miles and Kerry were involved in making the world and the plot from the very beginning. They worked it all out together. The Maidens thing however - that was pure Monty. He came up with that after V2 and Miles and Kerry put it in the show for him because he had seemed so excited about it.

They had to figure out where to add it to make it not interfere with the existing plot too much. That's where "Raven is the Spring Maiden" came from; they figured out a way to add it to the plot without detracting time from the important things and key plot points that they had figured out beforehand. Some things made sense, like Cinder getting the powers and becoming really powerful and curbstomping Pyrrha, because for all Pyrrha's strength she is still just a teen who's experience lies in tournament fighting. Others made less sense but a lot of people I have seen actually enjoyed the twist, like Raven is the Spring Maiden instead of Vernal.

I've not yet actually seen anyone argue that her being the Spring Maiden doesn't make sense at all, only questions about the point of Vernal (which I thought was self evident, to throw people like her brother off her tail as the Spring Maiden) and when exactly she got the powers. And as for the Yang idea - they've been doing that since V4. That was the whole point of Tai talking to her. They didn't need fans to tell them that, it was a plot point from the very beginning and part of her character development and growth.