Give me the Ruby scenario. If anything, it could keep her from just being the mascot…if done right. Only issue is that it’s just more special main character shit given to her which some have an issue with apparently.
Honestly I don't have a whole script or outline thought out and the issue with changing something in RWBY is that it necessitates (at least in my mind) changing a bunch of other stuff around until finally I end up with an entirely new script and a post way too long for the Farms, but I'll try to keep it short and succinct:
Nice. The only other thing I remember was that after V5 laid out all the cards, the show backtracked because they said that Salem is the real antagonist and Ozpin’s the Dumbledore and not a callous manipulator that sees everyone as mere tools.
Honestly making Salem into an Old God who wishes to devour the entire world and strip life from all creation kinda necessitates that sort of change since a threat that big and looming has a tendency to make damn near any action or sacrifice make sense since the greater evil in that scenario is literally global extinction.
Kind of surprised why Monty and company didn’t do something like that.
I think the single biggest issue with RWBY as a series is that it entered production without a story. I don't think that Monty or anyone working with him had a story outline so much as they just had scenes. There wasn't really a plan for "The series will be this many seasons and this many episodes per season and this is our endgame" and it really shows once you get to Volume 5, sure they had tons of financial and staffing issues that volume but you can tell that they never had a through line for their story even beyond that. I don't consider myself a great writer but I do consider myself a decent organizer and a project like that needs a roadmap.
My boi Ironwood dindu nuffin wrong, stop inventing reasons to vilify him.
One word; Overanalyzing. Ironwood and his motiff, the tin man, barely had anything in common. RT themselves are bumfuck retarded to even pull off "Thy flesh is weak" character trope. Every single thing said in that blog post are pretty much boiled down to astonishing feats of mental gymnastics and delusional ramblings. It ultimately highlights the mentality of the people who still watch this show unironically, they're gaslighting themselves into thinking that the story is deeper than it actually is and that the critics and haters are always wrong about RWBY.
Where is it ever implied that he views humanity as a weakness? These people are so retarded. The only thing I can think of is that we know Aura can heal you, but the extent to which it can is still unclear. Weiss got stabbed through the back and stomach but in a very not-fatal area, she doesn't have a colostomy bag or anything so we can assume that everything got patched up via magic, but trying to hunt for any kind of logical consistency with the powers in this show is a one way trip to nonsense central.
He did though, he didn't throw team RWBY and Qrow in jail the moment they stepped foot into Atlus with a piece of stolen military tech. All of his problems would have sorted themselves out from there if he had.
It's a running trend that the character the crew thinks they're writing is usually trending in the opposite direction of what they intend anyway. Why somebody would even try to make sense of their discombobulated character development is what floors me. Nobody makes any sense, and if they seem like they are, the writers will pivot at the last second and completely undermine everything they've built up to that point.
That's cheating. You're basically comparing a shoddily crafted bow and arrow to a PTRS-41 anti-tank rifle.
Can’t you say that to…a lot of things when it comes to making RWBY comparisons?
Apparently, it's even worse than that. From what I've seen, all they had the idea of four differently coloured girls and some ideas for their designs. He didn't even have an idea for a basic plot when it was greenlit. Even in the early production Monty's ideas were incredibly vague and unhelpful. They were given one word to describe how he "envisioned" characters and had to write around that.
Well, everyone seemed to think that RWBY was just Dead Fantasy made into a series.
What made it worse is that, even as Miles and Kerry were writing the show, he kept insisting on adding his own ideas that didn't necessarily line up with theirs (even though their ideas uniformly suck, but this just made it worse). For example, that whole scene of Yang meeting her mom outside beacon at the very end of Volume 2 was Monty's idea, and M&K didn't want to do it, which showed later, because next volume, after Monty was dead, they didn't follow up on that at all and basically pretended that never happened. The maidens, if I remember correctly, were also Monty's idea, and M&K just had to find a way to slot that idea into the story, which is why, even now, they feel tacked on. Because they are.
And to think, Shane and Sheena could have done the writing.
You are right about the maidens, Monty came up with them during the pre production of volume 3. He often came up with ideas and implemented them without M&Ks' knowledge as he was often doing so late at night, where the only person who was with him would've been his biggest bitch Shane who enabled his awful work ethic, which lead to him not having anyone who'd push back against any of his ideas and leaving everyone to pick up the pieces in trying to fit it into what they already had.
