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Is it supposed to look like low budget shit?
If you’re talking Weiss’s semblance, that might be on Monty. And then Miles and Kerry complicating things more.
Apparently. Still dunno why they have only three of the actresses and cast one of the guys as Weiss.
Because of some juvenile humor that comes from a dude dressing as a chick and doing a horrible job at it. That’s my guess.
A few pages ago, I posted a video essay somebody did about what Monty’s vision was and aside from the feeling of being guilt tripped over the complaints of the writing that are common, my takeaway was that Monty was very matter of fact and to the point with the mechanics and characters. And he was very hands on to the point where you could say he was the only one trusted to captain the ship.
Regardless of any faults Monty had as a writer (lack of proper worldbuilding, not explaining much, plot was thin) I will definitely say he had a vision for what he wanted RWBY to be. He cared about the show. He thought out his fight scenes and you can see the love he put into the action. Miles and Kerry were always just following what Monty was doing, but they themselves have little to no vision. Miles has an idea of what he wanted to change RWBY to be but no vision which is why the show has been so scatterbrained and sloppy since Volume 3. It's just a vague collection of ideas Miles threw in without any concern for how a story works. Monty wanted to make something great, even if he didn't always succeed. Miles wants a paycheck.
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Funny you bring up big name voices. They wanted Sarah Silverman as Neo (this is brought up in that book about the show released not that long ago), but made the character a mute when they couldn't. Bullet dodged if you ask me, considering Silverman's reputation. Only other non-VA actor they got was the guy who played Jason from the Friday the 13th remake as one of Adam's subordinates, and his audio quality was shiiiiiiiiiiit, like he was recorded with some poor quality mic or something.
Soarel. That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. Dude was a lunatic.Every retcon in RWBY
This had to be addressed in video form. Sorry for another crappy 720p slideshow video. I'm very busy and have a lot going on so I can't really put in much ef...
Since we're talking about Monty's Vision I think it's relevant to bring up a video going over the retcons that came post-Monty.
Oh yeah. Any RWBY video that was done by a critic, he was there to say how Ozpin was the real villain, and he shadow emperor of Remnant and how Cinder and Salem were taking down his regime and how the soundtrack was canon and explained how Cinder was this revolutionary. Hell, this video explains it better than I can.
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Well I for one am sick and tired of them putting Dust in the water that turn the friggin Grimm gay!
But this is actually true - Ozpin's influence is so far-reaching that he's nearly omnipotent in terms of Remnant's politics. The man founded all of the huntsman academies, which are the de facto seats of executive power in each kingdom (and the de facto seat of legislative power in one). In the past, he was an emperor. Even in more recent, pre-academy times, he was still powerful enough to wander around the world collecting young women and amassing a cabal of zealots who could hide the Truth™ from the ignorant masses. And who even knows what kind of devious shit he got up to during the great war...
I keep saying that Salem’s backstory in V6 was kind of damage control to all the shady shit Ozpin had done to paint her as the real villain in all this. Even then, this show really hasn’t addressed how Ruby and her crew are just pawns in Ozpin and Salem’s game of cosmic chess.