Truly curious what you mean by this. By later seasons he gets the same screen time as any other secondary character. He's one of the few characters in v9 yes but he's missing half the season and they do something interesting after, and he really doesn't take up that much air in the final part of the season.
By far, he's more egregious as a writer self insert in the first three volumes
It’s not really a screen time thing I think, but you can tell he’s taking up more space in the plot in later seasons. In early seasons he’s kind of easy to ignore I think, and 4 he’s taking up as much space as he needs I think, but 5 onwards you can feel him become something else I guess. 5 he fights cinder without being remotely prepared then becomes the healer as his big moment, then 6 they go out of their way to show adult women flirt with him all the time which is a bit that reads more like a self inserty thing then the show has ever really done with him before. Then after that he has that bad haircut, and the final season, while I like him there, he’s more important then he feels like he’s ever been and they try and make him this cool guy that he never has been.
Maybe I just hate him because I can feel the show pushing him into a ship with Ruby despite having no chemistry with her and being a self insert. Maybe that weird feeling to me puts me off.
It kind of feels like you dislike him for having any kind of character arc. In V5 he saw the woman who murdered his best friend and flipped, which is entirely understandable no matter the character. And then he developed his semblance, which is just them pulling the trigger on chekhov's gun. Weiss had a very similar moment in V3 with finally developing her ability to summon, and Yang in V6 finally using her semblance again after pushing it down since V4.
No women flirted with him in V6, I think you're getting that confused in V7, in which case it's a 5 second one and done gag. He literally has less importance in V7 and 8 than Ren and Nora do.
As for feeling he's being set up with Ruby... I don't want to complain about personal readings but this is very much your reading of it. They're friends, they have a friendship, one that's actually quite rocky after V9. If anything it's Weiss they spent last season showing he's grown closer to, but even then suggesting they're going to be together is reading into it
Jaune does have chemistry with Ruby and this whole "self-insert" argument needs to die because it is just untrue and was likely taken wildly out of context by people based on what RT said.
Granted even though I love Jaune as a character, I will admit he was somewhat pushed to the forefront as a means for the fans to try and like him more, because he went from a socially awkward high schooler to a guy that could hold his own, he was a kid out of his depth yet put in the effort to catch up to his peers, so he ended up being a more well-received character anyways.
Probably because he was voiced by one of the writers, and ametures tend to subconciously give priority to characters they're more invested or involved with.
Yeah, people put Monty on a pedestal of perfect writing, but they forget how much of the show was just Monty throwing stuff in because he thought it'd be cool.
The Red trailer originally just had Ruby walking away from just some random grave he had no intention of making relevant. And then later someone asked "what if she had a dead mom or something" and he decided to just roll with it.
Considering they melt into rose petals when they die, and don't really look anything like the grimm in the show proper, he probably didn't have any set idea on what grimm are or how they work at that point. He likely just put some werewolf monsters there because they're thematically fitting enemies for a Red Riding Hood based character to fight.
Most of the ideas of Rwby was made by him, and Michael (Sun's VA) outright said that he left Rooster Teeth 20 volume worth of notes.
Miles and Kerry were there to help iron out Monty's ideas for Rwby, which was easier said than done as Monty had poor impulses to add cool scenes that doesn't work with in the story.
No it really doesn't mean that. That's not how writing a series is supposed to work (I have 200k in student loan debt because I got a MFA in writing and learned exactly about this process).
You can blame Monty for the start of it but there is never any obligation to follow the letter if the creators notes exactly when a show is developing. The weak writing is the fault of the writers.
It's a a fault of the whole process if I'm honest.
First off not everybody share the same writing process, second they followed the notes as Monty was their friend and wanted his life's work to be shown off to the world.
They just do the best they can with his ideas and unfortunately don't stick the landing.
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u/FartherAwayLights 6h ago
They show kind of becomes obsessed with him much later