Unfortunate Additional News

By the time I'd got to the end of the second series of RWBY, I might have been thinking a good deal of an impression that the computer-animated, "anime-esque" series seemed most significant as a suggestion that something similar could be done by a small and dedicated group of people. That seemed in turn so coincident with the outright criticism of its story as "not original enough for an original production" I'd been trying to bypass that perhaps, when it was over, I also just tried not to think too much more of it. Not that long ago, however, I happened to notice a bit of news that its creator Monty Oum was in the hospital and a fundraiser was being arranged to help with the bills; that did make me feel a bit sorry for him. Just a few days after that, though, and not long at all after hearing the series was now in the Netflix catalogue, I noticed a thread about the series on a message board where I might not have been expecting to see it, and poked into it with an idle sort of curiosity and the hope I wouldn't run into another batch of criticism only to see the news Monty Oum had died at an unfortunate young age from complications of being in the hospital. I couldn't help but think that all the criticism now seemed that much more petty, and even as I wondered if anyone could pick up where he had left off I got to thinking that just perhaps the inspiration provided is more important than ever.