User blog comment:Akin.toussaint/Trailers.Did they do more harm then good?/@comment-7472785-20131013091111/@comment-108.248.176.172-20131015051653

Sorry, you can defend it all you want if you're more forgiving than I am, but for me, those lines felt awkwardly shoe-horned in to justify a leadership role for the character that would have had no basis otherwise. I wasn't surprised by this; Jaune was being groomed by the obvious tropes in the plot to be the "leader and warrior of untapped and hidden potential" from his first semi-offscreen puke and awkward swagger on-screen. I mean it's a tried and truestory and, cliche or not, it can work with the right plotting, I just think the short run-time of the show means that some serious shortcuts are taken in the vein of character development. That being said, there is one thing that Jaune does in that same episode which raises the chracter's sense of gravity for me tremendously. When he and Nora are seperated from the trapped Blake, Ren, and Pyrrha, he's immediately desperate to get over and help them. Up until this point in the story, we've never seen him do anything but bumble around, and he's clearly overmatched by what lays on the other side of that chasm, but his only concern is for his commrades, so it's really literally the first thing Jaune does in the story that can really be admired, aside from being a generally nice guy, and it's a turning point for the character, clearly. Still, going straight from "Oh, I guess he's got a little bit of spine afterall" to "Well clearly he's right choice for leader" in an instant on the basis of what he did in that scene just feels a little rushed, forced, and awkward to me. Again, it was telegraphed and yeah, clearly Jaune has some "moments of badass" coming to him the way the character is being built up, but until we see a little more meat on the bones of the character development, it all seems slap-dash to me. I have a feeling this week's episode is going to be good though. I think we might see a little action and Jaune's situation is likely to come to a head, so I'm optimistic.