Talk:Jaune Arc/History/@comment-208.98.185.229-20160117060140/@comment-410526-20160117070626

If they had said that during Volume 1 or Volume 2 I would have agreed with them 100%. The episodes focusing on Jaune were just beyond tedious and I absolutely loathed Jaune as a character. He was the least interesting person in the entire cast and I was just dumbfounded as to why they were spending so much time on him, especially since his character progression seemed to be completely unrelated to the overarching plot.

But people are just getting ridiculous with the Jaune-hate now. Jaune has had barely any screen time this Volume (he only played a major role in 2 episodes of the 8 publicly released so far), so he can hardly be said to be stealing screen-time from anyone. Plus, his screen time is really in service to Pyrrha's development rather than his own, it's not really about him anyway.

In "Destiny" you can see he has actually progressed as a character, he's a lot more aware and responsive to Pyrrha's emotions and he genuinely tries to help, and even succeeds for a while. Yes, he screws up, but he goes into that conversation with no context whatsoever, so you can't really blame him for saying the wrong thing. In any other circumstance what he said would be the just the right pep-talk Pyrrha needed. I really don't get where all the hate is coming from now.

TL;DR Jaune's not so bad this Volume IMO.