Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-16502426-20131101024335/@comment-14909251-20131117190155

XDex wrote: Yup, I'm the shallow and crazy one. Whatever, I'm not going to change you, and most likely you're not going to change me. I am not saying you as a person are shallow, just so you know, and I never used "crazy" in my comment. You, like many people who watch a series, are paying too much attention to certain overt details and not enough to more subtle details. The motivations of the characters and their backgrounds are of immense importance. A few reasons I can think of for why Weiss is more likely to be enthusiastic about Penny being a robot is that she seems to be someone who gets a bit wide-eyed at progress and human achievement. She has a love of learning and discovery that is less evident with the other characters. It is also not like autonomous robots would be completely unusual to her. Her getting all gushy about encountering a seemingly sentient android seems more plausible with what we know at this point than any speculations on your part.

Truth is, we really can't know how any character would react without having some history on the role of robots in the universe. If the writers are interested in crafting a good story they won't find some contrived reason to have Weiss in conflict with yet another well-liked character, but give someone else a turn or give no one a turn. At this point they need to let Weiss show her quality and prove why she is the second leading heroine. They also need to make it abundantly clear that our other heroines are very much in need of growth as well.