User blog comment:TheNewProtagonist/Episode 14: Can we stop focusing on Jaune, now?/@comment-918376-20131018015752

I have a feeling that there's a good reason for the "huge" Jaune development -- Team JNPR will probably affect Team RWBY's development, and it can't happen until Jaune gets his act together and become an effective leader of Team JNPR. He had the leadership skills, but his poor fighting ability and insecurity made him distant from his team and thus a poor leader. However, by this episode, it seems that he's working on both those issues.

On the other hand, Ruby's a brilliant fighter -- she was accepted into Beacon two years ahead of time for it -- but her actual skill as a leader is questionable. She's rather naive and her social skills aren't that great (then again, neither is Jaune, but he's at least willing to talk to other people whereas Ruby wanted to stick with Yang alone). Her primary conflict was with Weiss, but it was Professor Port who convinced Weiss to stand behind Ruby, whereas Jaune's primary conflicts were with Cardin and later a bit with Pyrrha, but he resolved both of those issues directly.

Long story short, I think that Team JNPR is probably going to make some sort of vast improvement in bond/teamwork that Team RWBY will set their standards to, and the reason for that improvement is because of Jaune's newfound motivation.