Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-29684190-20191123161006/@comment-35434444-20191128191703

WesternWarboss wrote:

I feel this would be the perfect punishment. 

No. In his own way, Jacques contributed to the technological advancement of Remnant as much as Nicolas. And he made Weiss into the young woman she is today. Both by his own character and in inadvertently pushing her to rebel and travel to Beacon.

He deserves to be given a second chance ; a long hard road to redemption, but mercy at the last .  If he must give up his fortunes, he must do it willingly for the good of Remnant. There is still the revelation of Salem. If it meant saving his son, he could find the compassion to do.

   Shylock's ultimate undoing wasn't his malice  -- it was because he was a Jew! The law forbade him from attempting to take the life of an Italian as a foreigner within the city. Hence he could not have a drop of blood.

In casting out his machinations <span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">, Portia displaced his evil with her own!