User blog comment:Andrew Waltfeld/Episode 8 Thoughts/@comment-86.150.94.240-20130906072814/@comment-17727644-20130906075215

O I agree romance is secondary, but to ignore it as being apart of the plot seems to be silly. It's more of a objective outlook at it. It tends to be the main characters get paired up first then everyone else does. So it seems just more likely that it'll be Ruby/Jaune and Ren/Weiss just by the natural order of the story. Monty could ignore the whole relationship bit to begin with for the rest of the series for all I care, actually I would be quite fine with that. But at this point, I'm only caring about the romance because it may end becoming relevant to a point, so it's nice to keep tabs on it at least.

Team CRNL could be anything - I agree. But at this point from first impressions, all I'm getting is major asshats vibe from them.