Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-25396609-20191102162031/@comment-4010415-20191104000716

Jonathan Mott wrote:

1. They show up in Mantle. Things are bad. They learn some stuff. The plot arrests them.

2. and not some preconceived notion that everyone should have something to say even if it means breaking up something that would make more sense if it was delivered in one go.

3. Yang hasn't felt like Yang in four goddamn episodes because she never cracks jokes anymore. She should be the one looking on the bright side but instead she's gloom and doom like everyone else. So too, Jaune hasn't been Jaune in a long time either because the script seems determined to make us take him seriously instead of letting him be a loveable goofball outside those small exchanges with his sister in Argus.

4. Weiss isn't a bitch

5. Ren doesn't maintain a noble silence.

6. Nora asked, "Why is it always something?" at the start of volume six as though she wasn't supposed to be the fourth wall breaking comic relief without a hint of sarcasm.

7. Only Qrow seems completely in character 1. But it makes perfect sense that they got arrested by the Ace-Ops.

2. Indeed. It can be tempting to make sure everyone says something instead of just quietly existing in the room, but it's not always necessary for every single character to say something.

3. Because they're in a serious situation. Nothing in the situation they're in calls for Yang to go around making jokes or Jaune to be a goof. When Jaune was with his sister, it was an appropriate time for him to be a goofball. While they're walking around Mantle, commenting about how horrible the place is, it is not an appropriate time for those two characters to be comedy relief. It would've been just plain stupid.

4. Because she's had character development. She can still be snarky and sarcastic when the situation calls for it (I repeat, when the situation calls for it ), but she's not a total bitch anymore because she has developed past that.

5. When has Ren ever maintained a noble silence? Even in Volume 1, he still spoke up. He even yelled Nora's name in Players and Pieces. He has never been intended to be silent, just a quiet guy who doesn't speak as much as everyone else.

6. I don't recall "breaking the fourth wall" being an aspect of Nora's character. Is that another thing that the fanbase has completely exaggerated, like saying "Yang always makes puns" when she has really only made, like, two puns in the entirety of the series?

I know Nora commented about finally getting to leave the Mistral house in Volume 6, but that was lampshading, not a fourth wall break.

7. They all seem to be in character to me. They're simply behaving appropriately for the situation they're in. Miles and Kerry don't need to flanderize Yang, Jaune, and Nora into being literally constant sources of goofs and giggles.