User blog comment:Varzan Deodinm Beldinm/The "meh" factor of this show has finally gotten to me. ( please read, then judge.)/@comment-14909251-20131013074253/@comment-3146930-20131013081839

I don't think it is the fact that Episode 8 raised our expectations for the show, but after Episode 8 the show took a large turn. Instead of our heroes fighting Grimm in the woods for most of the first half, we have seen one short fight from Weiss and a hilariously futile fight with Jaune. The show also seemed to skip the whole "Team-building" a lot of us were hoping to see. What I mean by that is Weiss was finally starting to accept Ruby as the leader; then there is a time-skip for a few weeks and we never get back with the team. Instead the show shifts to JNPR and we get a rather weak subplot about Jaune being bullied by CRDL, who are just mean for the sake of being mean.

In short, we pretty much went from a fun action show to a school drama within the course of maybe an episode. Other shows have tried shifting the tone of a show before and a lot of the time unless it is done freakishly well, it doesn't work. This is one of the shows where it doesn't work well.