Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24993958-20171021151743/@comment-4010415-20171023043253

Alhazad2003 wrote: I certainly hope not, RT needs to show some of Herr Schnee's good qualities rather than more of his bad ones. Maybe if they showed Jacques actually does care about his family, it would help alleviate, albeit partially, the conception of him being a total scumbag who only cares about money and himself. Then we'd see Weiss' views on him might not be as accurate as we once believed.

My gosh, they made Roman look more human than Herr Schnee, at least Roman had some redeeming qualities, something RT has not done for Schnee. That's the thing, we can't let character biases (Weiss, Blake) blind us to overall picture. But we need to see the other side, or how are we to take accurate assessments of the characters? Except they haven't done a very good job of showing Jacques as a scumbag whose top priorities are money and reputation, at all. The depiction we got of him was


 * Eh, the way he talked Weiss into singing for the charity ball was kinda manipulative, which is gross


 * Oh, he said he pays the Faunus workers the same wages as the rest of the mining staff


 * He tried to keep Weiss by his side at the party


 * Aaand when she left his side, she ended up screaming at guests, making a scene, and accidentally attacking one of the guests


 * Just a dad grounding his daughter for misbehaving, nothing to see here


 * Weiss targeted a sensitive nerve intentionally, which caused him to lash out. Bad reaction for a parent to have, but some people point out that she intentionally verbally hurt him


 * He took away Weiss' heiress title, which some argue he is in the right to do, after her faux pas


 * Lying to the public about the circumstances of Weiss losing her heiress title is pretty messed up

They tried to show us that he is kind of a scumbag who cares too much about money and reputation, but they kinda failed at it by having Weiss seem like a self-centered brat who actually needed to be punished for her actions.