Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160225225013/@comment-410526-20160318170345

A lot of people want to see CRDL return either as villains or atoners, but I honestly hope CRDL never appears again for more than like 30 seconds. Right now they're nothing but cardboard cutouts, sure. Thing is, if they got more screentime they'd still be cardboard cutouts who happen to also be taking up precious screentime.

They're the most bland, uninteresting characters in the series, which means that there's an absurdly huge opportunity cost of giving them any screentime. There are so many other really interesting characters they could focus on instead. Imagine how much of a waste it would be if Ren and Nora (or SSSN, or STRQ, or Qrow, or the other Professors...) missed out on an arc just so that we can be convinced Cardin & pals are actually great guys (or actually even bigger assholes than we thought). I'm happy with CRDL going to waste if it means other people get the spotlight.

If they do appear in a plot-relevant capacity I hope they at the very least use them as a vehicle to develop other, more interesting characters, rather than waste time developing them in their own right.