Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4010415-20170717151617/@comment-14138255-20170723161020

Terminus99 wrote: I think the problem is that Jacques came across more as a pragmatic businessman than the abusive, manipulative and controlling father than Weiss and the songs were making him up to be.

The fact that all of his actions in this Volume were justified to some degree certainly doesn't help.

A lot of things were implied about Jacques, especially in the songs, and Volume 4 was supposed to be the time when we finally see him and how horrible he was, and if you ask me, it failed to deliver.

Maybe if Volume 4 wasn't so fucking rushed, maybe if we had the time to actually see how cruel and amoral Jacques can really be, and more time to see how he treats his family (and not just Weiss, who to be honest, is not blameless about the whole matter), maybe then it would be easier to be on Weiss side and see her as less of a brat. It's like Company of Heroes 2 where they put in all the bad stuff the Soviets did in WWII...but forgot to add in all the bad stuff the Nazis did.