Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-174.135.62.244-20160603201323/@comment-26018514-20160722160050

Gastropod wrote:

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: I also want to see how it would affect Weiss and change her to find herself warming and falling for a guy she previously thought was a worthless dope It wasn't just the use of the phrase "wish fufillment" that bothered me. What bugs me about this narrative is the asymmetry of it. Look at this story from both perspectives.


 * For Jaune, it's a wish fulfillment fantasy. He was right all along and gets literally exactly what he always wanted at the beginning.
 * For Weiss, it's a story about her realizing how totally wrong she was for rejecting him and ends up with the exact opposite of what she wanted at the beginning.

Put another way: Who would you rather be in this scenario?

And before anyone tries to spin Weiss' side as "personal growth"... There is nothing wrong with rejecting someone you're not attracted to, and certainly nothing wrong with doing so repeatedly. That is not growth.

100% my view on the matter, further, I dislike the implication that Jaune cannot find someone who believes in him as a person from the beginning, or that Weiss cannot trust her instincts... it makes a bad counterpoint to their journey's characterizations, not to mention requires more out of story scenes to make believable. Given the series penchant for off-screen character development I'd rather not have that sort of relationship in the series at all if they don't have time to do it justice.