Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181124081953/@comment-24032889-20181125212012

SpiritedDreaming wrote: Blake tried to be best girl but ultimately screwed up by treating Yang as an invalid. Her reaction to Yang is always 'let me do the thing for you', not 'let me help you do the thing' (IE: Getting Yang's bag down for her in Mistral, telling Yang she would protect her from Adam).

It's a common reaction people have when someone close to them gets severely injured and I understand where Yang is coming from with her reaction. Yang's trying to move forward, and she knows she's a capable young woman. No one treats her any different except Blake, who came in very late and is now treating her like she's made of glass.

Not saying Blake is wrong in her reaction, but they both need to seriously talk things out. Blake needs to stop trying to shield Yang and treat her like glass, and Yang just needs to talk. Ultimately I think she had the right intention and everything sounded "in the right vain" until she got to "I'll protect you". Instead of "We'll fight him together" or something like that, she worded it in a way that took away from Yang's abilities. Everything before that wasn't "treating Yang like glass" but rather making her presence and intentions known, which Yang was certainly responding well to.

The "I'll protect you" was the only part that came from a wrong place, to me.