Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181201123231/@comment-4141313-20181204022022

It suddenly occured to me that The Apathy is the reason why JNR couldn't go with RWBY+QOM. Not from a plot perspective, but from a Writting Perspective.

Primarily its due to the fact the Apathy are alledgedly weak as dirt, but with their tough hides and ability to suck the will to live out of ya, there's one character aside from Ruby who'd be able to beat them: Ren. Ren's semblance is literally "Zen Injection", he calms down people, and since the Apathy magnify negative emotions, Ren's semblance would be able to numb them enough they'd have no effect. Add in Jaune's own Semblance able to boost Ren's even further, and Nora's Magnhild possibly able to either crush the Apathy or seal the tunnels in permanently so Weiss can just burn them alive after, then the plot wouldn't work.

Ruby wouldn't awaken her Silver Eyes again, Maria wouldn't reveal she's an SEW, Qrow's alcoholism wouldn't get so bad to the point that Ruby would finally be fed up with it, and the issues they starting having and bottling up after meeting Jinn and blowing up at Ozpin wouldn't be made known and therefore able to be addressed.

So in that sense, the entire reason JNR got to go to Argus ahead of everyone else, is because they'd have to figure out other means to do all those plot points.