Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-173.16.38.102-20140708023216/@comment-3146930-20140709220330

I'm not saying the Jaune-Arc (lol, Jaune Arc and Jaune-Arc) was unimportant, far from it. I agree that it was very important for his character and the series in the future. However I do feel that it was misplaced from a story-telling standpoint and overly long. Before the Jaune-Arc, Ruby just started trying to be a good leader and Weiss had agreed to be a better teammate, but we never really see any of this because the next episode has a time-skip and moves the focus to Jaune; meaning so far in the series we have not seen Team RWBY really function as a team (fight with the Nevermore doesn't count because they weren't an official team yet).

So instead of getting to learn more about the members of RWBY or even seeing Ruby step up as a leader, we get Jaune and Cardin playing the roles of the stereotypical bully and victim. Then with that all finished, we go back to Team RWBY with two episodes about Blake. I just feel like those 4 episodes about Jaune could have maybe been moved to possibly even the start of Volume 2 or maybe they could have spent some time making those 4 episodes into 2 somewhat longer ones, then spend those 2 other episodes focusing on RWBY.

Once again I agree that there are some very important moments in those four episodes, but I don't feel that they needed four episodes to get those moments.