User blog comment:Tatmtn/Character Appreciation: Blake/@comment-25195920-20150107064010/@comment-25258408-20150108032645

While you misunderstood what I meant, you do have a valid point. Her development did all occur offscreen, but that's not what I'm referring to in this particular situation. Could they have tried to focus more on Weiss instead of bring in two new characters who we've hardly seen since? Yes. As you said, could they have given her at least one scene detailing what was going through her head? Yes. Again, that's not what impressed me about those episodes. I wasn't referring to her acceptance of Blake, but to everything that happened before then. What those episodes did, in my eyes, was give Weiss a believable and deep character flaw that shed new light on her and her past. It was even foreshadowed in episode 8, when Weiss was shown not to care about Velvet being bullied. The fact that RWBY managed to depict a discriminatory character who had deeper reason for her beliefs aside from just being an asshole (Cardin) or being a villain (Roman) is what really impressed me. Plus, for a brief moment, we got to see the sad, lonely side of Weiss from the White trailer that we hadn't seen since then.

Also, while this may just be me, the moment of tension before Weiss and Blake began to talk was great. We had no idea whether Weiss would go off on another rant about the White Fang and the faunus, turn Blake into the police, or actually accept her for who she is. It was kind of nerve-wracking, and until she explained herself, I was on edge, all because we had no idea how she would react. Some aspects of that arc could have been done better, there's no denying that. But all in all, what struck me most was not what Weiss did, but what those episodes did for her character.