User blog comment:TheNewProtagonist/Episode 12: And now it allllll makes sense./@comment-82.33.101.54-20131005074921

Oh, pride- such a force that we all overlook. It's quite easy to distinguish what drives someone to do what they do- greed, power, loyalty, love, morale, and pride. I think we all know what drives Jaune. He was pretty much freaking out at two people knowing his secret- but the whole school? Jaune would rather jump off the roof than have the entire school know he lied to get into Beacon. Either way, the students will find out- but at least if Jaune jumped off the roof, they students would only find out once he jumped off, and by then he'd be too dead to care. We all know that pride is Jaune's besetting sin, and it's going to be mostly what drives him through the first season, maybe even the next, depending on how long the whole blackmail thing goes on for. And Pyrrha, it seems, will stay loyal to him, despite his misdirected bitterness on the roof.

Also- I do agree, a lot of things make sense now. Jaune's depressed face in the opening, his weak at best combat skills, how he got accepted into Beacon, and a somewhat need to appear confident when really, Jaune probably barely trusts himself with a knife and fork. I don't think it was a very stupid episode- a lot of things click together, though we're still missing a few pieces.