Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-35941743-20190304195312/@comment-27144409-20190721232937

Weiss wasn't an active threat, and the show proves her sadism was hollow, since it helped awaken Jaune's latent Semblance. If Cinder was smart, she'd have incinerated Jaune while she could. He nearly landed a blow, but instead of finishing the active threat she had pinned, she chose to hit the least threatening enemy there.

Ignoring how this fight is entirely because she wanted payback, when there was a perfectly valid strategy to get in and get out.