User blog comment:Baylaust/RWBY Episode 9 Review/@comment-2006510-20130913215656/@comment-9090085-20130915010226

This might sound odd, but in Ep08 we may have been seeing an aspect of her character, not necessarily its growth. I feel that Weiss, while she may not want to or like to, is willing to put aside whatever greavences she has with someone to defeat the enemy; this is pretty much what she did in that episode - she knew they needed to work together to survive that fight, not try and one-up each other.

I guess the way I see this episode is Weiss is doing what Yang suggested in Ep03: start over her relationship with Ruby - complete with a new dawn, a new beginning!

I think we can all see how well that has gone: between the whistle; not having her way with the beds; almost being late for class; and Ruby's Shenanigans in class, shes probably at the end of her patience - which was probably never that long to begin with. Hence, the emotion-fueled attempt to one-up Ruby.

On another note, Weiss doesn't come across to me as someone who is good a changing herself: she knows she has problems, but has alot of trouble dealing with them("I'm not bossy! Don't say things like that!").

(I'm quite like that myself, finding it hard get out of my rut once I'm in it.)