Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4010415-20170717151617/@comment-30530552-20170721153501

To be fair, she'd been told that her whole life, it would seem, what with Winter leaving the military, and Whitley likely still too young at that age to be considered. With over a year away from home, it would be plenty of time for a jackass like Whitley to get on his father's good side where Winter and Weiss have seemingly done nothing but not buy into his schemes.

But yes, I do admit they handled the Jacques-ass very poorly in terms of how hateable he was. An extra snippet in episode 5 (which would have extended it's length, which it needed) with more manipulation as he did in episode 2 would've been a better way to showcase it, even though I still hate him with a passion. Episode 7 had lots of manipulation too, but that was slightly more understandable given context. Bare practicing for her performance and being berated for nto being good enough would've been sufficient enough to change some people's views of that party scene and the subsequent retaliation.