User blog comment:TheNewProtagonist/Episode 12: And now it allllll makes sense./@comment-200.165.230.67-20131005184939/@comment-9090085-20131009020037

I'm inclined to agree with you BenRG, I don't see a conclusion to Cardin's bullying of Jaune for quite a while yet. I do hope we see Jaune buckle down and start working with others to complete his schoolwork in the next episode or two - whether the person who spurs this on is Pyrrha, a teacher, or Cardin doesn't really mater to me.

Oddly, I feel the character background for Blake and/or Ruby might happen in one of the double-length episodes, if only so that it is a part of the A-plot for the mid-season finale. (If it is Blake, I would assume it would be brought on by the (re)appearance of her old mentor, Adam... maybe, just a guess.) I still feel it's too early for the Vytal Festival to be the cliffhanger just yet; we need Plot now, and the festival would probably be mostly eye-candy(excusing Roman's plotting, of course).

(P.S., why can't I quote people on blogs???)