User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Characters and Character Development/@comment-3146930-20140416094724

I personally didn't like the Jaune Arc, but not for the reasons that most people dislike it. The episode before it started, Weiss was finally willing to accept Ruby as the leader of the team and to be a better teammate. So now Team RWBY can finally start acting like a team...except we never see it. The next episode we find out that weeks have passed from the time of the last episode and we no longer get to see RWBY for four episodes. By this time, Ruby seems to have really started becoming a good leader and even gives some good advice to Jaune, but we never see her becoming the leader, we just see the end result kind of.

Another thing is that we still don't know that much about our main heroins. The first half of Volume 1 was very much focused on Weiss and Ruby coming to blows over various things. Then they finally settle their differences so you would think we would get some Yang-Blake exploration, but we don't as the Jaune Arc rolls in. It is almost like the writers noticed this as well as the last two episodes focus almost entirely on Blake...but nothing really about Yang. Right now we no more about Jaune then we do about Yang, who is in the title of the show.

Personally, I would have had those four episodes moved to the beginning of Volume 2, had four episodes about Team RWBY working as a team in their place, or maybe developing Yang, Blake, or both. It can be done, as the only real useful bit of info revealed in Jaune's arc is that the Vale festival is soon, which Glynda could have mentioned at any time.