User blog comment:Baylaust/RWBY Episode 9 Review/@comment-2006510-20130913215656/@comment-220.255.2.168-20130914042822

Though Weiss may have been nicer to Ruby, I think the thing in ep 8 was more professional than an actual attempt to befriend her cos I think Weiss knows that if neither of them simmers, the initiation will go South horribly. So it may have been a one-off thing, so the development may not have been as big as you may have thought. So it is more like stagnant, not the backwards development that you described I think.