Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-25396609-20191130155818/@comment-14909251-20191220000408

73.Anon.52 wrote: Not a single person has disputed Jacques being an abusive asshat, it was Blake's abuse that was questioned, there are people who said Jacques has certain rights to abuse Weiss(as he is her father she couldn't just leave for years) beyond Adam's having no rights to do so as he is at best just a leader of a movement, because Jacques abuse is much harder to prove. I definitely don't think it is true to say "not a single person has disputed Jacques being an abusive" unless you are saying here and even then I don't know how certain one can be of that. Also, I never questioned whether Blake was abused, only that they didn't really sell it because what they showed or said from before she left isn't quite enough and the stuff after is in a very different context where "abuse" is difficult to fit.

Blake getting backhanded by Adam during a fight where the overriding factor is him wanting revenge against Blake for ruining all of his plans doesn't really work. The only real power difference is Adam being more capable than Blake is on her own, but they are otherwise fighters of similar capability so treating her being struck during a fight as them showing abuse just doesn't wash.