Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160214074328/@comment-410526-20160227130851

VedranTheII wrote: Maybe it’s just me but, with the parent track record in the show so far, daddy Schnee being a misunderstood jerk isn’t out of the picture yet I really hope this isn't the case. Papa Schnee being a nice guy in the end would just make Weiss and Winter seem spoiled and ungrateful if they didn't have a valid reason for wanting to break away from him.

There's also the fact that Weiss claims that he was the one who started the SDC down the morally questionable path, so I'm not sure how someone who mistreats and subjugates a race can be considered a "misunderstood" jerk. Someone guilty of subjugating a race is just a plain-old jerk (to put it lightly).

Weiss might try "save" him and bring him out of the dark place he is in now, but I honestly don't think it'd be appropriate to paint him as a good guy with rough edges (yet, anyway). At most, he's a bad guy with the potential capacity to be less bad.