This is what happens when you try to create a story by just keeping adding cool things instead of creating a clear picture of the world and sticking to it. The first season especially suffered from this, but they were never able to completely get rid of it.
It is interesting how many things comes to mind about things that have this problem in the first seasons just from one reference actually.
I didn't put it earlier, but you just gave me an excuse to, so....
For example, we have the things about Jaune we just discussed, where the guy is asking questions that in retrospect, are indicating he grew up without any outside contact in a shed in the middle of a forest, but he alone also leads to one of the reason I can't stand his canon arc:
The fact that a significant part of it requires distributing idiot balls for the Beacon staff like they're out of style.
First thing to give the idea; Glynda is looking at the footage of the future students and gives a remark about Jaune that goes like this: *I don't care what his dossier says, this boy is clearly not ready for this school*
First time I saw it, I didn't think anything of it, but when I rewatched the first three seasons to prepare for this quest, it jumped to me, because I know that Jaune's dossier is false, and the problem there is simple when you think of it, namely, that Glynda:
-Knows that Jaune has a dossier that says he had very good results in a combat class.
-Is likely to have just seen Pyrrha unlock his Aura on screen (Pretty sure the comment is right after this scene).
-Knows his dossier is not reflecting reality for sure anyway.
-Has the guy makes absolutely no progress for weeks (Jaunedice has her comment on it in the arena against Cardin).
And you are telling me she did nothing? At all? Not even give him remedy class?
Come on, she is supposed to be the vice director of one of the most prestigious school in the world, one that is not only incentivized to keep the level high by the honor and reputation, but also by the fact that
everyone's lives rely on the ones they train.
And she sees a clear case of either corruption or a false dossier and she doesn't react?
Fuck that noise, Jaune in canon has no reason to even exists and requires several deep changes to work.
And the problems aren't just there, like, take the little scene of Pyrrha pinning Jaune on a locker before the initiation, the authors apparently said that this scene was made to establish that she could do that for when she does the same for the landing strategy. Except... that doesn't work? We didn't need a scene to establish that in the first place, and the way the scene is done makes Pyrrha seems like a bully, someone who is clumsy (the exact opposite of the intended effect) or both (funny thing with that and several other Pyrrha scenes, by the way, she tells that she is hiding her semblance to keep an upper hand in fights, which is great and all, but it may be better for her to stop constantly using it in ways that are pretty blatant to somebody searching for strange phenomenon like when she recovers her weapon without touching it in this scene, or get her weapon and shield from her back without touching them in her four on one fight or.... No wonder Mercury found it out in one fight, I'm actually surprised it is even a secret to be honest.)
Also, the problems aren't all about Jaune, earlier in this thread I told that I found that it seemed strange to have the first years be the only ones defending Beacon's courtyard without a single adult on sight, and someone answered that we saw what the adult huntsmen were doing....
Except we don't see what the teachers are doing during this sequence, we see what Glynda, Qrow, Ironwood, and Ozpin are doing, and not only does this not cover Professor Port and Doctor Oobleck, well, Beacon cannot work with only three teachers.
The school has to have several thousands of teachers if it is university sized (did a quick research, the state university in Ohio has 3 400 teachers), nevermind that the school is told to be the only one for the whole kingdom (another thing that makes no sense), which means even more teachers, why would the first years not even have a single one to help them?
I could continue, but this is already... wait, 700+ words????? Hmm, yeah, stopping now on that.
Oh god. I wonder if Cardin would actually become a decent person this time around?
You'll see in the evaluation of the students mental states at the beginning of the year.
