Because it doesn't follow the story flow or logic. You can't simple force sudden character development, you have to actually develop it, and Jaune barely started to form as character and suddenly he starts talking about the team, his responsability, and whatnot. Why? He barely knows these people. They were his team because he died 4 other times, why would he think of them as THE team specially when he now knows how to use his powers?
Maybe it's because Jaune is being optimistic and plans
not to die in this timeline like he died in the others.
He despises one of them enough to want to see him expelled, and then after 2 phrases exchanged with Ozpin (neither very good or original) he is Go Team! And Mr. Responsability? It just doesn't make any sense.
I recall a similar situation happening in canon RWBY when Weiss wanted to be the leader instead of Ruby. I
also recall the writing being equally as bland, forgettable, and unoriginal while yielding exactly the same results. Are you perhaps suggesting that when canon did it, it was flawless? Or are you instead suggesting that the author
can't adhere to canon because canon was
wrong? Alternatively, are you suggesting that Ozpin was in the wrong here? If anything, I praise him for refusing to just make Cardin 'go away' as a problem.
And 'taking the easy out of "never happened"' is actually worse than forcing people who despise each other to work together, live together, fight together?
YES. Life is about working with people you don't like, doing things you don't like, and
not getting what you want.
Life isn't about forcing people to be miserable just because you believe you can 'make it' work. It's actually very selfish of Jaune forcing those people to do that.
No, it's really not. If anything, the fact that Jaune is facing his mistakes and trying to make them right
without just relying on his Semblance is more realistic to me, more interesting to me, and very much in-character for him. And how is it selfish to face one's own mistake and try to fix it? How is it selfish to do what
literally every single child is taught to do from an early age? When you screw up, you own up to it and fix what you broke. Jaune would fix
nothing by reversing time. He'd leave a ticking time bomb that could go off at an even
worse time and
nothing would be mended. If anything, him confronting this in a direct manner like this
right now in a low-risk environment is the
best action he could have made.
Of course in a cartoon, where deep down everyone is the same and no one except bad guys have different worldviews, this could work, but in real life? Depression, distaste for their everyday and spite. So much spite.
I'm actually not sure what you're trying to say here. Please clarify these sentence fragments in a manner that can be understood.
He just created a huge, unnecessary conflict on his team, that could literally be solved by turning time back a little and working on it slowly. But rushing it head on is the right way?
One can just as easily blame Jaune for "creating" this conflict as someone else for making it come to a head. This is a team with a former freedom fighter Faunus and another member who is racist
against Faunus. No matter what, this is a confrontation that was going to happen. Further, it's a
necessary confrontation. Consider what this team has to face in the future. These are Hunters and Huntresses in training. They will one day fight the creatures of Grimm, they will have to go out and defend humanity by working together. Are you perhaps saying that they can work together easily
without confronting this severe issue?
As for confronting the problem head-on? Yes. That is the
right thing to do. He had a
severe issue in his team. Working through it slowly, drawing it out piece by piece, that
would not work. Cardin is abrasive, Blake is reclusive. Neither of them like each other, neither of them would be willing to share details of their past even
after a long period of time. Remember, it took almost a year before Blake actually spoke up about her ties to the White Fang. That was after a similar conflict with Weiss. But Weiss, unlike Cardin, was willing to try to help Blake. Cardin, meanwhile, is
deeply and
blatantly racist.
That's just to simplistic, and wrong. Like people thinking that you can beat phobias or addiction of a person just by 'willing' it.
There's something really wrong and worrying about this comparison. You're saying that the idea of Jaune directly confronting a problem in his team structure that would, no matter what, become a severe issue at a later time is the equivalent of "willing" one's fears away. That's...
That's just to simplistic, and wrong.
Yeah. Basically.
There is also the reason that Cardin as a character is boring, he is a cardboard, and a drag to read. The author tried to force some character depthness on him, but it was waaay heavy-handed,and it just made him even more flat and obvious.
I'm not going to defend Cardin here. He was never meant to be anything more than a cardboard cutout bully in the show, and seeing him act this way here meets my already very low bar. In the author's defense, he wasn't given much to work with. But that's hardly an excuse and I
do agree that Cardin as a character could have been handled better... I simply take the stance that handling him
at all is rather challenging.
Also the fact that the author doesn't even know which of the many conflicts he created he wants to be the central one, it can hardly be called character development when nothing was developed and the plot was all over the place, with no focus or progress.
Think you could be a little more specific by, perhaps, listing each of the individual conflicts and the measures by which they were addressed?
The author could be tying here for a 'team misfits' vibe, using the characters clashing personalities and views to create drama. But such extremes differences like those of Blake and Cardin needs a subtle and deliberately slow hand to work. Which is not the case at all.
I'm not sure about the "subtle" and "slow" bit. Have you
seen RWBY? This is a show where subtlety is
not the name of the game by any means or measures. And Jaune, no matter his sudden power boost, is
not a subtle person. If this conflict would come to a head and if Jaune were forced to deal with it, I could certainly see him sitting everyone down to deal with it
right there and
right then. Jaune isn't the kind of character who understands or works well with subtlety... hell, he's probably one of the worst people to give a Semblance like this one. That much, I
won't argue.
But I'd rather watch someone struggle to figure out how to work through his problems than just give up and try again. I'd
rather watch someone try every avenue before deciding to go back and redo what is there, primarily because
going back is not an option we all have.
