Episodes 11 and 12 have established, certainly, that Team CRDL are assholes.
But the big thing I like here is how well the Rooster Teeth team handles these short episodes.
Cardin is established as a dick, but in slapstick fashion after the duel. He knocks Jaune down, stuffs him in a locker. It's played for laughs, if a little cringe-worthy ones if you like Jaune. And they're all impulsive acts of random dickery.
What he does to Velvet isn't impulsive. It's extended, casual cruelty with no slapstick elements at all, and suddenly he's not just the Jerk Jock, he's a genuinely cruel piece of work.
And then Episode 12 makes everything about those earlier slapstick moments worse, while Jaune's VA knocks it out of the freaking park.
"I'm tired of being the lovable idiot stuck in a tree while my friends fight for their lives!"
"I don't want to be the damsel in distress. I want to be the hero!"
Everything funny gets turned on its head and well... and the setup is there to make it worse before it gets better. RT's said that Team JNPR was initially a B-team that grew into a 2nd A-Team in production, and this really hammers it in. This series is as much about Jaune, Nora, Pyrrha, and Ren as it is about Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang.
And if it keeps hitting like this, that's fine with me.
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."
But the big thing I like here is how well the Rooster Teeth team handles these short episodes.
Cardin is established as a dick, but in slapstick fashion after the duel. He knocks Jaune down, stuffs him in a locker. It's played for laughs, if a little cringe-worthy ones if you like Jaune. And they're all impulsive acts of random dickery.
What he does to Velvet isn't impulsive. It's extended, casual cruelty with no slapstick elements at all, and suddenly he's not just the Jerk Jock, he's a genuinely cruel piece of work.
And then Episode 12 makes everything about those earlier slapstick moments worse, while Jaune's VA knocks it out of the freaking park.
"I'm tired of being the lovable idiot stuck in a tree while my friends fight for their lives!"
"I don't want to be the damsel in distress. I want to be the hero!"
Everything funny gets turned on its head and well... and the setup is there to make it worse before it gets better. RT's said that Team JNPR was initially a B-team that grew into a 2nd A-Team in production, and this really hammers it in. This series is as much about Jaune, Nora, Pyrrha, and Ren as it is about Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang.
And if it keeps hitting like this, that's fine with me.
---
"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."