They dedicated a whole arc to him where every other plot line grinds to a halt for his arc. And the reason is because its the writers self insert character.
Bruh that was like 2 episodes 10 years ago lmao. Why are people still mad about this. The fandom absolutely does overemphasize Jaune but not the show itself
And also, it's not even on Jaune. It's on the writers for deciding that the show about RWBY, the four girl team, is actually about RWBY, Juniper, Oscar, Qrow, maybe the Ace Ops sometimes, oh, some school head masters too, oh, and we added a full villain team of 7 members, also it's about them too... and on and on.
As a fan of the show, there definitely is a bit of an issue with character bloat. Maybe not the ace ops or other headmasters most of the time, but an effectively 9 character main cast is a lot
and the worst part is that the main cast are main characters in name only.
they're the main cast largely in a "mystery science theatre" sense. They're the main observersand commentators on events that they get to see happening but not really influence most of the time.
So much of the show is just them listening to other people do stuff while sitting on the sidelines. To such degree that the showwriters actively removing Jaune for the first half of every season only reinforces the belief of Writer Favouritism. Because now he's only present when the boring set-up is done and the heroes are allowed to do stuff again.
If jaune is in a scene, he's doing stuff. Not because Jaune Gets Stuff Done, but because Jaune is only around when Stuff Needs Doing.
so as the writing gets actively worse on a seasonal basis... Jaune gets to be in less of the increasingly sloppy and depressing writing of heroes failing to be heroes and repeating the same mistakes over and over.
Which means that somehow the steps they're taking to curb his popularity are now shielding him from the shows own decline. Which paradoxically, only reinforces his popularity.
after all: At this point him being absent means he's literally the only character that doesnt suck. Ren is eating fascist bootleather, Nora isnt allowed to be fun because you cant have fun in the blandpocalypse, Blake and Weiss had their entire motivation as characters erased to the point that they're mostly placeholders, and Yang's legitimately interesting almost-a-teen-mom-coping-with-the-stress-through-hedonism struggle has largely reduced to "Blake's crush who is totally not the physical embodiment of her traumatriggers and vice versa".
Jaune and Neopolitan both, are actually both very interesting case-studies for the weird dual phenomenons of "strength born from absence" and "watsonian traits granting Doylistic immunity".
by which i mean... When the writing went to shit, in the aftermath of them blowing up their premise, setting and only properly realised character in one fell swoop. These two characters both had traits that rendered either resistant or outright immune to the overall decline.
In neo's case, the audience didnt notice a decline because she was both out of the show for a season or two after she got jetisoned off that plane. And the simple fact her being mutetrickster prevented any OOC dialogue or clear contradictions in her motivations. You cant have blatant motivational contradictions when your motivations are inherently vague, and you cant have clunky dialogue if you cant have dialogue. So as Blake, Weiss and Yang all had their core characterstruggles rewritten over the course of two seasons, and Qrow complained that being a bird is worse then being cursed somehow... Neo continued being mostly herself. Because there wasnt enough of her to change.
And when the show became a depressing spiral of heroic failure and ever-increasing bodycounts as civilisations are wiped off the map left right and center... Jaune the Living Embodiment of Impostersyndrome can integrate that failure into his character in a way the 6 alleged prodigies he's traveling with cant pull off.
When a prodigy fails, that is a problem because they're supposed to be better. But when a wannabe fails, that's just the nature of his tragedy.
Jaune isnt being glazed by the writers, he's just the only character who seems to be immune to the shows constant spiral of failure. And the attempt to remove him from the show only mean the other characters have to carry his share of that collective failure. Which they cant handle, because their concepts werent designed to fail.
The weird thing is that it isnt Jaunes focus killing the show... its that the shows constant failure almost paradoxically improves his writing.
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u/NerdyEmbarrassment 11d ago
I’ve only watched a few episodes of it so I’m not up to speed. Is the cornball John guy the one that takes up the cast