Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-1146923-20190611234247/@comment-4010415-20190612053442

ReikaTachyon wrote: It just goes to show. The characters on this show are either god-tier-idiots, or the writers just don't give a damn. Ozpin, knowing the value of each question, would have thought long and hard about the wording of it. That he asked how specifically HE could specifically DESTROY Salem is ridiculous and well worth the facepalm it got from me when I first watched it. What he should have asked is 'How can Salem be defeated?'. And he either would have gotten a desirable answer, or the series would have ended because Salem would have been proven to be unbeatable. He probably felt that Salem was his burden to bear alone, and to be fair, we don't know if he knew at the time that there was literally no way for him to kill her. Sure, her surviving the battle that blew up their castle and killed their daughters would be one indication, but he somehow survived it too. He probably thought she might have some weakness he can utilize to stop her, feeling in some way responsible for her reign of terror.

These days, he knows that he can't stop her alone, which is why he now actually recruits people to help, but he's afraid they'll lose hope if they find out she's invincible, which RWBY and JNR did at first.