Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-30530552-20171128180120/@comment-14909251-20171130205543

WC-83 wrote: You know, I honestly don't get what everyone's big problem is. They're treating Ozpin like a manipulative schemeing bastard for small shit. Raven, in particular, is doing the same thing when it was established she volunteered for the violent mutation.

RWBY seems to think it's Madoka Magica, where the person everyone trusted turned out to be lying to their face or misleading them with half-truths the whole way through when nothing of the sort has been happening with Ozpin. The show and writers seem to think it's so clever, but it's not, it's being thick. I feel it could be something if it had a little elaboration. We are, after all, just assuming Qrow and Ozpin are not still telling half-truths or lies. For one, it doesn't make sense for Raven to willingly join Ozpin's mission, have a child with Taiyang, and then just suddenly up and leave for "her own self-interest" as Ozpin put it. Seems as if there is definitely more to that story that to some extent explains why she talks about it the way she talks about it.