Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20180105193053/@comment-26018514-20180108153949

Alhazad2003 wrote:

I question how much Ozpin actually "changes" with each reincarnation. He talks about all the mistakes he's made, but I wonder if he's actually learned from them. If not, then he's going to repeat them over and over again. He knew what happened with Team STRQ because of the Maiden's powers (yet another secret he's kept from his "most trusted" lieutenants), yet he was going to repeat it with Team JNPR, and possibly Team RWBY later on. I'm guessing he "nudged" Qrow and Tai into training Yang early in being a Huntress, so when the time was right he'd send her to find Raven, she'd take her down and become the new Spring Maiden, who'd be fully back under his thumb once again. And it would risk another Team STRQ meltdown, yet he'd do it anyway because be believes only he can protect the Maidens, his "children." As the old saying goes, those who fail to learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them. So I'd deem him as a Well-Intentioned Extremist with a touch of incompetence with everything he's fouled up.

Ozpin Didn't plan on Raven being a maiden or STRQ's disbanding... but I'd say everything points to Raven planning it.