User blog comment:Hidden Scorpius XI/My impressions on "A Much Needed Talk" (V4-E8)/@comment-26397825-20170102002823

What premise that man came before Grimm? That was never stated in the show, so any belief to that was pure speculatory headcanon on your part. They did no retconning.

Salem wants the Maidens because a sufficiently trained one is super powerful and she wants to ensure an easy victory, not have these super powered people running around the wild combating her. Even if she doesn't need them to win, it still makes her goal easier to have the powers all collected for her own people.

And as the anon below me said, Qrow's semblance is making others around him unlucky. As in, his semblance is modern Murphy's Law applied to other people. "If it can go wrong, it will'. He's not unlucky himself, he just has to deal with the fallout of making his friends and family unlucky.

And damn those cliffhangers indeed.