Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171208180706/@comment-26018514-20171212012138

2001:8A0:D21E:3301:AD2E:C96E:E038:1323 wrote: What did people demanded on V1 and 2? Yang's backstory? Considering how much that influenced Yang, they did need to tell it. I mean, until Yang talked to Blake, I thought that her and Ruby were sisters, not just half-sisters. Were there any hints of that not being the case before? ... You do realize they had different last names before that right? such a thing is highly uncommon amongst full siblings living in the same household(not impossible, but rare enough that a writer would almost never do it without intending they be half siblings).

as you said though, Ozpin has not been that big of a failure, he united the world once, then gave up his power, in every way. He has maintained some political power through reincarnations but in keeping that he can secret he has to re-establish that power each lifetime... and he doesn't appear to care for it so he hasn't been doing so, and if Salem reincarnates herself he can't just kill her... because that doesn't DO anything, so his only final solution would require he immobilize her permanently(or at least long enough to figure out how to seal/kill her... assuming that doesn't end up revealing how to kill himself as well would be his folly), but no-one, not even him has the power to do that right now if she is as powerful as the show keeps hinting.