Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161106163624/@comment-14138255-20161112011838

The difference between Unaloq (the aformentioned uncle) and Watts would be Watts wouldn't doing anything wrong in the beginning (whereas Unaloq was interested in taking Korra from Tenzin and the White Lotus). Watts meanwhile, I would hope, is channelling Ozpin in trying to be a wize mentor to Ruby since he is gone now (I imagine he'll only be found out when Qrow finds him and outs him as one of Salem's party, though given he didn't recognize Cinder he might go unnoticed). If he does offer Ruby to see his master, she might go with it until she sees Salem's Palace and Salem herself.

As for Watt's doctorate, point taken, but it's one more credential we know of than Hazel.