Ironwood's actions are not per se wrong, as he is trying to do the right thing. It's just that he has stopped asking himself if he is wrong. I think I read somewhere that evil people tend not to question their own actions, and think they are doing the right thing. Abandoning the planet might be the only valid strategy, the only pyrrhic victory available. But he stopped listening, even to his friends.
At this point I'm really starting to doubt Ozpin's sanity. James, well, he always seemed to go to extremes. Leo went the other way, trying anything to survive. Were these folks really the best he could do? It's like the narration says, it's about how one handles fear. But Leo gave into his fear, while James sees only killing the fear. And Raven, well, she ran away to wait for the apocalypse. Qrow became a bitterly cynical alcoholic, and he is the best of Ozpin's inner circle. Well, depending on what Glinda is up to these days.
So are these the best of the previous generation? Like, seriously? Maybe Oz just got desperate in this incarnation, having tried so many things in the past. Maybe the despair gets to him. Or maybe that's just what the fear and despair and impotence does to everyone else over decades, so no matter what happens, these folks end up doing a NERV impression. Everyone breaks, eventually. She'll find out how in the end. After all, you can't stop her. No one can.
Where have you gone, Pyrrha Nikos? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
At this point I'm really starting to doubt Ozpin's sanity. James, well, he always seemed to go to extremes. Leo went the other way, trying anything to survive. Were these folks really the best he could do? It's like the narration says, it's about how one handles fear. But Leo gave into his fear, while James sees only killing the fear. And Raven, well, she ran away to wait for the apocalypse. Qrow became a bitterly cynical alcoholic, and he is the best of Ozpin's inner circle. Well, depending on what Glinda is up to these days.
So are these the best of the previous generation? Like, seriously? Maybe Oz just got desperate in this incarnation, having tried so many things in the past. Maybe the despair gets to him. Or maybe that's just what the fear and despair and impotence does to everyone else over decades, so no matter what happens, these folks end up doing a NERV impression. Everyone breaks, eventually. She'll find out how in the end. After all, you can't stop her. No one can.
Where have you gone, Pyrrha Nikos? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto