(01-09-2018, 05:47 AM)irukandji Wrote: Well then you'd have to agree that Bonaparte was never slated to live too long anyway. I know there was talk about wesen killing non-compliant wesen, and it happened with the shop keeper. But they also showed the common folk attending meetings, grassroots as you call it. Good or bad, it was founded by Bonaparte. He can't have a strong arm tactic and at the same time a grassroots campaign.No, Bonaparte wasn’t meant to survive or succeed. He was what every WoW was created to be - an evil Wesen Nick would defeat. BC used the locals’ discontent for it’s benefit. BC wasn’t interested in aiding the grassroots effort of local Wesen, but rather, use their discontent in a way that facilitated it’s agenda - a world dominated and controlled, not by Wesen in general, but by a select group of Wesen.
(01-09-2018, 05:47 AM)irukandji Wrote: It wasn't a personal conflict for Nick. It was just personal. So it became an objective to retrieve Adalind and Kelly..Personal conflict or just personal, the result was the same. All the Wesen uprising/Black Claw hoopla boiled down to Nick battling the small group that took Adalind and his son. Nick wasn’t actively involved in combating BC until it became personal for him. Nothing about Nick’s attitude or behavior toward BC indicated he would have mounted an attack against them even after HW was destroyed had they not taken Kelly and Adalind. World domination with world-changing consequences was hype not played out in the storyline. You could replace BC with a group of powerful local Wesen businessmen who took Adalind and Kelly and have the same ending. HW and BC weren't necessary components of the S5 storyline. As I said earlier, they were hype and gave Meisner & Eve-Juliette something to do.
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