06-05-2013, 10:02 AM
(06-04-2013, 09:54 PM)Lou Wrote: I was listening to the Grimm Podcast after watching the pilot again and they briefly brought up this same issue and came up with a pretty decent work around. the other blutbad, the mailman, has been eating people, he even has some prey in the basement. Its this aspect of the mailman that makes monroe uncontrollable.This is "inductive reasoning" (and how I've ranted and raved about inductive reasoning online many times). When looking at two different situations, you can always find a variable (e.g. a blutbad that ate people) in one that is not in the other situation. That's why inductive reasoning is so dangerous, and how history is fully of many anecdotes about people presuming correlation when the variable can simply be a coincidence. But here's an easy way to shoot down that theory.
1. In Monroe's comment, he makes no mention of the fact that it's because the other blutbad had recently fed on people, only that it was because he was around another blutbad. That theory is twisting facts so that it doesn't appear the writers retconned this rule out of existence.
2. Angelina is an old school blutbad, which means she likely had eaten someone. (Hell, she took a nice bite out of the Skalengeck who tried to rape her). Does this "feeding on humans" rule only work if its a significant amount of human? Or a non-wessen human? Or does it have to happen regularly so that enough "people" builds up in the blutbad's system? You can go on forever about this.
3. The blutbad gang who ate someone on screen. Monroe was around them and didn't lose control. Though, we never see Monroe around them after they ate that one member of the gang, so maybe he just got lucky and they hadn't eaten anyone recently (though, eating people was definitely in their character).
To make your above theory work, you have to jump through a whole bunch of hula hoops so that all the later facts work just right (i.e., regardinig Angelina and the blutbad gang). The easiest explanation is that Monroe's statement, just like many other things said in the pilot, is BS.
The writers have the power to make stuff up as they go as well as conveniently forget about everything they had characters say/do in the past. As in life, you can always point to some extraneous fact and blame that for everything. However, as is usually the case, those extraneous facts don't usually mean anything.