(12-16-2015, 06:55 PM)irukandji Wrote:(12-16-2015, 05:48 PM)speakeasy Wrote: I'm in the camp with those who think Diana is the most powerful. I think she's the most powerful character on the show. Which leads me into the subject that prompted this reply. Maybe I'm skewing this in a way that isn't really there, but it seems that the most powerful and dangerous characters on Grimm are mostly female. If we consider Juliette/Eve, Adalind, Elizabeth, Kelly, Trubel and Diana, there's girls aplenty just breaking out with calamitous capabilities.
What makes Diana different is that she's still a child. Children with powers such as hers are very scary. I'm reminded of that Twilight Zone episode where Billy Mumy has the terrible powers and the adults walk on eggshells around him, fearing that they'll get sent to the 'cornfield'.
I remember little red-haired Billy Mumy, but can't place that Twilight Zone episode, but I have this special fear of cornfields; it's been a bad place in a couple of disturbing horror movies I've seen! Can't say I care too much for scarecrows either.
I agree that Diana is scary because she's so powerful and so young. I also agree with posters who say it was a very good thing that she was in the care of Kelly most of her young life; can you imagine what the Royals would have taught her?
Even so, I still fear what the child would do when provoked. She rejected the King, I think, because her response of superimposing a skull on his reflection in the window of the helicopter was absolutely chilling to me. (She's big on projecting skulls, wonder if they are always associated with death, that's troubling.) Maybe she sensed something corrupt in him. However she felt about the King, she was just fine with Meisner tossing him out of the copter. He seemed to speak inappropriately about the deed to such a young child, but she smiled happily at what he said. You're right; that much power in the hands of a child is always going to end up bringing harm to others because they simply don't have the maturity to use it judiciously. At least Diana did not kill the King; I'm glad of that.
I like Diana and want her to grow into a good woman. How to get there from here is the problem her caretakers are going to face.
(12-16-2015, 07:28 PM)syscrash Wrote:(12-16-2015, 06:55 PM)irukandji Wrote: What makes Diana different is that she's still a child. Children with powers such as hers are very scary. I'm reminded of that Twilight Zone episode where Billy Mumy has the terrible powers and the adults walk on eggshells around him, fearing that they'll get sent to the 'cornfield'.
From what we have seen Diana is not a child with powers. what we see in Diana is an adult with powers in a child's body. The ability to create the illusions to get Meisner to bring wood to warm Adalind. That is not the thinking of a baby, or a child. For that to work Diana would need to know psychology to know that seeing her in the woods he would pick her up and bring her back.
Most adults could not jab a pin in someone eye. Diana did it tactically and without hesitation. It even made Adalind shuder. We know physical harm does not come naturally because in self defense classes the hardest part is get the participants to be willing to inflict harm.
That is why I laugh when the NRA says everyone should be armed. It is one thing to point a gun another to pull the trigger. Once you do you will never be the same.
Good observation about Diana being an adult in a child's body. Old soul, maybe. Guess it's possible that she has some mature judgment to go along with that terrifying extra-human ability; comforting thought. If she does have the ability to think in the abstract, because children can only think concretely, it's still important that Diana has not acted in an arbitrary way to hurt people, she's only done that to protect. At least, I can't think of any. All the other magic she produced was neutral and had a utilitarian use.
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