03-09-2018, 10:40 AM
(03-08-2018, 05:39 PM)irukandji Wrote:(03-06-2018, 11:52 AM)Adriano Neres Rodrigues Wrote: again very good points. I think it points to the direction that for some reason wesen in our world were in smaller quantity in the beginning. Or maybe each specy fought their own battle. What I mean is that maybe there weren’t a leader capable of unite all the different types of wesen under a single flag.
I don't think it's a big brain stretch that wesen were able to unite and become a singular power, for example, like the Roman Empire. They may have started the Roman Empire for all we know. That empire was made up of all kinds of people. Many countries favored Roman occupation because they were given protection by a sovereignty as well as access to other benefits. In return, Roman gained a larger empire, could levy taxes, and assimilate any resources the country had to offer into their empire.
Grimm portrays wesen in an unsavory light. Most are brutish, mean, have a tendency toward criminal activity, and are not very smart. As such, they cannot unite into a formidable force. I imagine all of this is done to promote the noble, oh so stalwart and objective Nick. Even Monroe, who in my opinion has the intelligence and the empathy to be a leader, is not given an opportunity to do so. Would it really be so hard to imagine that a man like Monroe could gain a following that could evolve into an empire?
irukandji, in general I agree with your post. You are right about Monroe being able to be a leader and that is not hard for wesen to have worked together and so on.
The problem is exactly what you worte about the show: Grimm portrays wesen in an unsavory light.
What I mean is that considering the show and the entire context (and the way the show portrait wesen), I can't see in the beginning of human / wesen / grimm history they working together because if that had happened the show would be completely different.
For example, the way I understood the show:
If wesen X grimm X humans have worked together in the beginning, there would be no need for mutual fear.
If wesen have worked together to wesen, they would probably dominate earth and humans and grimm would be the ones in fear. At least humans would know them.
So, I hope you understand it is not how I would like things have happened. That is the way I see things happening in a way the actual present in the series have happened. What I am trying to do is to create a theory that works fine with the overall series context.
Think about the council, for example. If I understood correctly, it doesn’t exist to protect humans. It exists to protect wesen. It was said in some episode (I think the bank robber one) that if human find out about wesen human would hunt them as it happened in the past. So the idea of hiding the wesen is to protect them from humans to hunt them. Would it happen if wesen were in a big quantity?
Think about the royals. If in the past (middle ages) we have had king wesens, at least one or two of the seven royal families would be a family of wesen. But that is not the case.
Maybe times the show showed wesen that are enemies of other wesen types, because of the hunt X prey dynamics.
Again, that is just a way to try to make theory that connects with the overall series context.
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