04-25-2015, 03:14 PM
(04-25-2015, 12:10 PM)Elkhound Wrote:(04-25-2015, 05:29 AM)speakeasy Wrote: Must have missed something about having the youngsters and their dads hunt down a rabbit and eat it and Monroe's lecture about the importance of resisting the urge to hunt.
I think Monroe was talking about the old custom of hunting *people.* Even Monroe's dad didn't kill them--just beat them up and scared the cr@p out of them, and was careful to choose people who deserved it. Even if he meant animals--Monroe's vegetarian himself--"resisting" doesn't mean *never* doing it---just not doing it too much.
And, at least, they COOKED the rabbit first. (Rabbit is delicious, BTW.)
I did see a vague distinction along those lines also, but was thrown by the encouragement of having the young wesen hunt and eat their prey. It later came to me that probably the idea was that if they could understand, experience, and accept their wesen nature, then they could control it.
I've always thought that Monroe didn't hunt people, but now I'm not so sure. In this episode, Maggie tells him she knows he has tasted kehrseite blood before and he doesn't deny it. There is a line in Grimm Wiki that says Monroe is a Wieder Blutbad, a vegetarian or vegan blutbad, who no longer hunts people. And Hans says something like 'he's done it all' when introducing Monroe to the dads and sons at the camp. I realize that these examples aren't really factual, but they are compelling.
Speaking of this episode, when Adalind has her baby it may be a Zauberbiest, a Grimm, a Zauberbiest/Grimm, or an ordinary human being, fascinating. At any rate, he will be brother to Diana. Seems like Nick and Sean should be some kind of family relation to each other's child, but maybe not. Kelly is raising Diana now, but is the blood grandmother to Adalind's son. Holidays are going to be a riot for this group.
"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation." Bertrand Russell - printed on a beer mat in "Shaun of The Dead".