03-30-2016, 09:36 AM
(03-29-2016, 08:35 PM)Mart Wrote: As is falling into a coma and losing all memory by the scratch of a cat - or taking the look of another person by inhalating a substance through the cut off top-piece of a witch hat - or surviving deadly bullets with the bite of an imaginary snake, or, or, or ... don't confound "Grimm" with "Science today"
But the writers explained that all as magic, which makes it ok since magic exists in Grimm. But they deliberately did not call lycanthropia magic. They didn't even simply ignore the specifics of how it works. They could have done either and it wouldn't have affected the story.
But they didn't. They deliberately chose to give it a scientific explanation, and then contradicted that explanation. That was their mistake here.
The problem isn't the fact that it could be magic, because you're right, that would make it no less believable than all the other magic. The problem is they deliberately said it's NOT magic, so they set a totally different set of rules for it, that they subsequently ignored.