11-04-2013, 07:47 PM
(11-04-2013, 01:46 AM)droid327 Wrote: It just seemed like a huge hole in character development for them to dwell on that fact so much, at this point in the series.
First off, hello and welcome to the Forum.
I just wanted to chime in on this bit of your great post. The bar fight victim is a bit different than all the other people we've scene killed on screen by Nick. Most of them were Wesen (and I can't actually recall any non-Wesen, but that doesn't mean there haven't been some). All of them attacked Nick first or threatened him or other people. This time, he was the one who started the fight and he attacked a roomful of humans (and then a houseful). Plus, we could see that he did remember just a little of it. Though it was technically self-defense, under-the-zombie-influence Nick did create that situation where he could be attacked in the first place.
Taken together, I think that's why they're dwelling on this particular case. With Wesen, he's a match in a fight, but with humans he is completely dangerous. Given his job, he knows that being drugged really isn't an excuse against this crime.
And, on some level, I think that Wesen on this show always rate a "little less than human" to the human characters. (Heck, even some Wesen are entirely unsympathetic to the plight of other Wesen.) They're monstrous, other, so their pain doesn't register as badly as those of the normals (unless they've been rendered as explicitly "good" characters).
Either that or he needed something to angst over.
"I can feed the caterpillar, I can whisper through the chrysalis, but what hatches follows its own nature and is beyond me."
-- Hannibal (TV show)
-- Hannibal (TV show)