03-12-2018, 06:21 AM
(03-12-2018, 05:47 AM)Robyn Wrote:(03-09-2018, 10:40 AM)Adriano Neres Rodrigues Wrote: 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.
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?
The limited background and explanations the show provided makes forming a feasible history that fits within the show’s context difficult. Wesen were generally portrayed in an unsavory light to support the existence of Grimm, and specifically that Nick needed to be a Grimm in Portland. But the creative team only addressed what-when-why-how if an episode/storyline required it.
That Hitler was a Wesen and Moses may have once possessed the staff were tidbits of historical information without benefit of how a real life historical figure fits within the show’s fictional world. Eve mentioned Hitler’s ‘secret vision for a world ruled by Wesen’ because the season arc was about a Wesen uprising, but I don’t recall anyone in BC referencing Hitler as revered figure in Wesen history.
After six seasons, we know Wesen lived in secrecy out of fear of discovery and annihilation, but we don’t know why they became so afraid of humans - other than Grimm hunted them down and executed them without mercy and their own government council enforced secrecy by penalty of death. But we don’t know why either was necessary.
If Human and Wesen existed when available weaponry was sharp sticks and rocks; how many Grimm would have been required to prevent Wesen superiority over Humans? Or was the show’s premise based on a small number of Wesen throughout history, so only a small number of Grimm were required to balance the playing field?
As you stated it, Robyn, pretty plainly. This is what they gave us. A fantasy world with lots of holes. As for the Hitler reference, I do not recall Eve's reference to him. I might have forgotten it. I do recall Nick, viewing some old film footage, of Hitler's speeches and Nick, being a Grimm, saw him voge during one of his speeches. That voge was the type that only a Grimm could see, so, Yea, in the show, Hitler being Wesen was a secret.
I see a few contributors, not necessarily the ones on this post, stretch the truth to support their theories but for some others, just for the sake of being different, end up trying to change the whole narrative of the show. Wesen, for the most part, in the show, were the aggressors. Trying to portray them as victims is stretching it a bit too far into the realm of nonsensical absurdity.
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