05-06-2017, 07:24 AM
(05-06-2017, 06:54 AM)Adriano Neres Rodrigues Wrote: I will use superman example to make a philosophy question. Don't you think that part of Clark persona was his super powers? Maybe what the movie showed us is that from the moment he lost his superpowers he actually lost himself. He became someone else.At the time Nick was powerless, he felt he'd lost an important part of his life, true. Everything he did thereafter was just him going through the motions. He was stripped of his abilities without his choice, if I remember correctly, Superman chose to be human and failed at it. The show and the movie both imply that the powers make the hero but for me it was human Clark that (was supposed to) make the hero and Nick had forgotten that once upon a time he was just a regular that did his job without being a Grimm. Their powers became a crutch. The only difference is Clark has always had his abilities from the moment he crashed in Smallville. Nick only came into his abilities at thirty years of age. It would be harder for Clark to suddenly go without than for Nick. But then I think something triggered inside Nick once he became a Grimm and he'd never be able to switch it off with or without his powers.
If that is the case, how would this be applied to Nick? I mean Nick is GRIMM and from the moment he lost his powers that would never be a normal life from him because there would be no him. Nick would be from this moment another person.
I know that philosophycaly speaking we change all the time. But in those examples that is more than the normal day to day change. Don't you think.?
Just a comment about this: in English you have th verb to be and that is it.
In Portuguese we have to different verbs to the to be verb. One is for changeable situations like:
I am in São Paulo now, but tomorrow I can be in Rio de Janeiro.
We have another verb that is for unchangeable situations like:
I am Brazilian because I was born in Brazil. It is what I am and there is nothing I can do to change that.
The point about the Nick GRIMM power is that in Portuguese we use the unchangeable version of the verb. Nick is a Grimm because he is born a GRIMM and there is nothing he can do change it. Even if he losse his powers, he will still be a GRIMM because of his knowledge and his reactions and so on.
So, thinking in the Portuguese language (as a way to speak) is that I am asking: when nick lost his powers wasn't it actually as losing part of himself?