(07-16-2017, 06:43 AM)Robyn Wrote: Bad mother by our standards, but nature designed females to be nurturers and males to be hunter gatherers to better ensure survival of the human species. Grimms, male and female, were designed to be formidable warriors. Procreation and family structure to ensure the species survived was secondary in their evolution. The show strongly indicated that Grimm were scarce compared to the large Wesen and human populations.
Actually, Robyn, I don't think grimms were designed by nature to be warriors. If nature intended that, then there would be a particular wesen also designed by nature to combat the grimms. They might not have the ridiculous invisible woge so grimms could see them, or perhaps they wouldn't be bothered by some imaginary fear in a grimm's eyes. Or they might be able to heat sense a grimm from a distance. As far as I can recall, the series never had a wesen who put the fear of death into a grimm.
I think you are much closer in your thinking that grimms are a genetic anomaly. To me, they act a lot more like sociopaths with some genetic enhancements to make them effective killing machines. But in the balance of nature, there really doesn't seem to be a natural purpose for grimms.
(07-16-2017, 06:43 AM)Robyn Wrote: Kelly could have chosen differently, but would she have been a better mother by staying if still intrinsically compelled to act as a Grimm?
We don't know because this was an absurdity of the series. The series has taken time to show us wesen families and the apparent bond between parent and child overriding wesen tendencies. However, with regard to grimms, they have completely sidestepped the issue with grimms because we never saw a grimm who "kicked the habit" so to speak.
Even in Kelly's case, the series completely sidestepped the issue. She lied to Nick in one of the worst ways I can imagine a parent doing to a child, but it is cloaked under a noble cause. In other words, what was she supposed to do? She *HAD* to save Nick's life!
(07-16-2017, 06:43 AM)Robyn Wrote: I can't imagine choosing anything over my children, but then, I've never been compelled by an internal force that conflicted with motherhood/family.
I wonder just how strong this force is. For instance, there have to be grimms out there who just can't cut the mustard and randomly kill wesen any longer because they have arthritis or are bedridden, or maybe have Alzheimer's disease. Does this internal force then slowly drive them insane because they cannot give in to it?
(07-15-2017, 10:14 PM)irukandji Wrote: I think by the time Nick became a parent and decided to make a family with Adalind, he had reached the conclusion that being Grimm was his and his family’s best chance for survival, so he didn’t resist instinctive urges. Josh’s father chose not to be an active Grimm, but his commitment was absolute. I don’t think one can be a Grimm who doesn’t work nights and weekends, it’s an all in or all out proposition. And because Nick was intrinsically compelled to be an active Grimm, he was unable to make an absolute commitment to only family.
So do you think he simply succumbed to the old ways then and gave up on the new and improved grimm?