02-06-2016, 01:15 PM
It's really interesting reading everyone examining Grimm in a historical context.
The way the show weave history into fiction has always been one of the things I like best about it.
(Coincidentally, it's also the reason I love the movie Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter).
While everyone here brings up good points I find the Black Claw movement really does have the most similarities with the Nazis. They are selling the idea of wesen superiority and I suspect they want to completely do away with the idea of wesen hiding what they are from the world. I believe that's why they had to eliminate the council.
To my mind that puts them squarely against democracy. They want the strong (wesen) to rule the weak (non-wesen). In order to recruit and motivate their members I think Black Claws like to portray what they are doing as revolutionary, but only because it's convenient to do so.
If Black Claw views the royals as representing them, then they might want them to take over when they seize power, if for no other reason than creating a global monarchy would further distinguish them from their human counterparts. It would also streamline that whole world domination thing.
The trouble is the show has never been very clear about what the royals are, what they derive their power from or over whom they are supposed to rule, so I agree with the commenters here who suggest the rise of Black Claw might just as well be the demise of the royals as their return to absolute power.
What I'm really excited about are the keys because I'm guessing the power they unleash will lock all wesen in their human forms and I can't wait to see whether or not I'm right. If that is in fact what they do, then Black Claw and Hadrian's wall will be out of work and the show would pretty much be over, but the world would be safe and theoretically more peaceful, so I guess that's still a win overall.
The way the show weave history into fiction has always been one of the things I like best about it.
(Coincidentally, it's also the reason I love the movie Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter).
While everyone here brings up good points I find the Black Claw movement really does have the most similarities with the Nazis. They are selling the idea of wesen superiority and I suspect they want to completely do away with the idea of wesen hiding what they are from the world. I believe that's why they had to eliminate the council.
To my mind that puts them squarely against democracy. They want the strong (wesen) to rule the weak (non-wesen). In order to recruit and motivate their members I think Black Claws like to portray what they are doing as revolutionary, but only because it's convenient to do so.
If Black Claw views the royals as representing them, then they might want them to take over when they seize power, if for no other reason than creating a global monarchy would further distinguish them from their human counterparts. It would also streamline that whole world domination thing.
The trouble is the show has never been very clear about what the royals are, what they derive their power from or over whom they are supposed to rule, so I agree with the commenters here who suggest the rise of Black Claw might just as well be the demise of the royals as their return to absolute power.
What I'm really excited about are the keys because I'm guessing the power they unleash will lock all wesen in their human forms and I can't wait to see whether or not I'm right. If that is in fact what they do, then Black Claw and Hadrian's wall will be out of work and the show would pretty much be over, but the world would be safe and theoretically more peaceful, so I guess that's still a win overall.