12-27-2019, 07:09 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-27-2019, 07:11 AM by dicappatore.)
(12-26-2019, 12:33 PM)izzy Wrote: So, I finally got around to watching the rest of the last season of Grimm after growing jaundice toward the writing and character development. I'll probably post some concluding series thoughts at some time.
So I am now a bit baffled about why they brought Meisner back as a ghost or hallucination. Given I binge watched the ending episodes over the Christmas season it is easy to see the ghost of Meisner as some redemptive spirt guide aka Charles Dickens and a Christmas Carol.
I know many of the forum members also had researched what the writers/creators of the show said as well as the cast, so my questions are:
++ Was Meisner an actual ghost, with a will of his own, who wanted to do what with Sean:
---- Guide him to redemption
---- Annoy the guy
---- Or what?
++ Was the Meisner ghost simply a manifestation of Sean’s mind, an inner struggle?
++ Was Meisner’s ghost manifested by Diana who wanted her daddy good? I mention that, as it seems they dropped a lot of last season on the editing floor.
++ Do ghosts actually exist in the Grimm universe?
++ What was the real purpose of the Meisner ghost? The creators seemed to really like to help the cast out, so was this a case of them wanting to help a buddy out and gave the actor some cash flow by putting him in a few episodes?
Things that puzzled me is, if Meisner only lived is Sean's head and a change (redemption) actually occurred and hence why Meisner went away you would have expected the redemption to clearly play out with a declaration as did most archs in the series. And on the other hand is Meisner's ghost existed as an entity why was it absent in the battle against Zerstörer? I mean you care enough to haunt a guy but not enough when the universe is at stake?
If you respond, please indicate if you comment(s) are you won conjecture, understanding or if you are relaying things that came from the writers/creators/cast.
Cheers,
Izzy
Izzy, I'm from the old school of simplicity. My belief of that whole Meisner spirit/ghost was more of your mention of;
"++ Was the Meisner ghost simply a manifestation of Sean’s mind, an inner struggle?"
IMO, it was a manifestation of his guilty inner mind, even for Sean. Meisner never lifted a finger against Sean and went out of his way to protect Sean, Adalind his unborn & born child, after Diana was delivered into this world by Meisner himself. All that had to weigh some guilt, even on a self centered egotistical jerk, such as Sean.
The Meisner proficiency, you mentions about his ability of some foresight of what was to evolve, was more of Sean own intuition manifested through the Meisner projection. Remember, Sean was a half arsed Zouberbiest himself and as such, he would have additional foresight above a normal Kehrseite-Schlich-Kennen
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