06-12-2016, 08:02 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-12-2016, 08:03 AM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
Renard's goals used to be driven by a desire for revenge against his royal family for the suffering and threats they subjected him and his mother to. While hardly a noble quest, it was easy enough to understand and sympathize with. And given that his ethics were to a large extent based on his being a royal, it was also easy to accept them as a flaw in a person with redeeming qualities. But having him drink the BC kool aid was a major turn to the dark side. The old Renard would have had Nick, Hank and Wu sitting around his desk listening in on calls from Rachel and other BC conspirators and scheming with him to undermine a threat to "his" territory that had no potential to help bring down the Kronenbergs and thus had no redeeming value to him and needed to be brought down. Throwing in with them took away any reason we had to see him as anything other than a villain who himself needs to be brought down by our heroes.