08-09-2017, 06:57 AM
(08-09-2017, 06:36 AM)Robyn Wrote: The writers suddenly making human/Wesen cohabitation feasible would have directly contradicted the show’s underlying - albeit unexplained - theme, which was best summed up by Renard’s response to Wu questioning the percentage of Wesen crime in Portland in the ‘Mishipeshu’ episode: "In one way or another, most crime in most places is Wesen related." But the writers didn’t seem to worry about contradicting their own established cannon or sidestepping explanation.
Wesen crime/violence had to sufficiently justify the necessity for Grimm, specifically, Nick in Portland. But how local police survived before Nick took charge of the overly abundant bizarre cases remained a mystery. Because really, if most crimes and attempted arrests involved vicious, animal-like assailants wouldn’t the result be a full scale investigation into Portland’s extreme number of attacks by unidentified deadly wildlife?
IMO, The Wesen crime statistics were not known before Nick, as a Grimm, showed up because of the lack of knowledge of Wesen existence. The few that were possibly a bit suspicious would have been swept under the rug by our favorite police captain Renard. I do recall in more than a few occasions where he was consulted and approved on editing reports
Maybe in a city like LA or NYC, police captains are a dime a dozen, but in a small city like Portland they are a powerful figure. As I recall, he was a Police Captain of one of the 2 or 3 only precincts in the mix.
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