Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-3125844-20151009190731/@comment-76.67.125.146-20151101194759

Interesting point, regarding Juliette, and it's very possible that Meisner was working "with" the resistance... but why? What does it have to do with Chavez's group's ideals? And why would somebody so apparently intent on making the Royal family sorry, as Meisner seemed to be, even bother working for anybody with any different goals? Isn't that enough of a goal for any single person's lifetime?

Meisner just went from making perfect sense, to making no sense at all. 2 possibilities with regards to Meisner that I see.

1. He succeeded in his original goal and has joined Chavez's group to combat this new threat.

Meisners goal (which he told Adalind) was to make the Royals feel "sorry". He has definately achieved that. The Konigsburg family (the only royals we really interact with) have probably been crippled; most of the known leadership is dead (and Victors fate is ambiguous at best), the Verrat who work for them have suffered signifiant losses, Diana has been taken from them again and their successive disasters in Portland have probably greatly reduced their prestige among the 7 families. We know that the Royals will not really be a factor in season 5, so we can guess that a) they have collapsed as a cohesive organization and no longer exist, b) They are in damage control mode and are temporarily unable to exert any influence, or c) They are currently being torn apart by the resistance and/or rival families on account of their new weakness.

With his enemies bleeding power by the day (It could be Meisners grudge is with the Konigsburg family only, seeing as how most people use "Royals", "the Family" and "house of Konigsburg" fairly interchangably) and having killed their leader himself, Meisner has succeeded in making the royals feel "sorry" and is now without any purpose. However he got into contact with Chavez's group and found out about this new threat, it likly provides him with a new sense of purpose that he would be lost without.

2) Meisner is a Mercenary/Crusader of sorts and is hired/brought in by Chavez's group to fight this new threat.

It could be that Meisner never had a personal reason to fight the royals in the first place. Remember, the only reason we think that he lost his girlfriend to the royals was because that is what he told Adalind, and even then he might have been lying (If I knew anything about Adalinds history prior to guarding her, I would make sure she knew as little about me as possible). It is true that he told Renard that his Father was killed by Royals, but that particular statement lacked a guarantee of truth as well (Renard isn't exactly the most trustworthy guy either).

So why was he with the resistance, and why is he now with Chavez group?

it could be that Meisner is simply a mercenary, hired by resistance leaders to help them in their fight against the Royals. Now that he took Diana from the Royals and killed the king, the resistance likly doesn't need him anymore and has let their "contract" expire due to the fact that he might seem to be a liability at this point (Sebastion did say that "nobody trusts Meisner", which would suggest that he was only hired because they were desperate). Fresh out of work with the Resistance, it would have been easy for Chavez's group to hire him and bring him onboard.

in a similar vein, it could also be that Meisner is a moral crusader; joining up with causes that are fighting what he sees as the biggest threat to the world. He joined the resistance  because the royals were growing in power and needed to be stopped. With the Royals on the back foot (for now) and a new threat rising "everywhere" (as Chavez said), it isn't inconcievable that Meisner joined the new group to combat the greater evil.

those are my theories anyways. Tell me what you think.