Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-3125844-20151118000212/@comment-24399666-20151210223640

Lurkenfrau wrote: But I think the group's leaders' real motives are 'Wesen Superiority'.

As we learned in Once We Were Gods...Wesen were once worshipped as gods, and I think this could be what the leaders of this Uprising group have in mind.

I agree, and would add... that would have to be their motive, assuming that the "official" motive is living openly as Wesen.

When I think of the desire to live openly as Wesen, there are two things I think of:

The first thing I think of, is Natural Born Wesen. Just that entire episode. In particular, I think about how angry Monroe was at the group who were disobeying the Gesetzbuch Ehrenkodex, and how personally ashamed he was that there were Blutbaden involved in the group. He was furious that they were endangering everybody else's lives. And I also think of the literally dozens of Wesen (mostly true underdogs, like Seelenguter) crowded in the Spice Shop, demanding that Rosalee call the Wesen Council to solve the problem. The "underdog" Wesen, in particular, were terrified of the Kehrseite world learning about Wesen, and most definitely would not be behind any plan that involves getting outed.

The second thing I think of is Wu's initial reaction in Wesenrein, to learning that he wasn't imagining things. I quote: "If these monsters or... or Wesen or whatever you call them are real, then where are they? How many are there? Shouldn't we be out killing them?" And that was Wu... a intelligent, reasonable, moral police officer. He only came around after a lot of personalized attention and a one-to-one sit-down with the least threatening Wesen that Nick could find.

Even if it were possible to give that kind of personalized attention to every Kehrseite in the world (which it isn't), not every Kehrseite is as reasonable as Wu. In fact, most aren't.

And, more to the point, it's blatantly obvious that the Uprising organization is not even remotely interested in trying peaceful reassurances, once they're outed to the world. As evidenced by the fact that, from what we've seen so far, they seem to have no interest in recruiting members that don't have fangs or claws, and have shown themselves to be even less interested in, say, not ripping to shreds any Kehrseite who get in their way, and publicly leaving them in terrifying positions, with a nearby calling card, designed to terrify and intimidate.

So any plan that involves outing themselves to the world, must also include planning world dominance. It has to be. That's the only logical conclusion.

Spoiler from the synopsis and preview of tomorrow's episode:

I think that tomorrow's episode will show a Wesen shopkeeper getting kidnapped and tortured, probably to force the guy to work for them. He probably will be an "aggressive"-type Wesen (I'm basing this on the fact that the synopsis said that he was a friend of Monroe's), and the Uprising doesn't like the fact that he doesn't agree with their agenda. "Freedom," to them, only means freedom to agree with them, not freedom to disagree.