Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-26235944-20150608025717/@comment-24399666-20151106000819

Syscrash53 wrote: I am thinking the explaination will be, Frau Peach's hexenbiest spirit is the one that is driving Dianas body. That way they can give her adult dialog and reasoning. The pen in the varrettes eye comes to mind. seems simple, but it takes knowledge of the humand body to know that would work. Then there is the one where she shot the agent with his own gun. What did Diana know about guns. I just get the feeling they are going with the young child with the power and ability to control meisner and his group. All of this setting up for the confrontation between Nick, Adalind, and her half brother, With Nick being the one able to reason with her.

Have we also considered Frau Pech was getting old, could this whole contract and ritual be a way for Frau Pech to gain a new body thus giving her even more years. That would be an interesting confrontaion Adalind finding out that Diana is actually the embodied spirit of Frau Pech the hexenbiest she killed.

I just do not see Adalind life all of a sudden being a bed of roses. I see it being even more complicated and the consequences of her prior actions coming back to haunt her. Huh. That's... really interesting. I could totally get behind that idea. :)

Not only would it be a good in-universe explanation for Diana knowing 7,000,000 basic things that she shouldn't know at her age, but it would also introduce some world-building potential, it makes sense for the character of Frau Pech, and it would be a way of making her a villain (the way everyone seems to want her to), without totally going back on one of the main themes of the show (which is that what kind of person you are doesn't have to be dictated by the circumstances of your birth).

And it also potentially adds some deep questions. Namely, what happened to Diana... the real Diana, the girl that was conceived? Did Frau Pech's spirit completely override her own, so there is no real Diana anymore? Or might the soul of an innocent exert some kind of influence on "Diana's" actions?

And as you say, this would be a really good way for Adalind's past choices to come back to bite her. Very fitting, too.

All of this of course depends on the writers, and their willingness to a) do this or something like this, and b) establish this, in the show. Like, actually have Diana reveal that she is really Frau Pech, in the case we're talking about.

The show has a very unfortunate tendancy to establish ultimately unimportant things, like the Umkippen, but NOT establish the really important things, like, for example, why Juliette teamed up with Kenneth, then betrayed Kelly, then showed up at Nick's house and begged him to kill her, then said that she still loved Nick and tried to kill him. Instead viewers (not the few who actually read things that the writers say behind the scenes, but the vast majority of viewers who just watch the show and that's it) are left to guess and wonder at the character that no longer makes any sense (although, I'm still holding out hope that maybe we'll find out that Chavez's group ran an autopsy on Juliette and find some changes in her brain that indicate major chemical imbalances similar to bipolar disorder, caused by becoming a Hexenbiest, or something. Anything!)