Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-26516813-20151015022913/@comment-24399666-20151024062839

HowtobeaGrimm wrote: I read the conversation on TV.com. The comments just go up to April correct? Just making sure I read all of them.

If you read everything on the page, then you read everything in that thread, yes. :)

HowtobeaGrimm also wrote: 1) Yes Sasha Roiz is hot.

2) How is the Wesen Council any more legitimate that the laws of the municipality of Portland?

Their only claim is that Rosalee and Monroe recognize them and we the audience are on Rosalee and Monroe's side in everything. The Wesserin also have a council. Why is their's illegitmate and the Weson Council is not?

The rules are different for different people in Grimm. On Nick's side = good. Not on Nick's side = evil, eligible for instant death without trial.

Yeah, people tend to not stick to a particular topic. :) I didn't realize that so much of the thread was devoted to Sasha Roiz's hotness until after I posted, sorry! :D

The Wesen Council is an international governmental organization (that, by all appearances, all Wesen in the world - not just MonRosalee - are bound by law to obey) that is responsible for enforcing Wesen law... specifically, the law against letting the Kehrseite world know that Wesen exist (sorry, it's now after 1:00 AM, and I really don't feel like trying to look up the name of the law-with-the-extremely-hard-to-remember name). That doesn't make them better than law enforcement, but it does mean that the laws sometimes conflict, and there are two different, conflicting, systems of justice... and only one of them actually has the facts.

In so many cases, if left to the Kehrseite court system to handle Wesen criminal cases, the court would be operating from a severe disadvantage, in that it would only have access to about 10% of the facts (if that), and wouldn't even know that there are pertinent facts that they don't know.

This doesn't make the Council better than the courts. They're not - they're an oppressive government (two likable onscreen characters notwithstanding). It does, however, make them better informed and better equipped to deal with superpowered criminals than the courts are.

So... are they better than Nick? That's a little more debatable. Even now, Nick is more apt to try to be fair and reasonable, whereas the Council tends to have just one sentence for anybody that they even think is getting in their way, let alone for anybody who's actually breaking Wesen law. OTOH, he's hardly perfect himself, especially right now.