Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-27523265-20160103230339/@comment-26368233-20160106035901

The one area of the show I would like to see explored is how the wesen came into existence. Being based on fairy tales around the world; the writers could come up with whatever they wanted to explain wesen origins. I can see Nick asking Monroe about it and he goes into a long explanation.

I also had the idea of a virus helping create the initial wesen, but if it kept some science a virus would be hard to explain for many of the wesen that have been shown. It could easily explain the mammalian wesen, like Blutbad, icebeaver, and such, more difficult to explain for avain wesen (but possible), very hard for ones like the spinnatod and manticore and almost impossible for a hexenbiest. There is also the problem of wesen that do not have a comparable real life animal counterpart--the orge, asswang, mermaids and several others.

The show has taken a turn with the Juliette/Eve story arc. Initially hexenbiests were more of the witches/hags of fairy tales with spells and potions but Juliette/Eve appears just to be super powerful--a trained killing machine using mind power. I don't think it could continue just doing the "wesen of the week", but it is getting away from the roots of the show.

Along with the origin of the wesen, it would be interesting to learn more about the royals; their powers and how they got into control. It could have been that in antiquity the royals discovered how to create all wesen, used them to get into control of civilization, but lost control of the wesen at some point.