Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-27523265-20160103230339/@comment-27523265-20160104235247

I don't particularly like the idea either because I would prefer their power to more personal and free of restriction. Unfortunatley, there is a clear presence of such spirits. It isn't that I don't like the expansion of creatures that ghost embody, but as you said we don't need the Vampire Diaries. If they allow magic into this show it will open up a can of crazy that they will used as an excuse to bring back every character ever and a host of other weak plot points and lazy writing. It is a cool idea that other wesen are the result of their meddling, and perhaps the bestial wesen stemm from the binding of animal essences into regular people, the woge state arising from some form of zaubertranke. This wont take away from the fact that we are dealing with spirits in one way or another. Another obstacle to this idea though is the blending od DNA, as it essentially disappears when not woged doesn't it. I get a little hazy on those specific points, but the immediate switch to an entierly different set of DNA seems to push the boundaries of what could be accomplished solely through biology and psychic ability, especially without possibly causing cancer or other health issues. Some of our confusion may be the result of the writers themselves not knwoig which direction to take this matter. Your theory would essentially come down to all wesen of the modern day, possibly including hexenbiests, being the result of early experimentation through zaubertranke, but this seems to me a difficult feat. They would have to not only perfect the postions for each species they gave rise to,though we could perhaps consider the products to be abominations and failures if they are merely survivors, and then allow for reproduction. This would occur across the globe and it is hard to imagine that the same devlopmet occured powerfully enough in all parts of the world to enable this, and less likely that they would all go about creating wesen species. It simply seems to much to accomplish and have all of the people experimented on reproduce, especially reproduce enough to spread most race across the world and survive in the early stages whenn there were few of them. My final issue is with such individuals as the blobfish wesen. It is exremeley unlikely that Haxenbiests would have knowledge of and the ability to capture such a creature to replicate its DNA by whatever means. You are definentley right about magic and ghosts possession being the wrong thing for the show. I liked it when i just thought they manifested psychic ability and used pseudo science potions. It kept the race from being unrealisticly powerful.