User blog comment:Zathronas/Analysis by an author: Part 2 Antagonist, the Darkness/@comment-16763585-20131217042451

I donno I feel like this concept of a overarching contraction is a rather boring interpretation. We already have Roman Torchwick, Cinder, the White Fang, the Schnee Dust Company, all with their own personal agendas and goals to achieve. They want money, power, prestige, fame, glory, equal rights, all these things are goals who by their means wish to achieve. Having a black eldrich horror rise up to overshadow all these threads of intrigue is just boring when all it wants is to kill all life on the planet like some posinous miasma.

Speaking of which, why do the Grimm need some force of darkness to make them relevent? Take the Nevermore, big old bird that can shrug off Dust shots and can fire volleys of sharp feathers from the skies. Why is the thing flying into melee range? Heck, why is it ramming into these stone structures when it could just fly over them? The thing could just fly through the air and shoot feathers, and there's nothing Ruby and friends could do with their powder guns to even phase the thing. Even if they could, the bird could just fly away and recover because none of the hunters can sprout wings and go after it.

Then there are the Ursa's which are super bears with armored plating on their backs. The thing is a tank on furry feet, but in the show, the thing never shields itself with this plating. It always has to rear up on its hind legs and go for these big swipes that expose its underbelly, the one part that isn't covered in armor. They don't even fight back really, they just kind of stare at things with vague puzzlement until the hunter of choice uses them as a sparring dummy.

The Grimm don't need some god like darkness to be relevent, they just need to stop being retarted and use the tools that make them stronger than any animal on the planet.