Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161106163624/@comment-28345522-20161110172500

The problem with that is that no matter how hard the huntsmen fight, more grimm keep showing up. Remember, the dragon is a beacon for the grimm to keep coming to, and they can't get rid of the dragon which means more grimm keep coming. They're not gonna figure that out until later, probably not even this volume.

Evacuations could still be going on because at the end of V3 they were able secure most of the city of Vale but not Beacon becuase of aforementioned dragon attracting grimm. Over the past 6 months grimm could gradually move in faster than huntsmen can fend them off and they have move people over time.

We also don't know the politics between kingdoms right now and it could be an equivalent of Syria right now,