Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181201123231/@comment-10390252-20181202181230

RaijinRising wrote: I don't think so, actually. The show has twice now painted lack of emotion as something that counters the Grimm. They did this with Mantle's outlawing of art and self expression, and they did it again here with the Apathy. (a third time would be Ren's semblance, I guess, but that just masks emotion, not removes it.)

Bartelby drew the Apathy to the Farms so that people would lack emotion, positive or negative, but specifically for the negative. So the Apathy is actually counter-intuitive to the Grimm, but the way the Apathy itself works, it's beneficial for specifically the Apathy. It's a Grimm that feeds off of lack of emotion as well as negative emotion (which aren't the same thing) The thing to remember is that the Apathy's special powers is a tactical capability used to immobilise and incapacitate prey before they kill them in a more conventional manner. On a strategic level, I'm sure Apathy are just as easily attracted by negative vibes as any other species.

No Grimm needs that anger and fear when they're attracted to a human population concentration; they'll just use fang-and-claw physical attacks to destroy humans and human artefects, which are something they seem instinctively to want to attack.