Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181201123231/@comment-24032889-20181202144014

I don't think so, actually. The show did not paint 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.

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)