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What's the deal with Greta?

posted 14 years ago by Kd5000
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She hysterically upset (as if you've let the devil loose on the world) when she finds out what has happened (the Baron has escaped) and then latter on she's helping his brides. Did she get under the Baron's spell.

Also was the Baroness going to let Marianne Danielle be "dinner for the Baron?" I think it's Greta who says they've been luring young girls up to the castle so that the Baron gets his "blood supply." I mean he's locked up so he can't go out and get his own victims.

The windmill as a cross seemed like a cop-out. I guess Van Helsing was exhausted from all the fighting beforehand.

[–] psdhart 14 years ago

question 1 Good point maybe she was under his spell or maybe crazy
question 2 maybe she was intending to do that

[–] briannh-1 14 years ago

During the conversation Van Helsing has with Father Stepnick about vampirism, he states that vampires need the protection of a mortal during daylight hours : "...a parent hiding an infected son or daughter or a servant either hypnotized or so devoted to the master they don't realize the evil they're doing." Greta really acted as both toward the Baron - the Baroness makes it clear he was his old nurse and is now really the only one looking after him now that he's "mad" - and she's just gone off the deep end enough herself once he's free that apparently she's quite willing to go on taking care of him. At least that's my take on her.