(02-10-2018, 09:26 AM)jsgrimm45 Wrote: Good points as with any thread I post sometimes I like to take this post and add a twist for the thread.For this discussion it would be interesting to know which characters G & K would have made part of the show had they stayed with their original vision for Grimm. Another statement made in an interview was that they had not planned on such a large cast of recurring characters, and that it sometimes made writing the episodes difficult. As with Adalind, Rosalee as a recurring character was the network’s idea. So there probably wouldn’t have been a Monroe and Rosalee helping Nick had G & K presented their original concept of the show. I don’t see the existence of The Wesen Council dependent on Rosalee or Monroe. Rosalee knew some of Council members, but it existed long before she came to Portland because of her brother’s death, and theoretically, it would have continued as part of the story background had she never come to Portland.
This twist being Monroe and Rosalee two wesen that help in the training of a Grimm. If they had made Nick a PI would had have changed the role of Monroe and Rosalee? With these two characters we get the Wesen Council also so does this change?
Nick being a police officer did in some ways give them cover also or did it?
I think Nick was more exposed as a cop, at least sooner than he might have been otherwise. I can’ remember - did the Royals already know about Marie coming to Portland and who she met with, or did Renard provide them that information? The Royals didn’t have any idea that Kelly Burkhardt was alive and well until the third season.
(02-10-2018, 09:41 AM)dicappatore Wrote: If Nick wasn't a cop/detective it would have just complicated the WOW episodes and probably the opposite, on the personal arc. But given how a few viewer's miss-interpretations of what occurred as him being a cop. I hate to see how much more, the level of miss-interpretations, would be for some, if the show was presented with more complications, to those same viewers.You’re focusing on personal opinions that differ from yours rather than the show itself. Grimm wasn’t complicated - at all. The WoW episodes followed a basic formula - one or more scary looking/behaving Wesen that Nick figured out how to kill or subdue with the help of Monroe, Rosalee, Hank, and Wu, and sometimes Renard. Being a cop made Grimm duties simpler for Nick, as he only needed to work his next assigned case rather than keep an ear to the ground and eyes peeled for danger.
But what made life and work simpler for Nick also made him a simple character who was basically a cop with a special skill set for handling the unusually difficult criminal element. Kelly Burkhardt and Marie Kessler lived, fought, and died as Grimm. Who and what they were was never in question.
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