10-02-2017, 07:05 AM
(10-02-2017, 05:30 AM)rpmaluki Wrote: I don't think a big cast was necessarily the problem, look at shows like Criminal Minds or maybe NCIS, they have a fairly big cast and are procedural like Grimm but seem to work well, the difference is that Grimm a story about one Grimm in particular and yet they split their overarching stories between two camps Nick (and the scoobies) and the Royals with Adalind as proxy. That was bound to weaken the show in some form depending on what you prefered...I agree, the various CSI shows and the like accomplish using a large cast, but as you said, those shows focus on the weekly cases. And occasionally bringing a character’s personal troubles to the forefront enhances characterization rather than distracting from an episode’s case.
The WoW with Nick at the forefront was Grimm’s main focus with the Royals/the keys story running in the background. And while my interest was in the ongoing Royals story with Adalind, Renard, and the Resistance, the WoW might have been better served had the show focused solely on those WoW cases with occasional standalone arcs as apposed to one continual arc - especially considering the Royals story that had existed since the pilot disappeared without mention.
I enjoyed Adalind, Renard, and Meisner when they were integral to the ongoing back story that the central character had to contend with at least once per season. In S5 those characters felt like props that were repositioned to get the right lighting.
In hindsight, Nick, the initially reluctant Grimm and Monroe, the Blutbad with a crisis of conscience as modern day detectives fighting Wesen crime might have been interesting. And of course, the adorable Wu as their sidekick/go-to guy in the precinct.
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