01-27-2018, 09:05 AM
I think if Nick as the ultimate Grimm hero can be set aside to allow that he may not be at the absolute top of the food chain absolutely all the time, it’s imaginable that he’s not one hundred percent undefeatable one hundred percent of the time. Rather, he’s a living, breathing person who bleeds when injured. And as Dutch said in Predator: “If it bleeds, we can kill it.”
As the hero, Nick was willing to battle the BC horde that swarmed the loft, but, he received more than one gunshot wound that would have killed him if not for the stick’s healing powers. So no stick equals no Nick after the battle. Plus, Nick wasn’t able to break free of Juliette’s or Bonaparte’s telekinetic attacks. That Nick can die from a fatal wound doesn’t topple him from his king of the hill spot, it simply makes him vulnerable which makes him more interesting.
If Nick had the stick in S4 it would have protected him as it did in S5 & S6. But G & K didn’t introduce a new Grimm power or explain how Grimm defeated Hexenbiest in the past. They were just careful not to place Nick in a fatal confrontation without giving him a way out, and over time they deflated the Hexenbiest threat against Nick. Not only was Bonaparte killed and Eve and Diana repositioned in the pro Nick camp, Eve & Diana were sufficiently compromised to need Nick’s help/protection. And actually, Adalind also falls into the deflated group. The pregnancy and suppressant made her vulnerable and needing Nick’s help/protection more than she hated him for killing her Hexenbiest or stealing her daughter. And by the time the suppressant wore off, she was too in love with Nick to allow anyone or anything to come between them.
So while Nick is without question the show’s central character/Grimm hero, he wasn’t presented as an undefeatable force, but rather, as someone who stood his ground despite the odds and oftentimes survived by the skin of his teeth. And again, that vulnerability made him more interesting than an undefeatable action figure would have been.
As the hero, Nick was willing to battle the BC horde that swarmed the loft, but, he received more than one gunshot wound that would have killed him if not for the stick’s healing powers. So no stick equals no Nick after the battle. Plus, Nick wasn’t able to break free of Juliette’s or Bonaparte’s telekinetic attacks. That Nick can die from a fatal wound doesn’t topple him from his king of the hill spot, it simply makes him vulnerable which makes him more interesting.
If Nick had the stick in S4 it would have protected him as it did in S5 & S6. But G & K didn’t introduce a new Grimm power or explain how Grimm defeated Hexenbiest in the past. They were just careful not to place Nick in a fatal confrontation without giving him a way out, and over time they deflated the Hexenbiest threat against Nick. Not only was Bonaparte killed and Eve and Diana repositioned in the pro Nick camp, Eve & Diana were sufficiently compromised to need Nick’s help/protection. And actually, Adalind also falls into the deflated group. The pregnancy and suppressant made her vulnerable and needing Nick’s help/protection more than she hated him for killing her Hexenbiest or stealing her daughter. And by the time the suppressant wore off, she was too in love with Nick to allow anyone or anything to come between them.
So while Nick is without question the show’s central character/Grimm hero, he wasn’t presented as an undefeatable force, but rather, as someone who stood his ground despite the odds and oftentimes survived by the skin of his teeth. And again, that vulnerability made him more interesting than an undefeatable action figure would have been.
"If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well." Rainer Maria Rilke