Grimm would never have lasted that long with their wesen of the week stories. From what I gather supernatural is very serialised and so was Bones but to a lesser degree. Just look at S6 with only 13 episodes, only six episode that didn't have a WotW case. The first three were tying off the BC plot and the last three sped through the Zerstörer plot with a little sprinkle of the keys/treasure plot that they quickly covered up with Diana the super baby which they undid in the last few minutes before the end. Everything that wasn't WotW was haphazard and poorly thought out.
It's easier to tell one long arc for a season and then another for the next season and another for the next and so on going on ten seasons than to tell a fantasy show that needs a new story almost every episode. (you can stretch the show without exerting too much unnecessarily). Go to the wiki page for the wesen on this show, it's a very very long list. Without changing the premise from procedural, the original format was not sustainable, not even for the seasons we got because in the end it all became tedious. At some stage the wesen creative juices would run dry and the show would end as it did.
There was absolutely no need to stuff the last season with seven random episodes that added nothing to the narrative but that's what the writers did. They showed more excitement over those wesen driven type of stories than in writing for the characters. More effort went into coming up with cool wesen not their main cast of characters and how they dealt with the issues between them. And they "ran out" of fairytales to adapt as far back as S1/S2.
I don't watch supernatural but I get the sense that the focus is always on the brothers (and maybe other characters) first and everything else second. Grimm was about everything else first and the characters second.
It's easier to tell one long arc for a season and then another for the next season and another for the next and so on going on ten seasons than to tell a fantasy show that needs a new story almost every episode. (you can stretch the show without exerting too much unnecessarily). Go to the wiki page for the wesen on this show, it's a very very long list. Without changing the premise from procedural, the original format was not sustainable, not even for the seasons we got because in the end it all became tedious. At some stage the wesen creative juices would run dry and the show would end as it did.
There was absolutely no need to stuff the last season with seven random episodes that added nothing to the narrative but that's what the writers did. They showed more excitement over those wesen driven type of stories than in writing for the characters. More effort went into coming up with cool wesen not their main cast of characters and how they dealt with the issues between them. And they "ran out" of fairytales to adapt as far back as S1/S2.
I don't watch supernatural but I get the sense that the focus is always on the brothers (and maybe other characters) first and everything else second. Grimm was about everything else first and the characters second.