02-16-2015, 11:03 AM
(02-16-2015, 09:49 AM)wfmyers1207 Wrote: Finally got around to posting about this episode. Frankly, I didn't like it a lot. While there were some interesting developments in the storyline I thought it had 2 big drawbacks:
1) The hexenbitch throw down between Adalind and Juliette was rather anti-climatic.
2) The WOTW plot was a 2nd rate re-write of the episode "Volcanalis" from S2.
All in all, not the Grimm Writers best effort.
Agreed.
I really wanted Juliette to fight Adalind, there were enough old debts to settle. But I also hoped for some talking! Adalind just fought, there was no "Hey, why are you a Hexenbiest?!" Back in her car she was just angry that she had to run, no confusion. The fight itself was cool, but it wasn't what I've waited for.
Escandesco was much alike Volcanalis, but I preferred the Volcanalis-story. And the fluid Nitrogen would have worked on Escandesco too, for sure.
(02-14-2015, 12:21 AM)droid327 Wrote: I really dislike when they get technobabbly. If you're going to make it scientific, then do your homework and make it plausibly scientific. If you're not, just make it Wesen mumbo jumbo and that's fine, we accept it (except for maybe "frog toxin makes you immune to electric eels"). But spraying him down with Nickelodeon slime is somehow supposed to suppress phosphorus ignition? How exactly, then, did they get it on his *back*? Or what about all the rest of the places he clearly wasn't coated, why couldn't the fire burn there? And why couldn't a regular fire extinguisher, which blocks oxygen and prevents chemical fires by spraying a nonflammable powder or foam, have done the trick just as well, without having to invent your own super-soaker version? They make "Class D" fire extinguishers specifically for burning metals like phosphorus. And how are herbs and beeswax supposed to be "nonflammable" as they specifically said it had to be? You're just inviting that kind of de-suspension-of-disbelief when you're that sloppy with your writing and fact-checking.
Yeah, exactly.
After all, I have to vote "disliked". The super soaker in the weapons closet was funny at first, but did it make any sense? Does he have to hide a toy? Could he stop another Escandesco with only one of these?
Btw., when my boys were smaller, we had to buy quite a lot of these nice toys in summer. The nozzle gets blocked very easily and you can't clean it. Nick could never use it a second time, the liquid contains beeswax!