04-13-2015, 08:57 AM
Wow, I'm never shy about my dislike for how they write the Juliette character, and this episode continued to plumb new depths of stupidness for her. I think its clear we're meant to surmise that she's being "taken over" by the Hexenbiest within her, which IMO is just throwing out years' worth of whatever character development they gave her, and replacing her with a new character that's just a boilerplate cartoonish bitch. Maybe Bitsie started demanding they make her character more "fun to play" or something, I don't know, but its horrible storycraft, I think.
She comes off feeling horribly sorry for herself and lashing out at her friends, which doesn't make her sympathetic. She seduces Renard because...reasons? Because bad girls are promiscuous? And Renard sleeps with her because...not even reasons. Even if he doesn't consider Nick a friend, he's pragmatic enough to realize he still *needs* Nick and shouldn't be alienating him by PORKING HIS FIANCEE!! For someone who's so traumatized by being shot, he's trying really hard to get himself shot again
WotW...bleh, more nonsense. How do they stay under the radar if they need to "eat" a person every day? The first one ate the old lady and still was frozen to death by the next day in jail. Why would they all start chasing the cops if they knew they couldn't even make it to the barn before they ran out of stored heat? And Nick's purposefully leaving Sven in the barn, essentially executing him for his crimes extrajudicially, goes against the ethos he's stated in earlier seasons...which may be deliberate for him, as he becomes more of a Grimm, but it seems like Hank or especially Wu should have had some qualms about standing around and letting a man die.
And then why leave him frozen in the stolen cab in Portland? That doesn't even make sense. Why not just ditch the car way out in the wilderness, stick his body even further out in the wilderness, and the obvious assumption would be that he died of exposure? No weird explanation necessary.
Kenneth...ah well, at least he's showing some forethought this time and not just beating people up. Still don't like him that much. I think maybe its because he looks like Evil Wesley (from Princess Bride). Or just someone's dumbass younger brother who doesn't know what he's doing. Bad casting, I think, on top of bad writing so far. And if his plan is to put Nick in danger to flush his mother out, I can only see it ending in a very, very rapid death for him by one or both of their hands. Nick is vigilant and resourceful, and his mother is a stone-cold assassin who would probably just try to negotiate with him for Diana....Corbin Dallas style.
She comes off feeling horribly sorry for herself and lashing out at her friends, which doesn't make her sympathetic. She seduces Renard because...reasons? Because bad girls are promiscuous? And Renard sleeps with her because...not even reasons. Even if he doesn't consider Nick a friend, he's pragmatic enough to realize he still *needs* Nick and shouldn't be alienating him by PORKING HIS FIANCEE!! For someone who's so traumatized by being shot, he's trying really hard to get himself shot again
WotW...bleh, more nonsense. How do they stay under the radar if they need to "eat" a person every day? The first one ate the old lady and still was frozen to death by the next day in jail. Why would they all start chasing the cops if they knew they couldn't even make it to the barn before they ran out of stored heat? And Nick's purposefully leaving Sven in the barn, essentially executing him for his crimes extrajudicially, goes against the ethos he's stated in earlier seasons...which may be deliberate for him, as he becomes more of a Grimm, but it seems like Hank or especially Wu should have had some qualms about standing around and letting a man die.
And then why leave him frozen in the stolen cab in Portland? That doesn't even make sense. Why not just ditch the car way out in the wilderness, stick his body even further out in the wilderness, and the obvious assumption would be that he died of exposure? No weird explanation necessary.
Kenneth...ah well, at least he's showing some forethought this time and not just beating people up. Still don't like him that much. I think maybe its because he looks like Evil Wesley (from Princess Bride). Or just someone's dumbass younger brother who doesn't know what he's doing. Bad casting, I think, on top of bad writing so far. And if his plan is to put Nick in danger to flush his mother out, I can only see it ending in a very, very rapid death for him by one or both of their hands. Nick is vigilant and resourceful, and his mother is a stone-cold assassin who would probably just try to negotiate with him for Diana....Corbin Dallas style.