Quote:I think we already saw the template for what Nick's ife would have been like had he not been in a profession that trained him for potentially deadly encounters and put him in harm's way, and that's Trubel's life before she met Nick and the scoobies.The trouble with the Trubel analogy *grin* is that she did survive being attacked by Wesen from a very early age. Grimm instinct and skill must have kicked in despite her lack of knowledge/understanding. Plus, just the number of Wesen cases suggested Portland was a hotbed for Wesen crime. So Nick and Hank must have encountered dangerous Wesen before he became a Grimm.
But Trubel’s dicey encounters as an uninformed, untrained Grimm brings into question Marie keeping Nick in the dark. Even without the cancer, she could have died before telling Nick of his Grimm heritage, and as it was, he would have been on his own to figure things out had Monroe not been intrigued by a novice Grimm.
Quote:Unless they had Nick raised as a grimm since childhood by grimm parents who trained him to "take over the family business," we would've had to endure an increasingly absurd series of contrivances for how weird things kept happening to Nick and how he managed to stay out of jail or a padded cell.I would have preferred Nick already doing the Grimm thing at the on start. We could have skipped those pitiful relationship woes had Marie properly trained and educated Nick before the pilot episode.
Quote:I expect that the network found G&K's original concept "too talky,"…Interesting theory FitC. I never considered that G & K put action over substance at the behest of the network, just assumed they always intended WoW episodes packed with drama-driven action. Actually, because the network suggested the additional recurring characters who weren’t necessary for the WoW, I always assumed the network execs. were looking to make the show as much about the characters’ experiences as the Nick vs. Wesen action scenes.
(02-10-2018, 02:41 PM)dicappatore Wrote: I totally agree with the show being simplistic. Please, re-read my post again. I said that the show was NOT complicated. The complication of the show, I was referring to , with Nick as a cop, was directed to some viewers, based on the ridiculous assumptions some have made on these various threads on this Forum.That, right there, is what I was referring to. Unnecessary snide remarks about conflicting opinions rather than discussing the thread topic. Grimm would have been uncomplicated regardless of Nick’s chosen profession. The show delved very little into the how and why, and mostly focused on the specific drama driving the episode’s action.
Then, I added, with the additional complications, with Nick as a NON-COP, wold be reflected as more confusing to those same few viewers already confused. Again, The confusion I was referring to was not directed to most viewers but only to a select few.
Such as, viewers claiming that Nick was being paid as a Grimm, Juliette was not responsible for creating the situation of Kelly getting killed, Who abandoned who, between Nick and Juliette. Did Grimms get a choice to not be a Grimm. Was a Hexenbiest magic, spirit, a possession, a Telekinesis Master, a genie, a superhero, alien. Feel free to add a few more concoctions for the scarcely confused.
To most of us, Yep, it was kind of simplistic.
I might disagree with some of the opinions and theories posted on the forum, but I can still understand that the show's utilization of ambiguity allowed for a gamut of interpretation.
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