07-30-2018, 09:38 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-30-2018, 09:39 AM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
Could be my thoughts just get bumped out of stories too easily. My perspective may be a bit skewed, having spent more than a few long nights shivering in the rain for the sake of a scene that ended up lasting all of two minutes on the screen.
In a well-written story (not saying that Grimm was always well-written, but it was better than some I've worked on), no character ever does something just because he/she is "evil" (whatever that means to you). Characters' actions are determined by what they're thinking and feeling, even if what they're thinking and feeling is totally deluded or influenced by magic or mind control, and in their minds their actions are always justified.
If it's clear what thoughts or feelings might be behind a character's actions and you are just unwilling to accept that someone in that situation might think or feel that way, that's you as a viewer being unwilling to suspend disbelief. But if the character's motivations are impossible to discern, that's just bad writing (or acting or directing) and there's nothing more to be done than to acknowledge it and move on to the next topic.
In a well-written story (not saying that Grimm was always well-written, but it was better than some I've worked on), no character ever does something just because he/she is "evil" (whatever that means to you). Characters' actions are determined by what they're thinking and feeling, even if what they're thinking and feeling is totally deluded or influenced by magic or mind control, and in their minds their actions are always justified.
If it's clear what thoughts or feelings might be behind a character's actions and you are just unwilling to accept that someone in that situation might think or feel that way, that's you as a viewer being unwilling to suspend disbelief. But if the character's motivations are impossible to discern, that's just bad writing (or acting or directing) and there's nothing more to be done than to acknowledge it and move on to the next topic.