04-29-2014, 08:51 AM
(04-28-2014, 11:59 PM)droid327 Wrote:(04-27-2014, 09:46 PM)speakeasy Wrote: J and N have that guest room, right? Why not let Trubel stay there until she gets settled, or killed. And that Black Knight chess piece may be an important clue about her family or background.
They have a guest room? Why'd Nick have to go live with Monroe then when Juliette had amnesia? He was sleeping on the couch up till then, IIRC. At first I thought you were talking about Monroe's guest room...and that might actually be funny if it wasn't completely implausible. Imagine if Monroe's family comes back to visit again and they have a Grimm for a roommate
As for the chess piece...the Grimm writers aren't exactly good with subtlety. I imagine its going to end up that she's somehow connected to the Royals - maybe she comes from a line of Grimms that work for the Royals (knights to their king, as it were), unbeknownst to her, and the chess piece is something her mother gave her but never got a chance to explain what it means.
I was operating of the assumption that they had turned a second room upstairs into a guest bedroom from a sewing or hobby room since Nick's days of sleeping on the couch - because it seemed that Juliette's friend who stayed with them was not crashing on the couch. And most two-story homes don't have just a single room on the second flight. Wouldn't be the first time I speculated wrongly, tho'.
Good idea about the chess piece. And Trubel probably has a key somewhere in her obscure history.
(04-27-2014, 09:46 PM)speakeasy Wrote: So we meet King Renard at last; kind of a disappointment, he's so ordinary. But what he says about his House falling to ruin if the baby isn't raised with its walls is intriguing.
(04-28-2014, 11:59 PM)droid327 Wrote: Isnt it King Kronenberg or something? I thought Renard was his matrilinear name, since he obviously wasn't accepted into his father's side of the family. **edit** oh wait, Eric was a Renard too, so I guess not...shame, I like King Kronenberg better than King Renard for such a Teutonic family and setting that they've put them in.
As for the baby, this has been my complaint all along. They've never established WHY they all want this baby so bad. I'm pretty sure this isn't just an elaborate custody battle...obviously, the baby is the key to doing something, but its high time they actually start laying out what that might be. Until then, her name might as well be Diana MacGuffin Schade.
Think Viktor's surname isn't Renard, but both he and the king belong to House Kronenberg. Don't know how those foxy Renards got into the seemingly Germanic royal House (are the Franks part of its heritage?), but it would be interesting to have someone speak on the subject.
Here's a thought - Kelly knows the baby has an 'extraordinary destiny'. The baby has taken to her necklace with the locket containing a picture a 12-yr. old Nick. Adalind has some Grimm blood in her because of Nick taking away her Hexenbiest powers and has passed it on to the little princess. Royal, Hexenbiest and Grimm bloodlines in one child. I'm confused, but if Diana had a sigil, blazon or crest, it would have to feature the skull prominently (let's hear it for Frau Pech!) and that's not so good!
(04-28-2014, 06:19 AM)Elkhound Wrote: Self defense in each case.
(04-28-2014, 11:59 PM)droid327 Wrote: Yeah I get that's what we're meant to take away from it. Greedo shot first.
I still have a little trouble with it (no pun intended). She F'ed all three of those guys up real good, that wasn't just a "stab them in defense and run away". Maybe you can rationalize it away by saying she believed they were monsters, and so she needed to kill them, but still - the fact that she didn't *know* what she was doing, but still killed a bunch of people anyway, should give Nick pause.
All three of them were wesen who were attacking her violently. Even if she's not aware of being a Grimm, nature has programmed her to come at them with equal force, and to kill them, if necessary. Agree that she's a loose cannon now and Nick should be on guard.
@ aguraakemi - Seems like old times to have Wu come up with one-liners like 'I may have left out a Dorf or a Berg' when he announced Viktor's pretentious full name to the Captain! Wu isn't going to be able to do his best work for Nick if he's not clued in to the Wesen world, but the gang seems to think he couldn't deal with it. Sure he could. Anyway, the whole cast is going to have to throw in together to do battle with the powerful Royals, who want what they don't wish to give up: power over the world they live in. That'll most likely happen during the last season; but I want Wu on scooby team in the meantime!
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