Charles in Juy of 2012 Wrote:After we began subscribing to HuluPlus a few weeks ago, I started watching episodes of the television show, Grimm. A couple of days or so ago, I finished watching the show's last episode of its first season. All things considered, I think that it's a great show.

I think that the show is blessed with both great writers and great actors, particularly supporting actors. There's good chemistry between the main characters with recurring roles. I certainly wouldn't rate all episodes as being of equality quality, but I do rate very highly the quality of the over-arching storyline that spans the show from episode to episode.

For those not familiar with the show, I highly encourage you to watch it. My wife only watched a few minutes of the show's pilot episode, right up to the point where a modern day little red riding hood gets attacked while jogging in the woods. Since then, my wife has been absorbed into The Vampire Diaries that she has watched on Netflix.

It will be interesting to see how Season 2 of Grimm continues the storyline. I don't yet know what kind of creature that Captain Renard is, who is the primary character's police captain boss on the show, but I am thinking that he may be a vampire - even though that theory of mine stems from him apparently being a member of some kind royalty in the Wesen world. I say vampire, because his connection to royalty makes me think Dracula, as in Count Dracula with the title of count. Of course, I may be way out in left field on that theory, but we'll just have to wait and see.

Having watched the entire first season of the show, now, I think that I would rate the Silas Weir Mitchell as Monroe and Sasha Roiz as Captain Sean Renard as the top two acting talents on the show. The show's main character, David Giuntoli as Nick Burnhardt, continues to grow on me, but I don't think that he is the best actor of the bunch, by far.

Monroe steals the show. He really does. But, Captain Renard's role in the Wesen world aspect of the show, and the slow way in which they have been dragging out revealing who he really is, compared to how quickly each episode reveals some type of Wesen creature, really injects some depth into the over-arching storyline. I think that they have a good balance going on, and the writers are doing a fine job bringing creatures from fairy tales to life in a modern world setting.

Good writing and good acting in the same show. The special effects with the creature transformations help to spice things up and to keep each individual episode interesting, but the special effects are only the icing on the cake of quality writing, quality acting, and an ongoing plot line of substance.

Grimm - It's good stuff!

(04-04-2013, 08:34 PM)Lou Wrote: As I'm writing this we are 3/4 of the way through the second season and the writers are showing the Captain in a more favorable light. I started thinking maybe I was wrong and this guy isn't so bad. So I went back and re-watched some of Season 1 over again.

I'm going to make a list of all the bad things the Captain has done so far. go ahead and add as many as you can think of.

Sent Addelaide to kill Aunt Marie.
Pulled guards off Aunt Marie in the hospital
Was in collusion with the Wesson who ran the fight club.
Siced Addelaide on Hank - and gave her Hank's blood for her potion.

(05-24-2013, 08:01 AM)Adriano Neres Rodrigues Wrote: I think Captain Renard just does what need to be done in the way to get what he wants. His plane, aparently, since the beging was to have Nick on his side. So everything (aparently good and aparently bad) was done in this way. Think about it: killing aunt Marie was a way to let Nick alone (at least relative to grimms). If aunt Marie was alive, certanlly she was discovery Renards royality and that would be a problem do Renard's plan against the families.

(05-26-2013, 12:41 PM)HellJacket Wrote:

(05-24-2013, 08:01 AM)Adriano Neres Rodrigues Wrote: I think Captain Renard just does what need to be done in the way to get what he wants. His plane, aparently, since the beging was to have Nick on his side. So everything (aparently good and aparently bad) was done in this way. Think about it: killing aunt Marie was a way to let Nick alone (at least relative to grimms). If aunt Marie was alive, certanlly she was discovery Renards royality and that would be a problem do Renard's plan against the families.

I'm going to have to disagree with this. Renard and Adalind's attack on Aunt Marie was dumb. It was really dumb. The attack still makes no sense. If the goal of the attack was to get the key, what does killing Aunt Marie do to advance that goal? And regarding your comment about discovering Renard's Royalty, it's unlikely that any grimm would be able to recognize that Renard was a royal. I doubt you can just google their genealogy, let alone for a bastard Royal. Also, can't Renard just take the week off while she's sick? It's unlikely Aunt Marie or Renard would ever have reason to encounter each other (I can't remember if they even met in the pilot).

And if as you say, if the goal of killing Aunt Marie was to get "Nick alone (at least relative to grimms)," what's the point of the attack anyway? She has terminal friggin brain cancer. Just wait a few months (or days as it turned out), and let nature take its course. Nick was raised by Aunt Marie. Without reading Nick's mind, it's unlikely Aunt Marie would tell Nick anything especially dangerous that she hadn't told him already.

Anyways, the attack on Marie was dumb. I understand why the writers did it (they needed to show how Nick's boss, Captain Renard, had bad motives towards Nick), but still, I wish they had thought a bit longer about how to accomplish that.

(05-26-2013, 02:00 PM)Lou Wrote: My take on it was that Renard thought that ANY information Aunt Marie gave to Nick was too much. The more Nick was in the dark the more vulnerable he would be.