02-17-2015, 09:14 AM
(02-17-2015, 01:57 AM)Samsarilian Wrote:(02-16-2015, 11:03 AM)Gretel Hanselsister Wrote: ... Btw., when my boys were smaller, we had to buy quite a lot of these nice toys in summer. The nozzle gets blocked very easily and you can't clean it. Nick could never use it a second time, the liquid contains beeswax!
This is kind of what i was indicating with what I said earlier about Nick adding a Wal Mart special. Today's mass produced junk does not begin to compair with the quality of the human produced items of the past. There was a time when tools were designed and built to last not a life time but to become family heirlooms, ie last several life times. That is the class most of Nicks weapons are in. A little oil and at most a few strokes with a whet stone and they are good to go. I have owned several super soakers over a long lifetime. They all work for a short while then NEED to be replaced. And it is exactly why I laughed myself into a head ache when I saw it.
You guys are cracking me up, but could you be any more literal? The entire scene when Nick puts the neon plastic supersoaker in the weapons cabinet was meant to be symbolic with a "there's a new Grimm in this modern town" kinda vibe. I'm not sure there is ANYONE who thinks that supersoaker will ever be used again even if another pyro comes messing around. Nick will add his experience into the books describing how he defeated the Excandesco since no other Grimm in his family's history had been able to do so.
In a way, the Scooby gang's approach to this WoW is pivotal because it shows that Nick (with support FROM his Wesen buddies) can think out of the box and, using the tools available during this modern era, create a weapon without having it manufactured for just that purpose. Until this point, the most modern weapon in that cabinet is the elephant gun, and most of the other weapons were created with a specific Wesen in mind. This is NOT the case with this weapon. The fact the carrier is a $12 supersoaker is beside the point.
I've read some of the comments about why use the supersoaker and not a fire extinguisher, etc. For those of us who know a little about putting out fires (I'm a metalsmith who catches stuff on fire or melts things all the time using different materials), this seems to be a logical tool.
However, the Grimm writers did a better job on research than you guys are giving them credit for. White phosphorus fires are actually difficult to put out because the fires can reignite very quickly after the average topic reagent settles. In fact, many countries use white phosphorus in shells and bombs because the damage just "keeps on giving" after the initial blast. An example would be dropping small napalm like bombs into tunnels in Afghanistan and into drug tunnels in areas where drug cartels thrive. The white phosphorus just keeps burning until it is used up or until the surface it covered runs out of either oxygen or fuel.
Of course, there's only so much the Scooby gang can glean from the internet in a moment of crisis. And when the internet is telling them they will need something like copper salt or some other specialty reagent to smother the blue flame long enough to really extinguish it, they have to think....beeswax and licorice root we have, but copper salt we do not. Then, how do we get it on this guy? The scene may have been a little hoaky and humorous, but it wasn't actually as bad as many have described.
How it was executed on the screen is an entirely different thing (e.g. how did it get all over the Excandesco's back, etc). But the concept wasn't half bad for a bunch of Grimm writers.
"Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today." ~Mark Twain