09-27-2016, 06:12 PM
(09-27-2016, 02:37 PM)eric Wrote:(09-26-2016, 05:04 PM)izzy Wrote:Grimm is a fantasy, a magical world where humans become animals in seconds, growing hair, claws, fangs and then can melt back into human form(or are they animals that melt into humans?) in a matter of seconds. It is a land with witches, potions, curses. All the episodes are lousy with unreal magical things and beings. I'm okay with discussions about does this curse/cure consistent the mythology of the show? is a relationship between A and B make sense, especially when dark deeds have happened, sometimes between your great-greatgrand paw and mine. IMO when the discussion moves to trying to ground the story and events in real life, the story is destroyed. I recently had a surgery using a local anathesia, and could hear the staff talking. When my GP asked how it went, I said the doctors were grossly inferior. How so, he asked. Because I have watched Grey's Anatomty, those are great doctors, they bicker during surgery and talk about their sex lives.(09-26-2016, 01:39 PM)eric Wrote: I know I in the minority on this site, but I do not know why Grimm's magic has to make "sense".
It does not have to, for some people. Some people just want to be entertained, others desire a different level of cortel stimulation from their entertainment mediums.
An active discussion forum is likely to attract the type of people who want to pick apart and analyze the intricacies of the series. Most of the time they will expect the number of fantasy elements in play at one time to be limited, so they can relate to the characters interactions, responses and such to their own lives, in terms of situations they have been in, people they know, knowledge bases they have etc.
And that extends to magic.Those locals talked about some guy's bass boat! The GP loved it, I know for a fact the story made the rounds.
Eric I agree with you that the show should be consistent with the elements inside it. But any fantasy show will use elements from real life: some will sue more and some will use less.
I think a good fantasy writer is that one that is able to connect the real life elements to the fantasy elements and make this work as if the elements were from the same world. I think those people that complain about grimm being inconsistent have some reason in their complains because I think grimm fail to create a good connection between real life elements and the fantasy elements that exist inside the show.
For example: Nick could be a knight living in the middle ages fighting ghosts and witches and all kind of mythological creatures. But the writers choose to make Nick a copy from nowadays living in a real city and following real life rules. From the moment they took this decision, the writers brought to them the responsibility to make this cop (a real life element) to work with the wesen (the fantasy element). From the moment the writers failed to do that, they open their story to inconsistencies and complains that wouldn't exist if this real life element didn't exist.