09-28-2016, 03:10 PM
(09-28-2016, 02:52 PM)Hell Rell Wrote:(09-28-2016, 02:27 PM)eric Wrote: One problem maintaining consistancy in Grimm, and other shows like Grimm,is that no one starts out with a realistic expection it will last over two seasons. If you pitch a show to the network bosses and says it will need 3-4 years for plot lines to be resolved, they would laugh you out of the room. Most directors/writers/cast find out mid-season or in the off season if they should be applying for a job at McDIn family comedies or most crime shows tere is no need to plan one season ahead. For Grimm, no one at the begin of season 2 was thinking too hard about 5.
I'm not arguing against this line of reasoning. I agree everything with you say here. I think this has a lot to do with the inconsistencies we see and the effort to get the show on air and renewed every season has a tendency to cause writers to use up most of their best ammunition in the first couple of seasons and often the first season. I understand it though I no longer want to give poor and inconsistent writing a bunch of excuses.
It's harder to justify these problems in Grimm because even the central mystery didn't seem to be taken seriously enough. The writers were on record saying they had no idea what the keys unlocked even though they were introduced in the pilot episode. That makes no sense to me regardless of how long they thought the show would last. They didn't even bother to remember that there was no explanation to how there were three keys in hidden in the chest when there was only one remaining. Then we find out that not all the keys were needed to locate and unlock the box which makes the other two useless and they could've just stated there were five from the beginning and achieved the same result. Plot holes are to be expected and some can and will be overlooked but the keys cannot be one of them.
As a fan, I want to be rewarded for paying attention and not be confused for it.
I couldn't agree more with you both. I would only add that another problem IMHO is the amount of plot holes left behind. Since the writers doen't know how many seasons a show will last, I think they should keep only few plots and try to track them as much as they can. What I have seeing in grimm is that the writers simply opened too many diferent plot lines and simply left them behind. This created many plot holes.