The show creators didn’t plan a Law & Order type series about Grimm & Wesen that presented the progression from crime to trial/conviction. Grimm was never more than a show about fairytale characters who interacted with a small number of humans in a modern-day setting. By S4 one human on Nick’s team was transformed into a Wesen by magic and by S5 another by infection, leaving only one human member by the show’s end. But that hardly mattered considering the three human members of Team Grimm were immediately assimilated into the fairytale Grimm-world ideology with little regard to the policing and ethical standards and familiar/established lifestyle they had lived by.
The only modern aspect of the show was the timeframe and Nick’s human-life / income-producing employment and the use of law enforcement procedures and technology favorable to his Grimm mission. The creative team rarely utilized it’s own creations to bridge the gap between fairytale Grimm and modern policing - such as forming a working relationship between Nick and the Wesen Council that would make both efforts more relevant and productive by developing a mutually benefiting avenue for dealing with Wesen crime under the radar of the human legal system. Nick determined whether offending Wesen were killed, arrested, or sent on their way - just as the Grimms before him had done.
Nick didn’t even have a reaction to learning the government, or at least the military, knew about Wesen, which flew in the face of his supposed modern day Grimm attitude. Nick had worked on his own for nearly four and half years, making those supposedly tough decisions of which Wesen would live and which would die, only to learn that the government knew and didn’t bother reaching out to Grimm and Wesen until it needed them to kill for its benefit. He didn’t even pursue finding out what HW did to the woman he supposedly loved and wanted to marry, much less it’s long-term plans for her.
Grimm was not a show about the legal system - procedural, ethical, or otherwise. Grimm was a fairytale about a mythical hero/warrior fighting mythical ferocious creatures with a little soap opera drama thrown into the mix. G & K disregarded previously established elements if they interfered with a particular story and invented new elements if needed to move a particular story along.
I never saw Nick, Hank, and Wu as representing meaningful and ethical law enforcement, but that part doesn’t bother me because I don’t think the show intended to make that statement one way or the other. The central character was probably a cop because the network wanted him to be instantly recognizable to the general viewership while learning about the mythical Grimm/Wesen world and its inhabitants. And the show’s creators and the Network accomplished that goal if viewers bought into their mythical Grimm/Wesen premise for forty-two minutes each week.
Trying to understand how the fairytale meshed or failed to mesh with real life is - as the Borg would say - futile. *grin*
The only modern aspect of the show was the timeframe and Nick’s human-life / income-producing employment and the use of law enforcement procedures and technology favorable to his Grimm mission. The creative team rarely utilized it’s own creations to bridge the gap between fairytale Grimm and modern policing - such as forming a working relationship between Nick and the Wesen Council that would make both efforts more relevant and productive by developing a mutually benefiting avenue for dealing with Wesen crime under the radar of the human legal system. Nick determined whether offending Wesen were killed, arrested, or sent on their way - just as the Grimms before him had done.
Nick didn’t even have a reaction to learning the government, or at least the military, knew about Wesen, which flew in the face of his supposed modern day Grimm attitude. Nick had worked on his own for nearly four and half years, making those supposedly tough decisions of which Wesen would live and which would die, only to learn that the government knew and didn’t bother reaching out to Grimm and Wesen until it needed them to kill for its benefit. He didn’t even pursue finding out what HW did to the woman he supposedly loved and wanted to marry, much less it’s long-term plans for her.
Grimm was not a show about the legal system - procedural, ethical, or otherwise. Grimm was a fairytale about a mythical hero/warrior fighting mythical ferocious creatures with a little soap opera drama thrown into the mix. G & K disregarded previously established elements if they interfered with a particular story and invented new elements if needed to move a particular story along.
I never saw Nick, Hank, and Wu as representing meaningful and ethical law enforcement, but that part doesn’t bother me because I don’t think the show intended to make that statement one way or the other. The central character was probably a cop because the network wanted him to be instantly recognizable to the general viewership while learning about the mythical Grimm/Wesen world and its inhabitants. And the show’s creators and the Network accomplished that goal if viewers bought into their mythical Grimm/Wesen premise for forty-two minutes each week.
Trying to understand how the fairytale meshed or failed to mesh with real life is - as the Borg would say - futile. *grin*
"If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well." Rainer Maria Rilke