(07-28-2015, 04:32 PM)New Guy Wrote: Hi Grimm Fans,
Izzy opened this thread by posing “your mission, should you chose to accept it, is to arrange the following Grimm characters in descending order, in terms of trustworthiness:”
It seems the discussion has moved in several directions. I was confused about the “slumming” so I looked it up. Per Webster on line:
“Visiting slums. Sometimes used humorously, in reference to the appearance of a dignified person in a situation generally thought of as low-class.”
I don’t think Juliette was just visiting Nick. Four years is beyond just a visit. I don’t think she was trying to be humorous, make Nick bear the brunt of a (bad) joke or appear dignified in a low-class situation.
However, Juliette may have been slumming while she “visited” Renard. I believe Kenneth (Mr. Arrogance) may have been slumming with Juliette.
I enjoy oldies and “Rag Doll” comes to mind.
New Guy
I think you missed the overall point, which is more than one person has gone slumming only to fall in love with the person and enter into a long term relationship that is really not suitable on a host of socio-economic-demographic and cultural issues. In the U.S. we often cast a ethnocentric eye at arranged marriages, but one of the reasons they are so successful is they do not rely of trying to sustain the momentum of infatuation or lust.
So the point is Juliette may have at first gotten involved with Nick based on physical attraction, just wanting a hunky masculine guy to dangle in front of her girlfriends or in my eyes most likely slumming. Then she feel in love and her heart got the better of her senses, a very old story. But it would certainly explain her apprehension, some of her projected attitude and in the end the anger. The writers originally molded the Juliette character as a baker, which would make far more sense to me.
IN regard to Renard, I think he is a huge step up from Nick, in terms of income, culture, refinement and looks, a total package. Renard comes across as an alpha male, Nick is more of a wannabe.