06-07-2013, 11:51 PM
(06-07-2013, 08:17 PM)Lou Wrote: And what happens to his DNA matching? We never hear anything about that. Would it come back as inconclusive? And is this how Ziegervolks breed? Are there female Ziegervolks? Or when a male Ziegervolk mates with a female human, the males are ziegerolks and the females are human?
These are questions I am unsure if I want answers to, lol. Leaving the audience to fill in the blanks really makes this episode creepier for me. I'm bothered by what Wesen can and can't do more than the main plot sometimes! It's little wonder that Grimm have been indiscriminately slaying Wesen of all types for centuries -- the ones with the most troublesome powers can do a lot of damage.
There are so many gross things going on in "Lonelyhearts". Capra's human collection museum in his basement, frog eating, the brain-bending powers. It's all very disturbing. Almost surprising for the first season of a show on network TV. Some of the horror is just implied (Billy Capra obviously isn't holding these women for innocent tea parties), but a lot of it is out there in the open.
As I mentioned in my post for "BeeWare", I am again surprised at just how dark Grimm started out. It's stayed that way, too, which is part of the reason I like it. Too many shows pull their punches or handicap the creep factor. That the writers are willing to name real people as Wesen was also cool to me.
Our first real introduction to the structure of the non-human world occurs here too. Reapers are obviously a Big Deal and not just one-off bad guys that attempted to kill Marie Kessler (Nick's aunt), but we don't know exactly what they signify at this point. Renard is also firmly cemented as someone to watch. Knowing that Hank will later become aware of Wesen makes watching him while he's clueless frustrating. Rosalee isn't in the show yet, but I already miss her. Juliette is still in "the girlfriend" mode and that's where she will be for many more episodes to come -- I get the impression that the writers don't know what to do with her a lot of the time.
For me, this is the episode where things really start to click into place.
"I can feed the caterpillar, I can whisper through the chrysalis, but what hatches follows its own nature and is beyond me."
-- Hannibal (TV show)
-- Hannibal (TV show)