01-04-2018, 07:45 AM
(01-04-2018, 07:19 AM)Robyn Wrote: Early on I considered Nick, as well as Hank & Wu, bad cops because I saw Nick as a cop who became a Grimm and was loyal to being a Grimm first. But later I realized the show presented Nick as a Grimm who happen to be a cop. Nick became a Grimm within minutes of being introduced as a human modern day detective. We didn’t see Nick without the Grimm influence other than a brief glimpse of him buying an engagement ring and excited about proposing. After that, the show thrust Nick completely into the Grimm/Wesen world.Ditto
The reality is that the show was about Nick, the Grimm not Nick, the detective who was a Grimm during his off time. Beginning with the first episode, a Wesen was the culprit in every case Nick & Hank had. Even before Hank new about the Grimm/Wesen world, they were presented as a Grimm and his partner rather that two detectives investigating cases.
So while I would have preferred the show not make Nick a detective when it had no intentions of exploring the police side of his life & experiences, I understand that G & K were presenting their story of a Grimm who happen to be a detective in Portland. And that they didn’t want to bog down their storytelling by even having the human cops, Hank and Wu, struggle over the blurred lines between Grimm law and human law made the show look even more disrespectful to law enforcement. But I still don’t think they intended to be disrespectful. I just don’t think they gave much consideration to the human law side of the equation other than it providing a source of information in Nick’s Wesen cases.
Grimm was never about exploring the bigger picture, blurred lines, or the concept of right and wrong. It was a collection of cool action stories about a Grimm battling evil Wesen. Period. And when a storyline occasionally appeared to offer a deeper element, those references dissipated once the storyline didn’t need them.