01-06-2018, 11:08 AM
(01-06-2018, 09:43 AM)rpmaluki Wrote: I don't think this is entirely true as seen in the episode Eve ended up in hospital and the conversation between her and Nick in the other world. Nick wasn't as flat a character as he appeared. There's also a deleted scene between him and Hank just before they question El Cuegle over the kidnapping of the baby. Hank comments about Kelly being lucky to have a father like Nick, a Grimm and Nick with tears in his eyes said he didn't think so.The characters were driven by drama and action created for a storyline rather than the characters experiences and evolution driving their stories. I wasn’t suggesting that the characters never changed or learned from past experiences to any degree, but those lessons learned weren’t used to determined their trajectories.
This show isn't Shakespeare but I don't think it's completely vapid either. It has shown glimpses of promise that were tragically left unexplored to their fullest potential.
Nick was temporarily conflicted with the difference in Grimm & law enforcement methods, but he didn’t have a crucial moment where he seriously contemplated giving up one for the other. To me, that indicates that the character didn’t personally identify with either lifestyle/profession. The same with Juliette. Nick wanted to marry her despite being a Grimm, and he intended to propose without first telling her the truth. Although Juliette explained that she wouldn’t marry him because he was obviously keeping secrets, Nick didn’t have a crucial moment where he seriously considered being a Grimm wasn’t worth losing Juliette or that the greater good was more important than their relationship. He continued to maintain the relationship and his secret life until Adalind’s spell made it impossible to continue.
Juliette - Nick finally tells her the truth, after she’s been victimize by the near death fallout of Nick’s Grimm world. Her response is to want to know more and to become an active part of this bizarre and dangerous world Nick is telling her about. That Juliette would eventually grasp the importance of Nick being a Grimm, and why he was committed to it is completely believable. That she wouldn’t initially react as most any human would - a man who supposedly loved her wouldn’t have exposed her to such horrific danger, and she needed time away from Nick to figure things out - isn’t believable in a character driven story.
There were quite a few negative comments that the amnesia arc drug on too long and was boring. I think some of that negativity stemmed from the lack of growth and change for the characters in their personal lives. Other than Juliette knowing about the Grimm/Wesen world, it was Grimm work as usual.
G & K’s show was about Nick, the Grimm. They didn’t devote time and energy to him reconciling with a secret bizarre world, he closed a case as a Grimm in the pilot episode. They wanted woe is me drama for the Nick/Juliette relationship, but they didn’t want to devote time and energy to the relationship faltering before the characters figured out how to make it work despite Nick being a Grimm.
Diana’s kidnapping, Juliette becoming a Hexenbiest, the destruction of Nick/Juliette, Adalind having Nick’s child should have been a whopping big deal for the characters to overcome. But the Juliette/Nick/Adalind/Diana fallout wasn’t addressed because Juliette effectively became Eve at the same time the possibility of Nick/Adalind occurred, and the kidnapping was a deterrent to story flow.
G & K kept the characters and their personal woes in neat packages, bringing out whatever for a particular story and tucking it back inside when finished with it. That’s not really multifaceted, that’s watching the characters move along in a specific story. I don't think Grimm is worse than most shows that sacrifice characters as needed. So I'm not suggesting Grimm failed compared to other shows, I just talking about the format G & K used didn't allow much room for character driven storylines.
"If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well." Rainer Maria Rilke