12-31-2017, 05:42 PM
(12-31-2017, 05:17 PM)izzy Wrote: Hmmmm... One thing "we" learned about the writers is they haphazardly seasoned the series with plot devices that they never thought through, so they would have future material to work with.Well, Hmmmm... I think you give the writers more credit than I. They may have temporarily tossed around the idea of Nick dealing with the fallout of an internal investigation, but I don’t think so. I think the writers accomplished their intent of Nick, the upstanding, moral police officer insisting that he be judged as anyone would while his friends and supporters rallied around insisting he couldn’t and shouldn’t be judged like anyone else.
That being stated, remember the guy Nick murdered in the bar? It seemed to me they actually started to and intended to have that as more significant part of the show (i.e the consequences of killing a civilian) and then sort of white washed it while giving it lip service. The reason I say that is how quickly they moved on it once it was introduced, unlike the keys, coins etc. So it seems it was intended to b explored and then was rather crudely discarded.
So I am not sure more mature themes were not intended, just for various reasons the writers lost their trajectory. It seems the creators are good at conceptualizing a show but have trouble with the practical execution of their creation in terms of story lines. I'd be curious as to why they moved off the consequences of Nick killing the civilian in the bar as quickly as they did, as it seems very conspicuous. And likely that decision, along with their change of trajectory with Renard (from the beginning of the series) altered much of what the show evolved into and likely fed into the creators feeling they had run out of story lines to explore.
What season was that - two, three? In S4, Nick, Hank, and Wu planted evidence to arrest Kenneth then took him to a warehouse where Nick intended to kill him while Hank & Wu waited outside to kill him should Nick fail.
If the writers intended then dropped their earlier idea of consequences, they must have dropped it into a rocket headed for the moon. *grin*
Again, you give them more credit than me. Maybe the writers planned to let Renard lay low so that a later rise to evil would have more impact, but Roiz said in an interview that he asked G & K to give his character something to do, specifically something related to him being a bad guy. That’s not how he phrased it, but the interview is posted somewhere.
"If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well." Rainer Maria Rilke