04-16-2017, 08:07 AM
(04-16-2017, 07:58 AM)irukandji Wrote:I didn't say he didn't know. Marie made her choices until the very end. Her view of being a Grimm was that of isolation from non Grimm because the kehrseite couldn't understand or their lives would be in danger because of the Grimm. Marie despite her illness continued the "good fight" like hundreds of the ancestors wandering the globe fighting wesen. Nick didn't show his grimm sight until he was thirty years of age. She may have come back to Portland periodically to see her kehrseite nephew but if she chose to leave, Nick couldn't stop her. Her last when Nick became a grimm her became her last and it probably made it easier for her to let go, knowning Nick would carry on the family tradition.(04-16-2017, 07:51 AM)MarylikesGrimm Wrote:(04-16-2017, 07:44 AM)irukandji Wrote:(04-15-2017, 09:25 PM)Mrtrick Wrote: I don't believe Grimms are inherently benevolent. The journals make clear that throughout history they have adopted some paricularly cruel practices. Each one is an individual, capable of good or bad. Just as anyone in a position of power has the possibility of being a force for the positive or negative in our natures. But I do believe that Nick is a good man, and by virtue, representative of the positive in what a Grimm can be. The writers intended Nick to bring on a sea change in Grimm, Wesen relations. A New Testament Grimm as they put it. No longer the boogeyman of Wesen culture, but their defender.
Since Nick's family has been brought up in some of the posts, I thought I would pose a question first.
Why wasn't Nick caring for his sick aunt? He seemed to know she had cancer, there's no indication he was shocked by her appearance. So why did he leave her alone?
Nick had not talked to her for 2 years and he had no idea she was sick.
But why would Nick let things go like that?
(04-16-2017, 07:57 AM)rpmaluki Wrote:(04-16-2017, 07:44 AM)irukandji Wrote:Wasn't Marie an active grimm even with her cancer? She was sick, she wasn't an invalid. There was no way of knowing if Nick would become a grimm so she kept that part hidden from him until she knew for certain he had his sight. She was a nomad like most Grimms travelling from one place to another. Nick settled down in one place when he was old enough and I believe Grimms tend to isolate themselves from those members of their family that aren't Grimms (the Kessler sister and their non Grimm brother). His aunt knew where he was, she came "home" when she wanted. And with Nick a grimm himself, she was content to pass down their family heritage and finally succumb to her illness after fighting to her last breath. Nick isn't like his mom, aunt or Trubel. He stays in one place, keeping close to his family instead wandering the world like his ancestors.(04-15-2017, 09:25 PM)Mrtrick Wrote: I don't believe Grimms are inherently benevolent. The journals make clear that throughout history they have adopted some paricularly cruel practices. Each one is an individual, capable of good or bad. Just as anyone in a position of power has the possibility of being a force for the positive or negative in our natures. But I do believe that Nick is a good man, and by virtue, representative of the positive in what a Grimm can be. The writers intended Nick to bring on a sea change in Grimm, Wesen relations. A New Testament Grimm as they put it. No longer the boogeyman of Wesen culture, but their defender.
Since Nick's family has been brought up in some of the posts, I thought I would pose a question first.
The importance of family has come up and on that note, I wanted to pose a question that came to mind last night.
Why wasn't Nick caring for his sick aunt? He seemed to know she had cancer, there's no indication he was shocked by her appearance. So why did he leave her alone?
He didn't act shocked when she was sitting in his house, so he apparently knew.