11-29-2015, 05:52 PM
(11-29-2015, 03:46 PM)irukandji Wrote: If you're looking at Nick (prior to his Grimm days) as an honest, ethical cop who had respect but was isolated/alienated from other officers, then he's no adolescent. He's an experienced cop who spent years cutting his teeth on the streets just like the others. He just didn't take stock in the brotherhood.
Uh...maybe??? In my city the Dept is not run by merit, but by politics. Most of the rank and file have zero respect for the patrol sergeants, commanders, lieutenants, assistant and chief and several of the detectives.
The peter principle is often at work. I can see scenarios were Nick could have been promoted up just to get him out of the way of something.
My point with Nick was, he may have been isolated because he was highly idealistic and rigidly adhered to the rules, a hallmark of arrested adolescents. The brotherhood may have rejected him not the other way around. He may not have understood exactly why he did not "fit in" and that may have been the story of his life. The Grimm thing gave him his birthright heritage so to speak. Of course 100% speculation on my part.