01-11-2017, 07:39 AM
I doubt G&K talked about making their good guy characters corrupt because it’d be fun. In all likelihood, the concept, background story, and characters were never given much consideration. Their motivation seems to be about the single-episode stories they want to tell each week. And if good guy characters come across as corrupt, immoral, or simply ineffective, it’s not due to intent, but rather, the need for them to behave in a certain way for the benefit of the story.
Diana was presented as becoming all powerful from conception. She was shown proactively defensive in utero because the story required it, then shown as completely compliant whenever someone took her because the story required it. And now that the story includes complications associated with Diana being with her parents, she’s proactively defensive again. The what, when, why, and how of Diana’s flip flopping isn’t relevant to the story, only that she behave a certain way at a certain time.
For all the hoopla of S5’s Wesen uprising, blink and you missed it. HW & BC played out as a minor subplot running parallel to the major Wesen of the week stories. The Wesen uprising was the perfect situation to showcase Nick’s struggle to live effectively in both the human and Wesen world.
But instead of Nick getting actively involved in a situation that could potentially turn his city into a war zone, he played house with Adalind and continued working his typical Wesen crime cases. Even with the few cases that implied a connection to the uprising, Nick either failed to see the connection or chose to ignore it.
And I don’t think G&K ever intended to present Nick as an ineffective Grimm or detective. They simply wanted the character drawn into a personal situation that directly affected him - Renard took his son, and his woman. Nick being a Grimm only came into play when the Grimm strength, along with a magic stick, was required to fight off a direct assault from BC. Other than that, Nick’s story was about one man’s vendetta against another.
Any situation that presented Renard a fast track to power would have accomplished the same Nick vs. Renard outcome. The Wesen uprising, BC, and HW weren’t necessary, they were cool side stories, and a place to temporarily park the new character Eve.
So really, good, evil, and ambivalence depends on how viewers interpret the stories being told, because the central character is only corrupt or immoral if a viewer cares how he gets from point A to point B.
Diana was presented as becoming all powerful from conception. She was shown proactively defensive in utero because the story required it, then shown as completely compliant whenever someone took her because the story required it. And now that the story includes complications associated with Diana being with her parents, she’s proactively defensive again. The what, when, why, and how of Diana’s flip flopping isn’t relevant to the story, only that she behave a certain way at a certain time.
For all the hoopla of S5’s Wesen uprising, blink and you missed it. HW & BC played out as a minor subplot running parallel to the major Wesen of the week stories. The Wesen uprising was the perfect situation to showcase Nick’s struggle to live effectively in both the human and Wesen world.
But instead of Nick getting actively involved in a situation that could potentially turn his city into a war zone, he played house with Adalind and continued working his typical Wesen crime cases. Even with the few cases that implied a connection to the uprising, Nick either failed to see the connection or chose to ignore it.
And I don’t think G&K ever intended to present Nick as an ineffective Grimm or detective. They simply wanted the character drawn into a personal situation that directly affected him - Renard took his son, and his woman. Nick being a Grimm only came into play when the Grimm strength, along with a magic stick, was required to fight off a direct assault from BC. Other than that, Nick’s story was about one man’s vendetta against another.
Any situation that presented Renard a fast track to power would have accomplished the same Nick vs. Renard outcome. The Wesen uprising, BC, and HW weren’t necessary, they were cool side stories, and a place to temporarily park the new character Eve.
So really, good, evil, and ambivalence depends on how viewers interpret the stories being told, because the central character is only corrupt or immoral if a viewer cares how he gets from point A to point B.
"If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well." Rainer Maria Rilke