(05-25-2019, 10:53 AM)N_grimm Wrote: If you kill Nick, the show must be canceled. If you kill off any other character, the show can go on. That’s what makes Nick special. To claim that this is not the case is equivalent to saying that Batman is not the most important character in Batman, that Robin Hood is not the most important character in Robin Hood or that Sherlock Holmes is not the most important character in Sherlock Holmes. The show is called Grimm and Nick is the only regular Grimm on the show.
Batman was a loner vigilante who took matters into his own hands in order to fight crime. He developed his own weapons and methods of fighting crime. He is a true protagonist.
I'm surprised you'd compare Nick to him. When did Nick ever take the loner path to fighting, like his mom and aunt? When did Nick ever solve a crime by himself? When was Nick ever shown to be a street smart cop? I can tell you. Never.
Right of the bat, he was given a network, not of supporting characters but of peers who in, most instances were more intelligent and saavy than he was. You may think of them as a bunch of tontos, it's apparent you think Nick is A number 1. But when I compare him to the protagonists I've seen on television, he just doesn't measure up. Being part of a team is his strength. That puts him on the same footing as Monroe as Juliette, as Rosalee, even as Hank and Wu. It does not raise him above them.
You say if he died the series wouldn't go on. I'm saying that if he didn't have his network of peers, he would have been gone long before cancellation. Don't forget, he had his powers taken away from him with little to no effort at all.
(05-25-2019, 10:53 AM)N_grimm Wrote: It's a typo, I know what you meant.
I know you did. I should not have typed that.
(05-25-2019, 10:53 AM)N_grimm Wrote: How could she say "I forgive you" when she refused to be Juliette? Eve was not Juliette. If you claim she had the ability to forgive, you must also ask yourself: why did SHE not apologize for her crimes?
In order to have forgiveness, you have to have characters who understand empathy, sympathy, and regret for their actions. By the time Juliette became a hexenbiest, all of that should have been in place to make an apology fit into the story *if* that was what the creative team was looking for.
As it was, they were not, so apologies, like Adalind's, simply fall flat. Adalind's character never should have been humiliated into attempting one. You of all people should know that since the first attempt was deleted.
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