I've been binge-watching a lot of GRIMM episodes lately, and I found a consistent pattern emerging from them. Not just the episodes penned by G&K, but the writing staff in general. (Keep in mind they're working under mandates dictated by G&K, the chief writers.) They don't particularly care whether a protagonist's actions are "right" or "wrong," as long as the character goes in the direction they want him/her to go.
I'll try to explain. There's a fine line between writing deliberately "immoral" entertainment (such as Rob Zombie's films), and simply being indifferent to how the behavior of recurring cast members might appear to audiences. The protagonists kidnap a baby from its Hexenbiest mother? Deal with it. Nick is copacetic using a forged illegal passport to travel? Deal with it. Juliette was brainwashed by an uncomfortably pragmatic organization into an emotionless war machine who constantly denied her guilt by projecting it onto another persona? Deal with it.
It's not just GRIMM I'm talking about. This is a recurring bad habit among many writers of different shows who seem to treat character consistency as some kind of inconvenience. If you were to watch a random episode of the classic version of TWILIGHT ZONE or even something from the '80's like KNIGHT RIDER, you'd notice greater care paid to how a character acts from episode to episode, as opposed to him/her getting someone decapitated and everybody gets over the whole thing in record time. Character inconsistency appears to be a part of the current zeitgeist. Is it sloppiness brought about by frantic production schedules? Or are the writers simply too lazy to bother?
" In an act of twisted revenge, Juliette went out to the woods where Nick has parked his late Aunt Marie's trailer, aka the rolling repository of ancestral, ancient Grimm lore and weaponry. And then, in an act so Hexenbiestly I still can't believe it, Juliette set fire to the trailer."
"Juliette's gleeful arson of Aunt Marie's airstream, containing the accumulated wisdom and weaponry (including Nick's Super Soaker) used to fight Wesen, ranks up there with the burning of the Alexandria Library."
Does anyone else think, one of the reason for David and Bitsie real world dating relationship was kept hush hush for a while as to not influence our perception of their characters of things to come, good or bad?
An arc I would have liked to see was a new Grimm showing up in Portland. A Portland Grimm was known to have beheaded two Reapers(Kelly). Porter knew Nick's full name, address phone number and occupation. The word on the street would be that he was one bad ass Grimm - he had single handed killed a police station full of Wessen and at least 20/30/50 Wessen at the fome and Conrad-okay, we know different but we all know how stories grow with time. The new Grimm comes to town - he or she, broke on foot(Truble) or in a huge expensive RV with books and weapons, "good" or "bad" Grimm, made a living extorting and killing Wessen or a little more mellow, married to a Grimm with little Grimmettes? How would he/she view a Grimm with Wessen friends, living/married with a Hex, mixed child? This arc could have lasted for at for half a season, if not more. All we know for sure is 20 years later mom, dad, Diana, Kelly and the Tripletts are alive and still hunting bad Wessen.
Giving credit to FaceinTheCrowd for this one. Whom else thinks Julette's reasoning to help Nick get his Grimm back was twofold. With his Grimm back he would be happy and she wold get her fill of the addiction she developed in hunting down evil Wesen?
was nick too forgiving? was keeping renard and juliette part of his team more important that his personal feelings?
- marie lied to him all his life
- his mother abandoned him and faked her death (doesn't matter her reasons)
- renard and adalind tried to kill his aunt
- kelly's murder
There has been previous discussion on Z taking a child bride as part of prophecy. The series hinted that Z's child bride would be Diana. Yet, it seems odd he would choose her.
So why someone like Diana? Now before anyone goes on to state she's the most powerful, most unusual, and the greatest golden snowflake that's come along since the beginning of time, consider this.
The only thing Diana really has going for her is her powers. Z isn't going to let her retain them. She'd be stripped of power and be just like any other mortal.
The other thing is this. Diana has been raised in a relatively calm environment up to the point that she's returned to Renard. After that, she's got her parents and baby brother, and when we see her, she acts for the most part like any other child.
So what did Z see in this child that would interest him? Could he have looked into her future and saw a woman who was predisposed to evil?
For that matter, would he have married himself to a child or waited until she had grown into a woman? After all, what is time to a being like Z?