05-08-2017, 05:01 AM
(05-07-2017, 03:11 PM)Devegs Wrote: I think there was certain kind of storytelling going on with Grimm. I'll just call it their style. It was actually consistent throughout. They were really into the WOW and getting plots played out quickly. Many people specifically tuned in for this fantastical show for that reason when it started. They had lots of great monster/fairy tale stories. Same with me when I started watching from the first season.Absolutely, the WoW was G & K’s vision. But it was their choice to incorporate story arcs and characters unnecessary for WoW episodes that were poorly executed due to lack of attention. Renard and Adalind worked in the earlier seasons when the characters were used in a specific antagonist role in the Grimm story. Their independent storylines didn’t interfere with the WoW format and weren’t compromised while they remained secondary storylines. The same with Meisner and the Resistance, he worked well as the occasional character in Renard’s or Adalind’s secondary storylines.
Then Adalind is pregnant with Nick’s baby, Nick & Adalind enter into a maybe/maybe not burgeoning relationship - seven episodes aired and the show runners haven’t decided, there’s a Wesen uprising, a Wesen political group attempting a coup, a secret government agency tasked with stopping the uprising/coup - that’s headed by Meisner for no particular reason, Juliette becomes a Hexenbiest then a robotic persona then a hybrid of Juliette/Hexenbiest/Eve, Renard makes a power grab… And it’s only glimpsed at here and there if there’s a little time left over during a WoW episode.
Those are the type of events/storylines that appear in dramas or nighttime soaps. The Royals as part of Grimm’s ongoing back story blended with the WoW format, and often offered up some rather interesting and intense characters, but G & K chose to replace it with the drama/nighttime soap storylines. If WoW was the meat and potatoes of Grimm and succeeded in drawing in and holding viewers; why add these drama/nighttime soap scenarios?
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