12-02-2018, 12:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-02-2018, 12:52 PM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
(12-02-2018, 12:27 PM)irukandji Wrote: While Grimm has never been a hard on science fiction series, it does have science fiction elements in it. I never figured it for an alternate universe episode but it decided to go this route and what's done is done. Nick has already made changes to the characters in the alternate universe. Right now they seem minor and perhaps they may continue that way. But the fact still remains. If you believe he created the vortex as a means of escaping the death and destruction around him in order to make a new world where he ends up happy and contented, is that a guarantee he'll stay happy and contented?
If you take the episode literally, it's still the same universe, but changed. The idea that any change in time just creates another, alternate universe rather than changing the current one is common in science fiction, but nothing of the sort was ever suggested here.
You are entirely correct that the seemingly minor changes Nick made could balloon unpredictably. For example, suppose one of the two guys that Z killed in the gas station was originally going to commit a mass murder later that night?
Unless they decide to revisit this in the (hopefully) upcoming new series, we'll never know whether Nick ever develops enough control over the staff to deliberately cause these sorts of changes in reality or if it was only in the extreme emotional state he was in after losing just about everybody that he triggered whatever the staff did.
But I think it's a pretty safe bet that Z knew exactly how to use the staff to rewrite the universe at will once it had reabsorbed the stick.