05-21-2014, 11:05 AM
(12-15-2013, 12:57 PM)droid327 Wrote: Meeeeh.....Krampus was fun, and I liked how all the Wesen knew about him since they're all kinda "old country", but I kept feeling like they were just stealing a page from Venture Bros with importing him
They continue to explore Wesen ethics and morality...who deserves to die? Who gets to decide? What happens if you choose wrong? I think Nick was right in handing that one off to the Council; probably 50-50 they kill him anyway, but it'd weigh on his conscience too much either way if he made the call himself, and he has to be able to keep doing his job. I do think he was Wesen, not something "more" like La Llorona, but just the Wesen equivalent of schizophrenic. I wonder if there's a way to "de-Wesenate" someone; we know you can be de-Hexenbiested, maybe the Council will be able to "cure" him of his Krampusness without having to kill him.
I don't think they were really successful with Rosalie's Christmas thing...the way they set it up, it was a tragedy but not a trauma. She was 7; relatives die, you grieve them with your family and you come to terms with it. I don't buy that it permanently ruined Christmas for her. I don't buy that in the ~30 years since, she hasn't learned to cope...its not like you can avoid Christmas every year, if its such a trigger. If it was more recent, if it was someone closer than an aunt and uncle, if it was something that she witnessed herself, maybe then.
Everything in Austria....ugh, get on with it already. I feel like I'm just watching a bunch of random deleted scenes from a Jean Reno movie. What the heck is actually going on? Adalind's there, Sean's there...a bunch of spooky Europeans doing naughty naughty spy stuff. Verrat. Royal Houses. There's a bad guy now. Oh and two (three?) separate scenes of Adalind in her underwear. And poor Sebastien, I feel like he's putting more on the line than anyone and he gets treated like Charlie Brown
First, I would almost bet the Krampus is dead, if the Council decides it. On the other hand, maybe the Council will actually study the matter, particular in light of "Stories We Tell Our Young." And Nick isn't the usual Grimm, i.e., kill first, ask questions later. I'd almost like to see another Krampus appear, just to see.
I have to disagree with you on Christmas being ruined by Rosalee. Some people hold on to stuff. Might have been the tone set in subsequent Christmases that reinforced her not liking Christmas. Lot of people don't like a holiday for one reason, and other negative events reinforce it over the years, even though they will consciously only remember the one "Big" negative event.
And I do agree with you that if there is a Portland plot, a Portland subplot, and the European subplot, sometimes it feels as if the European subplot gets hurried and overly edited. It might be kind of interesting just to do one episode entirely on the European happenings. But only one or two European episodes per season.