03-07-2015, 03:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-07-2015, 04:42 PM by Samsarilian.)
(03-07-2015, 08:37 AM)Hexenadler Wrote:(03-06-2015, 07:23 PM)busyizzy Wrote: Instead of a transformation, I have found the past storyline (not exactly the right word) of having Nick pick up traits from individual Wesens to be much more interesting. I use Kelly as a great example. She is freakishly fast and quiet even though she's much older than Nick. If we believe Nick picked up a few extra gifts from various Wesen interaction, it follows that Kelly and other Grimms have also done so. I would like to see the Grimm writers add more of these little details into the show. It gives Nick a different sort of development...part physical and part character.
Most of the other scenarios you two have described have "been there, done that, got several t-shirts" from other shows.
With all due respect, the creative scenario you've put forward above is pretty much "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" all over again, with Nick/Kelly substituting for Buffy. In other words, "been there done that."
Look, to be blunt...I feel Nick is just boring. It's hard for me to say whether this is a fault of the writers or the actor (or both), but for the most part, he's been the square-jawed "hunky" lead we've all seen on a dozen police procedural shows. Ironically, it's been the supporting characters (Monroe, Wu, and most recently Juliette) who have proved to be far more watchable than the show's hero.
The story ideas I've tossed around here have just been amateurish attempts on my part to make Nick a little more...I don't know...interesting. It doesn't have to involve the character turning into a Wesen, but making Nick increasingly powerful by "absorbing" powers from other Wesen to the point where the audience can't relate to him any more also presents a dramatic hurdle.
Funny, this difference in opinion. What makes Nick interesting to me is I see him as the hardest thing there is to be in this world. A MAN OF GOOD CONSCIENCE, he is a man who tries to see what is right and attempts to do it no mater the odds against him. He tries to be the law man before the Grimm even when he is sure that the arrest is useless, as in the bank robbers. It is in his struggle to do the right thing and to determine what that is, that I find him an interesting character. After all without a conscience he would become one more man with an extraordinary power and as we all know power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It would be remarkably easy for him to sell out to the nobles and live a life of luxury and murder, if not for that pesky little voice telling him it is wrong.
He has also been a remarkably honest man under the circumstances. From the first show he has admitted when he was wrong and apologized even if sideways. Try apologizing to someone face to face for a real wrong you have done them and mean it, almost nothing is harder. Look at his friendship with Monroe for proof of that, their friendship has been built on them both doing the right thing. Again it is a matter of conscience. Doing the right thing is normally doing the hard thing. Try putting your pride aside and asking a favor from someone you have injured either emotionally or physically, this too is hard, yet in Trial By Fire Nick did it.
I find him a very interesting character.
If I had something important to say, I would have mumbled it.