03-23-2016, 11:25 AM
(03-23-2016, 11:15 AM)irukandji Wrote:I thought the fall was the good touch as the church itself was gone but the catacombs were still open so the knight fixed a trap door so it you raised the rock it tripped the door. Then the buried the main entrance. I like the trapdoor trick.(03-23-2016, 10:51 AM)Hell Rell Wrote: I enjoy Nick/Monroe scenes as as much as anyone but them finding the treasure as easily as they did was farfetched. I couldn't even get past the part where they fell into the ancient church. I would think some random tourist would have fallen in there long before Nick and Monroe. Archaeologists would have been all over that site. Were they really the first two people to disturb that land?
Good points. Here's something else. I assumed that these Grimm knights intended that this artifact be discovered at some later date. They made keys and prepared this hidden map. Also, presumably the intent was that a Grimm find the artifact. So why then, do you suppose they would choose such a dangerous route to the artifact? Someone has to fall into this hole to find it? It was actually very amazing to me that Nick and Monroe didn't sustain some terrible injuries falling into the hole. Oh, but then they manage to find another convenient way out.
Was it ever actually revealed that this was a church? I know Monroe said it was, but I kept looking for identifiable things that would make it a church, like a cross and an altar. I didn't see anything like that. To me, it appeared to be some catacombs. And this also doesn't make a lot of sense. How did these people bury their dead if the only way down there was this big deep hole? Such dumbness. I originally thought the episode a fun one and it was, but seeing it a second time, just tells me the creative team thought they could just slop anything up on the screen and the audience would buy it.
Wouldn't it have been interesting for Monroe and Nick to have found a tourist in that tomb?
(03-23-2016, 10:51 AM)Hell Rell Wrote: I also felt it should have been much more dangerous for a Grimm and a Blutbad to be travelling around the Black Forest. I got the impression that they aren't used to seeing Grimms out there so wouldn't they wonder why one suddenly showed up. The myth of the keys leading to a priceless treasure is probably known to some of them due to being passed down through generations. I would think they would get suspicious after seeing Nick even if they thought it was just a myth. I was getting nervous thinking Nick would lead them right to it. This plot needed more room to breathe.
When Nick and Monroe came upon this church and thought it was *the* church, I wondered just how they were going to go about obtaining this artifact. If the artifact were actually in that church, did they really believe the people there were just going to hand it over to them? I was thinking how cool it would have been for the priest and company to be modern day Grimms and wesen who protected the artifact from anyone nosing around, like the crusading Americans.
The knight use this because the church was long gone and the catacombs were not being used maybe even the main entrance was buried or hidden. I say that because of the royal bodies.
I'm glad they didn't tell Eve or Meisner about what they planned as Juliette knew of the two keys so if she knew they were going to Germany she may have put 2 and 2 together. Now we have HW involved.