This episode seemed like it was very comfortable with itself...the plot advanced nicely, left us in a good place, without seeming forced like it had been before. Nice to see Nick and Monroe out on assignment again, just the two of them. Just a couple little thoughts:
-They were able to find a 13th-century church in ruins from a 13th-century map using GPS? No way the original was accurate enough for that...it doesn't even show hills or other topography like they were using it
-Confused about who the target was for the assassin - they made it seem like Renard, which would make sense given his royal heritage. But then they took out Dixon? Why is he that important? My only guess is that the campaign lady (forget her name) is Wesen with BC, and decided at the last minute that she wanted Dixon out so she can put Renard in his place. But Dixon as a character always seemed very undeveloped...the writers just told us who he was and expected us to take him at face value, but they never really did anything with him - and apparently now they wont either.
-Is it important that Rosalie could get them good fake passports? Seems like Trubel could have done that for them using HW, that's the obvious easy way to write it, so it seems like a deliberate choice to have Rosalie provide them instead, and then have Nick make a comment about their quality.
-Is HW HQ in Portland? Is that just a "field office" that Meisner's team is based out of right now? I know everything on the show tends to lead back to the PNW but it seems awfully convenient that the super-secret global blackops organization just happens to be a convenient drive from Nick and Monroe's house.
-Are the priest and his guys Wesen assassins or just Indy-style protectors, guarding the treasure until the worthy successor of the Knights finds it? It seems like if its the latter, they wouldn't be so worried about him being a Grimm, since he is in fact the descendent of one of the Grimm Knights. And apparently they know the treasure exists and where it is, even though that's the big 800 year old secret?
-Glad Sean didn't get shot again. I could just see him being like "oh not this again..."
-Adalind and Nick still skeeze me out. I get that its going to happen and I just have to accept it, but no amount of the writers announcing that its OK is going to make it actually OK, nor is simply hanging a lantern on it with flashbacks. I'd prefer if Nick just stopped having romantic storylines altogether (well maybe with Trubel...), but for some reason you cant do that on TV, apparently. Adalind's tried to kill him and succeeded at raping him too many times, I just cant believe they have a healthy loving relationship now, solely because they have a rape baby together now. They murdered each other's mothers, more or less. Kids don't work like that, don't just fix relationships that have so much baggage.
-They were able to find a 13th-century church in ruins from a 13th-century map using GPS? No way the original was accurate enough for that...it doesn't even show hills or other topography like they were using it
-Confused about who the target was for the assassin - they made it seem like Renard, which would make sense given his royal heritage. But then they took out Dixon? Why is he that important? My only guess is that the campaign lady (forget her name) is Wesen with BC, and decided at the last minute that she wanted Dixon out so she can put Renard in his place. But Dixon as a character always seemed very undeveloped...the writers just told us who he was and expected us to take him at face value, but they never really did anything with him - and apparently now they wont either.
-Is it important that Rosalie could get them good fake passports? Seems like Trubel could have done that for them using HW, that's the obvious easy way to write it, so it seems like a deliberate choice to have Rosalie provide them instead, and then have Nick make a comment about their quality.
-Is HW HQ in Portland? Is that just a "field office" that Meisner's team is based out of right now? I know everything on the show tends to lead back to the PNW but it seems awfully convenient that the super-secret global blackops organization just happens to be a convenient drive from Nick and Monroe's house.
-Are the priest and his guys Wesen assassins or just Indy-style protectors, guarding the treasure until the worthy successor of the Knights finds it? It seems like if its the latter, they wouldn't be so worried about him being a Grimm, since he is in fact the descendent of one of the Grimm Knights. And apparently they know the treasure exists and where it is, even though that's the big 800 year old secret?
-Glad Sean didn't get shot again. I could just see him being like "oh not this again..."
-Adalind and Nick still skeeze me out. I get that its going to happen and I just have to accept it, but no amount of the writers announcing that its OK is going to make it actually OK, nor is simply hanging a lantern on it with flashbacks. I'd prefer if Nick just stopped having romantic storylines altogether (well maybe with Trubel...), but for some reason you cant do that on TV, apparently. Adalind's tried to kill him and succeeded at raping him too many times, I just cant believe they have a healthy loving relationship now, solely because they have a rape baby together now. They murdered each other's mothers, more or less. Kids don't work like that, don't just fix relationships that have so much baggage.