(05-01-2016, 11:59 AM)MANTItotheCore Wrote:(05-01-2016, 11:40 AM)Belle Wrote:(05-01-2016, 11:30 AM)MANTItotheCore Wrote: I agree that his Z-powers seemed to have diminished when he needs them most: hearing, sensation, endurance, and his ability to slow his heart rate. That's disappointing to me, but maybe they needed to make him seem more vulnerable for the epis to work this season.
Regarding the reason Nick didn't hear Diana, my impression was that these communications are psychic in nature, not auditory apparations, between Diana and Adalind...overhead by JulEve. So, Nick couldn't hear them.
I wouldn't have minded him losing those powers as much if they'd bothered to explain anything about why they came and why they left.
I mean, they did allude to how Nick acquired them, but that seemed like another story line that they started and then just forgot about because it was inconvenient or they got bored with it.
Honestly, the Grimm universe has the potential to become so much more, but I don't think the shows creators have done enough to fully flesh out the alternate reality the way many other sci-fi shows have.
It seems like they would benefit from studying other shows, not so much for ideas for plots or characters, so much as for ideas on how to improve Grimm's conceptual frameworks and consistency.
I agree completely! As much as I love the show, and I re-watch episodes weekly, the show could have been SO much better if it had been allowed to go darker some times, or, if closer attention to continuity occurred. For example, the writers took great pains to convince us that Juilette was dead, replaced by the cold, unfeeling Eve. (while I would have preferred that Juilette character had died at the end of season 4...not because I hate Bitsie, but THAT's where the story was going!) NOW, we seem to be getting glimpses of Eve feeling emotion about Nick, as though they intend for Juilette/biest to revert back and be in love with Nick, raising Kelly together. I just want to scream and ask the writers to be true to the freaking story line!!
Not just the storyline, the characters themselves often seem all over the place.
In some cases it makes sense because they take the time to explore the change that is driving the character to evolve (or devolve as the case may be). In others, however, the person just does something wildly out of character and we're never really shown why.
I find they do this a lot with Rosalee. When she smacked Renard for something Jack the Ripper had done while possessed I thought that seemed odd for her because she knew what was happening. In sharp contrast to this, after Juliette tries to kill her husband Rosalee has been acting like it's all forgive and forget with Eve, even though Eve still remembers what happened and , as you pointed out, has also been showing emotion.
I also found the scene where Rosalee offered up Monroe as bait for the bone sucker/scavenger wesen to be very out of character for her. She basically volunteered her husband for a dangerous and unpleasant task when Wu, Hank or Nick could easily have done it. Not to mention the fact that as police men they SHOULD have been the ones doing it.
Maybe these examples would strike some as nitpicky, but it's about creating believable characters within a realistic version of the world and it often seems like the writers know less about the show than many people posting here do.
Oh, and darker would be great. Part of what has made the Walking Dead so popular is that they don't hold back. I know network TV is more limited in what they can show, but come on! Grimm killed off one main character, then immediately wimped out and brought her back. And it sounds like the only reason they killed Nick's mom was because the actress didn't want to return to the show.