05-17-2016, 06:16 AM
Quote:irukandji
Sean says he wants a primitive and violent world. If that's the case, why is he retreating to luxury and comfort in a mansion? He should be camping out in his backyard and living off the land. He's a hypocrite if he tells Nick a violent and primitive world is the answer, yet he has no intention of living primitively.
This doesn’t just represent Renard, but any top level leader/dictator. It’s the followers and the suppressed that suffer the impoverished & violent consequences while rulers/usurpers maintain a lifestyle of protected luxury.
Quote:irukandjiRather than bothering with valid causation that will move plots & characters in the necessary direction for the storyline they use the go-to method of contrived causation. It’s usually the characters that suffer the consequences because they’re the ones that look foolish, coldhearted, etc.
Thank you for the nice compliment, Vance. There are many here who believe Nick is a good cop, but one of the earmarks of a good cop are the resources they have at their disposal. Because they know so many people, they can think their way out of the box.
That's why it was rather surprising to me that Renard caved when Kelly wanted to get her hands on baby Diana. Renard, as a police captain, would have many, many resources at his disposal to safely hide both Diana and Adalind. And him being the smooze talker of the group, I have no doubt he could have talked Adalind into hiding.
The show established in prior episodes that Adalind had already agreed to the Resistance taking her and the baby underground. Nothing indicated that Adalind ever planned to return to Portland or the lives of Team Grimm. But Kelly sharing that tidbit of information might upset the desired storyline - Adalind loses her child, and we don’t know what to do with this baby so let’s send her somewhere off screen.
Quote:IzzyNick gave me a mama’s boy vibe from the beginning, so him relenting to his mother’s commands didn’t surprise me even though he was reluctant to approach Renard. With Adalind, I think Nick’s quick decision to go along with Kelly was colored by his history with Adalind. In his mind Adalind couldn’t possibly be a good mother, and I imagine Nick enjoyed the payback to some degree.
Nick's reaction in this particular instance also continues to astonish me because he showed such complete and utter stupidity. He entrusts a special baby to his mother, a person he hardly knows and who he hadn't seen in 20 years because he was told she was dead. As a policeman, his primary concern should be for both mother and baby. Diana would have been better off with her mother. Nick, as an experienced detective, would have seen hundreds of domestic cases. His sixth sense should have been flagging a thousand red flags at him when Kelly was talking him into giving her Diana.
We’ve touched on this in earlier posts - learning from experience and utilizing that knowledge to prevent repeating mistakes.
The decision to take Diana from Adalind didn’t accomplish anything, it only made matters worse in the long run. Pain and suffering, death and destruction have followed. Diana was taken in S3 to protect the child and Portland. It’s S5 and Diana and Portland are in peril, and not one participant in the scheme has ever reflected on their choices and questioned if they made a mistake with the child’s safety and their opinion of Adalind as a mother. And history is repeating itself. In S5 everyone except Adalind is determining what’s best for Diana and Portland just as they did in S3.
Quote:I for one would like to see Nick become a stronger more dominant character. Monroe and Rosalee are great resources, but they are beginning to wear thin in my opinion. They just can't possibly know everything about everything, yet that's what we're led to believe from week to week.Case of the week solved in 42 minutes or less and actors on the payroll needing something to do. And it’s sad because the actors have a lot to offer to their characters and the storylines.