(11-24-2018, 01:52 PM)irukandji Wrote:(11-24-2018, 01:32 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: Because your statement was so broad that it was generic. Nick could "conceivably" end up alone. He could also "conceivably" decide to chuck his work as a cop and grimm, get some retraining and become the main character of a medical drama or a sitcom about a guy who runs a bar. If you ignore all the characteristics Nick was portrayed as having on the series, that is.
You said Nick as written and portrayed was a social person. He needed people around him he could trust. So tell me. Where are all of the old friends Nick, the social person, could trust? For that matter where are the new friends? All I saw at the end were the kids. And if you take Diana's statement to heart, then Nick is no longer just hunting the bad ones. His group is killing wesen.
So lets recap. Nick has no emotional connection with the new generation and they are now indiscriminately killing wesen, any wesen, in his name.
Now that I think about it, Nick did end up alone. All of his close friends died. Except, they all came back and got to have a Hollywood ending. But you think there's a good chance he lost them all over again. Except, this time to abandonment rather than death.
Of course, the writers stated that they're all one big happy family now which the final scenes alluded to, especially the epilogue. I guess the only way they could be one big happy family is without Nick.
(11-24-2018, 02:10 PM)irukandji Wrote: Don't forget those delicious pies that Bud's wife makes. And whatever Nick has stashed away from his years of corruption.
Yes because arresting someone, making sure he's weaponless and then murdering him really establishes Nick as a hero.
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Yeah, because that's the first and only thing we ever see Nick do. Nothing he did for the previous four years, and however many years before he realized he was a Grimm, matters. Neither does what Nick did for the next twenty years.
Besides you may think Nick is a scumbag, which you have a right to even if it's debated constantly, but the rest of the characters don't see him the way you do. They do think he's a hero and never really wavered from that line of thought.