04-16-2017, 08:50 AM
(04-16-2017, 08:29 AM)irukandji Wrote:Nick's version of a grimm was six years in the making, everything we saw on screen. He made decisions that he lived to regret, made friendships along the way. He was shaped by the loss of some family members and that made him even less accepting of further losses. The person he is at the beginning of the show isn't the person he is at the end of it. I don't know if he'd undo some of his mistakes he made at the beginning. I get the sense that he won't if it alters his current life dramatically, losing everything he has today. Nick was never a perfect son or nephew. As a child, the adults in his life did more in making him the person he was once he became an adult. An 18 year old can't be expected to act in a mature way when his elders are making decisions that don't make any sense to him, decisions that affect his life. He grew up thinking his mother was dead that his aunt was a weirdo when she could have educated him better about what she did in the cover of darkness than let him think, for years, that she had a few screws loose. He had an uncle he wasn't even close with because of how Marie raised him. Grimms push their non Grimm families away for a while this was Nick. Marie did enough to raise him so he could stand on his own as a kehrseite well unaffected by her life as a Grimm. Nick is choosing a difference path for himself after learning how not to do it by observing his predecessors but also with learning from his own mistakes.(04-16-2017, 08:21 AM)rpmaluki Wrote: Nick grew up thinking his aunt was odd. No doubt Marie was secretive and I'm sure Nick would have been curious about the trailer and it contents. He only got to appreciate it all after becoming a grimm and learning of his heritage. Nick lost his aunt and his mother before he could fully know and understand them. After becoming a grimm they came back into his life for a short period and I'm certain this had a profound effect on his life. That's why at the end, when he had lost too much and so suddenly, it broke him. He was willing to do the wrong thing just to get his loved ones back but thankfully he didn't give Zerstörer the stick. When he got back the people he thought he'd lost for good, he was overwhelmed with such joy, it made sense for him to stay close to his family and loved ones instead of abandoning them like his ancestors were prone to do. Nick is different today because his experience as a grimm shaped him, not his aunt's or his mother's words or what hundred year old books were telling him how to live. He continues to do his duty as a grimm but he does it with his family by his side.
Well, I understand what happened from point x, what I am talking about is what happened prior to point X.
Marie was a guiding for in Nick's life for at least 6 years, in my opinion the most formative because he was heading toward adulthood. She was seriously ill with terminal cancer which Nick was apparently aware of. Yet he did nothing to care for her while she was sick.
This is his beginning, the time when we're supposed to see something different in the man and from then on, it all clicks. In other words when whoever says he's a different kind of Grimm, we can go back and understand.
That never happened. Instead she gives him a one sentence lecture and even then, even then, he doesn't brush it aside to show concern and at least ask how she's doing.
None of this is a good beginning for establishing a different kind of Grimm. If anything, it just shows Nick is as uncaring and cold as all of them.