About deleted scenes:
Quote:Watch a lot of deleted scenes and you’ll see a LOT of important character and plot development that gets left out. It’s surprising, but the movie often turns out a lot smoother without these scenes.
Quote:If the scene isn’t necessary, cut it.http://schneeblog.com/revision-deleted-s...aptations/
Pretty simple, right?
Here’s the PROBLEM: chances are, you’re not writing scenes that are completely unnecessary. Every scene you write probably has SOME function.
So after some trial and error, you start to realize the rule is more complicated:
If a scene is necessary but… you know, not THAT necessary, cut it… even though it’s necessary (coz like… it’s not as necessary as the other scenes and stuff).
Once you’re looking for a QUANTITY of necessity (as opposed to the quality of necessity), how are you supposed to know what quantity of necessity IS?
Here’s the magic of deleted scenes:
By looking at scenes that DIDN’T make in into the movie, but did serve SOME function, we can begin to gauge that quantity of necessity that can STILL be cut.
(07-09-2017, 04:33 PM)Robyn Wrote: Whether removed because of time constraints or interfering with story flow, scenes aren’t part of the official story once deleted. They’re simply a bonus feature on the DVD.I think Adalind was already beginning to show signs that she had started to fall in love with Nick, as early as the first few episodes prior to Trubel showing up. She told Rosalee that she wanted a normal life, and expressed her longing to have something like what Rosalee and Monroe had. It wasn't surprising that Adalind did fall for Nick, especially since he was so kind to her, and never used her or demanded anything from her. I also think that when she asked Nick to sleep next to her because she was 'scared', she may have used that as an excuse to conceal the fact that she wanted intimacy from him. She may have told Nick a bit too early that she loved him, but then again, she was scared he was never coming back. She probably wanted to let him know what he would miss at home, to encourage him to come back to her and Kelly. I do agree that the writers may have wanted to slow down their relationship, but the mistrust only started after Nick came back from Germany. Again, I think it could be explained that Nick felt scared about rushing things too quickly with Adalind. Maybe he felt he wasn't ready to be committed to her, especially knowing their history together, and despite his burgeoning feelings for her. Monroe telling him that he hoped that her 'change' would last, Eve's warnings to him about Adalind becoming a hexenbiest again, and finding out from Rosalee that Adalind had gotten her powers back without her telling him, only fuelled that sense of mistrust. Despite the slow down of their relationship, there was still an undeniable attraction, which the show writers showed when Nick still slept with Adalind despite knowing that she was a hexenbiest again and not fully trusting her. Based on what I've seen from the deleted scenes, I don't think it added anything to the progression of their relationship. There's no denying that those scenes further emphasised their growing closeness, but even without them, I still got the gist of it by what was shown on screen. They also weren't vital like say if Nick was shown to say I love you to Adalind, or him telling her about the stick. If those were the scenes that had been deleted, I would definitely agree that the show writers had wanted to change the progress/outcome of their relationship in season 5. Even though I do wish that the deleted scenes hadn't been removed, I do understand that the action/WoW came first above character development.
I agree with Hell Rell that Grimm is an action/procedural show. G & K always gave priority to WoW and action compelled drama over relationships and character driven storylines. So it’s really no big surprise Nick/Adalind scenes were deleted, even to the detriment of fleshing out the relationship, to accommodate an episode’s WoW story.
However, with Nick/Adalind, why certain scenes were deleted is as perplexing as why others were left in. G & K stated in an interview following Nick/Adalind’s kiss in The Destruction of Eve that they were “going to leave them alone” for a while. Yet, the S5 DVD’s deleted scenes included a pivotal, at least to me, Nick/Adalind scene in Reptile Dysfunction. So did G & K originally plan for the next episode to continue moving Nick/Adalind in a ‘couple’ direction but changed their minds, or actually dump it because the WoW took priority when they ran short of time?
G & K later said they decided to change the direction of Nick/Adalind. Shortly after, Nick began to distrust Adalind for no apparent reason, Adalind was suddenly head over heels in love with Nick, and Eve began to show signs of affection for Nick. Based on that, S5 deleted scenes shouldn’t be used to fortify S6’s suddenly committed relationship because G & K’s statements indicated they purposely slowed down and diverted Nick/Adalind from becoming a couple in S5.
Most of all, G & K don't do complicated or subtle. What you see and hear is what you get. And if you didn't see it or hear it, you didn't get it.