10-20-2018, 08:25 AM
(10-19-2018, 11:23 PM)irukandji Wrote:(10-18-2018, 08:30 AM)Hell Rell Wrote: BC/HW were basically the Dorne of Grimm. They probably realized they were a mistake and were met with a lukewarm response from the audience and got rid of them as quickly as possible.
The BC storyline was not a bad idea and actually the potential for a wesen uprising would have made a great deal of sense for Grimm. It should have started in season 1 and could have easily paralleled Nick's adventures. Season 5 was too late and there were too many loopholes with the storyline to make it effective.
HW, on the other hand? That was a terrible arc, period.
The actual Dorne of Grimm consisted of arcs that didn't really have anything to do with Nick being a grimm; the royals, Diana, the keys, etc.
Fair enough. I think the keys had potential but fell rather flat because they didn't have a concise plan for what they were from the start. They didn't even need all of them at the end. I originally thought they were a good idea for a series long arc that would come up occasionally whenever one was found and then come into the forefront when all of them were recovered in the final season.
I agree about Diana and her role in the series. She did seem like a huge distraction. Seasons 3 and 4 had her as a primary concern and the keys were forgotten about for the entirety of season 4 and the first half of season 5. Diana pretty much replaced the keys as the most coveted thing in the world for the royals.
I compared BC to Dorne because they both came into their series in season 5 and probably seemed like a good idea. They both had this new exotic feel to it because we hadn't seen anything like them previously. It's too bad they both felt really disjointed right from the start and felt like they never should've been introduced in the first place because it felt like they were from a different show whenever they were on screen.
The same goes for HW even though it had familiar characters. Now that I think about it, HW feels more like the Winterfell arc in the later seasons.