12-08-2021, 09:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-08-2021, 09:48 PM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
The only clue we have as to timing is Josh saying that his father had had that sketch of a hundjager since "forever." So it was probably a long time ago, but that's just a guess.
But to use your childhood stories analogy, if my dad and told me about the Easter Bunny when I was a child and then years later when he was old and dying he insisted that I had to drive him all the way across the country so he could give his box of toys to someone neither of us had ever met and that we were in danger from hordes of killer rabbits who would murder us to get them, I think my reaction might not have been too different from Josh's.
And yeah, Rolek and Josh existed mostly to get another key into Nick's hands (the toybox was a bonus and we never saw it again after its first appearance). I have no idea why they brought Josh back the next season, except maybe to give Jacqueline Toboni a sidekick when she temporarily became Portland's only grimm and an excuse to leave the show for a while so she could go back and finish her degree.
But to use your childhood stories analogy, if my dad and told me about the Easter Bunny when I was a child and then years later when he was old and dying he insisted that I had to drive him all the way across the country so he could give his box of toys to someone neither of us had ever met and that we were in danger from hordes of killer rabbits who would murder us to get them, I think my reaction might not have been too different from Josh's.
And yeah, Rolek and Josh existed mostly to get another key into Nick's hands (the toybox was a bonus and we never saw it again after its first appearance). I have no idea why they brought Josh back the next season, except maybe to give Jacqueline Toboni a sidekick when she temporarily became Portland's only grimm and an excuse to leave the show for a while so she could go back and finish her degree.