02-10-2019, 11:09 PM
(02-10-2019, 07:05 PM)eric Wrote:(02-09-2019, 11:14 PM)dicappatore Wrote:On the show How I Met Your Mother the character Barney, an incurable womanizer, was played by a gay person. After he came out he continued in the part without the viewers seeming to care-they still watched the show and still saw fictional Barney as before. Kurt Douglas once said John Wayne thought he REALLY was John Wayne, which he never was in real life. I never watch any interviews with the cast of any show, I don't really care who they really really are. I knew the ditzy blond on Friends actually had a degree in biology - I still saw her as empty headed. DG and real wife can stay married, I would have no trouble accepting Adeline as his TV wife and Nick and Eve/Juliette as enemies. To each his own.(02-09-2019, 03:59 PM)N_grimm Wrote:(02-09-2019, 11:43 AM)Hell Rell Wrote: As for the spin-off, I'm not sure if I'll watch it. I'm not really that interested in it but I would prefer all new characters. Just leave the original gang as they are and tell a new story. I don't believe in trying to recapture the magic. They could sprinkle Easter eggs throughout the show where we know what they're referencing but never show it.
I will give it a shot but will probably be disappointed by the fact that it is not really Grimm. But if Nick and the gang appear in single episodes, I will watch those episodes.
When Grimm was new, the concept of the Grimm/Wesen-world itself was what made the series interesting. The spin-off will not have the same advantage. Although there were many things to like about the original show, over time, maybe the most important factor in making Grimm a fantastic show was the characters and the chemistry between them. That is very difficult to recreate with new people.
In Grimm, everything revolved around Nick. If Monroe and Roselee found out about a new Grimm, their first reaction would be: “we have to tell Nick”. They would not leave Portland to be involved in some new Grimm- adventures without him. The only Grimm-characters they could involve as a regular or guest star without Nick would probably be Trubel. Although I liked Trubel, I would not watch the show just because of her.
As much as I would love to see a spin-off, I would leave judgement until I'd see a few episodes. Their are other factors in play, even if they brought back most of the original cast, the production staff would not be the same and this would be another factor changing the show..
Another crucial contributing factor on bring back Grimm and IMO is a biggie, the biggie would be perception. Perception based on the actors playing the characters. Lets say they did not create a spinoff and the new show continues to pick up a year or two after the last episode, excluding the epilogue.
Since the Nicolette arc took place in the real world with the marriage of DG and Bitsie, add in, with any day of them having a real child in the real world, we will never see Nick and Juliette as we perceived them in the past.
The only way that could happen is. if they bring back Magique to scratch us all and we end up with selective memory loss of the real world marriage of these two actors.
IMO, this "perception factor" of things to come, good or bad, between their characters. We would never see the show as we saw it in the past, hence, the magic is gone.
IMO, it was one of the additional reason they kept their dating relationship hush hush for a while. Which would be the making of a new interesting topic.
Like I said, if you read my post here and the other thread I initiated, both I mentioned it as "IMO", (in my opinion). In both replies, you compare this one to the shows "How I Met Your Mother", "Friends" and the other thread, "I Love Lucy".
All 3 shows you use as comparison are, all 3, comedic sit-comes. I know and respect other opinions, BUT, and I mean a "BIG BUT". Do you consider the TV show Grimm as a comedic sit-come?
If we are going to go down that road, I can also bring up what happened to the sit-come "Rosanne", after real life situations changed its outcome. At the same time, the revamping of "Last Man Standing" with a slight cast change, it's popularity seems to have picked up where it left off.
Like I said, IMO, is just that, my opinion. I welcome yours too but, please using comedic sit-comes to compare to what I classify Grimm, as more of a melodrama isn't that convincing.
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