Hi there. I am surfacing after finishing the semester to say I enjoy your commentaries on these episodes. I particularly like how the bad guys in this show are, as you say, "blindsided, defeated, quite literally, by a union of friendship [they] could never even conceive of." By refusing to be defined by the groups to which they belong, Monroe and Nick become so very unpredictable and like water wearing away stone, conquer by being willing to change. The fact that Nick is basically untutored as a Grimm, having to find his way with only research and his own moral code to guide him, is such a strength, because you get the feeling that the Grimms have not always been the good guys. This allows him to make alliances rather than enemies, to see good and evil as it actually is rather than simply going by the labels on the boxes.
Now the last episode with Bigfoot (such a lovely Pacific Northwestern legend) did some interesting things with the characters. Nicky-boy is digging a very chancey hole that could very easily change from foxhole to grave in his witholding information. Hank has finally seen things he can't reframe as some version of normal, and Nick just lets him think he's going crazy. Is Nick going to sacrifice his partner's sanity to his need for secrecy? It seems there's a bit of a wall between those two as partners. Where is the trust?
It's a sign of Juliette's particular strength that she trusts her own eyes and research and is open to such a major paradigm shift. She doesn't think she's chasing chimera nor does it even occur to her that she might be crazy. I love that about her character. And I love that it's she who suggests to Nick that the fairytales might be true.
On a side note, I thought it was a mistake for the writers to leave Rosalee out of this episode--unexplainable drugs? Surely that should have merited at least a phone call in her direction.
Now the last episode with Bigfoot (such a lovely Pacific Northwestern legend) did some interesting things with the characters. Nicky-boy is digging a very chancey hole that could very easily change from foxhole to grave in his witholding information. Hank has finally seen things he can't reframe as some version of normal, and Nick just lets him think he's going crazy. Is Nick going to sacrifice his partner's sanity to his need for secrecy? It seems there's a bit of a wall between those two as partners. Where is the trust?
It's a sign of Juliette's particular strength that she trusts her own eyes and research and is open to such a major paradigm shift. She doesn't think she's chasing chimera nor does it even occur to her that she might be crazy. I love that about her character. And I love that it's she who suggests to Nick that the fairytales might be true.
On a side note, I thought it was a mistake for the writers to leave Rosalee out of this episode--unexplainable drugs? Surely that should have merited at least a phone call in her direction.
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