starkmartell:

fuckyeahnickburkhardt:

Honestly, this pilot is in retrospect one of the best I’ve ever seen. Yeah, the pacing is a little clunky and awkward, and they clearly don’t have the mechanics of Grimms figured out completely yet, but that episode still perfectly sets the tone of the show and kicks off the long game as well as the week-to-week formula.

There’s just a TON of stuff packed in there that sets the DNA for the entire series. The keys, most of the members of Team Grimm, the scenery of Portland, Wu’s quips, the somewhat on-the-nose writer puns and fairy tale allegories, the partnership between Nick and Monroe, even iconic repeat shots like a ground-to-sky view of the trees or Nick opening the weapons cabinet.

Hell yeah. The contrast of “Sweet Dreams” at the beginning and then the Marilyn Manson cover sold me on the show. It was a great pilot episode.

Amen. That is still one of my favorite uses of music in a television show ever. The only thing that tops it for me is Death’s intro in Supernatural.

It just…even if you weren’t super impressed up to that point, that ending grabs you. It suddenly makes the whole thing seem a little darker, a little more mysterious than we previously thought.

I honestly can’t say whether I would have gone to episode 2 without that musical bit at the end of episode 1, but after hearing and seeing that scene I had to keep going. I had to know more about this weird little show.