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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.

It’s easy to forget, because that scene is confusing, but Nick actually didn’t shoot Melissa Winthrop until she had already let go of Adalind and was going for Hank.

That’s his second shooting on the job, too. Jesus Nick.

What they’ve never really answered is…why did the Hexenbiests want the Mellifers out of the way? More importantly, why did Sean? Since it seems as though Sean was the one pulling Serena and Camilla’s strings as well as Adalind’s.

Was Sean the “he” the Mellifer Queen was referring to when she said he was coming for Nick? Or was it someone else? Eric, perhaps? Or even further in the future, Zerstorrer?

I’ve never stopped half-wishing he had been a little more Grimm than cop and sided with Melissa in that scene. If only because I really want to know what would have happened, what they were there to protect Nick from.

I really love that scene in the hotel room in “Beeware.” Nick’’s profiling skills are on full display again. He knows what Adalind is. He knows she’s the one who tried to kill Marie. But he’s profiling her, in this entire scene. Trying to get her to admit it, or, in the absence of that, to drop her facade and show him her true face. It’s a very guns-on-the-table scene and I love it.

Good lord, but they really piled the makeup onto Claire in the first season. She has like…hot pink lipstick, bright blush, a solid couple millimeters of black eyeliner all the way around the eye, dark eyeshadow, very plucked and shaped eyebrows.

It’s interesting because even though it’s a lot of makeup it creates a very young look, like someone who’s trying to look older and more imposing than they are. Which actually kinda fits with her character in a weird way.