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I think they actually said what kind of wesen their kids where going to be though. It was one of those super long german words that my stupid head cant remember, I think. Hopefully we get to see them in the Grimm spinoff!

The word was Vorherrscher, but that’s more a general term for the offspring of two different types of Wesen, not something that’s specific to a Blutbad and Fuchsbau.

According to Rosalee and Monroe, the offspring of two different types of Wesen will have the traits of the dominant Wesen species. It’s not clear what is meant by “dominant” in this case, but either way the implication is that their kids will carry the genes of both types but only display the traits (woge and abilities) of one parent.

I hope we get the Grimm spin-off too! And I hope we get to see those lil babies all grown up and badass.

Got to say I’m surprised I didn’t see anyone mention the Geier as one of the scariest monsters of the week? Got to say Organ Grinder is one of those episodes that was so creepy (and sad tbf) that it stuck with me (Though I have to say the Mr Sandman episode was one of the worst for me too since I have a thing with eye horror oops)

Oh the Geier were definitely scary, and that episode was intense. Come to think of it, I’m surprised they don’t make more people’s list of scariest Wesen myself!

Sorry if my assumption is wrong, but in the last answer you talked about sexual assault and the whole “rape treated as romance” thing, and I was just wondering if that was about what Adalind did to Nick by pretending to be Juliette? That was the only thing I could think of that fit the description. In any case, I just wanted to say I agree!

That’s the one. A lot of people disagree with me on this because Nick wasn’t being held down and screaming no. Those people have an incomplete understanding of consent.

Nick did not consent to sleep with Adalind, and at that point in his life he would not have. He consented to sleep with Juliette.

And any time you consent to one thing sexually and are subjected to another without your consent, that is rape. Any time your ability to make a fully autonomous decision about having sex is compromised and someone takes advantage of that, it is rape.

In the real world, this could look like someone going farther than you agreed to without asking, or coercing you into sex while you’re drunk or high, or putting something in your drink to make you compliant, or slipping off the condom during sex (yeah, people have done that).

In a magical fictional world, this also includes any instance where magic is used to get a yes or override a no, or where magic interferes with a person’s ability to decide…be it love potions, shape shifting, twinning spells, or anything else.

In Adalind’s specific case, that brings the count of men she’s raped on screen to three: Hank while he was under the influence of her love potion cookies, Renard while he was dealing with her obsession spell, and Nick while she was disguised as Juliette using the twinning spell.

I always wondered about Adalind and Nick, if the show runners wanted them together, why not have that in the beginning? Or let Juliette off the hook in S01 or 2 and then let those two have whatever it is they have? Seriously, why did showrunners do that ?

My understanding from old articles and tumblr discussion is that Adalind was never supposed to be a long-term character. She was basically written in for a few episodes in season one, and then they liked Claire so much that they wrote more for her.

Which I get. What’s not to love about Claire?

But then they didn’t really know what to do with her. That’s nothing I heard, just an observation. They had no clue.

She spends most of seasons two and three “meanwhile in Vienna,” then comes back in seasons three and four only when they need a stronger villain to make the plot move. They spend very little time developing her but put a LOT on the character’s shoulders.

I also don’t think the writers necessarily wanted or planned to put Nick and Adalind together until a vocal minority of fans began demanding it. They certainly failed to set it up at all in seasons one through four if that’s not the case.

Then once they got together, Adalind became a background player for the most part. She got one or two good episodes in seasons five and six, but those were all when she was stuck in the mayor’s mansion with Renard. Otherwise, she became a very passive character with little agency after season five.

Even the single “I love you” Nick ever says to her happens in the Other Place, in a reality that gets erased. As far as Adalind is concerned, it never happened. And that’s where they end the show.

Looking at all of that, I honestly can’t believe they planned or wanted that ship to happen. Which begs the question: why did they never fix it?

This may sound petty, but the only thing i could think of when i read about the spin-off was the dark possibility for anything ooc!Adalind or yet more rape-treated-as-romance. All the people involved never addressed their mistakes as far as i’m aware. I doubt they care. It makes me more sad than hopeful. :(

It’s not petty. It’s understandable. Those writing decisions hurt a lot of fans, and angered many more. I had friends who had to leave the fandom completely over the choices the writers made in seasons 5-6.

And in my opinion the route they chose to go with Adalind and Nick will always be the worst decision the writers made. It killed the ratings, and quite probably killed the show itself. Without that, I honestly think we would be starting season seven right now, with no end in sight.

All of that being said, we have some things going into this spinoff that we didn’t have last time around:

A woman on the show’s creative team. Although I loved them, the Grimm writers were a total boys club.

And I’m not saying that men are automatically less sensitive than women when it comes to matters surrounding sexual assault, or that women are automatically moreso, but statistically speaking they can be.

The #MeToo movement. Grimm lived and died before #MeToo and #TimesUp had gained a solid foothold in Hollywood. It was easy to ignore or write poorly about sexual assault. It was easy to be maliciously sexist or just lazy and uninformed.

Those days are gone, at least for the moment. Even people who somehow don’t care about the issues still have to care about the optics.

Now, whether these things will translate into better handling of sexual assault on Grimm 2.0 is anyone’s guess. But personally, I choose to hope that a group of creators who failed us in one respect have gotten better and will not fail us again.

That may be naive of me. We’ll just have to wait and see.

What’s the 20 year gap and trailer you spoke of in the Grimm spinoff post? Did I miss the spinoff already having a trailer!?

Ha, no. Sadly…no.

I was talking about the epilogue at the end of the Grimm series finale. It’s set 20 years after the last scene we see of Nick and Team Grimm, and takes place in a new trailer similar to the one Aunt Marie had. Thus “20 year gap” and “trailer epilogue.”

Sorry if my wording confused people!