A new way to ask “what if”

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Silas Weir Mitchell plays Roland—or rather, many Rolands—in Nick Payne’s Constellations alongside co-star Dana Green (Marianne) with a range of finely-calibrated choices. Repeating the same lines seconds apart, he deftly switches moods to come off as a creep, a curmudgeon, a charmer.

His changeling skills make more sense when you consider where you probably last saw him: starring as a werewolf on TV’s Grimm. On that show, Weir Mitchell’s acting consistently deepened and dignified some pretty shaky scripts, so it’s been nice to see him take on stronger writing in this production and a prior PCS play, Three Days of Rain.

Portland Center Stage’s Constellations continues through June 11 in The Armory. Ticket and schedule information here.

A new way to ask “what if”

What happened with the storyline of Nick turning zombie? Do you have a plausible headcanon that explains why that stopped being an issue?

Well they cured him of the zombification at the start of season three, and he just experienced a few after-effects: increased stamina and strength, ability to go for long periods without breathing, with his heart barely beating, etc. 

From what I remember of early season three, this was initially an unconscious response to stimuli that he couldn’t really control. But as time went on, it’s possible he grew used to the power and learned to control it, the same way he eventually seemed able to filter out his super-hearing unless it was needed in a specific situation.

That being said…that’s ALL headcanon. They really didn’t do much with that idea once they got into the latter half of season three. I know his super hearing showed up a couple of times after that, but I don’t think the stoneform power ever showed up past season three.

One theory that’s been floated before in fandom is that the whole reason he developed, for lack of a better word, actual superpowers each time some kind of wacky magic was used on him was that one of the adaptations of the Grimm line is not only a certain level of immunity to some poisons/forms of dark magic (i.e. Nick being able to resist things like the Coins of Zakynthos)…but also the ability to incorporate anything that would make them stronger.

So when Nick gets turned into a zombie–cold-skinned, super strong and fast, never-tiring monster that doesn’t need to breathe–and then is cured of the ill effects, his body somehow manages to hold onto the useful aspects of the condition. Same story earlier on with his super-hearing. He lost the use of his eyes, so his ears just upped their game almost immediately. And then after he gets his sight back, they just kinda…keep going at that higher level without adjusting back down.

All of that to say that it’s possible when Adalind worked the spell to strip him of his Grimm powers at the end of season three, he was also stripped of most, if not all, of those adaptations as well.

And then when he gets his powers back, he either has lost all of the powers (not likely, as the hearing remained), takes some time to learn how to access them again, or loses only the purely mystical ones but keeps the super-hearing because it was a physiological change in response to the loss of his eyes rather than the side effects of a semi-mystical infection of sorts.

Make sense? Kinda? Maybe?

A few people have already mentioned this but Diana always called Renard Dad and not Nick so I think there’s every possibility that she meant Mom Adalind and Dad Renard. Not as a couple but just as you know part of team grimm. And Kelly would know what she meant by Mom and Dad cause he’s used to growing up in a mixed family. So maybe Kelly’s mom is Mom Jules and Dad Nick. Just maybe. A wild hope but why not?

I feel the same. I mean…Diana adored Sean. And in spite of everything, he ended the series in a pretty good place with all of Team Grimm. So while I guess it’s possible that as she grew up, he might have messed things up OR she might have grown close enough to Nick to start calling him dad as well, it just makes more sense to me personally that she would have continued calling Nick by his name and Sean as “dad” or “daddy.”

Come to think of it…maybe that’s it. Maybe she does call Sean “daddy” and Nick “dad.” That could make a lot of sense. And she might call Monroe and Rosalee Aunt Rosalee and Uncle Monroe, even though they’re not technically related. Likewise Uncle Hank, Uncle Drew, and Auntie Eve.

If you were wesen, what type would you be? ^^ I love your blog, by the way!

Thanks so much! Now let’s see…hmmmm….

I would probably be a Bauerschwein. I’m not naturally a combative person but can be pushed to that place eventually, I hold grudges like a boss, and I LOVE me a good bath (not a mud bath…a bath bomb bath…but I did once cover myself in dirt as a kid because I saw on the discovery channel that elephants use this method to keep bugs away and cool down from the heat. And whattaya know…it worked!).

Admin D would most definitely be a fuchsbau…she can elaborate on that for you if she wants. 😛 Aaaaand I can’t speak for the other admins but they’re welcome to chime in!

I’ve decided to regard the second half of season four and all of S5-6 as a sort of Grimm-Writers Fanfiction and enjoy the Grimm I loved :-D cause I just can’t stomach some of the crap that happened in the later seasons

Yeah…I think the fandom is basically split down the middle in this regard. Either they loved the last two seasons or hated them.

For me personally, I feel like the show was still good up to about 2/3 of the way through season 4. And to be fair, it was still good after that, too, in some respects. It still had some great moments with all of the characters I loved, good dialogue, fantastic acting. Several episodes in season 6 were at least as good as season 1, and the whole season had the same feeling the show had in season 1 as well.

But it also had its bad points, things the writers wanted to happen but didn’t put in the time to make work within the story and characters they’d already built. And the big payoff to the whole mytharc that started in the very first episode feels rushed, cobbled together, and a little underwhelming, in retrospect. Then again, I’m not sure there’s anything they could have given us after 5 seasons of buildup that would have felt completely satisfying.

So I feel you, I really do. As much as I love some parts of the show, I’m only able to accept others because of all the headcanon room the writers left us in the final episode. Which at least says something about the writers themselves…that they knew their audience well enough to know that they would never be able to please everybody, and cared enough to give as many of us as possible something to walk away happy with at the end.

would you say its worth it for a newcomer to watch grimm at all? What would you advise?

I would say…proceed with caution. There are a lot of great characters, storylines, and moments in the show. But if you have any triggers related to rape, gore, or body horror, it might be more painful than it’s worth to watch for you. If it helps, you can check our trigger warning tag to see warnings we’ve marked for each episode. Unfortunately I haven’t figured out how to get our theme to show tags in scrolling view (yet), but if you click into an individual post the tags should list the name of the episode.

If you have a trigger that’s not listed or have specific trigger-related or content questions, feel free to ask us about it! We’ll be happy to help you out.