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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?

They’re doing a Grimm spin off. The writer and executive producer worked on Iron Fist. Any thoughts to make this sound okay?

Okay so first of all, thank you for this!

I haven’t been as vigilant as I’d like about keeping up with Grimm news since the show ended, so your ask was the first I had heard that they were moving forward with anything spin-offy!

As for your worries, a few things:

  • Iron Fist is only the most recent thing Melissa Glenn has worked on. She’s also worked on Leverage, Falling Skies, Zoo, Revolution, Hawaii Five-0, and Beauty and the Beast.
  • At least some of those are damn good shows with excellent writing, characters, and production values.
  • Everyone writes on something crappy at some point in their career, so take heart from that.
  • Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner, who were the executive producers of Grimm, will be executive producers on the spin-off as well.
  • David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf, also from Grimm, will be consulting producers on the spin-off.
  • That means all of the folks responsible for the continuity and “big M mythology” of the original series will be back to make sure it’s true to the world we know and love.
  • Some characters from the original will make appearances in the spin-off.
  • The spin-off’s lead character will reportedly be a female Grimm.
  • New mysteries! Expanded mythology! New Grimm content, okay. New. Grimm. Content. Our little show that could is all grown up and becoming a ‘verse!

That’s all of the official stuff. Now here are a few wishful things a spin-off could mean:

  • Answers to questions that the original series never answered, like how Grimm powers get activated, how magic works, whether Kelly has powers, whatever happened to Roddy Geiger, etc.
  • More of Trubel, Bud, and others we never got to see enough of.
  • A chance for the writers to include better representation for minorities than they had last time around.
  • More backstory and mythology about the Grimms and the Wesen world.
  • A chance to see what happened with the Royals, the Resistance, Hadrian’s Wall, and the Wesen Council after Black Claw decimated them and then was itself decimated.
  • A chance to address some of the wtf-y stuff they never got to, like ghosts, gods, etc.
  • More info about what happens to our faves during that 20-year gap between the end of Nick’s story and the trailer epilogue.
  • A chance to meet the triplets and learn their names.
  • A chance to see teenage Kelly and Diana bickering like siblings do (levitate him, Di!).
  • Executive producers who’ve (hopefully) learned from the mistakes they made in seasons 4-5.
  • If we’re very, very lucky…more shirtless rage.

And if that’s not enough to get you excited, consider this: this show is only in the very early stages of development. A lot of things can happen to trap a show indefinitely in development hell. So…it may never happen.

But I hope it does. Because honestly, the news that Grimm was getting a spin-off made my entire week.

Sources: https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/grimm-spinoff-nbc-1202981306/

https://deadline.com/2018/10/grimm-spinoff-female-lead-nbc-from-melissa-glenn-hazy-mills-1202483529/

I theorized that Kelly was born with Grimm abilities already awoken, like he could already see Wessen woged and be just aware of it, and is okay with it. I remember a Wessen woging in front of him and he was smiling. I don’t know if that was what they were going for or that was just “Look at the cute baby.” Thoughts?

Hmmm…that’s an interesting theory! I actually kind of like that idea: that he grew up seeing Wesen from Day One so it was never strange to him. Although it would certainly make him unique in his world, as from what little we get in the show it seems like almost all Wesen get their first woge as teenagers, kind of like puberty, and Grimms don’t necessarily have it from birth either though it’s unclear exactly when the onset is or how consistent it is.

I wonder what about having a Hexenbiest mother and a Grimm father would do that? Or could it have something to do with the twinning spell somehow? The rules of magic in this world are murky. :/

Any head canons for 19 yr old Kelly and older sister Diana?

  • She totally still levitates him when she’s annoyed with him.
  • As a little kid he was very vocally indignant at this; now he just kinda sits cross-legged in mid-air and glares at her.
  • Diana’s rapid aging was intentional on her part; she was trying to grow up faster so she could use her powers to find her mom. Once she’s back with her family, she starts growing up at a normal rate. This one isn’t really about them as adults, but leads into…
  • When Kelly is 9 years old, Diana goes off to college in New York. He doesn’t really understand why she has to go, and he’s inconsolable for days after she leaves. But ten years later, he gets it. He did his first year at the University of Portland, but now he kind of wants to get out and see more of the world. So of course, who does he go to for advice but his big sister?
  • Kelly doesn’t have powers. They’re not sure if this is because he’s half-Grimm, half-Hexenbiest and the two cancelled each other out, or because male Grimms don’t come into their powers until later. His dad was never totally clear on how that worked, and honestly…given Nick didn’t get his powers until someone he loved died, Kelly isn’t super anxious to find out.
  • Diana is always a little mischievous with her magic, even once she gets past that little kid stage where everything is id.
  • Diana always has a slightly difficult relationship with her father. She loves him, but they don’t always see eye to eye and she’s furious about some of the situations he put her in as a kid. Kelly is the only person she talks about this with.

That’s all for now! Thanks for asking!

I’m wondering how how in the holy hell are they going to fix and tie up all the loose ends in 13 episodes. I mean its possible, shows have done it, but these are the writers for Grimm. Just how?

I’m already steeling myself for some things just never being answered, either because they run out of time or because the writers never consider we’d want to know them. My hope, though, is that Grimm will continue to exist in some form, whether as comics or novels, and we will get more adventures from these characters after the show itself has ended.