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I’m crying I live in finland and I have no way to watch Grimm and I just miss that show so much :(( But your blog makes it a bit better, this fandom is so small that I really appreciate everyone who makes an effort to post about the show :)

I’m so sorry you have no way to watch! Have you tried hulu or other next-day streaming services?

I’m glad the blog gives you something to tide you over in the meantime! We love this show, even with all its flaws, and I for one am very sad to see it coming to an end. It’s been a part of my Friday nights ever since season one and it’s weird to think of not having it anymore.

The fandom is small, but it’s definitely there! @thegrimmnetwork and @dailygrimm are two great blogs to follow if you don’t already.

I would rather Nick be single, or else be involved for some new character. But since the writers so clearly set it up that it would either be Juliette or Adalind (and confirmed this in interviews) I guess what I’m saying is that I understand why people would ship Nick and Adalind. I don’t like it, what she did was gross and wrong, but the entire thing with all three of them is so messed up and not handled very well by the show.

I wouldn’t want Nick to suddenly become involved with a new character here at the very end. That would seem…cheap and rushed and out-of-nowhere, to me. There wouldn’t really be time to develop the character or the relationship well and take care of all the other stuff they need to answer and deal with.

I will say this: I do understand why people would ship Nick and Adalind, both before and after the rape at the end of season 3. I understand as in comprehend, not as in agree with, support, condone, or ship it myself.

I understand it for two reasons: 1) we are trained from birth by the things we see portrayed in media to process antagonism, dominance, violence, and aggression as evidence of passion rather than abuse, and 2) we are not trained to think critically about the importance and nature of true consent, or to see men as potential victims of rape and women as potential perpetrators.

I can also definitely agree that the show hasn’t handled either relationship perfectly or even very well, and they definitely screwed up with the way they explained hexenbiest powers and the way they supposedly affect people. They broke their own continuity in that regard, and they’ve made it so their two main contenders for Nick’s affections at the end are a woman who doesn’t deserve him and a woman he doesn’t deserve.

Nadalind as a ship is unsalvageable from the standpoint of being healthy or positive in any way. Even if you argue that she did what she did under duress and because she was a hexenbiest, there are things in canon that contradict both conclusions and it doesn’t change the fact that Nick was still violated.

And even as much as I love Silverhardt, I can fully acknowledge that the writers would have to do a whole lot of work to make anything between them remotely healthy again…work I’m not convinced they really have time to do. Nick’s tendency to deceive Juliette and dismiss her feelings whenever convenient for him was a problem from like the third or fourth episode of the first season, and one they’ve never fully addressed.

Still, at the end of the day I know it’s going to be one or the other of the two. And in that context, I can wrap my head around Nick ending up with someone he needs to work on his relationship with over his ending up someone who literally raped him as well as one of his best friends, any day of the week.

you know what really scares me about the stick… it’s managing to get inside a Grimm’s mind and they are suppose to be immune to mind controlling spells (heck even the three coins didn’t work on them).

That is very true and entirely scary, now that you mention it. The coins were almost addictive in the same way the stick seems to be, and yet they hardly affected Nick at all–just a split-second of hesitation before he put them away and was seemingly never tempted again. But the stick? That has messed with him.

Granted, the stick is ostensibly much older and more powerful than the coins, and seems to have been something important specifically to Grimms at one point. So maybe it’s an exception to the rule for some significant reason?

It could also be because it brought him back from the dead at least twice, or because he had it on him for so much longer than he had the coins.

Hopefully we’ll find out more soon! But I agree, it is definitely disconcerting.

The thing like about Grimm is all the characters are likable in their own right but I don’t care much for Diana I am not a fan of the ultra supernatural child who’s stronger then everyone. Xenia did this with hope and I hated hope. Supernatural children tend to cause unwanted drama among the characters ruining their relationship.

I hear you on the way supernatural children usually have a negative effect on the plot and relationships within a given ‘verse, but…I dunno. I actually find Diana kind of fascinating? Possibly because she’s written very realistically as a child.

One of the things that always bugs me about supernatural children is that they tend to be written like fully-grown adults in children’s bodies which, aside from occasionally giving rise to some very gross and creepy storylines, is just boring to me. Take, as an extremely bad example, the infamously-named Renesmee Cullen. She’s a small child who seems capable of communicating with adults on their level practically from birth, albeit through supernatural means, and who gripes the tiniest bit about their “special diet” before being a good little girl and adopting it.

Kids aren’t like that. Kids are messy. Kids are picky eaters. Kids ask ten billion questions a day and balk at early bedtimes and push their boundaries. Kids understand things in very black-and-white terms, most of the time. What causes them pain, fear, discomfort, or sadness? Those things are bad. What makes them comfortable, happy, secure? Those things are good. 

Now Diana is written very much like a kid in that respect. There’s an innocence there that is both endearing and terrifying because of the amount of power she has to make whatever she decides she wants a reality. I’m actually very tense whenever she’s on-screen, because I never know what she’s going to do or how she’s going to react.

She doesn’t seem inherently malicious or inherently good…just inherently a child. She wants what she wants and she wants it now, she’s very curious and disinterested in the world around her by turns, and she doesn’t seem to understand right and wrong, or the ramifications of some of the things she does. Right is what makes her happy and keeps her family together. Wrong is anything that threatens that.

Her mommy and daddy should be together, she thinks, so she tries to make them love each other. She doesn’t understand consent, or how two people who’ve had a child together might still be completely unsuited to one another or even hate each other. She has to have that explained to her later…and I think it’s noteworthy that once it is explained, she abandons that course of action and moves on to another.

She sees Renard with Rachel and thinks that must be the reason her daddy doesn’t love her mommy anymore, and the reason her mommy is so sad. So she kills Rachel. Her daddy’s “friend” Bonaparte hurt her mommy, and her daddy should protect his family…so she makes him kill the bad man. Terrifying, but…oddly realistic in terms of how a child would most likely understand that situation.

It’s also telling that she doesn’t ever attack Nick, even though he’s as much or even more in the way of her parents being together than Rachel was. This could be because Nick is her brother’s father, and she likes her brother. It could also be because she’s already noticed that killing Rachel doesn’t seem to have worked, so there’s no point in killing Nick.

She’s probably the most accurate depiction I’ve seen of what it would look like if you took a little kid, with all their little-kid capriciousness and innocence and their id running everything, and gave them unmatched superpowers. It would be terrifying. Not least of all for the parents charged with trying to teach her to control and use her powers for good without pissing her off before she’s old enough to understand that some things can’t be fixed, forgiven, or undone.

So I’m interested to see where they go with the character in the episodes we have left. I just hope it’s as good as what we’ve seen so far.

i think that Renards conscious is gonna get to him by the middle of the season and he’s gonna lose it. Serves him right.

I think you’re right, his conscience is going to come for him in a big way before this is all over with. But I’m sad about this whole arc, and a little pissed. I’m kind of hoping there will be some magical reason for all of this eventually, because otherwise it just looks like some really intense rivalry sprang up between Sean and Nick almost out of nowhere and that…makes no sense to me.

Like they’ve had their issues in the past and they’ve butted heads but they were in a really good place at the start of season five. Sean was actively protecting Nick and vice versa. So. I hope there’s a better explanation in the end than just “Sean got power-hungry” or even worse, “Sean was jealous about Adalind.”

Did you see the longing between Nick and Juliette in that episode, even in just that one scene where Nick asks Juliette how she feels? They are both incredibly vulnerable and confused about how they feel and what has happened to them, and if there are some things that can’t be forgiven, and way in the hidden parts of their hearts, that love … They stood so close to each other. They were steps away from physical contact. Both keeping careful distance. Both nervous. Both still very in love.

Yes! I did see it and I’m still emotional about it. And can I just say this ask is so beautifully-stated. It’s exactly what I was seeing while watching them. There’s so much confusion and no time to process any of it, Juliette isn’t sure who she is at the moment or what she is, and Nick is a twisted-up ball of fear and uncertainty and adrenaline and worry and love.

Both of them have to be thinking “too much has happened, too much muddy water under that bridge, too much pain and blame on both sides. Not even worth thinking about, really.”

And yet they gravitate toward each other any time they’re both in a room. They are always aware of each other. They protect and help each other like it’s an inborn instinct. And all that love is just swimming under the surface whenever their eyes meet, along with a question they’re afraid to ask. Case in point: