Grimm, especially the early seasons, is unique in its ability to make you care SO MUCH about the one-off characters. I’ve never seen another show do this so well or so consistently. So many characters feel sooo big and important even though they only show up one time, to the point that we were waiting YEARS later to hear from them again. Speculating about whether an upcoming episode would have them in it somehow. It’s wild.
I’d like to be either a pflichttreue or a damonfuer, but I feel like I’d actually be an eisbiber.
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Day 16: Most Terrifying Big Bad
The only one that’s coming to mind is The Royals, but that’s mostly due to me not really remembering any of the other antagonists.
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Day 17: One-Off Character You Wish Had Come Back
Ariel Eberhart! The episode ending shows us that she isn’t done with Nick. I would have liked to see Juliette react to her after knowing more about the world, I think that could have been an interesting confrontation.
Sadly, now I’m just imagining Caitlyn Snow in a room full of Damonfeuer, trying to convince them she’s one of them to get information for something or another.
I think if Ariel Eberhart came back it would be AMAZING because she was such a fun, unpredictable (funpredictable, forgive me) character to have around! I can just imagine her being cruel and mocking Nick over the loss of Juliette–which is terrible but it would fit with their past interactions and the history between them.
But I also agree that now that Danielle Panabaker is busy with The Flash full time, it would probably be difficult to fit filming an episode or episodes of another series into her schedule. That doesn’t keep my fangirl heart from wishing for a reappearance at some point. She’s high up on a list of seemingly one-off characters I would love to see return (I died of happiness when they brought back Lt. Orson).