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.
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.”
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.
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