Twitter Thursdays was on a mini-hiatus the last few weeks, but don’t worry, we’re still going back for episodes 100 and 101. So, here’s the tweet roundup from S05xE12 Into the Schwarzwald, S05xE13 Silence of the Slams, and S05xE14 Lycanthropia!
Into the Schwarzwald
The Grimm Writers got this song stuck in our heads
Guess who’s back/ Back, again/ the ‘Biest is back/ Tell a friend/ Guess who’s back, guess who’s, guess who’s back/ Adalind/#Grimm
Well…as much as I hate to say it, and as much as I really want to skip those scenes, lately they are actually weaving into the plot a little more. The scene between them in this episode definitely set things up for some conflict later on, for instance.
Although I’d argue that most of what’s in the actual NA scenes themselves is about character development rather than plot. You can watch Nick’s conversation with Monroe in “Into the Schwarzwald” and know everything that happened in that scene and that Nick doesn’t know how he feels about it.
But you’d miss the completely candid look on Nick’s face when he wakes up beside Adalind and there’s no one there to school his emotions for, the way he kept flashing back to their awful history and how simultaneously numb and conflicted he looks…and how he covers all of that up and pretends to be okay when she wakes up.
Similarly, you could find out from the scene last ep with Adalind and Rosalee that Adalind didn’t want to tell Nick about her powers returning, and from the scene in the spice shop this week that Nick wasn’t supposed to tell anyone outside of Team Grimm about the stick.
But there’s a special kind of emphasis on seeing them actually in a room together and lying their asses off to each other’s faces, clearly uncomfortable and not trusting each other with vital secrets. Even though those secrets could have a profound effect on their child, the other person, and their…relationship, such as it is.
So I will agree with you that MR’s scenes are more about being helpful and proactive and figuring things out than NA scenes, but I don’t skip the NA scenes (although I would never judge or even look askance at anyone who wanted to, for obvious reasons), because they are telling us things about Nick and Adalind as people–and, in my opinion, about why they can never work as a couple (since apparently the blatantly obvious reason isn’t good enough for the writers).
I think you’re right in that it would be in character for Adalind. I’m really glad they didn’t have Nick be all suddenly gung-ho in love though, because it would have been terribly out of character for him, even if they didn’t have the history they have.
And I still don’t think they developed it enough for it to make sense for either of them to feel anything except cautiously amicable toward one another at this point. I’m not sure they can go back and fix it now, because they just rushed it for whatever reason and now a lot of fans are left scratching their heads going “where exactly did that come from?”
A couple of episodes ago she was perking up at the sound of Meisner’s name and blushingly, hopefully asking Trubel whether he’d ever mentioned her, and now she’s in love with Nick? Not attracted to, not beginning to have feelings for, in love.
Adalind may be a lot of things, but sentimental she’s not. This direction at this juncture doesn’t make any sense for her and is horrible for Nick. I just don’t know what to do with it except throw up my hands and try to watch around it for the rest of the plot.
Honestly I got the term “True Cross” from doing a bit of preemptive google research. My Southern Pentecostal upbringing definitely didn’t give me that term.
I think we’re on the right track, though! The more I read about the True Cross versus other legendary wooden artifacts, the more it seems to me like that’s probably what it is!
You know, that’s a really good question. They’ve only been living together for a few months, tops, and during that time they’ve been somewhat under siege. Not the best atmosphere for developing any kind of healthy connection.
Before that, she was emotionally manipulating him into protecting her from Juliette.
And before that, she was raping him and stealing his powers at Viktor’s behest in a misguided attempt to get Diana back.
Funny…it’s almost as if this whole thing between them happened way too fast and without sufficient development for it to make any kind of sense to anyone not watching it through shipper goggles.
Ok so for anyone who just saw the 100th episode of Grimm knows that we just got the conclusion to the seven keys storyline. Spoilers!!!!! And they found a box that took seven keys (five keys and some lock picking) plus the blood of a Grimm to open. And in the box was a stick wrapped in cloth with some writing on the cloth. The Stick can heal people as we saw with Monroe (who was dying of blood poisoning). So that leaves the question of what the ‘Stick’ is. I have three theories about this.
1.) The ‘stick’ is a piece of the staff of Moses. I think this is the most likely of my three theories because: one we know that the seven Grimm knights that found it were apart of the crusades so being a religious artifact is almost a given, two it heals something Moses could do.
2.) The ‘stick’ is a piece of the spear of destiny. A.K.A. the spear that pierced Christ’s side on the cross. It is said that the spear of destiny would grant ultimate power to whoever held it. It is also believed that the spear was broken at some point. Hitler was said to have the spear’s head. So that could tie in nicely with the Grimm mythos to this point.
3.) The ‘Stick’ is a piece of the Cross that Christ was crucified on. Again religious artifact that has to do with wood. Though I will admit this one is the least likely of the three. Due to the shape of the ‘stick’.
Well that is what I think the ‘stick’ might be. If anyone has any thoughts on the ‘stick’ I would love to hear them.
I like Rosalie’s thoughts. That the stick is a part of the tree of knowledge. Personally, I think it’s from a tree that is referenced in different religions. The Norse tree of life and the Christian tree of knowledge. The tree that inspired the stories of the other trees.
These are the three things I think it could be as well, although I actually think the cross or the staff are the most likely options. Moses used the staff to heal, and pieces of the cross are said to have healing powers. But the spear’s powers are typically believed to be of a much more malevolent nature.
Being a hexenbiest fundamentally alters the mind and emotions of the person. Adalind is literally TERRIFIED of having those powers back
If this is true – can the writers try not to have the other characters constantly bash Juliette every episode? It makes it so hard to swallow as realistic given Juliette went bad over 2 episodes and then the writers made it so she can’t ever be redeemed. It feels imbalanced in the writing of Juliette vs Adalind. I know a lot of folks hated Juliette but she was fundamentally a good person at heart. So if Adalind gets the “she was only bad because HB”, then it’d be nice if the show acknowledged that with Juliette. But I guess they cannot do that because Adalind is the reason why this happened to Juliette and they are trying to make Adalind the good one now.
I hate Saint/sinner writing. 😦
Yes, this. This is all I want. If they’re going to redeem Adalind based on the notion that she wasn’t herself or wasn’t in control when she did all the terrible things she’s done, they need to stop throwing Juliette under the bus, too.
They’ve been hinting at this for a awhile I can’t help but think – what about Sean Renard? He’s a zauberbiest, which is the same thing except gendery. Renard isn’t all evil and murdery and he has his powers.
Only Renard has pointed out several times they are not the same thing, like when Juliette went to him for help after she changed.
Actually, Renard has been pretty murdery in the past. He killed people in season one, including his own cousin. He facilitated human trafficking for that horrible fighting ring until they stepped outside his rules for who they kidnapped.
He was also the mastermind behind a lot of Adalind’s early actions, including the attacks on Aunt Marie and Hank.
It was only after he underwent that purification spell to save Juliette that he started to become nicer and less shady (which he only did because she tied Nick to Portland and he wanted Nick where he could keep an eye on him and have a chance to get at the key he had).
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