Tag: nick burkhardt

Am I reading too much into it or was there something strange about the way that Nick and Diana were looking at each other at the end?

No, I don’t think you were reading too much into it! I’m pretty sure that look was a silent conversation that went something like this:

Diana: Usurper! You are Not My Daddy!

Nick: Oh fuck oh fuck I fucked up I f—

Hopefully someone can explain to Diana about non-nuclear families before she goes nuclear on Nick’s ass.

So Nick is becoming Renard. Okay, if he turns into a Zauberbiest I’m going to freak out. That would be such a poor, weak “twist.” Unfortunately its something I can definitely see happening with how lazy the Grimm Writers have been lately. Am I the only one whose worried about “side-effects?” Nick being a Grimm is enough. We don’t need a weird Grimm!Beist. Not to mention how annoying and recycled that plot-line would be or how it would crowd these last episodes. 8-P Just no. Please Grimm. No.

I find it unlikely for a couple of reasons:

  1. It wasn’t the twinning spell itself that turned Juliette into a Hexenbiest. It was a side-effect of the ritual they did later to return Nick’s Grimm abilities.
  2. Nick’s blood is anathema to Hexenbiests. It literally banishes Hexenbiest powers, presumably Zauberbiest powers as well. Adalind and Juliette are immune to the effects, but there’s no reason to think Renard would be. So it’s likely Renard’s powers couldn’t take root or “live” in Nick’s body once he’s returned to his true form.

That being said, Nick–possibly Grimms in general but especially Nick–tends to absorb some of the traits of any magic he encounters. When he was attacked by the Jinnamuru Xunte, he developed super hearing after just a few hours of blindness.

And when Baron Samedi subjected him to the Dämmerzustand, he gained super strength (at least temporarily), superhuman stamina, that weird “stoneform” thing he used to do occasionally, and the ability to go long stretches without needing to breathe.

So it’s possible that his body would just absorb the Zauberbiest powers like it absorbs every other semi-useful trait or ability it comes into contact with. We’ll just have to wait and see!

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.