Tag: nick burkhardt

Hi, I want to find Nick’s jacket from the 14th episode of the 5th season aka lykanthropia

Okay, so this was extremely challenging because that episode aired like a year and a half ago, and they likely bought the coat the fall before that if not before, soooo we’re looking at an item that was most likely available two years ago.

But Admin D was more than up to the challenge! After some digging, she came up with the following two sources:

Nau Clothing: If you’re looking for the most likely candidate for the company that made Nick’s jacket, look no further than Nau. Nau is a Portland-based clothing company that specializes in high-quality clothing made from sustainable materials. Their selection of men’s jackets for Fall 2017 may not have the exact item Nick wore in the episode, but I’m sure you’ll find the styling familiar. I can easily imagine Nick, Hank, and even Monroe bundled up for cooler weather in some of their recent items.

Old Navy: If what you want is a more affordable option for cosplaying Nick Burkhardt, Old Navy’s sweater-fleece shirt jacket for men is available in light gray or hunter green for $55. The pockets and the color aren’t quite the same as the one he wore in the episode, but the collar is just as pop-able, and the overall design of the jacket still fits that “Portland Grimm” aesthetic quite nicely.

did you feel like nick was badly written in the last two seasons? cause to me he sometimes seemed to be a different nick altogether which is sad since I loved nick and they kinda ruined him… and it wasnt just nick either. it was everyone. it’s like the writers gave up on being true to their characters. such a shame.

A little yes, and a little no, anon. Let me see if I can explain.

There were definitely arcs where I felt Nick behaved very out of character. And in the Juliette/Hexenbiest arc at the end of season four, I felt that everyone behaved out of character without any good explanation (except for Juliette, who had all the reason in the world). It was almost like they made the entire team thoughtless and incompetent just so they could force Juliette’s arc, when there were definitely better ways to make that happen.

Granted, some of Nick’s writing during this time was par for the course–emotional avoidance, disregarding Juliette’s feelings, making things about him that so very were not–but the beauty of the show was that the characters’ flaws often balanced each other out. Nick’s tendency toward emotional avoidance and self-centeredness was balanced out by Juliette’s insistence on facing things head on and Hank’s tendency to point out the problems in his actions. Monroe’s pigheadedness was balanced by Rosalee’s level-headedness. The entire team’s collective gooeyness was balanced by Renard’s ruthless pragmatism…and occasionally Rosalee’s, depending on the subject. They all had skills and strengths that worked well with the rest of the team, and they were (mostly) good at communicating when it mattered.

But in that arc, suddenly, no one was balancing anyone out. No one was reacting to anything the way they usually would. Everyone was being ridiculously obtuse and not talking about shit and it was infuriating to watch. They basically all fell back to letting Nick do whatever he wanted–similar to how they acted in season 2, actually–and the end result was Juliette dead and Diana in the wind.

But overall, I thought Nick’s writing was fine in seasons 5 and 6, with the exception of one particular subplot (you know the one) in which the writing, acting, everything felt forced and stilted and just wrong. So wrong that up until the final episode I was sure it had to be some kind of spell causing him to act completely out of character. It wasn’t just that he was displaying traits that seemed unusual for him, it was that he was portraying certain emotions in a way that Nick Burkhardt definitely did not express himself, with no plausible explanation given as to why.

So. Yeah…I kinda feel you. But there were also moments that Nick felt every bit the Grimm we all know and love. Notably, his solo interactions with Hank, Monroe, and Juliette/Eve were super in-character and smacked of season one so hard that I had to swallow a nostalgic lump in my throat at times. And although sometimes his actions as a Grimm made me sad, they were also part of a clear progression that had been building for a few years, so I understood them as (not necessarily positive) character development, rather than OOC writing.

What happened with the storyline of Nick turning zombie? Do you have a plausible headcanon that explains why that stopped being an issue?

Well they cured him of the zombification at the start of season three, and he just experienced a few after-effects: increased stamina and strength, ability to go for long periods without breathing, with his heart barely beating, etc. 

From what I remember of early season three, this was initially an unconscious response to stimuli that he couldn’t really control. But as time went on, it’s possible he grew used to the power and learned to control it, the same way he eventually seemed able to filter out his super-hearing unless it was needed in a specific situation.

That being said…that’s ALL headcanon. They really didn’t do much with that idea once they got into the latter half of season three. I know his super hearing showed up a couple of times after that, but I don’t think the stoneform power ever showed up past season three.

One theory that’s been floated before in fandom is that the whole reason he developed, for lack of a better word, actual superpowers each time some kind of wacky magic was used on him was that one of the adaptations of the Grimm line is not only a certain level of immunity to some poisons/forms of dark magic (i.e. Nick being able to resist things like the Coins of Zakynthos)…but also the ability to incorporate anything that would make them stronger.

So when Nick gets turned into a zombie–cold-skinned, super strong and fast, never-tiring monster that doesn’t need to breathe–and then is cured of the ill effects, his body somehow manages to hold onto the useful aspects of the condition. Same story earlier on with his super-hearing. He lost the use of his eyes, so his ears just upped their game almost immediately. And then after he gets his sight back, they just kinda…keep going at that higher level without adjusting back down.

All of that to say that it’s possible when Adalind worked the spell to strip him of his Grimm powers at the end of season three, he was also stripped of most, if not all, of those adaptations as well.

And then when he gets his powers back, he either has lost all of the powers (not likely, as the hearing remained), takes some time to learn how to access them again, or loses only the purely mystical ones but keeps the super-hearing because it was a physiological change in response to the loss of his eyes rather than the side effects of a semi-mystical infection of sorts.

Make sense? Kinda? Maybe?

i love grimm but in the later seasons it was seriously lacking monroe & nick bromance. that’s what really pulled me into grimm and it made me sad that pretty much faded when n/dalind took center stage

To be honest, I think it faded long before that. I mean, don’t get me wrong, not a Nadalind fan AT ALL but this is one thing I don’t think we can lay at that ship’s door. Monroe and Nick’s bromance dropped by like 80% around mid-season 2, after Monrosalee really took off and Hank learned the truth and became part of Team Grimm.

That’s not to say that either Hank or Monrosalee should be blamed for it, either…I think it was just a natural side effect of the show’s transition to an ensemble cast. It was nice, though, in the last two seasons, to see them call back to the importance of that early relationship and give it a few more great moments.

dailygrimm:

The strength of your blood, the blood of your Grimm ancestors, all of us it’s inside you. It’s what makes us who we are. Trubel too. The strength we need that we all need comes from our family. It’s where we’ve always found the way and the will to fight. And with that, we can defeat any evil. Together.