Tag: spoilers

Grimm Finale Drinking Game

fuckyeahnickburkhardt:

It’s almost time, Grimmsters. Everybody grab a bottle of some fun, consumable liquid and play along! But like…don’t get alcohol poisoning, please.

Drink When:

  • Rosalee knows the solution off the top of her head.
    • Only take a small sip if she has to check her books first.
  • Monroe goes on a babble-y tangent about anything.
  • Diana’s eyes turn purple.
  • Trubel kills a Wesen.
  • Eve talks to a member of Team Grimm.
  • Eve’s Juliette is showing.
  • Anyone wears anyone else’s face, in any sense of the phrase
  • Meisner appears out of nowhere.
  • Nick pulls out his crossbow.
  • Renard and Nick face off.
  • Renard does something seriously shady.
  • SHIRTLESS RAGE.
  • Wu and/or Hank are sassy/sarcastic.
  • The Stick of Destiny makes an appearance.
  • Wu transforms.
  • Monrosalee are ride-or-die.
  • Team Grimm walks somewhere dramatically.
  • Bud makes an appearance.
  • Anyone does something seriously badass.
  • Anyone from Black Claw says the Black Claw motto.

Finish Your Drink When:

  • BIEST FIGHT (any combination of Adalind/Diana/Eve fighting).
  • The Stick of Destiny is actually used.
  • Sean’s motivations actually make sense.
  • IF a beloved character dies.

Pour Out Part of Your Drink When:

  • Nadalind kiss.
  • Nick lies to someone.
  • Sean appears to still be drinking the Black Claw Kool-Aid.

Pour Yourself A Fresh Drink and Chug It:

  • When that sassy end title card appears. Congratulations and our condolences, Grimmsters. Welcome to the Grimm Hiatus!

Disclaimer: participating in this game using anything with actual alcohol content will most likely kill you quickly, so don’t.

You know. In retrospect this was a cruelly prophetic drinking game for the 5th season finale in particular.

Since Diana said “Mom and Dad are waiting”, I’m guessing that Dad refers to Renard. Or is she calling Nick Dad and Renard Daddy? And if Kelly is writing in the books that means Nick is dead 20 years in the future, right? (T___T)

I think Diana was probably talking about Adalind and Sean, and Kelly understood “mom and dad” to mean their mother and Diana’s dad. See this post for my reasons why, based on my own experiences growing up in a blended family.

I also don’t think there’s any reason to believe that Kelly writing in the books means that Nick is dead. I don’t think there’s a hard and fast rule about when a Grimm can start writing in the books. Even if there were, I doubt Nick and his friends/family would follow it. They’re a pretty unconventional lot.

Now, if you mean that writing in the books suggests Kelly has his Grimm powers, which means that Nick must be dead….well, I dunno. It was kind of suggested in the pilot that a family member dying was somehow linked to the next generation getting their powers. But it was never outright stated that this was the case, and subsequent events kind of muddied those waters a LOT.

The net result is that at the end of the show, one of the BIGGEST, most fundamental pieces of the show’s mythology remains unanswered: we never learned what EXACTLY triggers the onset of Grimm powers. All we know is that girls get their powers earlier than boys…but not what actually causes the change at either point. Is it mystical? Is it purely physiological? Is it a bit of both? We just don’t know. And even if we did, we can’t say for certain whether those rules would apply to Kelly, because he’s not just a Grimm…he’s the son of a Grimm and a Hexenbiest. He’s completely unprecedented.

So based on all that uncertainty and statements made by the show producers in several recent interviews, I’m leaning toward Nick still being alive in 20 years. There’s nothing to suggest they want us to think otherwise.

so nadalind is endgame. sorry grimm that was NOT the ending I wanted not at all. how could you burn seven years of history and dynamic for six months of forced passionate obsessive drama/romance? maybe its just me but that sucked and i’m really mad about it. i feel like i’ve been cheated by the writers. i used to love you grimm. why’d you have to go changing on me with stupid plots and a forced fake love story. silverhardt and the fans deserved better than this :'(

I’m…working through it, tbh. It’s pretty clear that’s what they want us to take from the finale scenes in the present day. But in a way, they still left it very open to interpretation by using no direct names of the original Team Grimm in the “20 years later” epilogue.

So. I’m disappointed as well. Very much so. But I’m trying to hold onto a few things:

  • Eve doesn’t get killed off in the end.
  • She gets to keep the powers that she clearly wanted to keep, giving her a way to protect herself and the people she cares about in this dangerous world they live in.
  • She’s happy and in a good place with all the rest of the team.
  • Not pursuing something with Nick again was very clearly framed as her choice, not his. So little about her arc and their relationship was her choice; I’m glad that she got to choose this, at least.

It’s entirely possible that, given time, things could have changed from what we saw in the final scenes. I know it’s unlikely, and it’s unlikely the writers ever meant us to interpret it that way. But. I’m taking what I can get because I love this show other than that heinously bad romantic subplot, and I don’t want to let it ruin all of the other good things about the show that I love.

The thing that bothers me the most about what Diana said about killing wesen is that we are supposed to believe that Nick raised Kelly and Diana and that to me just seems so out of character. That Nick would raise either of them to have a belief or even joke about something like that when for 6 years, he and the show were about showcasing that everything isn’t black and white and that there are other ways to handle wesen. It just bothers me that this was presented as possibly Nick’s influence. 1

Especially with the producers saying that it was a family thing with Nick/Adalind/Diana/Kelly. That line if Diana was genuine comes back to how she was probably raised and taught to think. I wish they had chosen another line. 2

See my previous answer for the reasons why it may not be Adalind and Nick she’s referring to when Diana says “mom and dad.”

That being said, the rest of your point stands. I find the line creates a lot of disconcerting possibilities around how Kelly and Diana grew up, and what they learned from their parents and the other adults in their lives. Then again…even the most well-meaning parents can sometimes instill prejudices in their kids.

I mean look at how quick Monroe was throughout the series to stereotype different Wesen, even as a Wesen who had consciously and deliberately made a choice to do something different with his life than the “old world” way. Even after being a victim of the ugliest forms of prejudice in his world and nearly losing his life, he was still quick to judge and pigeonhole other Wesen in certain situations.

So I see how it could happen even if Nick didn’t intend it to…but I still really, really wish they had chosen a different line.

I found the “wesen to kill” line in bad taste, but I liked the “mom and dad” one even less. It’s Diana saying it, but it still sounds like they want it to mean Nick and Adalind, doesn’t it? :(

It’s hard to say. I doubt Diana would ever call Nick “dad.” Granted, she might if she grew up being parented by both him and Sean more or less equally from a young age.

I grew up in a very blended family situation, and I’ve seen both. I call my stepmother “momma,” for example, because she’s been a mother to me since I was three. Then again, one of my sisters calls her parents “mom” and “dad” and my father “Uncle D—.” And my other sister calls her parents “mom” and “dad” and her sister’s father by his first name. And it’s just understood that whoever’s talking means their biological parents when they say “mom” or “dad.”

So it’s entirely possible that when she says “mom and dad” she means Adalind and Sean, and Kelly understands this. It’s also possible that at some point she started calling Nick “dad” as well…but I find it somewhat unlikely, since she consistently called him Nick throughout the series.

fuckyeahnickburkhardt:

Grimm Fancast: Monroe & Rosalee’s Triplets

We (Admin D and Admin Liza) decided to do a fancast of the triplets, since we never got to see them in the show. We also picked out names for them!

  • Top Left: Isabelle Fuhrman as Farrin
  • Top Right: Asher Monroe as Felix
  • Middle: Quinn Shephard as Fredericka (”Freddie” for short)
  • Bottom: Our beloved Monrosalee!

So what do you guys think? Who would you cast as the triplets?

Admin Liza here! I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the triplets. What would they be like? How would they relate to their parents, Kelly and Diana, and the rest of Team Grimm?

So here are my personal headcanons for the Monrosalee Triplets:

  • Farrin is the oldest, by all of two minutes, followed by Felix and then Freddie.
  • She lords this over the two of them occasionally.
  • Farrin is very close to her Auntie Eve and Auntie Trubel, while Freddie loves them both but has always found them a bit intimidating.
  • Felix is always complaining about his sisters to Kelly, who is quick to put things in perspective with “at least Far and Fred can’t levitate you when they find you annoying.”
  • Rosalee and Monroe never followed through on their plan to leave Portland after their kids were born. They just never “got around” to it. So Kelly and Diana spent a lot of time at the triplets’ house growing up, and all four of the younger kids were often babysat by Diana.
  • Felix has had a hopeless crush on Diana since he was about eight. He’s always shy around her. She, of course, looks at him similar to how she sees Kelly: her annoying but beloved kid brother.
  • Freddie wants to follow in her mother’s footsteps as an apothecary, and has since she was little. She’s naturally inquisitive and loves to experiment.
  • Felix is more interested in history and sociology. He’s attending Northwestern next fall.

Grimm Fancast: Monroe & Rosalee’s Triplets

We (Admin D and Admin Liza) decided to do a fancast of the triplets, since we never got to see them in the show. We also picked out names for them!

  • Top Left: Isabelle Fuhrman as Farrin
  • Top Right: Asher Monroe as Felix
  • Middle: Quinn Shephard as Fredericka (”Freddie” for short)
  • Bottom: Our beloved Monrosalee!

So what do you guys think? Who would you cast as the triplets?

I am frustrated at the finale cause they neither showed us the triplets nor did we get a Monroe and Nick hug but it is still extremely good since I did not expect the happy ending farewell my beloved show 😭

Same! I was hoping to get to see their triplets. I’m considering doing a fan cast of them at some point.

But at the same time, I kind of understand. They had thirteen episodes to answer as many of the questions and tie up as many of the plotlines as possible, and there was no way they were going to be able to tell us everything, much less show us everything. So I’m really glad that, at the very least, we know that Monroe and Rosalee had their kids and that those kids grew up and remained close with Diana and Kelly.