Tag: spoilers

Grimm Sneak Peak: 5×21-22, “The Beginning of the End, Parts 1 & 2.”

It looks like Black Claw is seriously going to be trashing the place…multiple places, even. Are we headed for a showdown in the precinct, not just between Nick and Renard, but between Black Claw and…everyone else? Seems so!

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Grimm Sneak Peak: 5×21-22, “The Beginning of the End, Parts 1 & 2.″

Looks like Portland’s Finest (plus a blurry Monroe) are going to be heading down to Nick’s hiding place to retrieve the Stick of Destiny. But…why does Nick look so distraught in that last photo?

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Grimm Sneak Peak: 5×21-22, “The Beginning of the End, Parts 1 & 2″

Looks like we have some unknown players entering the fray as well. Although who is the person in that last photo? The suit and coat vaguely say “Sean Renard” to me, but the face says “The Haunted Mask.” Remember who you are, Carly Beth!

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Grimm Sneak Peak: 5×21-22, “The Beginning of the End, Parts 1 & 2.″

And here we have three very important photos of…Eve? I mean, the first one is very definitely Eve, but in the second one she appears to be showing a face we’ve never seen before. Is the change in her woge meaningful, or should we just chalk it up to Grimm’s sometimes-inconsistent SFX department?

Oh, and let’s talk about that third photo, shall we? Does anyone else see that very un-Eve-like expression, the lack of a wig, the trusting way she’s leaning toward Monroe in a way Eve never has and probably never would? Someone come yell with me about how Juliette she is in that last photo!!

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Grimm Sneak Peak: 5×21-22, “The Beginning of the End, Parts 1 & 2″

It looks like some bad stuff is going down in HW HQ for sure, a full-scale Black Claw invasion of the previously-hidden base. Also, Hank is looking a little the worse for wear in that last photo. Could using Zuri to find HW’s location be the strategic move against Hank we’ve heard so much about, or is there more badness in store?

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Gotta be honest, I lasted 5 minutes before I bailed tonight. I don’t know if I can handle this episode. I really don’t know if I can handle another show making my favourite character *evil/bad guy* again and watch wondering if they’ll die….

I completely understand. That’s how I felt last year watching what was happening to Juliette. I did a lot of screaming at my screen then, too.

@pixiedustandbluebutterflies and I have talked about this a bit, and the way we see it, there are only a few possible explanations here:

  1. Sean has really gone all the way over to the dark side. This was always in him and we just never saw it because it was so hidden (this would be bad writing and a complete character assassination, imo).
  2. Sean has really gone all the way over to the dark side. This was always in him and we never saw it because we didn’t want to, but it was clearly there (this would be terrible but also really good writing; I could grudgingly get on board with this).
  3. Sean is playing some kind of long game of his own, and doesn’t really believe in anything Black Claw stands for (this seems less and less likely with each episode).
  4. Sean is doing this all for his daughter, and doesn’t really believe in anything Black Claw stands for (this also seems less likely after that last episode).
  5. Sean went into this initially to save Diana, but Diana has been controlling Sean since the moment Black Claw brought her to him (this is the one I’m hoping for tbh, it would explain so much).

What do you mean by not liiking the tone of this season?

Well, I can’t tell you for certain what the anon meant when they asked that question, but I can give you a short list of the things about this season I haven’t liked at all, which have worked together to contribute to the problem:

  • the forced development of a romance that makes no sense between Nick and Adalind.
  • the “hexenbiests and zauberbiests can’t help being bad” thing that is the only explanation they’ve given so far for why Team Grimm (and the audience) should forgive Adalind or why Sean is acting so OOC.
  • Sean being completely out of character, while we’re at it, and the show giving no decent explanation for the sudden change.
  • years of character development for Sean and relationship development between him and the rest of Team Grimm thrown out the window.
  • everyone blaming Juliette for what happened to her while never taking responsibility for their part in it (except Rosalee, god bless Rosalee).
  • Adalind getting tons of understanding, support, and the benefit of the doubt from Team Grimm while having done nothing to earn any of it (and in fact having a history that suggests she shouldn’t be given any of those things).
  • Adalind’s entire character and her arc being scrapped with a retcon that waters her down and robs her of nearly all agency (not to mention makes no sense in the context of the rest of the show).
  • the show abandoning several important themes that have always been at the heart of it (the power of choice over nature, for example).
  • Bud Wurstner being nowhere to be found.
  • the lack of trust between the members of Team Grimm (because I absolutely consider Sean a member of Team Grimm); the split and messed up and uncertain loyalties between people who were toasting to their friendship after risking everything to save one of their own barely more than a year ago.
  • the general “sea change without satisfactory explanation” that has been enacted on so many characters, relationships, and world dynamics.
  • the show’s continued inability/unwillingness to acknowledge that men can be victims of rape.

Just to name a few. I’m still hoping the Grimm Writers will pull through in the eleventh hour, but even if they do, some of this will seem just completely unnecessary.

And the really sad thing is, I think they’re doing most of this to try and make the show seem darker. Yet overall, the show is not really any darker than it’s ever been. Just murkier. Nothing makes sense, and not necessarily in a way that feels intentional.