adalind thing, and the fact that we never herd anything from monroe’s parents regarding the babies (i rly wanted to see smth like that), but i still liked it :’) i love grimm sm

Welcome to “The End,” friend! I cried so much during that episode…and at the end of the one before it, too. I gotta hand it to the Grimm writers…they really got us with that finale, possibly more than any other finale before it. And let’s be real: the Grimm finales have never been cake walks.

I mean, just for nostalgia’s sake, let’s recap, shall we?

Season 1

Not to mention Juliette being in a coma and then appearing to wake up with totally blacked-out eyes. Do you know how much wailing I did when it finally sank in that I would have to wait all summer to find out what happened next?

Season 2

Team Grimm trapped in a car surrounded by zombies. And Nick captured by Prince Eric after being hit with Baron Samedi’s zombie virus himself. Again I say: all damn summer. Actually a little longer, because Grimm used to come back a little before Halloween, so we had to wait four or five months. I’m dying just remembering it.

Season 3

Excuse me, Grimm Writers, you did not just throw a de-powering storyline at us in a fricking finale. Except you totally did. Sadistic bastards. Talk about a traumatic ending in an episode that was one hell of an emotional roller coaster anyway.

We had happiness because Monrosalee were getting married, nerves because Nick was going to be at a Wesen wedding, incredulous giggling at those douchecanoe sunglasses they made him wear, squick to the extreme when Adalind disguised herself as Juliette to trick Nick into sleeping with her for a spell, screaming and sobbing when Sean was shot, cheering when Trubel decapitated the guy who did it, nail-biting while she raced to get Nick the cure that Sean had tried to give him, and then a fucking Wesen riot followed by the absolute numb disbelief of this episode’s final moments.

And I’m sure I’m forgetting a few emotions along the way.

Season 4

Okay I’m like blatantly not giffing the most earth-shattering thing that happened in that episode, because it hurts. But we had our first (or what we thought would be our first) death of a member of Team Grimm, and it was horrible, and bloody, and painful, and desperately sad.

And then we had like a fucking SWAT team swarming Nick’s house, and a wild Meisner appeared and straight-up murdered King Frederick, and Hank and Sean helped cover up multiple murders, and it was just wild.

Season 5

This episode could have just been called “Everything Happens So Much,” ffs. For one thing, it was a two-parter, the first and only one we ever got. For another, it was fucking epic.

Portland was at all-out war, Black Claw was taking over, they had Nick’s son, they had Nick, Eve and the rest of Team Grimm were kicking ass from one end of town to the other to save him, then he was saving her, then suddenly she might be Juliette again (at this point my heart gave up on beating and just started vibrating, tbh), and then everyone was hiding in the tunnels and running for their lives and Nick literally died and then rose from the fucking dead and kicked ass harder than he had in the previous four seasons combined, and Diana used her dad to murder Bonaparte, and then the most epic staring contest in history commenced and we had. to wait. eight. and a half. fucking. months. to finally get the final season.

Season 6

And then. The final season finale. Everyone dies, abruptly and horribly and with no space to process in between. Like people were literally on my dash just numb from the horror of watching every single member of Team Grimm drop like fucking flies one by one. It was awful.

And then it was wonderful, and to be honest I usually hate time resets and think they’re a cop-out, but I have never been more ready to accept one in my life than I was by the time we got to the end of that fucking bloodbath. I was sobbing and shaking and cursing every Grimm writer by name.

But then. They gave us this:

The most epic power-walk and showdown ever.

Everyone lives! HUGS ALL AROUND!

One of the most beautiful ending shots I’ve ever seen for a character, in which I’m pretty sure David was fighting tears. I get emotional just looking at it.

And Diana closing the book on the story. Literally.

It was bittersweet and frustrating and it left me wanting more, like the show always did. Sure, there were some things I would have liked to change, and some answers we never got…but that’s what comics, and games, and novel tie-ins, and fanfiction are all for, amirite?

Anyway, you didn’t ask for any of this but I’m not going to apologize at all, because I LOVE GRIMM SO FUCKING MUCH. I think you’ll understand.

What are your opinions if s6? I wish it had more episodes bc it just felt really rushed and they crammed too much stuff in it and it’s probably my least favorite season

I agree that everything felt a little rushed, and we know from previous interviews with the writers that they definitely had a lot more story and worldbuilding than they could fit into 13 episodes.

It’s not my least favorite season, as that dubious honor goes to season 5. But I do think it suffered from some pacing issues due to the shortened length, and I also think the big endgame was a bit of a letdown after five seasons of gradual build-up.

But given where they were at the end of season five, and given what time they had to work with, I still think it was a strong season overall, and it was full of moments I enjoyed. It will never be one of my favorite or most memorable series endings, and it certainly wasn’t how I imagined it ending…but it fit the tone of the show, in a weird way.

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.

a-ripley:

Nick Burkhardt – Grimm 6.13

Source: a-ripley

misscoraline
replied to your post “Since Diana said “Mom and Dad are waiting”, I’m guessing that Dad…”

Greenwalt & Kouf confirmed in an interview that Mom & Dad was Adalind & Nick…

I’ll admit, I haven’t seen that interview…and I’ve seen a lot of them. But here’s the thing: you can send me a link right now to a video of Greenwalt and Kouf chanting “when Diana says ‘mom and dad’ she means Nick and Adalind” over and over for two hours, and I still won’t interpret it that way.

Why? Because whatever they say in interviews, they didn’t choose to make it concrete in canon.

When an author chooses not to state something outright in canon, they leave it open to audience interpretation. They can come back later and say whatever they want in interviews, but “word of god” that does not also exist in canon is not technically canon and doesn’t have to affect how we interpret the text.

If an author wants something interpreted a certain way, that’s all well and good for them. But if they didn’t state it that way in the actual text, they leave the door open for any number of other interpretations, from the mostly-canonically-supported to the absolutely-wackadoo-unlikely-but-still-not-technically-contradictory.

That’s the beauty of interpretation, headcanon, fanon, fandom.

For many reasons, some personal and some canonical, I choose not to interpret that line a certain way. Which is completely fine. After all, the writers left the door wide open.

somekindofsaviour
replied to your post “Since Diana said “Mom and Dad are waiting”, I’m guessing that Dad…”

Thank you. Sean is an asshole, but he’s been consistent about wanting to be Diana’s dad.

That’s how I feel, too. And while I agree wholeheartedly with (and am a living example of) @resistpoisontangface‘s statement that you can have more than one dad–or mom for that matter–I also know that kids tend to pick up on their parents’ feelings about certain things and act accordingly. And I cannot ever see Sean being okay with Diana calling someone else “dad,” least of all Nick. Give it 20 years or 200 years, it ain’t gonna happen.

So based just on my own personal experience, and the fact that Diana consistently called Nick by his first name, I don’t think she meant Nick when she said “dad.” I don’t interpret it that way. It’s fine if other people do, but I never will. And that’s not a reflection on how I view Nick’s role in Diana’s life. That’s just how I feel about how she’d apply the label.

resistpoisontangface
replied to your post “Since Diana said “Mom and Dad are waiting”, I’m guessing that Dad…”

I thought it was pretty clear that Nick was “dad,” and as someone is also from a blended family, you can have two dads.

You can absolutely have two dads, including without any step-parents at all! I never meant to suggest otherwise. If you read the linked post in the ask you replied to, I gave three different examples of how I’ve seen kids from blended families refer to their step-parents, including my own, in which I call my step-mother “Momma.”

They left a lot of things open to interpretation in that last scene, not the least of which was who Diana means when she says “mom and dad.” If you think she means Nick and Adalind, great! You’re entitled to that interpretation. I don’t interpret it that way, and that’s also great, and I’m just as entitled to my interpretation. That’s the beauty of leaving it as open as they did…it gives a measure of closure while also allowing fans to fill in the details that make them the happiest.

Wait so I was just thinking….Kelly said at the end that he knows it’s all true because his father told him so. Not because he lived it too. Not because he sees what his father saw. So….maybe that means Kelly actually doesn’t have Grimm powers (yet?) in the 20 years later epilogue?

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.