Grimm - Season 5
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Holy ******* motorcycle, Batgirl!
I kinda like the Ratking. It blew the lid off what I assumed was the limit to what Vessen are capable of doing. They probably shouldn't do that every week but this was a nice unexpected expansion of their universe.
The problem was, there didn't seem to be enough people in the pile to account for the apparent mass of the beast, and the cg wasn't as good as I'd expect in this day and age of that kind of thing. Commercials have done better.
I kinda like the Ratking. It blew the lid off what I assumed was the limit to what Vessen are capable of doing. They probably shouldn't do that every week but this was a nice unexpected expansion of their universe.
The problem was, there didn't seem to be enough people in the pile to account for the apparent mass of the beast, and the cg wasn't as good as I'd expect in this day and age of that kind of thing. Commercials have done better.
Which isn't really a fair comparison, because commercials can pour all their money and time into just 30-60 seconds of footage, and thus can have higher production values per second than a whole "hourlong" drama episode.
I think it's fair. The entire cg sequence with the beast was only a couple of minutes.
A couple of minutes from a 40+ minute episode of a 20+ episode season. The accounting is different.
Whatever.
The point is, the CG sequence was just one of the many things they had to spend money and time on in the course of making the whole episode, so it only got a fraction of those resources. A 30-second commercial gets all of its resources poured into those 30 seconds. As I said, the production values can therefore be much higher.
Ratzilla was pretty silly.
Remember in the first season second episode, with the bear Wesen family when the mom randomly turned into a bear and rushed to attack Nick? The writers probably realized it was silly as hell and never bothered to do it again... until tonight. That was stupid then and the giant rat in tonight's episode was stupid in this. Terrible CGI didn't help. Wesens turning into animals is just too goofy.
The pairing of the A plot and B plot sucked this week. The plots felt like they were from two completely episodes.
First half was so cheesy (pun intended) with a giant Ratzilla and Monroe acting more goofy than usual, while on the other half of the episode had a super tense story with Trubel gravely injured in a hospital bed ready to be murdered at any moment. Talk about story tone whiplash.
I don't know what to say about the Meisner and Trubel stuff, which is obviously leading into next week. I'll depend on how good the next episode is, and whether we will finally get any answers. So far it feels like absolute NOTHING has happened this season, outside of the terrible Nick and Adalind playing house plot.
Remember in the first season second episode, with the bear Wesen family when the mom randomly turned into a bear and rushed to attack Nick? The writers probably realized it was silly as hell and never bothered to do it again... until tonight. That was stupid then and the giant rat in tonight's episode was stupid in this. Terrible CGI didn't help. Wesens turning into animals is just too goofy.
The pairing of the A plot and B plot sucked this week. The plots felt like they were from two completely episodes.
First half was so cheesy (pun intended) with a giant Ratzilla and Monroe acting more goofy than usual, while on the other half of the episode had a super tense story with Trubel gravely injured in a hospital bed ready to be murdered at any moment. Talk about story tone whiplash.
I don't know what to say about the Meisner and Trubel stuff, which is obviously leading into next week. I'll depend on how good the next episode is, and whether we will finally get any answers. So far it feels like absolute NOTHING has happened this season, outside of the terrible Nick and Adalind playing house plot.
HAHAHAHA! That cheap blonde wig was TERRIBLE on Juliette!
I guess the writers think the Juliette reveal was shocking? I think many of us suspected she was coming back. Probably with new personality change, now with a more friendly plays with kittens version since she saved Nick and everyone. NOT amnesia, please! I'm kind of hoping she is playing a completely new character that just looks like Juliette, so the actress can have some new material to work with.
The rest of the episode before the reveal was good, and I hope that was the end of the uprising arc. That Trubel telling Adalind how weird her relationship with NIck was was great, finally someone points out how weird it is.
I guess the writers think the Juliette reveal was shocking? I think many of us suspected she was coming back. Probably with new personality change, now with a more friendly plays with kittens version since she saved Nick and everyone. NOT amnesia, please! I'm kind of hoping she is playing a completely new character that just looks like Juliette, so the actress can have some new material to work with.
The rest of the episode before the reveal was good, and I hope that was the end of the uprising arc. That Trubel telling Adalind how weird her relationship with NIck was was great, finally someone points out how weird it is.
Yeah, looks like the uprising arc will be the main plot this season. -
Grimm EPs, Star Weigh In on
Grimm EPs, Star Weigh In on
's Shocking Return, Nick's 'Wild' Reaction - http://tvline.com/2015/12/11/grimm-bitsie-tulloch-juliette-returns-eve/
(EDIT: ^Ask and ye shall receive.) Hmm... upon hearing that Tulloch was back, I briefly wondered if I might want to catch up on the season after all. But if she's some sort of "super Hexenbiest weapon," then I don't think I'm interested. What I liked about Juliette was the normal-person perspective she brought, as well as her relationship with Nick, which helped to humanize an otherwise extremely dull character (Nick). Also, I liked her as a redhead.
The Wesen are responsible for the Boston Tea Party? I guess that means Ichabod Crane is a Wesen.
And really it is interesting that Nick and Adalind have sort of settled down. With Juliette as a Hexenbiest it allows her to take an active role in the new storyline. The show has gone from being some kind of Buffy style show to being a battle against the Wesen version of Spectre. Now hopefully we can get away from the Wesen of the week crime.
And really it is interesting that Nick and Adalind have sort of settled down. With Juliette as a Hexenbiest it allows her to take an active role in the new storyline. The show has gone from being some kind of Buffy style show to being a battle against the Wesen version of Spectre. Now hopefully we can get away from the Wesen of the week crime.
I've been following this thread (but not watching the show) in the hopes that at some point Juliette would be coming back because the end of last season left me completely turned off. So my question is: other than last night's episode should I watch the rest of the season so far? Would I be missing cool Trubel, Monroe, or Rosalee stuff that balances out the Adalind nonsense?
You wouldn't be missing anything cool if you just watched the episodes "The Rat King" and "Wesen Nacht". All the important stuff this season were in those two episodes.
You can watch "Lost Boys" too if you are a big Rosalee fan, since she got a lot of focus in that episode.
AVOID ""Maiden Quest" AT ALL COST, nearly the entire episode was about Adalind and Nick's house life. The weakest episode of the season so far. Felt like a terrible sitcom, the relationship gets much less focus in the other episodes.
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