My issue with Grimm (which I'll admit is a show that I would probably drop if my partner wasn't into it - in exchange we also watch Agents of Shield) is that it's never been a smart enough show to really grapple with the implications of its setting. But it always could! We can hope.

Like many people I do sometimes worry that the show is too committed to Bellamy to acknowledge fully what a monster he is. In my reading of the show the way the rest of the cast tolerates him works because he's so completely on their side and such an asset. I have no trouble with Clark keeping him around and relying…

I feel like Barry's real dad is more in the line of fire. Which would be fine with me. Joe is at least moderately important to the day-to-day business of the show. I hope your sense of doom is incorrect.

Completely agreed. I'd be super into it if, like you said, the tone-deafness was a character beat for Nick, and one that his friends were uncomfortable with (Monroe: "Dude, aren't you focusing on the wrong problem here? This isn't about Renard seducing away your girlfriend, this is a cult that abducted your child as…

It hardly needs to be said at this point but they are really not very good police officers.

I don't think so. I feel like she would(/will) choose Nick over HW.

I'm hoping that next season, presuming Renard is dead or gone, a new captain comes in, starts to review the books, and pay more attention to them. In most shows that would feel like backsliding but they've never really had to work around the conventional authorities and I think it could be fun.

Gotta say I'm kinda skeeved out by how Nick, and by extension the show, is playing all this. First, making it a relationship thing ("she left me") rather than an evil organization thing seems… off to me. The problem here isn't that Adalind is breaking up with him - it's that she absconded with his child to AN EVIL…

I mean I should say that I think both characters are awful people, and either could easily be a villain on a less complicated show. By "don't have a problem with" I mean, "think it makes sense based on how he's been shown to be" (even if it was all a little rushed and I thought the Gina fridging was unfortunate).

I'm maybe the only person who doesn't have a major problem with how Bellamy's been portrayed this season (he was always an grounder-hating asshole; he's always been tolerated because at his best he's hypercompetent; in the latter half of the show they've been too pressed to be able to really hold him to account for…

I think you're correct. "Trust" here means "can rely on" not (necessarily) "thinks is a good person". And she's correct. Because when it comes to ludicrous feats of heroism when everything seems lost, Bellamy's about as reliable as they come. (he's just also a dumb mean asshole)

I'm nearly certain it was Rose. You don't win wars by being nice.

I was just priming myself to write a thousand word response, but I think this covers it, actually, thanks.

Sure, totally, and no argument from me on Argus. I'm just saying that the failure to do a thing that as far as I know literally nobody has ever done or even had a chance to try to do (shoot an ICBM out of the sky at a moment's notice), and that I'm not sure is even reliably doable in the first place with real world…

Oh, maybe those are the scenes I'm thinking of. In any event, I honestly think it's that there aren't a lot of emotionally intimate scenes between adults of opposite genders in film and television other than between couples, and a director with less experience subconsciously ends up sexying it up because that's how…

I'm holding out hope that the show will finally deal with its Malcolm problem this season. Love John Barrowman, but seriously, it's time.

… wait, I'm hardly an expert here, but my impression was that current missile defense techniques are rather unreliable, especially against advanced systems and with little warning (remember that minutes before the launch the world's impression was that every nuke would go off, and nobody was focusing on this one in…

There were one or two episodes, I think shortly after he told her he was the Arrow, where the director didn't seem to know how to shoot non-romantic scenes between the two of them? It was super weird, like, mood-lit shots and they're sitting on the couch facing each other but the focal point is actually the empty air…

My brain immediately went to "is Arrow cribbing from The 100?" Except it's Arrow so there isn't actually a difficult moral choice, just an arbitrarily impossible situation.

I mean, it seems like she probably won't be coming back? But yeah, there's nothing crazy about wanting to explore every possibility. Maybe it gets back to characters vs caricatures, though - Quentin is very relatable, so even in impossible scenarios his emotional responses right true.