So I’ve watched Grimm almost from the beginning; starting the second or third episode, I was hooked. \u00a0And what’s not to like? \u00a0Great leads, excellent chemistry, and good stories. \u00a0They even played into the whole Nick\/Monroe thing a little bit early on, which was really funny.<\/p>\n
But ever since the start of this season, things have changed. \u00a0Drastically. \u00a0The dynamic used to be that it was Nick & Monroe, coming together to fight the big bad Wesen. \u00a0And then they brought Hank into it, and even had the whole thing with Captain Renard. \u00a0Pretty cool.<\/p>\n
And then they started off Season 3 with Nick as a zombie. \u00a0They inserted Juliette and Rosalee –\u00a0hard<\/em>. \u00a0They’ve basically made this a “couples only show”, and have pretty much separated Nick and Monroe, so that it’s now the Nick & Juliette and Monroe & Rosalee show – with a side of Hank. \u00a0Or maybe a little bit of snarky Wu.<\/p>\n They’ve basically Yoko’d the band.<\/p>\n Take the latest couple of episodes. \u00a0Nick and Hank or Nick and Hank and Juliette in the trailer, relegating Monroe to being at home, and any investigation is now a “group effort”. \u00a0When you’ve got two people playing off of each other, it comes off like it’s genuine. \u00a0But when you’ve got four or five people “investigating” – over dinner or such – it’s just…contrived. \u00a0That’s the only word that comes to mind.<\/p>\n Maybe that’s what the executives want. \u00a0But it’s not what us viewers want. \u00a0We got into the fandom because of the dynamic between Nick & Monroe. \u00a0But now we’re questioning that, because it’s now a little less dark, and a little less about a buddy crime drama. \u00a0It’s now a more “family friendly” and “Hey, those guys shouldn’t be in too many scenes together – let’s throw some girls into the mix” show. \u00a0And if it keeps up, I’m not sure if I’m going to want to stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I’ve watched Grimm almost from the beginning; starting the second or third episode, I was hooked. \u00a0And what’s not to like? \u00a0Great leads, excellent chemistry, and good stories. \u00a0They even played into the whole Nick\/Monroe thing a little bit early on, which was really funny. But ever since the start of this season, things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ZgDO-2M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/walterh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/walterh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/walterh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/walterh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/walterh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/walterh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/walterh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/walterh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/walterh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/walterh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}