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Party Plane Jones posted:Orphan Black moved at Mach-10 and look what that got you. A meandering as all hell second season which had maybe 5 really good moments total. Most of which involved Helena. But that's just a matter of planning far enough ahead. Grimm's writers have said they do not plan ahead at all. 
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Oct 27, 2014 04:27
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hangedman1984 posted:Not that I don't think Wu absolutely deserves to be clued in, but Juliet is awesome*. Yeah, it took them long enough but she's finally a real character. I said it before, I'll say it again, they handled Wu like a bunch of assholes. Should've brought him into the fold then. Now there's probably going to be some awful you let me thinking I was crazy arc or something
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Oct 27, 2014 18:00
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Good-Natured Filth posted:... it seems a bit ridiculous that the writers turn to Adalind for a lot of the main Grimm-problems that we've seen. Adalind is the Avatar of Lazy-Writing.
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Nov 2, 2014 01:58
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Grimms are bad ju-ju for Wesen. If ingesting her blood would have nullified his Wesen-ness, what did absorbing her memories do? I think Octopus Head failed a saving throw vs madness.
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Nov 2, 2014 04:28
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I really think the show'd be twice as good is they tightened up the scope. Constraining Wesen/Royal global geopolitics to a scale manageable by A Few Cops & Friends is where all the awkwardness comes from, by my estimation. If they leave it at Renard making some calls and using his pull to establish Portland as a neutral city, it'd make for a cool atmosphere. It'd also establish Portland as a Casablanca kind of deal. The wesen and royal crowd seem pretty eurocentric so what's one port city in the American hinterlands? You'd have a bastard royal, two grimm lieutenants and some henchmen to manage things. You'd also have a reason for the bizarrely high concentration of wesen. And if they went that direction, they could write forever about building an underground city-state.
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Nov 3, 2014 03:48
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johntfs posted:One thing I loved was Renardmom's declaration "To beat a hexenbiest like Adalind, you need a hexenbiest like me." At which point we cut to Adalind freaked out and stuck in her cell. It was almost like the show itself responding with "Why?" Seriously. Time Stop is a lvl 9 wizard spell and that's some serious poo poo. Boogaleeboo posted:To be fair they deserve literally everything that happens to them for this go round. You don't just take someone's kid and lie to them, then let them wander around half mad with grief. If she's so evil and/or incompetent you can't trust her not to gently caress everything up, have the decency to kill her. At a certain point you have to learn that throwing Adalind under the bus just ends with her going insane with rage and blowing your world up in revenge. Nick & Co.'s To-Do List:
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Nov 10, 2014 09:11
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Keep in mind that if you kill Adalind, baby'll gently caress you up.
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Nov 11, 2014 03:06
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Nick, Civil Rights hero, seems like a fun angle to take.
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Nov 22, 2014 06:21
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She needs to be Chuck Cunningham-ed.
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Nov 22, 2014 07:41
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Her scenes would've played better set up as Enhanced Interrogation: Cast Confusion, Cast Drain Intelligence, Cast Maze. Then she's dumb, bewildered and bouncing around a labyrinthine Skinner Box designed to strip her sanity and it's: A) Given a solid pretext, B) Appropriately high-powered for the royals. By the way, I'm thinking the show might be better a little D&D-ed up. What do you all think?
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Nov 24, 2014 08:12
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It's my understanding the writers don't really plan ahead, and Adalind just looks like spackle filling in the problems which come up when you're writing on a schedule by the seat of your pants. Adalind needs to be replaced by an espresso maker and a corkboard in the writer's room.
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Nov 26, 2014 01:46
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I'm just glad they didn't drag Nick with no powers on any longer. Also could somebody remind me who Josh is? I think a dying Grimm wanted to give his key to the nearest non-rear end in a top hat Grimm he could find: Nick. John is that Grimm's son.
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Nov 29, 2014 08:19
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hollylolly posted:Why does everyone keep coming up with the idea that Trubel is going to be written out? I'm going to go against the flow and say she isn't. I hope she sticks around and starts getting bit parts in action movies.
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Dec 2, 2014 17:23
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Bored posted:Yes. She is loving awesome to watch fight. She's actually certified in stage combat!
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Dec 2, 2014 22:48
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Bored posted:She gives the moves weight, is what I mean, if that makes sense. Absolutely, it looks like if she missed there'd be a stunt guy taking the rest of the day off. It's much, much better than seeing another poor actress in high heels trying not to fall over during high kicks. Accretionist fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Dec 3, 2014 |
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Dec 3, 2014 00:41
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Maybe they'll give her and Josh screentime? I'd be pretty happy if they ripped off Supernatural for a few episodes and then had some 'Filmed on location in Philadelphia!' action.
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Dec 6, 2014 08:46
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johntfs posted:Digital databases/libraries aren't necessarily fully secure and there's probably quite a few secrets in the Grimm journals that need to stay secret. Magic aside, it's pretty goddam difficult to "hack" paper. Who said it had to be networked? You'd need to physical access then, which compromises books all the same. Point being that Team Grimm needs an IT guy. I wonder how Wu is with computers?
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Dec 6, 2014 14:56
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And they really need to straighten things out with Wu. Seriously, what the gently caress?
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PreviewChat: Oh, god damnit. Read him in already, assholes!
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Dec 12, 2014 16:40
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I hope they don't try to franchise her off by giving her a happy middle-class existence in Phillie(?) with John. I'm still hoping the writer's'll develop Portland as a shadow city-state run by Renard and his human and Grimm lieutenants.
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Dec 12, 2014 17:44
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I've been taliking about the Casablanca/Lisbon vibe since the first season Thanks! I probably got the idea from you, then. It's really good. I wonder how we could get it to the writers...
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Dec 12, 2014 19:49
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However it works, I just hope to god it isn't some dumb bullshit
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Dec 13, 2014 20:19
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I hope the Hexenbeast thing's purely visual. It's easy to rationalize with, "Form resists change." Her body snapped back, but she's only human. She adopted Adalind's wesen-character but what's there to snap back? Nothing, so it lingers.
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Dec 13, 2014 22:16
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Martout posted:I won't presume to know what the hell the writers are thinking though, they are all over the place and plenty of things are wildly inconsistent. I wonder if they like Soap Operas. Those things have crazy writing.
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Dec 16, 2014 21:58
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Grimms are reputedly terrifying but Nick's kind of just a brawler. I figure he's got to have a number of latent powers that just haven't been activated yet and zombie-mode's probably one of them. His super-hearing's pretty cool, too. What's he displayed so far, anyways? He's got:
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Jan 17, 2015 21:40
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Haha, I like the notion of impeccable handwriting and sketches as a Grimm power. Makes sense as an implication of enhanced fine motor control, too.
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I liked the no nonsense telekinesis. The dude starts to conk out because she's poking at his brain and then *pew* the back of his skull goes flying. It was like gross slapstick.
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Jan 24, 2015 06:00
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If I were doing the Closed Captioning I would've put in [Pew!]. Also, I often run Netflix or whatever else in the corner of my ~palatial~ monitor with the volume low and the CC turned on. CC is often very terrible. I wouldn't trust it for guidance.
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Jan 30, 2015 17:52
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That lady was playing it fast and loose with health and safety. Hasn't she ever heard of pass-through?
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Jan 31, 2015 05:03
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Party Plane Jones posted:That house seriously needs cheaper furniture at the rate they destroy it. That's like the eighth time poo poo has gone down there. They need to start buying furniture designed for the morbidly obese. That stuff can handle straight up tonnage.
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Feb 14, 2015 06:25
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Wu looks like he's about to drop Blue Steel
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Feb 20, 2015 17:40
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pentyne posted:That was some terrible, terrible acting at that end. Reminded me of this anecdote I heard once about Bruce Campbell sending back SFX work with the note, "make it more B-movie."
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Mar 21, 2015 08:54
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Biomute posted:I dunno why they're suddenly courting the daytime/soap-opera crowd. I think they just don't have enough gas in the tank. Writing's hard work, but formulaic writing's easier.
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Mar 21, 2015 16:18
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Plus, royal blood gets around. If you're of European descent, you've got a king in your background. Hell, Pocahontas, an upper crust Indian, ended up in England and now has a lot of descendants so now there's a very large number of thoroughly white people kicking around today who have traces of European and Native American blue blood. So, if concentration is a factor, anything you could do with the blood of a Royal should be doable with the blood of 200 homeless men, and I don't see why Royal blood should be anything but a time saver.
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Mar 22, 2015 13:55
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If Claire Coffee has blackmail material on the writers, they should just have Adalind's surprise twin sister, Linda, kill Adalind and join Team Grimm.
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Mar 28, 2015 19:02
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BarbarousBertha posted:I am kind of looking forward to Juliette the Hexenbiest now that she has Adalind's grimoire. Juliette does not gently caress around when it comes to research and problem-solving when she is in her right mind.
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Mar 29, 2015 05:51
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pentyne posted:The preview was mind-numbingly stupid. They're actual going in the worst possible direction with the show that they could've. Maybe... maybe they're just all out of shits to give.  Edit: God, I got through that episode in about 10 minutes. These writers need to be replaced. Accretionist fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Apr 4, 2015 |
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Aces High posted:well, can hardly wait for the explanation why that thing in the preview for next week happens. It would be some grade-A, "I want out of my contract," writing.
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