Grimm

[Disco LT]

Anyone seen any of this? Just started watching it recently, in some regards it seems like a bit of a Supernatural rip off, but a few episodes in and so far it's interesting.. but not much else, yet. Thoughts?

[Mythor]

I really like Grimm. And it's been picked up for a second season, so I guess it's not going to be another one season wonder, which is always nice.

There is a bit of a Supernatural vibe to it with the monsters and stuff but the two are plenty different in other ways.
The big question is how are they going to convincingly not have the Grimm die due to an organised group of monsters who're sick of him interfering? He's got to run into some serious trouble along the way and his luck can only realistically hold out for so long!

It's one of the better new shows I've seen.

[Princess_Jade]

I don't mind it, character development is kinda slow if not, non existent. I love stuff that's a (darker) twist on the classic fairy tales (read Zenescope's Grimm Fairy Tales). Once apon a Time is another good one imo

[Drakand]

I'm enjoying Once upon a Time.

I downloaded and watched about the first 5-6 eps of Grimm when it screened in US and just found the episodes to be somewhat repetitive. The main guy is ok and his cop partner is pretty good but overall the show didn't really do much for me....which is very strange considering this stuff normally gets me straight away.

[jmcev]

Im watching both, but i reckon grimm is slightly better because it's a little less childish.

[Nekosan]

Enjoying Grimm, can't stand the other show, i like the oldschool dark fairytales rather than the modern style that the other show is doing.

[Drakand]

I guess the reason Grimm didn't stay with me was because it was just a cop show with the fact that the killer and investigator are supernatural.... as opposed to a show like Supernatural where they are hunting monsters and operating outside of societal rules.

[Nekosan]

I guess the reason Grimm didn't stay with me was because it was just a cop show with the fact that the killer and investigator are supernatural.... as opposed to a show like Supernatural where they are hunting monsters and operating outside of societal rules.

Yeah it's a bit thin most of the time tbh, a show like Supernatural has much fewer constraints on what they can do storywise, Sam and Dean just do whatever they need to and the aren't really bound to any one setting/location. I think freedom like that is something greatly needed in a "monster of the week" style show.

[Drakand]

absolutely and i think that is where Grimm has lost me tbh. I'm normally quite easily pleased when it comes to tv/movies, i'll normally find a positive aspect to most stuff but I just found myself being bored in this.

However I do have different views on shows to others so wouldn't just go off my opinion

[Ezelek]

Sam and Dean just do whatever they need to and the aren't really bound to any one setting/location. I think freedom like that is something greatly needed in a "monster of the week" style show.

I vehemently disagree. I think both Buffy and Angel did the whole Monster of the Week shtick in a single location and it worked pretty damn fine.

[Drakand]

they did do it very well, i won't disagree with that, however all of their work was done outside of 'societal restrictions' whereas the show links, by making him a police officer and linking his stuff to criminal activity, means that the same sort of scenario plays out each episode.

[$had0w]

i only just started watching this because of this thread and im confused.

So the grimm is the only one that can see these people for what they really are (and eachother of course) so the humans that get mauled by these creatures, are they just thinking 'wtf is this man doing biting my arm' instead of 'holy **** a wolf thing is chewing on me!'

and if the found a corpse, would it have human bite marks or animal?

[Nekosan]

i only just started watching this because of this thread and im confused.

So the grimm is the only one that can see these people for what they really are (and eachother of course) so the humans that get mauled by these creatures, are they just thinking 'wtf is this man doing biting my arm' instead of 'holy **** a wolf thing is chewing on me!'

and if the found a corpse, would it have human bite marks or animal?

Humans can see the creatures only if the creature wants them to and the humans mind is receptive to the concept, grimms on the other hand can see them whenever the creatures have emotional spikes. If a Blutbad (wolf-man thing) mauls someone then it will appear as an animal attack (that should have been seen in the first episode).

It makes for some weird situations, occasionally i find myself thinking "nobody would fall for this ****" when something happens and they try to play it off as something else.

[$had0w]

i only just started watching this because of this thread and im confused.

So the grimm is the only one that can see these people for what they really are (and eachother of course) so the humans that get mauled by these creatures, are they just thinking 'wtf is this man doing biting my arm' instead of 'holy **** a wolf thing is chewing on me!'

and if the found a corpse, would it have human bite marks or animal?

Humans can see the creatures only if the creature wants them to and the humans mind is receptive to the concept, grimms on the other hand can see them whenever the creatures have emotional spikes. If a Blutbad (wolf-man thing) mauls someone then it will appear as an animal attack (that should have been seen in the first episode).

It makes for some weird situations, occasionally i find myself thinking "nobody would fall for this ****" when something happens and they try to play it off as something else.

that doesnt really make sense unless theres some massive coverup conspiracy, or the creatures have a 100% kill success rate. Surely someone lived and told people that theres these creatures out there over the hundreds of years...

I really do like the show, but it really does seem quite illogical

[KlonkPro]

The fact this this show had a 24 episode first season instead of the usual 10-13 shows that the network has faith in the show. I personally like it a lot better than supernatural mainly because the main guy in Grimm isn't just interested in killing everyone but instead tries to get as many people to walk away.