Are you sure Hitler was a blutbad? I was getting the impression he was the same vessen the spaniard was - you know, the ‘baby eaters’ - but I wasn’t entirely sure - .
The NBC Grimm site says"Three Europeans, Hans, Soledad and Yuri, prepare for a jewelry heist. Hans, Yuri and Soledad are all Shakals, or Grimm jackal creatures. ", but Nick identied Soledad as something different. I don’t think shakal had been encountered before, or shown from the book, so it’s strange that the official network site would include it in the episode guide.
The episode title: was the jeweler the fuchsbau, since he had the three coins ‘in’ him?And he was able to resist the call of the coins, knowing all he had to do was take them out of the box?
I wonder if other real life characters will be suspected of having one of the other 7 coins. Donald Trump comes to mind. Or some historic villian.
I agree that Hitler didn’t look like the blutbads shown previously, but it is hard sometimes to see what they are or how much of their human features are still recognizable after the change for some of them.
Hitler’s hair reminded me of a badger, but he was so evil there has to be some new monster created to account for him
I was wrong - the thieves were described as shakals. I don’t know why I didn’t interpret what I heard to the written word. Realized it too late to edit.
You know, I’m not entirely sure either. I always have trouble telling the different vessens apart. I just took another look and he definitely has a werewolfy look to him with the extra sideburns and fanged teeth. We might need to get a second (or third) opinion on this.
Here is a link with a video for those curious: http://io9.com/5890385/grimm-reveals-hitlers-true-identity
I had to groan when I saw Nick pick them up bare-handed!! Grimm or not, he’d seen what the things did to other people - and his partner was wearing gloves when HE picked them up. Why take the risk?
This was my thought: ‘He should melt those suckers down. Yeah, but doesn’t he need Oroduin to do it?’
Kolt did say that Grimms were more resistant than most to their effects.
I hope they bring Kolt back. It’s not clear as to whether or not he was involved in the death of Nick’s parents. Think about it. If you were Aunt Marie in 1994, wouldn’t a father figure for your orphaned nephew be a good thing? Unless that father-figure was, unfortunately, one of those responsible for the death of his parents?
But. Kolt struck me as a guardian figure, perhaps one that had failed, but who was still trying. I mean, what if someone had told Aragorn to forget about the Ring? He couldn’t; it was his greatest task, but he could have fallen to it. Kolt may or may not have been trying to protect the world from the effects of the coins, and he may or may not have become addicted to them himself. The fact that he clearly knew the schakals (jackals, btw) quite well doesn’t speak well for him, but then guardians often have to be comfortable in the underworld:
[QUOTE=Bilbo Baggins]
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
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[QUOTE=Oy!;14838062 If you were Aunt Marie in 1994, wouldn’t a father figure for your orphaned nephew be a good thing? Unless that father-figure was, unfortunately, one of those responsible for the death of his parents?
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Quite what I was thinking. It’s been awhile, but if I recall Aunt Marie had a kind of “all fairy-tale-creatures are evil” sort of mentality going on. Which would rather
cast doubt on Kolt’s story, yea? It would mean either he was straight lying, because she’d never fall for a non-human; or he betrayed her in some way (such as killing her family maybe?) and thus encouraging a sea-change and a hatred of FTC’s.
The bees also told him they were there to help him, warn him, something that indicated they were good. Did the journals give any hint that they could be useful, or not always bad?
I wonder if Aunt Marie didn’t give Harley a chance to explain. Maybe it looked like he was involved, but really wasn’t.
Could also be that her Grimm power did not kick in until their death(s) and it was only after that that she realized he was a mother flocker and shooed him away.
That reminds me. The queen bee wanted to warn Nick that something big was headed his way and that he is in danger. But the writers seemed to drop that.
And I doubt it’s that one guy what wants to kill him but got his ear cut off by the captain.
There’s also the way she raised Nick completely ignorant of the whole Grimm thing. If she’d kept Birdy McSmokemonster around, Nick would’ve probably glommed onto the whole “holy shit monsters are real!” thing sooner.
I wasn’t too happy with how fast Hank bought into the coins causing him and the Captain to start acting strange. He shouldn’t be so willing to believe in magic, even if it’s presented as the impurities in the gold.
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[li]He and the captain both acted strangely.[/li][li]The thing they had in common was the coins.[/li][li]There’s documentation saying that that the coins should not be touched.[/li][/ol]
He wasn’t buying into magic, he was buying into some weird chemical reaction. And even though it’s very unlikely, there really isn’t an alternate explanation.
The captain’s blonde monster was a part of that plot too. She seems to have disappeared. I thought she was going to be to the captain what Monroe is to Nick, but I guess not.
She’s a Hexenbiest. I guess she’s a reoccurring character and not part of the main cast. Unless the writers decide to drop her character too then hopefully she’ll be back.
Blonde lady (Adalind Schade) will be back, and Jessica Tuck will be playing her mother.
No discussion on the Mar 9 episode? Ms Panabaker played an interesting character, and Monroe finally meets Juliette. Sounds like next week we will find out more about Renard.
Brian
“Next week” is unfortunately March 30. (Boooo!)
Not a bad episode. I guess the daughter dragon living means Nick has someone to still worry about.
And I wonder if Juliette is human after all. I was thinking they’ll eventually reveal her to be something, but if she was I think Monroe would have been able to smell it. But maybe not.
It’s nice that we’ll finally get to see what the captain is up to.
I’m wondering if the aunt never told Nick about his heritage because she wants to break with tradition. It seems that the vessen that hold on to the old ways don’t do so well. So maybe by not having Nick be like all the other Grimms she was hoping to change things for the better. Or maybe I’m over thinking things. It will be kind of interesting to see.
:eek: I missed that. Grimm is helping me fill the void left by the break Fringe is taking. I’ve already given up on Once Upon a Time. Now what’s left?