More problems with Grimm
May. 11th, 2013 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethno I don't know why I'm still watching it, because it's there or something, I should probably change it for something actually interesting and with subtitles.
despite one (one) moment of woman saving man so far the women as victims problem continues. it combines weirdly with women as feral inherently violent bad things. I'm not liking the whole Grimm concept, there's far too many examples of ugly=evil and too few of people just getting on with their lives. But there's moments of ordinary people who just happen to have an alternate face, and Monroe continues to be by far the most interesting character.
Actually, I'm starting to think Monroe is the only character. Nick just kind of stands in the middle of the picture and has stuff happen to him. I don't get what his conflict is supposed to be, what emotions he's having, what is up with him at all beyond being a cop. Hank and Wu have more characterisation each, and so far all I know about them is Hank has a lot of ex wives and worked a lot of cases, and Wu apparently does all the uniform cop work in the whole city and then goes to the pub with Hank. Nick just continues to exist. He's incredibly bland. It seems like it must take work to keep him that bland. I'm on disc three and everything I know about him and how he feels about the world I learned in the first episode. He's a cop who sees weird things and has a girlfriend he's worried about endangering. That's it, that's all, there is no more.
Boooooooooored.
From a screenwriting point of view I'm severely unimpressed.
Unless Monroe is secretly the protagonist, because he has a lot of interesting character details, relationships, reactions, and a whole character arcc around violence and what sides to be on, so he's kind of great.
... he's not on the cover of the DVD set or the name in the title of the show. they accidentally a protagonist? :eyeroll:
I'm watching TV because there's a lot of boring and I might as well watch something. And I'm watching this because I own it and if I don't watch it sometime I will be stuck wondering. But it's lots of layers of rubbish.
despite one (one) moment of woman saving man so far the women as victims problem continues. it combines weirdly with women as feral inherently violent bad things. I'm not liking the whole Grimm concept, there's far too many examples of ugly=evil and too few of people just getting on with their lives. But there's moments of ordinary people who just happen to have an alternate face, and Monroe continues to be by far the most interesting character.
Actually, I'm starting to think Monroe is the only character. Nick just kind of stands in the middle of the picture and has stuff happen to him. I don't get what his conflict is supposed to be, what emotions he's having, what is up with him at all beyond being a cop. Hank and Wu have more characterisation each, and so far all I know about them is Hank has a lot of ex wives and worked a lot of cases, and Wu apparently does all the uniform cop work in the whole city and then goes to the pub with Hank. Nick just continues to exist. He's incredibly bland. It seems like it must take work to keep him that bland. I'm on disc three and everything I know about him and how he feels about the world I learned in the first episode. He's a cop who sees weird things and has a girlfriend he's worried about endangering. That's it, that's all, there is no more.
Boooooooooored.
From a screenwriting point of view I'm severely unimpressed.
Unless Monroe is secretly the protagonist, because he has a lot of interesting character details, relationships, reactions, and a whole character arcc around violence and what sides to be on, so he's kind of great.
... he's not on the cover of the DVD set or the name in the title of the show. they accidentally a protagonist? :eyeroll:
I'm watching TV because there's a lot of boring and I might as well watch something. And I'm watching this because I own it and if I don't watch it sometime I will be stuck wondering. But it's lots of layers of rubbish.
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Date: 2013-05-11 10:34 am (UTC)women as victims: again, with the being prepared for surgery by lying there in her underwear.
gross and bad.
next after that we kick off with some sexual violence, attempted rape it looks like, but being turned around so the victim turns deadly. The layers of wrong in that.
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Date: 2013-05-11 11:56 am (UTC)gladiators: there are no women in this story. Except Juliette, who waits, and stares at the ring.
How does nobody notice they've made a world with no women?
the most women was in the episode with the ogre, because there was a woman police officer to say one line.