Nick's Weekend Getaway

Grimm, S01E16

Nick took off a weekend with Juliette so that he could propose in a romantic setting.  The house in the woods that they rented was near a house where a cat-like Wesen was keeping his bird Wessen girlfriend prisoner so he could steal a golden stone from her throat.  When Juliette and Nick can no longer turn a deaf ear to what has been going on next door, they get involved.  Nick not only took down some Wesen up to  no good, but with Rosalie's help, he also performed a mini surgery on a woman's neck without killing her.  When all of that terror was over, Nick thought it was still a good idea to pop the question, but his lack of honesty lately got him rejected.  Hank, on the other hand, was no longer being rejected by Adalind, and Renard had the two go out on a date.  It becomes no clearer as to why it's necessary to have Hank wrapped around her finger.

I sort of forgot that Nick intended to propose to Juliette already.  Their relationship has just not been that great.  So when he told Hank he was taking off to propose to her, I didn't care too much about it because I knew she would never agree.  The idea for them to leave Portland was mainly an excuse to play out the Wesen domestic violence story.  I mean, how could you care about Nick proposing when you don't really understand why they are together in the first place?  I feel like Hank and Adalind have more chemistry than Nick and Juliette and Hank's under a damn spell.

Speaking of Hank, he's went full out stalker in this episode.  It was a little scary because I wondered how far he would go to protect "his woman."  He did threaten a man who kissed her, but that was all according to Renard's plan (why are people bending backwards to help him??).  I just don't want to see Hank get locked up because he's found sitting outside of her apartment watching her with no non-creepy reason to explain it.

Something else that worries me about Adalind's spell--has it effected Wu?  I could have sworn I saw him eat a paperclip at work.  Maybe I was imagining things, but if that's true, what the hell has eating those cookies done to him?  We don't know yet, but so far he is acting normal (if that paperclip thing was just me).  Why not just tell us now, writers??  Why do you wait like you're adding suspense?  You're just adding fuel to my frustration.

Anyway, the main story was fairly good.  I didn't like seeing a scared and abused woman with her obsessive and violent husband (boyfriend?), but he eventually got what was coming to him, thanks to Nick sticking his nose into their business.  But it did make me uncomfortable, the way he kept force-feeding her, especially in that electric-chair-looking thing.  Before they said he was trying to get her to grow a deposit in her throat, I thought he was going to fatten her up and eat her or something (since he was a cat and she was bird).  It was a little less disturbing that he wanted to cut open her throat and take something out of it.  Seeing Nick do it (who I wouldn't trust to cut a turkey) was bad enough, but I can't imagine how violently Tim might have done it since he probably didn't care if Robin lived or died.

I like that Monroe and Rosalie are getting along so well.  They are definitely making goo goo eyes at each other, but Monroe isn't making any moves yet.  What is most interesting is that Monroe seemed a little hurt that Nick has started to use Rosalie for Wesen information just like him.  Almost as if Monroe has to be the only Wesen he can call for how-to advice in the creature world.  I would love to see this expanded upon in the future.  No one can replace Monroe (Nick would be lost without him), but Rosalie could certainly make him "jealous."  Then again, why fight over helping Nick?  You don't get any rewards (or concern about your well-being from him).

They brought up another "mystery" by showing that Rosalie's brother had several different passports in the shop.  Um, is that really important??  If the dead brother's past isn't relevant to things that are already going on, I'm going to be really pissed that they gave the audience one more thing to ponder.  Just stop it!  Finish your other mysteries and then start a new one.  

One thing that was more annoying than some random question I may not want the answer to was when Nick finally took down Tim and the stone broke into pieces.  Nick let out a classic cop-show line saying:

You know what they say, Tim--you got to break a few eggs to make an omelet.

Really, Nick?  Even if there was someone else around to hear you say that (besides Tim), why the hell would you say that hackneyed line? He lost a good bit of credit with me, surprising me that he had any left in the first place.  He actually made me put my hand to my face.  So lame!

Another complaint I have against Nick is that he could have Juliette as his fiancee easily if he'd stop lying!  When she gave him a perfect opportunity to come clean about the recent terrifying and eerie events, he just tried to smooth it over with telling her all that mess would just be done soon enough.  Um, that's not reassuring at all!  Thank God she decided to learn to use a gun because Nick is committed to leaving her ass in the dark.  And she's not about to marry someone who is so closed off to her.  Juliette's reasons for turning down Nick make think she is about the smartest person in this show.  Her reasoning was completely valid.  So much so that Nick couldn't even argue with her and left the room without a word.

I think this episode was all right, but all the extra things around the main story were in the way of it being a solidly good one.  I want to see more of Monroe and Rosalie (we only got a little taste), and I'd like to see why Nick even loves Juliette or they need to not bother with their relationship at all.  I'm interested to see what will happen to Hank the more he falls for Adalind as much as I want to see what residual effects that spell has for Wu.  And I'm begging the writers--please no more new questions.  Answer the old ones.