Grimm, S01E14
I knew from the preview that in this episode Nick was to face a dragon, and Juliette would be kidnapped. You would think that would make for a superb episode, but it didn't. I figured Nick would stick his nose into some creature business he wasn't supposed to and make a new dragon enemy who would kidnap Juliette to get back at him. Well, that's not exactly what happened...
Nick's investigation of a dragon breaking into a warehouse to steal copper, led him to his flame-dancing daughter, Ariel, at a club (where Monroe is a regular customer). She was a little flirty with him, which I thought was just an attempt to fluster him because he was a Grimm and a cop, but she later jumps him and halfway opens his shirt. Granted, Nick was acting like a stalker himself (he had no legal right to follow her home and trespass in her yard), but the last thing I thought she would do was kiss him. To make things worse, Ariel answered his phone and made Nick sound like he was fooling around. He kinda was, so I'm glad he was whipped enough to run home and explain himself.
Thanks to that stunt, Ariel started stalking him and lured him to her house so she could sneak into Nick's house, abduct Juliette, and sneak into his bed. You knew it had to be Ariel in his bed, but Nick was less furious and shocked about her being there than I would have thought. He did chase after her into the street (shirt open for all those lady fans), but I feel like he could have been a bit more freaked out. She wasn't just a psycho who had his girlfriend; she was a dragon psycho. For all he knew, she could have burned her up already!
The rescue part of Juliette was beyond moronic. If Monroe wasn't there at all, I'd think Nick had lost his damn mind. He didn't even have a plan on how to defeat the dragon (I suppose he didn't find any information on their species' Achilles heel) and figured because he was a Grimm, he'd be all right. Monroe made a huge deal out of this point, thankfully, so it wasn't as if the writers were dismissing Nick's brash actions. In the end, he just winged it or either the old dragon just wasn't on top of his game enough to burn Nick into ashes, despite he only had like a copper rod to fight with. Nick managed to run the dragon through and took his sweet time escaping before Ariel burnt the whole place up.
Juliette finally met Monroe after he helped her escape, but you could tell that she was curious about the relationship between him and Nick (as she well should be). She also seemed to realize that being with Nick had a lot of drawbacks that she probably hadn't noticed before. The way Nick and she talked after the rescue, it looks like they may break up indeed. Well, I can't say that I would blame Juliette one bit, nor do I feel bad for Nick. After all, they haven't invested a lot of time into the depth of their relationship. Perhaps if they did some kind of flashback to when they first met or something of the like, I might cheer for them to stay together, but right now I don't know the extent to which Nick loves Juliette and vice-versa. Nick obviously values his job (and I think being a Grimm) more than he does Juliette, so why would anyone demand they stay together?
Aside from this pitiful rescue that didn't do anything to give me a thrill nor fill me with romantic adventure, Monroe pointed out something that seemed very significant: another Grimm was decapitated recently and the reapers seemed behind it. Or at least, I think he said "reapers." If he did, when did Nick and he discuss about reapers coming after Grimms?? When I heard that I was like, "Hold up!" It's very possible that I missed something because Grimm is pretty boring at times, but there's no way I can be sure without re-watching the episodes (hell no) or searching the internet for the information. Does this mean that Captain Renard all this time was supposed to be getting rid of Nick or something? So confused!! And not in the good way that makes me want to continue watching. In the angry way, like I've been fooled.
Ariel also didn't die, which sucked. I don't want her to come back. Her brand of deadly seduction wasn't clever or creative or even entertaining. She was just crazy and her plan seemed scattered. I would have much rather the spider lady had gotten away than her.
One last thing. I didn't get why the dragon were hoarding copper. It it because copper has some kind of heat-resistant property? OK, I don't remember much from school, so I'd have to look that up. I'd rather a character blurt that information out like I'm an idiot (which I am, I guess) instead of me having to do the work. I was so confused about that too. And now I'm annoyed because Grimm is making me feel dumber than I am.
This episode was decent, at best. We still have yet to see Nick release his true Grimm powers (whatever those are) and put up an interesting fight. I think he did a better job as a gladiator than he did as a dragon slayer. It's time for him to Grimm up and impress us with his battles against the creatures, instead of fumbling around like a moron. Or at least if he is going to continue to do this, he needs to make better use of his unofficial sidekick Monroe. As weak as Nick is, I'd rather watch an entire episode of Monroe fixing clocks at this point.
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