{"id":937,"date":"2017-04-01T18:37:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T22:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=937"},"modified":"2017-06-13T18:24:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T22:24:50","slug":"a-eulogy-for-grim-part-2-the-series-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/01\/a-eulogy-for-grim-part-2-the-series-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"A Eulogy for Grimm \u2013 Part 2 \u2013 The Series Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/29\/a-eulogy-for-grimm-part-1\/\">A Eulogy for Grimm &#8211; Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spoiler Alert.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t seen it and don\u2019t want to know, don\u2019t read this.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, last night I watched it.\u00a0 Oh, Good Lord.\u00a0 The only theory that could deflect shame from everyone involved in this fiasco is if the writers had all been fired and instead the Producer\u2019s teenage daughter wrote it, while attending a school dance, while texting her best friends, while breaking up with her boyfriend, during a hurricane.\u00a0 Even as an ironic joke or as part of a drinking game (let\u2019s say a tequila shot after each important character is brutally slaughtered) it\u2019s unwatchable.\u00a0 Rather than belabor the point with countless examples of awful television viewing let me cut to the chase.\u00a0 At the climax of the show the hero is about to betray the world to the devil by surrendering to him this ultimate weapon when he is stopped by a young woman snatching it away.\u00a0 He then chases her down, beats her into submission and is heading back to surrender it again when his dead mother and dead aunt calling to him from heaven shame him into a debate about fighting back.\u00a0 But he\u2019s so broken from the beating he\u2019s been given by the devil that the only way he agrees to fight is if his mother and his aunt will fight for and with him.\u00a0 Think about this for a moment.\u00a0 A grown man has to be helped in a fight by his mother!\u00a0 And in fact, most of the damage in the battle is done by his dead female relatives.\u00a0 This truly represents the low ebb of masculinity on broadcast TV.\u00a0 After the victory, there\u2019s a sort of alternate reality scene change where all the main characters are alive again and don\u2019t remember any of the climax as if it didn\u2019t actually happen.\u00a0 Nick starts hugging them all and seems pretty close to blubbering and it\u2019s reminiscent of Dorothy awaking in her bed in Kansas.\u00a0 \u201cYou were there and you were there, and there\u2019s no place like home.\u201d\u00a0 Good Lord.\u00a0 Then the very final scene is twenty years in the future and his son and his baby mamma\u2019s daughter (by his mortal enemy and police chief boss) are now Grimms getting ready to head off with Mom and Dad for some good old American Wessen slaughtering.\u00a0 Good clean fun.\u00a0 Good Lord.<\/p>\n<p>I confess I liked this show when it first came out.\u00a0 My only defense is that it was in the early Obama years and I needed something absurd to allow me to think that maybe none of what was going on in the world was real.\u00a0 After all, if a whole American city could be composed of monsters without any humans suspecting then maybe somehow the world would manage to escape the Obama presidency without mortal damage being done.\u00a0 Silly me.\u00a0 Luckily, now we\u2019re in the age of Trump and I don\u2019t need fantasies to distract me.\u00a0 The reality is bizarre (and entertaining) enough.\u00a0 So, farewell to Nick and Juliette.\u00a0 Farewell to Monroe and Rosalee.\u00a0 Long may you inhabit Wessen-infested make-believe Portland Oregon which is a distinct improvement over the actual horror of SJW infested Portland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Eulogy for Grimm &#8211; Part 1 &nbsp; Spoiler Alert.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t seen it and don\u2019t want to know, don\u2019t read this. 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