User blog:Theory of everything/Grimm Review: Plumed Serpent

Since it appears that the regular reviewers may have gotten lost in the Dragon's Lair, I'll take a turn at this week's review.

Plumed Serpent wasn't the worst episode of Grimm, (I'll reserve that "honor" for Of Mouse and Man) but it was pretty close. I'll have to say I was kind of disappointed with the DamonFeuer. Oh, the fire breathing dragon looked pretty cool when it was breathing fire but it turned out to really be a down on his luck creature with severe heartburn! If that wasn't bad enough for Fred Eberhart (the Dragon), he had a Dragon daughter stripper, who apparently was getting tired of taking care of the old man, so she wanted him to die with dignity by setting him up to be killed by a Grimm. She accomplishes that by being a Beist and messing up Nick's relationship.

That said, there was also some lazy and sloppy writing in this episode. For example, it would have been more interesting if Nick (like he does in every episode) goes to Monroe and asks him what he knows about DamonFeurs and Monroe says something like, "I know there's one that dances at a strip club I kinda frequent!" or something like that and they go there to see Ariel (the Dragon Stripping Daughter). Instead, they set up a hokey scene where, what a coincidence, Monroe is already there! The other example is continuity.

Harper was injured in the last episode and the last we heard was in the hospital. No mention of how she is. I know she is a minor character but she is still a character and in this episode, Wu is apparently burned and/or blinded by Dragon vomit! The last we see, he is being taken to the paramedics. How is he? Blind? Injured? Now on workman's comp? Come on writers, drop in a line or two to let us know!

Also, once again, there was no progress on the sub plot of Renard (I know the next episode is suppose to address that with Adelind coming back) so we end up with just another "creature of the week" which is getting pretty boring!

So on my scale: Two Scythes out of Five for an episode that, in its promotion was promsing, but really "Flamed Out!"