Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-70.138.43.170-20170402155843/@comment-41.10.3.116-20200111154946

Lucille55 wrote: Rpmaluki wrote: One doesn't need to bake cookies to be a "good guy dad" to have a close relationship with a child..... I think there needs to be, otherwise there wouldn't be scenes with Renard going above and beyond to cultivate his relationship with Diana. I also think their relationship didn't start with the cookie baking episode. I have a feeling it started long before when they were in the mansion.

As for Nick, it was shown that Diana had a distrust of him when he assumed Renard's form. While Nick did it for an entirely different reason, the child Diana wouldn't understand. She would think as a child does, that Nick was trying to take her father's place. Even if Nick were to lavish care on Diana (which I highly doubt), there's still that episode and from his point of view, there's no explaining that away to a child. Renard spent far less time with Diana so of course he went above and beyond for his daughter. It's more than expected.

As for Nick and Diana, their relationship was tense, at the start. However, compare Diana, who got rid of the woman she thought would replace her mother's place in her father's life to the Diana opening the portal at the end so Nick could return home back to her mom (someone who's definitely taken Renard's place in Adalind's heart), BIG difference! That shows relational progress or else Nick wouldn't have needed to protect Diana from Z (he would have left Renard to do that by himself) or want his family (Adalind, Kelly and Diana) back when Kelly and Aunt Marie talked some sense into him. We may not have seen Nick bake cookies but he certainly went out of his way to make Diana feel at home at the loft. Sure N & D didn't like each other at the start of the show, they liked another well enough at the end. That is what matters. After 20 years I'm more than certain they are close. We'll have to agree to disagree on Nick being a good "dad" to Diana.