Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-3125844-20150306215901/@comment-26232195-20150330173818

68.40.175.6 wrote: This episode annoyed me to no end. The need to catch them and then put them in a human jail is becoming such a massive plot hole it's start to effect my ability to watch the show. The hormones wear off and then stacy is back and he woges, kills prison security and escapes. It makes NO sense whatsoever that they put half the wesen they catch in jail as if they're normal humans. If a blutbad or other violent type of wesen is bad enough to warrant going to jail, usually always for murder,  I don't understand why they wouldn't just get out. I get the whole scooby gang thing but the writers have written themselves into a corner. Nick always has to be saved or "backed up" and all this talk about Grimms chopping off heads, meanwhile he's never even swung an ax. He's more concerned about being a cop than a grimm. That was never ever more glaring to me until this episode. I know people really like that Hank and Wu know, hell I did too at first, but now I am starting to see that by doing so they hurt the story. I wish they could go backwards and NOT tell them. And Monroe and Rosalee always having the answer and the cure is becoming a crutch. Nick should have done what his ancestor told him to do... dispatched of him. He's too dangerous, but then he'd have had to have acted like a Grimm which clearly means nothing at all except for lip service and an ability to see wesen woge.

I don't see it as being so much of a problem when it comes to locking up a Blutbad or a Klaustreich or even a Siegbarste but yeah, you're right, now that they seem to encountering more and more Wesen who can secrete acid, generate mega-amperage electrical currents, etc. things are beginning to get a little dicey. I guess it's not a given that Linus will be able to turn back into Stacy since it's possible that the large dose of hormones they gave him could have permantly damaged whatever organ or neural system give him to ability to woge but, of course, nobody knows. When LInus asked Nick if he would ever get Stacy back, NIck was like, "I dunno."

There waa a stretch back in Season Two when I thought they were really overplaying the have Rosalee look up a cure at the Spice Shop gambit. It was like they had run out of ideas or something. I don't mind them turning to that plot device now and then, especially since they often explain the quasi-scientific ideas behind the concoctions. You would think though that since we have all these secret groups like the Wesen Council and this collected body of Wesen pharmaccolgical knowledge, there would have arisen by now a stealth group of Wesen scientists who are doing things like sequencing Wesen genomes, searching for cures for ailments like the Spinnetod's rapid aging syndrom, etc. That would introduce a little more rigor into some of this.

In conversations, the writers and some of the actors have floated the idea of Nick leaving the police department at some point. Earlier this season they introduced that shadowy group that Chavez belons to which seems to tasked with dealing with Wesen in an extralegal way. Nick wasn't in possession of his Grimm powers at the time so, they didn't recruit him. We haven't found out anymore about that group yet but, maybe they will resurface and Nick will be tempted to join them. That could especially be the case if things go totally south with Juliette and Nick just decides, "Ah, to hell with it!" So your wish that Nick would become a more dangerous Grimm might yet be fulfilled.