User blog:Lurkenfrau/Dropped Plot Points? Maybe Not...

If you've watched Grimm since the beginning, then you may have noticed...and been frustrated by...characters or story elements that appear and then are gone, and rarely mentioned again. The Keys, the Coins, are two of these story elements. Then there are characters like Elizabeth and Diana, who appeared and then disappeared. They may come back, or we may never see them again. It occurred to me that this is like the storytelling that we see in old folk tales and fairy tales. In those, there are elements and characters that appear to further the Main Story...then they are gone. We don't question this because it is a stand-alone story. In a TV Show, we've come to expect a different way of presenting a story though. Most of the time, a TV Show is serialized storytelling...and if something is brought up and focused on for a while, it is often revisited later in subsequent episodes. In Grimm, the Wesen of the Week episodes show us individual stories that are pretty much stand-alone stories. We don't really expect to see those characters or props again. There have been TV Shows that are basically a collection of stories, like Tales of the Crypt and Night Gallery. But Grimm has been structured differently than those, and has given us a main storyline of Nick and his life as a newly aware Grimm. So anyway, I wonder if the showrunners have seemingly 'dropped' some plot elements and characters because it is in keeping with the old folk tales and fairy tales that they reference in this series? I was glad to hear that they will be revisiting the story of the Keys this season. They probably got tired of people asking about them. Heh. Thanks for reading, and please feel free to leave your thoughts below. If you're going to throw something at me...I prefer Pie.