Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-1.175.95.73-20150528183119/@comment-26976525-20151022042444

I noticed Nick acting out of character in the first season. He was suppose to be this modern man with a equalitarian relationship with his girl friend Juliette. Then Nick started keeping secrets from Juliette about being a Grimm.

I thought Nick was acting more like a medeviel father than a modern boy friend to Juliette. Turns out I was right. When Woman in Black aired the episode the quote was from Little Briar Rose, the happy version of the sleeping beauty. Nick wasn't the prince, so what part did he play in the story?

Turns out he was the King, Sleeping Beauty's father. It's Nick who receives the "warning, prophecy, curse" what have you from Aunt Marie that it's too dangerous for him to stay with her. How does Nick protect Juliette from this curse? The same way the medieval father did in Sleeping Beauty. Nick kept Juliette ignorant of the Wesen/Grimm world. The trailer represented all the knowledge of the Grimm's so Nick drove the trailer away from Juliette's house.

In Sleeping Beauty, the father uses ignorance to protect Beauty. He orders all the spinning wheels out of the castle. The father hopes if Beauty does not know about spinning wheels she will be safe from them. Just the opposite happens. When Beauty first sees a spinning wheel as a teen she reaches out and pricks herself.

Nick won't tell Juliette about hexenbiests or why she should be wary of Adalind. Hank brought Adalind to Juliette's attention not Nick. When Juliette saw Adalind's cat she had no reason to be wary of Adalind and so reached out and got scratched.

Ignorance does not protect children. That's the message of Sleeping Beauty. Nick acted out of character because he was out of character. For those scenes with Juliette he was caught in the role of a medieval father/King and that's why he was not acting like himself.

Btw a trailer has wheels. When you move it the wheels spins. Driving the trailer away from Juliette was a pun on the king taking away the "spinning wheels."