Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-26516813-20151015022913/@comment-24399666-20151024060623

HowtobeaGrimm wrote: It's the cycle of life. Every generation of young people say they are going to be a different kind of generation from their parents. They are not going to repeat the tyranny of their elders but make a better world.

Then they start to have a track record and discover you can't do good, if you can't do anything because you are dead. So survival trumps over justice and a new tyrant is born.

Imagine Nick writing down the story of Juliette's crimes and her death in a Grimm  book and his son reading it 20-25 years later when he first starts having Grimm powers. How would  Nick sound to his son? Would his son pledge that he would never do that. Under no circumstances would he kill the woman he loved and yet when the time comes...... How very depressing.

Regarding what Nick's son might think of Nick's writings... I think that, by the time Nick is emotionally ready to write any of the story, then he will be prepared to write the whole story. Including the fact that he feels guilty for 99% of it (whether he is or not is immaterial. It's how he feels). Or if, by the time he's ready to write the story, he's also past his guilt... well, knowing Nick, the guilt will last a long time after his anger does. So, out of respect for Juliette's memory and the love they shared, he'd be especially careful to be fair in his retelling. And by then, he'll have the added benefit of hindsight.

So, yes, Nick is better than his forefathers, because his forefathers thought of themselves as above the law, whereas Nick is just not in a position to be able to care about that... right now. There's a difference.

At the moment, Nick is kind of broken. It'll take time to put himself back together, but it will happen eventually, because he's strong enough to do that, and because Grimm is, at it's heart, an optimistic show (as exemplified by Monroe and his capacity to rise above his biology, Nick's capacity to do the same, and their friendship, and that's just off the top of my head). When he puts himself back together (or his friends put him back together), he will be stronger for it. Perhaps somewhat harder as well, but he'll still be Nick, not some Endezeichen Grimm.