Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-1.175.95.73-20150528183119/@comment-65.32.187.146-20160318181948

Juliette always struck me as one of those characters that the writers didn't know what to do with. Her character archs never really had much power. (And I hate to say it, but her facial expressions don't vary much, no matter what's happening.) I believe the writers ran out of ideas to make her significant. She was barely hanging on -from a writer's point of view. When I have characters like that, I delete them. Or, if it's too late, I kill them. They might have had the idea of killing her from the beginning and changing her into an evil character was the justification.

The give-aways were the characters, one by one, abandoning hope for her. In previous episodes/seasons, they never gave up on each other. First Nick's friends backed out of support for her (willingness to try to save her) and then Nick told them that if Juliette showed up, they would kill her. To me, those statements against Juliette were very telling of what the writers had in mind. I was not surprised that Juliette died.

As for Nick's mom, I knew immediately that the woman walking into the house was not the actress Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Mastrantonio has a very polished pressence. The woman who walked the kid up the stairs was a stand in, whether or not Nick's mom is really dead. As for whether or not she SHOULD be dead. Well, if your going to kill them, keep them dead. It was a heart-breaker that she died. Don't dilute the drama by bringing her back.

As for the trailer: I knew that was getting torched from season one. It was sort of like killing the hero's dog. You can't go through that many seasons with an achilles heel like that and not have it wind up on the chopping block. As a writer, I'd have burned it too. lol. The idea is to elicit an emotion response and the trailer burning was the perfect way.