Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-24399666-20151114213555/@comment-24399666-20151115163819

Lurkenfrau wrote: Are you kidding? It's obvious to me that it was love-at-first-sight with Nick and his baby son.

I have been around enough new fathers to recognize that look of wonder and adoration that Nick has on his face.

And kudos to David Giuntoli for his acting chops in managing to do it.

He's not a dad in real life, that I know of.

In every scene where Nick is gazing at his son, or carrying him...or even when he did that little playful kitching move with him, in that upstairs scene at the house as they were readying to leave...Nick has been the adoring new father.

Nick is a tough guy, and you are not going to see him act like a drooling idiot over his son.

So I wouldn't expect that.

But he is acting exactly like I have seen other tough guys like him act toward their new babies.

It would be fun to see Nick have to change a poopy diaper, though...or get peed on. :D

So we will have to wait and see if the writers give us something like that. No, not kidding. :| You're seeing a great deal more than I am.

At the end of The Grimm Identity, I saw Nick being unsure if he even wanted to hold his son, and only wound up doing it because he felt pressured into it. Of course, he was still in shock, from... everything.

In Clear and Wesen Danger, I did see concern about how Kelly was doing, and there was that scene where he stood over Kelly's crib and just stared stoicly at him, without touching him...

I don't recall the "playful kitching move" as they were leaving the old house... [goes to hulu, checks it out]... you mean that tiny up and down motion when Kelly starts to cry? Isn't that how everyone holds a baby? I mean, I have like zero experience with babies, and even I would do that with a baby that's starting to fuss. I do like the little shushing, and really like the look that Nick gives Kelly after he puts him in the car seat, though... I think it was just forgotten because it led straight into that "you were my first" conversation. :|

I'm not so sure I'd like to see Nick get peed on... it still feels too soon after the events of Cry Havoc, for a total tonal shift into "Three Men and a Baby." But maybe a scene where he's talking on the phone about a case while calmly dealing with the aftermath of getting peed on or spit up on.:) And... yeah, him sitting in a chair, holding Kelly, calming him, or clearly just for no other reason than that he wants to hold him. Or maybe even Monroe could come over (assuming Monroe is not included in the "nobody knows where we are" statement) to babysit, and we could see Nick giving him instructions. Maybe after Adalind gets a job, they'll have to share in the, "find somebody to watch over Kelly" task, and we could just see Nick briefly handling it on occasion. Nothing major; nothing that takes away from whatever the main plot is, just a little thing. Maybe any indication that Kelly even crosses Nick's mind while they're not actually in the same room...

I don't know; I'm just brainstorming how, without changing the focus of the show, they could fix the problem I currently face, where, even after three episodes, I still have a hard time feeling a fatherly bond between Nick and Kelly. Now that you've prompted me to rewatch the scene where Nick's putting Kelly in his carseat, I do really like that scene (at least until they started on, "you were my first"). More of that, please. :)