Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-98.117.68.195-20150503215639/@comment-24399666-20151114170226

So... Lost Boys just aired. And in terms of Nick and Adalind's relationship, this was just weird.

I mentioned before that I'm actually coming around to the idea of shipping Nick and Adalind, but it's got to be done carefully, guys! Totally outside of the moral standpoint... just from a character continuity standpoint, the emotions at work should make any romance between Nick and Adalind a long, difficult development.

Nick and Adalind were far too comfortable and chatty in this episode. Far, far too comfortable, far far too soon.

And the scene at the end... at least they showed Nick being sleepless, staring at the ceiling. That was good. That paid attention to character continuity. Which is good, because I like this show, and the minute the writers think that something as basic and vital as "character continuity" is something that can be discarded at will, is the moment any show goes irreparably downhill.

But seriously... Nick, Adalind just said that she didn't want to be in the room alone. Fine. Then take the mattress and bedding with you into her room, and sleep on the floor! Who cares if it's awkward? She deserves a little awkwardness. (and from a story standpoint, good redemption stories start with awkwardness and guilt.) And you'd be a heck of a lot more comfortable there, then lying right next to somebody who your instincts must be screaming at you not to trust. Because a) you're a Grimm, you therefore have Grimm instincts, and she's at least sort-of a Hexenbiest, and b) given what she did to you last year (and never mind the reasons... they're irrelevant to Nick's feelings), even your human defensive instincts must be in overdrive, screaming, "She's going to jump you! Run!"

Again, though... I do like that they showed Nick staring wide-eyed at the ceiling, long after Adalind had gone back to sleep. That makes sense. But still... Nick decorated the place; he should have known that there was just the one bed in there, and so, given that he agreed to sleep in the room in the first place... I'm still trying to figure out how Nick's first instinctive reaction, once he decided to give in to Adalind's request, wasn't, "ok... I'll need to find a place to sleep. The floor would be better than the bed... Adalind is in the bed. I'll need some sort of cushion and bedding, though. If I drag the entire bed in, that'll probably wake Kelly. But just taking the mattress in probably wouldn't; it's pretty light."

Again, that's not a moral thing. This is about character continuity. One of the main building blocks of good storytelling.