Board Thread:Grimm News/@comment-3125844-20150616211415/@comment-25862208-20150714192253

82.21.236.214 wrote: Thanks @PDXBlazer I feel so much better for you telling me it's allegorical. I'm still done with the show. It's not going in a direction I care to follow.

I'm equally certain they knew what they were going to do with the keys in season 1. Pretty sure they said then that they'd reveal all about them in season 5. I wouldn't make any presumptions about what direction the show is headed in until you get a real good look at Season 5 and what happens in the first couple of episodes. So far, only a few episodes of Season 5 have been written, and we do know that they are going to try to return to their "roots" and more of a Season 1 type of feel, so I would actually say that if you liked the show when it first started (I know I sure did), returning to the mythology of Season 1 really should pique your interest to see what Season 5 brings.

As for the keys, I don't think the producers introduced that storyline with no idea of where they would go with it. I would encourage people to check out the Seven Keys page; there were a couple possibilities mentioned by Renard of what the keys might lead to, so that's some evidence right there that there is at least a couple ideas the producers had early on in the show.