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I missed the start of the series and have only been able to watch Shazam Slam on OnDemand. I wish that Susan Eisenberg voiced Wonder Woman and that Matt Ryan voiced Constantine. Love that Kevin Conroy is back to voice Batman. I'm not a fan of the animation except for Batman. I was distracted by Wonder Woman's unkempt hair and Constantine's style of speaking. The styling of Wonder Woman reminds me of DC Super Hero Girls. I wasn't a fan of the ensemble for Justice League Unlimited. Too many characters who needed their own plot. Man, Batman and WW get no love, but there's time for Huntress and Question's relationship? (I'm just bitter.) Same here. Might as well make each episode a one-shot for an individual character. Overall, I like the plot of Shazam Slam. It's not at the level of Justice League, but it's not exactly tween material. And Batman continues to be the alpha male among alpha males. He owned that episode. If he existed in real life, panties would be dropping left and right (sorrynotsorry). :)

Sad to see the death of great characters: Father Bennett, the nuns, and the eclectic couple. I love that this show does a pause, so the audience sees what happens as Pazuzu moves from body to body. With such a high body count, I hope that this show becomes an anthology. Each season, Marcus and Father Tomas face a different situation/demon. [Fox, give this show a chance.] Jessica is gone. Yay! Horrible character that brought nothing to the show. Now that she's gone, I hope that Tomas becomes an interesting character again. Geena Davis as Pazuzu is compelling. I really like the entire Rance family, so I'm invested in what happens to them.

It's weird to not have an episode of Grimm around Halloween. I don't miss this show, and I usually stick with a show until the bitter end. At least the Exorcist TV show is really, really good, and it's a good substitute for Grimm.

Among the main cast, I want everybody to die by Renard's hand a la Forever Knight and to have him skip town. And I would cheer if Nick gets his head chopped off. Not Bud. Never Bud. Let the Beavers control the city, so everybody can get pie. Delicious pie.

What happened to Gus and Quinlain? I watched every episode, so how did they get separated? Did Gus and Angel leave? Gus was a badass in S1 and S2. In S3 he's reduced to crying over his monster mommy. Go back to Quinlain. How was Eichhorst healed from the silver in his body? If the Master is powerful enough to heal Eichhorst, how would the silver in the box stop him? I still don't know how the Ancients could have easily been killed by the nuke and by the undead horde. There is a mystical element here. I hate the faux relationship between Dutch and Fet. They were amicable when Dutch decided to go back to her dramatic girlfriend. There's no way that Fet would brood over Dutch; he has more important stuff to get done--saving the world, killing Zach, etc. I can't stand that Fet has been reduced to a jealous ex. Ugh, c'mon. Badass, heroic Fet could get it with a lot of those women in NYC. Fet should have a problem with Eph because Eph stole the book. Not because Eph and Dutch are doing it. [I miss Nora a lot. She was an excellent buffer between Fet and Eph. Dutch, not so much.] Fet, Abraham, Quinlain, and Dutch were great with in the fight with the Master. They will survive the apocalypse. Zach, again, I have to repeat: I fuckin' hate you. I fuckin' hate you with the fury of 1000 suns. I hope that Fet kills you with his bare hands while Eph watches. You are the worst. I want to punch your try-hard Damian Face. Spoiled brat who blames Daddy for killing Mommy. Mommy had started the fight, Dear One. Zach is worst than Eichhorst and Desai. He has no problem with his little pet killing a decent human who wanted to keep him safe or with his Mommy feeding. He hasn't been turned, and he's not an idiot. There's no excuse for using the nuke, for injuring and killing people in the blast, and for the dark days ahead. Eph, I blame you and your little shit son. Next season, you better choose wisely. If you can't see evil staring at your drunkie face, you should happily accept a bullet to the head from Fet.

I'm not invested in the Avengers, but I do like this movie a lot. Wow, 1980s RDJ was so pretty. Spiderman and Black Panther are great, so I'm excited about their solo movies. Cap and Sharon are boring. I don't care enough about a potential love story between them. I do hate that Peggy's death was used as a prop to move forward this romance. I can't help but like Baron Zemo. I can understand that this movie is about the complex ideologies that are represented by Tony and Cap. But as the movie progressed, I had forgotten them, and my reaction is that this movie was all about Cap trying to save Bucky. I like Barnes in Cap 1. In this movie, I like his action scenes. If he talked or emoted, it was lost on me. I can only remember that he asked Falcon to move the car seat. The most compelling thing about him is whether he got to eat his plums. I'm not invested in Cap or Bucky, so I was irritated that all the trouble in this movie is because of Cap's love for his precious Bucky. That was my gut reaction. Tony's an ass and always thinks that he's right. But he also gets a lot of criticism too, and many of his judgement calls have been terrible. I don't doubt that Tony has a lot of guilt and grief over his terrible decisions. Here, Tony's one of Cap's antagonists who is portrayed as deeply, deeply flawed. In the end, Cap gets to walk away with his precious Bucky while Tony lays there in his grief. Nobody's there for him. No matter how much of an ass Tony is, he doesn't deserve that. Where's the justice for the Starks? Why doesn't Cap go find the Hydra people who are responsible for their murders? (I assume that Tony will be motivated.) Those same people manipulated Bucky. Or will Cap be too busy fawning over his frozen body? I wasn't moved by Cap's letter to Tony. Cap was sorry that he didn't tell Tony about his parents, but Cap didn't mention anything about his--and Bucky's--condolences for them. And it certainly wasn't implied. No condolences for Tony's loss and no condolences for their deaths. No mention about how Tony's father was meaningful to Cap, e.g., how Tony's father was searching for Cap at the end of Cap 1. I wouldn't say that Tony is the villain but that Steve is treated as the hero. Tony is the antagonist who furthers and props Captain America's story of heroism. <eyeroll> I agree. Steve didn't do anything to mitigate what happened in Lagos. He didn't like that Wanda was under house arrest. OK, so what should have happened, Steve? Let her free while many people are afraid of the Avengers? I'm not offering a solution or an opinion of Wanda's house arrest. It's just an example of how Captain America doesn't take any responsibility for the consequences in Lagos. In this case, he doesn't even offer a solution. Yup, his team, his responsibility. From Cap 2, I believe that Steve was going to look for Bucky. Here, Steve wanted to be the one to bring him in. Steve doesn't trust the government and the Accords. What was he going to do with Bucky when he caught him? Hand him over to people who were going to throw him in a hole without any due process? When this entire movie was about Justice For Bucky? When Bucky decided to re-freeze himself, he said that he chooses freely. And if Bucky decided not to get frozen again? What do you do, Steve? The dude is still dangerous, and Zemo was able to reboot him. I still can't believe that Steve took a vulnerable Bucky to find Zemo. Before this movie, I was meh about Cap. Now, I find him insufferable. Regardless of the Accords, none of these superheroes is going to follow them. This entire movie was about how these superheroes are never going to follow the Accords.

You recommended the show, so I watched two episodes. It's pretty good, and the brothers are likeable. I'm surprised that nobody has irritated me. It popped up on my Netflix Recommends Because You Watched. Its description was misleading or lacking because I thought that it was something out of ABC Family/Freeform. I never watched Breaking Bad, but I knew enough about it to understand the finale. I thought that it was good because the characters got closure. Grimm's problem is that the writers make it up with every episode. It would never be at the level of Breaking Bad, but they didn't bother to figure out what to do with the Magic Stick, which was a big deal in S1. Or the Coins. Nothing on this show is planned or conceptualized. From Nick's powers or how this show will end.

And how is Juliette/Nick as end game more palatable than Adalind/Nick? Neither gets a pass for their actions. The writers try to whitewash--and inadvertently, defang--Adalind. It will be nothing compared to how much whitewashing the writers will do for Juliette, so she can remain the special snowflake who always wins because she's some badass. What's friggin' aggravating is how Adalind has always been a prop for Juliette. Juliette is the special snowflake, and Adalind is always weak and pathetic. She exists in Grimm to be abused by men and to highlight how Juliette is an alpha badass. This show cold have potentially transformed Adalind into a good hexie. Instead, she's boring. (That's Nick's grimm superpower. He makes women bland.) Juliette gets to have it both ways. In the end, she'll be redeemed or excused for what happened to Mama Grimm and the Grimmabago. Meanwhile, she gets to play a rude badass who creeps around Fake Portland in ridiculous wigs.

Don't take it personally. This show hates everybody. Hilarious. How many times is Renard going to get shot? I have a feeling that this show shoots him for the Shirtless Rage. When he was shot as Jack the Ripper, his chest literally filled the screen.

For most of this season, Rip has been insufferable. Now, he's less so because the show is heavily implying that he'll sacrifice his family for the rest of the population. Rip is deeply flawed; however, his best moment was trying to rescue Carter because the blood ritual was horrible. He has had his small moments. However, he's certainly not altruistic or noble or heroic. He may want to save the world, but it's a distant second to saving his family. If Kendra gets called out for not killing Savage at the expense of her boring boyfriend, Rip should be called out for the same reason. Rip is under no obligation to save anybody other than his family. But there's no way that he's altruistic, noble, or heroic when he wants to save only his family. As a Time Master, Rip had no problem leaving Calvert to be wiped away. He deserved the punch from Jonah Hex. Before his family was murdered, Rip didn't do anything to stop Savage. I have no doubt that Rip was aware of Savage in the timeline. He could have tried to stop Savage at any point, including when Savage unleashes the Armageddon Virus or his giant robot. When it was apparent that Savage was openly rising to power, he could have done something, including saving other people besides his family. He also could have asked for help from the Time Council at an earlier point. Rip had no interest in stopping Stalin and his purge. He could have gone to a time period with Stalin and Savage, who was learning to torture people from Stalin. Instead, he went after Savage alone because he was directly responsible for the death of his family. He didn't do anything until Savage became personal to him. All those people that Savage murdered before Rip's family are just as important as Rip's family and Savage's future victims (post-2166). Repeatedly, he watched his family die. He kept manipulating time for a different outcome for his family. He's still trying. How many people did he try to help along with his family to escape Savage? I don't know. He doesn't seem to mention other people when he talks about saving his family. He didn't talk about gathering other people to escape in the Waverider when his family was murdered by shock-troopers. He mentions his family. That's it. He was irritated when the refugees boarded the Waverider. Martin was the one who insisted. I don't think that it occurred to Rip to save those people from the encampment at that moment. I don't know. It's pretty, pretty bad to murder a minor who hasn't done anything to save your son. A life for a life. He doesn't go through with it, but it doesn't make him noble, heroic, or altrustic. He didn't want the team to know what he was going to do. That sounds like hiding something. Sara deduced what Rip was going to do. It's a less flattering portrayal of a traumatized character, but he still needs to be called out when he's an asshole and when he's being selfish. His trauma doesn't give him a pass. Sara doesn't give herself a pass for her bloodlust. If Rip doesn't see himself as a hero, that's great. He's not. A hero struggles to rise above his own flaws. Rip won't rise above his own flaws until the finale when he has to sacrifice his family. I agree. Initially, Rip choose people who wouldn't be missed in history. However, they're still people, and their lives matter. Futurama did a great episode about sacrificing Fry for the sake of the universe: What's one person in the face of billions? But it was my life. Being around good people like Martin and Jax probably helps Sara too. Same with being besties with Cold and Mick. As individuals, they have bonded and have become better people. Cold and Mick have become better around Sara. Rip has been less than honest with the team. He hasn't fully disclosed everything. If he's willing to sacrifice the team for his family, he's kinda using them. If he didn't warn Jax about the possibility of radiation poisoning while fixing the Waverider, he's kinda using them. These people are adults and chose to stay with Rip to fight Savage. However, Rip has been less than honest with them. Maybe with him being less than honest, he does gain a little something. Like not having radiation poisoning, so he can be alive when he reunites with his family.

Best part of the episode: Sara having her Capt. Kirk moment. When she sits in the captain's chair and when the "seat belt" comes down, damn, she's going to get stuff done. She looks heroic. I agree. Rip is a terrible captain because he's a sulking mess. Drop the dead family from his backstory, and he would be great. If the dead family issue is resolved in the season finale, I hope that he would be able to make better choices. Or bring back Little Rip to become the new captain. In this episode, I didn't find Rip as insufferable as I usually do. He was honest with how he would sacrifice everybody for his family, and the Time Council was manipulating him--probably since he was orphan. What wasn't cool was sending Jax to fix the Waverider. He knew the possible danger of radiation poisoning but didn't warn Jax. That's the type of play from Rip that I find insufferable. I liked that Stein did the right thing and put Jax in the jumpship. Awww, he didn't to ask if anybody else wanted to go. I'm disappointed that they didn't fingerpoint at Kendra/Mary Sue. I can't believe that Barry Allen is no longer the most insufferable character in the flarrowverse. Kendra would have been more helpful if she stayed in her room and fainted on her chaise lounge. Fainted from the love/obsession from all these men. She wanted Carter to regain his memories. Why? She doesn't have all her memories. If she left him alone, he would be a mindless drone for Savage. When Savage dies, he'll be a mindless drone for another bad guy. He'll be a Minion without the personality. What's the big deal? He keeps getting stabbed. He's useless as a hawk-warrior, so he's not going to be helping anybody rule the world. It should be a running gag for this show. Every season, Carter shows up to immediately get stabbed. Kendra continues to be as useless as Carter. I don't think that she had any training as a goddess/priestess. She didn't like the mace that Carter gave her as a birthday present. Sara had to continue to train her. There's no way that she would have been the last person standing against Savage and Carter. Ray, you were a hero in the last episode. You're an idiot in this episode. Vandal Savage. He's not a Big Bad, but I didn't mind him in this episode. When people visited his cell, he used the opportunity to mindfuck them. I kinda respect that. And I was so damn amused that he kept Rip's nudie pen. I can't wait to see what Sara, Cold, and Mick do to the Time Council. Mick, here's your chance to exact revenge for having them send the Pilgrim to kill you. Sara and Cold get closer. Cold, you can always get it, you sexy beast. Sara, enjoy. Randomness: Mick eating sugar-free food. I feel ya, Mick. That stuff sucks. More Randomness: In his cell, Rip looked hot in those jeans.

I agree. That's why Batman >> Superman. It's easy to be a superhero when a person has special powers. [I'm looking at you, Zombie Nick.] I hope that Meisner is a normal human who doesn't need to be a Grimm or a wesen to fight.

71) Monroe! Is it his first or last name? 72) Where is Magique? I hope that she's still roaming around Portland. 73) The Magic Stick. What is its history? What can it do? Can I use it to summon a Patronus? 74) What happened to Renard's mom? Where's she hiding? 75) Lots and lots of Royal families still around. What have they been doing? Is one of the Royal families from Japan? Do they still want to kill Renard? 76) Bring back the Reapers!

I wonder how they could change the quality. It seems like they're still down the rabbit hole and unable to get out. The writers seem to be doubling down Hank. I think the tone of the show could change if the show got rid of the conspiracy and espionage.

I agree. Nobody is normal in the Grimm universe. Why bother to pretend that Fake Portland is a normal city? Hank is great character who tried to keep Nick calm. I'm guessing that Nick is going to go off the deep end and to become a vigilante. He'll be like every other Grimm who kills all wesen. Add another storyline for the last season. Did True Blood start to kill main characters in its last season? Maybe that's what the Grimm writers are going to do. They're not going to care about closure; they're too busy updating their resume.

There's nothing wrong with Carter not remembering who he was. Maybe he could develop a personality.

Yes, they did. Well, that would make a lot of sense. Renard was never a powerful zauerbiest, and Adalind is a failed hexenbiest. Their offspring should have been a mediocre biest.

I'm tired of Singer's love of Mystique. DOFP was about how the future was dependent on Sad Raven being less sad. Now, it looks like the Mystique show. Ugh, where's Cherik? Wolvie's back. If he sees a young Jean Grey, maybe he'll stop his obsession with her. It's going to be squicky.

I'll assume that next season is the final one. I already wish for a Forever Knight twist with Renard as the last man standing. I'm curious what others want for a series final season and want for an ending. I bet that the writers will continue to do everything that people hate about the show--Adalind/Juliette/Nick, Diana, unanswered questions, dropped storylines, etc. They'll double down, and the backlash will be hilarious. The same thing happened with How I Met Your Mother.

In the beginning of the episode, Rip, Sara, Cold, and Mick follow Savage's entourage. Cold and Mick take it upon themselves to create a diversion. Hilarious. Rip continues to fail to middle-manage them--colloquially, a bunch of likeable monkeys with blowtorches. I'm kinda disappointed that Savage's big weapon is a robot. I'm more impressed with the Armageddon Virus. Awww, Ray, you're definitely a hero for playing Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em. It would have also been cool to watch Firestorm fight the big robot. Give Jax/Martin more to do. Sara Mick, and Cold are the MVPs of this show. Wow, Cold can always get it. He has great chemistry with Cassandra. I can't believe that Rip isn't the most insufferable person on this show. However, he's an idiot to hold Savage in the Waverider. What's the worst that could happen? It's not like Savage could escape and kill Kendra or something. But Kendra did put Rip in that position. She really is the stupidest person in the flarrowverse. Ray deserves better than to get sucked into her wishy-washy inability to commit. Yup, Rip is a terrible Time Master. He leaves time in such a mess. "Time wants to happen" sounds a lot like time is immutable for certain timelines. Say, for example, the death of his family. But he's special, so he thinks that it would work this time. He keeps repeating it to himself each time that his family is murdered. Kendra isn't the type of person who kills casually. Mick guessed that she hasn't killed anybody, and he asked her if she had the ability to kill Savage. [Yay! Team Mick. His perceptiveness should be an asset to the team.] Ciara Renee is a terrible actress, and Kendra is a terrible character. Older Kendra would have been able to put down Savage. Bring her back to finish him. While Ray was fighting the big robot and while the team was fighting Savage's forces, Kendra can't bring herself to kill Savage. I couldn't believe it. The cutaway between Kendra and Sara, who was in the middle of fighting--ugh. A brainwashed Carter would live his life without knowing who Kendra is or his history. What's the problem? Carter is her past; Ray is her future, as she likes to say. At this point, I'm actively rooting for the death of the Hawkpeople. They need to take their epic love story far away from my teevee.

I can't stand that Nick's only options are Juliette and Adalind. Lots of other women out there. Plus, Nick has always been portrayed as some stand-up guy, so I can't imagine why he can't casually date. If Nick went the loner route, he wouldn't have to go dark. His close relationships keep him from being some loner vigilante. The Magic Stick(tm) is still a mystery. I think that it's insulting for Guintoli to say that. The Grimm audience can appreciate human complexities like grief and sorrow. I think that showing grief, pain, inner struggle, etc. are character-building and that the audience appreciates it. Juliette doesn't deserve rehabilitation without some sense of punishment. Same with Adalind. Heck, everybody on this show deserves some kind of punishment for what they did. Kidnapping a baby, burning the Grimmabago, etc. Maybe that's why I'll all for a Forever Knight twist.

NBC pulled the same stunt with Community. Each season was 13 episodes and had debuted in the spring. NBC never ordered more than 13 episodes. Community fans are hardcore, which is maybe why the show got 6 seasons. At this point, NBC is going to let Grimm crawl away and die somewhere. No need to invest more in a show that's getting less than mediocre ratings for a Friday. No need replace showrunners and writers for a proper farewell season. I think that you're right. This show isn't complex, but the writers like the characters. Nobody should die, and everybody lives happily ever after. However, Juliette, Adalind, and (in my opinion), Nick are loathsome characters who don't deserve a happy ending. At this point, I wouldn't mind if this show pulled a Forever Knight. Everybody dies except Renard. (Wow, FK was such a twist.)

Her acting in the MedBay was terrible. What's happening to Ray? Ahhh, even Helen Keller could see that the Pilgrim was trying to erase him. I already miss Older Kendra. And stop dragging Sara into Kendra's relationship mess. I love Mick, and I'm actively rooting for him. His self-hate is palpable even if he tries to brush it aside. I love that he was trying to get his younger self to accept forgiveness. And maybe his older self too. I don't think that he gets enough credit for how perceptive he is. He's the type who people underestimate. I also love his relationship with Sara. She makes everything better. I wasn't moved by Rip's backstory, but I liked his naughty younger self. Let him lead the mission. Does everybody get amnesia pills? Errr, does Jax's dad get one? His story the saddest one. I like the Pilgrim, but I wish she was a Big Bad. Nobody that the Time Council sends is a formidable. Finally, some time manipulation on a show about time travel. It would be cool if the DVD/blu ray included trading cards of the characters frozen in time. Baby Cold. I hope that Sara and Kendra remind Cold how cute he is as a baby. He'll never get over it. Teen Sara at the police station seemed like a throwback to Terminator. Adult Sara saving Teen Sara was awesome. I think she used the wall to propel herself at the Pilgrim.

Response in Nick thread.

By forgiven, I'm not sure if you mean Nick, the other characters, or the audience. I just meant that Nick has only been with two women. The blandiest bland Juliette, and Adalind, who he didn't get with until she also turned really bland. I'd stated earlier that Nick is not hugely dynamic, so he needs a woman by his side who is much more fiesty and fiery. That's why he and Adalind had tons of chemistry, while he and Juliette had as much chemistry as wet bread. So, what I meant was that Nick the character seems to only have two choices of women, and both of them must have made his life a living hell but be bland when they're with him. So by the time they pair him up with his mother's killer, Juliette will be wallpaper again, as opposed to just being comically ridiculous with the wigs and overdone eye makeup and robotic voice. Sorry for the late response. I don't think that Adalind has been forgiven for what she's done. The writers want to whitewash her past to make her relationship with Nick acceptable. Juliette's biest actions have been whitewashed too. However, my reaction has been that Adalind doesn't get a pass for the same stuff that Juliette has done. The same thing will happen with Juliette ends up with NIck again. She'll get a pass if they're end game. I agree that Nick isn't dynamic, but he needs somebody interesting to play off. I think that's why biest Adalind of S1 had tons of chemistry with Nick. Same with the Damonfeur. Even More is very interesting, so he has a good, fun relationship with Nick. I am irritated because the writers seem to want two women to be fighting over Nick. It's the blandest, weakest fight on TV. Who is the blandest character gets to be Nick's girlfriend. (Juliette will win in the end.)