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However, it was demonstrated at the end when Nick went through the last portal that he had been in another astral plane (did I use that term correctly) during the first 45 minutes of the show. It's not very logical. There are now at least three different planes -1. the forest with wesen (who speak old german), 2. reality in Portland where magic and spells are still possible, and 3. this other Portland where Nick was the only central character because the events that happened to other people were reversed once he did his hero task and interacted with ghost spirit guides. Nick interacted with people and watched them die, but all those events were reversed when Diana used magic to suck him through a portal. It looks like the events of the other plane are mostly imaginary like a dream or LSD trip, because they do not hold permanently in the real world. People pointed out that Monroe still drives the volkswagen bug in world #3 but recently he and Rosalee have driven a subcompact fiat or similar. The behavior of Diana in welcoming zerstorer could have been part of the dream. By the way - I don't understand german mythology very well and the writers aren't that accurate to it, but the concept of the forest plays a role. During the roman times when roman civilization spread across europe, the area of Poland, Czech, Germany and the baltics was never really taken over with agriculture because it had these dense forests with no roads. People lived in small villages with local dialects where they hunted in the forest and had more limited agriculture until later, and the romans thought of them as uncontrolled tribes.

at the start of the next episode, he could raise them from the dead with the stick although it wasn't clear where the zerstoerer went or if he's still chasing Nick. I wonder what the goals of the zerstoerer are, or if he just randomly kills. I bet that Kelly, Trubel, and maybe Rosalee will be the only ones who survive. or grimms only. What is the point of being a grimm unless it gives you a superpower to win in a fight. Will the clueless Portlanders finally start to wonder what's going on as this guy rampages around the cool neighborhood with bars by Hawthorne bridge? .. or they're acclimated to this sort of crime rate. I did like the setting and thought put into filming this. I noticed the 'Last Chance Gas' station where zerstoerer found a mirror in the restroom to use as a portal from the underworld. Grimm often these stylized gas stations to stage crime scenes, or to provide a place for mildly dysfunctional wesen to have a job. They aren't mundane am/pm mini marts or Shell stations, but seem to be at the edge of town with few people around. This episode had the zerstoerer first appear at the edge of town, and then he is suddenly in an atmospheric light industrial district- and Grimm often uses this type of staging where characters are out in the woods, then back downtown. In a prior season, Grimm used this scenic gas station on highway 26, which is like the last gas station on the highway to the Oregon coast from Portland. In real life, we once went there ;they don't have equipment to pay at the pump, and you go inside to pay after pumping the gas. I didn't have cash, so the clerk got out her plug in credit card reader, but it seemed to be having problems because it couldn't read either of my two bank cards. So they were sort of glaring as though I was going to be a nonpaying customer, and they monitored me going over to a nearby mini-market to use their atm machine. https://www.google.com/maps/@45.6793391,-123.1903165,3a,75y,260.1h,94.68t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1su4092AlR9wgtfidbTz_ggg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I really liked the set design - how would you make rocks like that. Juliette is still a vegetarian. It seems like they had a good conception of a alternate world - in this show they couldn't disappear into a alien planet or unnatural setting, it had to be a forest. The writers had a hard time coming up with things for the characters to say and do in the alternate world. They could have been deliberately creating a culture or time clash when they had Nick and Juliette stumble over their 20 german words. I don't understand the symbol. it made more sense that the grimms wrote warnings in different languages to explain what the stick is, but it seems like the round symbol is etched in the rocks in the other world - so that suggests that either the stick has the same theme as something in the other world, or it is directly related. Is it the symbol of the shaphat? the stick is a weapon against satan?

There is going to be a big garage sale with all the furniture and clothes from Grimm https://www.estatesales.net/OR/Portland/97210/1428702

I liked the tree. I wonder where they filmed this episode. On the map, they were referring to roads and trails in north 'forest park' which is a ~15 mile area that was unbuildable due to hills along the north edge of town. Regarding the kudzu question above - there actually is a big problem with invasive english ivy that engulfs trees. https://www.portlandoregon.gov/parks/article/201781 The big tree they were focusing on looked too large to be a computer animation or prop - they probably found the tree and decided to write an episode around it? Rosalee is the only one who knows anything. Did they say that a mixed species wesen will randomly go after the father or mother, or could they ever have a hybrid that resembles a coyote? Given that Diana intuitively understands so much, they should ask her about the underworld to help prepare Juliette for her trip. They should also bring back Trubel to liven things up. She is not good at policework though - it would have to involve the royals or black claw.

I liked Renard's russian. I liked Wu and Hank solving the crime without requiring Rosalee. One of them should become captain if the rest of the characters get sucked into a time vortex. Some of the new actors were good - the funeral director who caves immediately. It is Nick's fault that Juliette became a hexenbiest even if he didn't understand what would happen. Where do they keep putting the wesen bodies in this show?

"JulietteEve does NOT have any money" ... it seems like Nick pocketed the cash from selling her house. Or maybe they walked away and let it go into foreclosure. It was also indirectly his fault that she developed her hexenbiest syndrome. Yes, Renard and Hank were pretty good. In the acting sort of devolved in the middle of the episode. They also saw the gateway to hell in his mirror and responded saying "whoa! creepy" then moved on. It probably has something to do with the stick being nearby. Renard's house is nice. If he were worried about security, I don't know if he should have so many windows. In the first season, he lived in a high rise in the Pearl district. Then he moved to this house on the buff above the railroad tracks (or if not this house, it's somewhere nearby). https://www.google.com/maps/@45.549169,-122.6840234,3a,60y,270h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBe-Yfci4-W48mXGQFt22UA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 I cannot tell if they are still using the same house, or somehow have him at a third spot after leaving the Black claw house (which is across the street from Irvington club) because they just show interiors. It could possibly be somewhere in the SW Hills, which is the really wealthy area of town. https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=&bih=&btnG=Search&q=columbia+gorge+hotel

hey - the cliffhanger of the prior episode showed Renard standing in an empty room after the pawn shop disappeared. But then this episode shows him coming into the office, and encountering Meisner again. I guess he is familiar with magic so he just went home from the strange shop.

Nick lacks the ability to see wesen when they aren't woged, yet Monroe can smell them at all times, meaning he is more skilled than Nick, who mainly is able to beat any wesen in a fight.

I noticed that Renard always has visitors who come to give him important messages by walking in to visit him in his office. At most businesses, there is some sort of front desk where they control visitors and make them sign in. I like the acting of Dan. When the show Grimm first started, there was initially a concept that being a wesen was an analogy for being a person who struggles with criminal tendencies - that they struggle with controlling their beast side. This guy was in line with that idea because it gives an explanation for his schizophrenic behavior. What is up with the front desk clerk? I liked their suspense, that it could have been any of the people hanging around the hotel, and then the passageway

I liked the set design of the shop where the guy had a soul extractor in the back room - they put some effort into that. There were two coffee shops or diners in this episode. A couple months ago in Portland, they were filming in Grendel's coffee on Burnside, and when I went by, someone who had to be David Giuntoli's double or stuntman was crossing the street with an assistant. So I'm waiting for this scene to come up. Either it will involve a fight or someone breathing in fumes from the hat and transfiguring again? How does Hollywood maintain a list of great lookalikes who also can do stunts? There are websites with hundreds of magic symbols - maybe if someone had time, it would be possible to find matches between the stuff they show on the wall or cloth and real symbols.

I liked the dialog with both Diana and Meisner + Renard. They had them speak in somewhat regular tones rather than acting spooky for affect. Why doesn't Renard ask Meisner what he wants? Why didn't the people that Meisner killed when he was in the resistance haunt him? Was Diana the one causing Nick to suddenly wake up from sleep?

Juliette is in the tunnel working through her transition. She used to be a vet who lived in a house she owned. Maybe something involving animals could be her new life once the stick purifies her? I liked Meisner driving Renard back to the good side, and that he can manifest in physical and nonphysical forms. They didn't have enough time for Renard to start telling life stories, but it is clear that zauberbiests don't have powers of the same category - they can just have added strength when they get angry, and they have some knowledge about spells that female witches can do. Couldn't Renard tell Diana about his experiences? Yes- too bad that Cuegle couldn't just change the course of the evil babies. Where is Trubel again?

I was thinking about what purpose they have for Meisner haunting Renard - with the preview "you picked the wrong side, Sean". Even though we haven't seen Black claw lately, I expect them to make their presence known again. Meisner will haunt him until he switches sides to support Hadrian's Wall again.

Who is the new mayor?

I think Diana wanted them together. They are still scared of revealing their magical nature to the nonwesen residents of Portland - who never catch on, on their own despite strange crime patterns in their city.

Renard isn't phased by being haunted by Meisner yet. Maybe they will have a chance to explain Meisner's backstory to a greater extent. I mostly liked the episode. The nonmagical residents of town never catch on

But... I just looked at the preview for next week - they let Rosalee and Monroe watch Diana, and already are having a Renard vs. Nick=Renard showdown, which suggest that they're going to settle the season's primary conflict in the second episode. I sort of like that they're doing another transfiguration potion thing with Sasha Roiz because he is a good enough actor to carry it off well. The episode where the captain's body was taken over by Jack the Ripper was one of the best.

Yes - I think you are right that there will be a conflict with Nick showing up at Adalind's in front of sensitive daughter Diana - it couldn't have just been a throwaway line to let us remember where Adalind is located. Maybe they will split the family and Renard will take Diana. Couldn't nick someone put a drop of his blood in her food and neutralize her powers? There is a spell for that. I like giving Renard something to do. In seasons 2 and 3, it seemed like he was trying to be a benevolent prince from the Habsburg (?) lineage of Austria while his cousins were worse. If you think about the Meisner ghost thing, unless they just suddenly stop the messages from the underworld that he sees, Renard will probably be motivated to do something to make the haunting stop, so maybe he could switch sides again. Or he could go mad. I thought it was more Bonaparte's responsibility for killing him but whatever. Also, Juliette seemed like a victim too because she was only turned into a witch due to Nick's problems and her trying to be a supportive girlfriend.

Wait... the SERT team was raiding Monroe and Rosalee's house. Next they were at the refrigerator shop and the SERT was going there. How did they get there, and did they just flee their own house? It seems like their greatest fear is still to let the general public muggles know about wesen. Maybe Renard and Black Claw should just do the reveal.

Yes - I like that Renard is haunted by Meisner and I like the death grip guy and how Rosalie looked him up in her book in realtime. And I liked the refrigerator repair shop - I went by when they were filming this last summer, during the moment that Monroe helped load a refrigerator in a pickup truck by the garage. I wonder if the cars driving by on the semi-busy street outside are regular cars that the film crew used as backdrop, or whether they plan how many cars are driving by in a scene. Someone driving by could wave or stare at the camera. They did have a bunch of extras standing around on the sidewalk who looked just like ordinary bystanders, and they told nonparticipants to get out of the shot. When Monroe came out of the tunnel at the chemical plant, why did they view that as a route they couldn't use to get out? It was also unrealistic that the police dept are sitting at their computers when the other precinct was knocked out. How did the evidence technician do fingerprints so quickly? The map had Drew Wu living at Buckman court apartments on Morrison st where there are a lot of hipsters, but I thought he lived in NW. for the next episode after the cliffhanger, I'm wondering how that will turn out. Will the tactic of trying to drive away with an empty freezer be possible, or they're about to charge into the building with the SERT team

Not really a plot spoiler, but today they were filming at Grendel's coffee on busy Burnside st.. They also had costume trailers set up near where I work by Lloyd mall. When I walked by, they appeared to have extras by a truck filled with clothing and a woman was handing out clothes for the role of villagers, or cafe patrons. she had some plaid shirts. There was a tall woman with buzz cut hair who she was giving black, with converse shoes. By the cafe as I went by, I noticed someone who looked very similar to David Giuntoli, wearing similar clothes. It was either his brother or a double. Oh look - they do use stunt doubles. I wonder how they find people who look so close, and have the skills to do stunts. Also, if you think about it, the spoiler inference is that whatever scene they were doing at Grendel's cafe must have involved the double fighting with someone.

I really liked Marc Maron on Air America and the Sam seder show. It is interesting how his comedy voice and the news reader voice he used on radio are quite different so he could switch personalities.

oh, duh. You're right. I guess I forgot where Diana came from, Adalind was sleeping with Renard and his brother. Kelly will need to be fairly large by this season.

Juliette potentially being a mom could mean that they suddenly realize or question whether Adalind carried a Juliette baby, via magick. But, it seems unlikely given the resemblance of Diana and Adalind. Yet - why does Diana apparently have such strong powers that exceed that of Adalind?