Action/Adventure Aficionados discussion

Okay, it's official, I'm a fan of Grimm. I had hopes for the show but was a bit reserved. Now, I like it.

It has gotten much better. Nick is finally getting a clue.

I'm still hanging with it. There has been some movement to organization that might be bigger than the monster hunt of the week, but it's certainly reached "Kolchak status" and that's all Kolchak was. (The Night Stalker). And I loved Kolchak.

I like the monster of the week motif. I also like that there is a developing underlying conspiracy.

Have you watched it lately Curmudgeon? It's moved into conspiracy plot area with Nick putting things together. (view spoiler)[ Tonight the captain finally slipped and said too much in front of Nick...unless of course it was planned. (hide spoiler)]

Anyway I like it. I date back to Kolchak and (in my opinion of course) this is plotted far better. I have high hopes now. Looks very good.

Yes, I have, though I am always one to two weeks behind. I thought the "Gladiator" show was pretty cool. (Pitt Fighting).

The Werewolf guy is still oddly amusing through uniqueness and sometimes actually funny.

It's definitely firming up. The conspiracy thing was there in the early show, but your right, now they are starting to bring it out and let it get deeper. (the blond and the Were...heck, they named him once... I forgot) that (view spoiler)[guy who is a police captain or somebody and the blond are trying to kill him and his girlfriend. (hide spoiler)] it's definitely cooler.

That's a few shows back, there's been a lot since the pit fighting episode. Next week looks interesting to (previews). Nick has started to move out of his "only a cop" mode.

I'm also wondering about his finance. My daughter thinks she'll turn out to be some big threat. I'm wondering if she won't be tied in with the captain. Something has to shake out there.

Iv'e wondered the same thing. Maybe she's not in league with the big bad, but linked to it, like the big bad's daughter ... she'll have to choose good or evil... I like a good "Luke, I'm your father!.." Theme.

That'll be interesting to see how it plays out. Your daughter may be right. Right now "The big bad" (to coin a Buffy - Spike term) looks like the captain, but I think he's just a captain and there's a bigger bad out there somewhere that we haven't seen yet.

and by the second "captain" I meant a captian in the dark forces... higher up than a Lieutenant...

Well we've seen a few of his "old world" contacts showing up in the last couple of shows, but he's apparently playing his own game or tied in with a group playing their own game.

The reapers are back next week and there was some connection with them early on.

Lady Danielle "The Book Huntress" wrote: "I like the monster of the week motif. I also like that there is a developing underlying conspiracy."

I like the Kolchak formula too. When it's done well, and they did it well. It didn't work so well for Alcatraz, but their turning up the mystery heat there too.

Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "Well we've seen a few of his "old world" contacts showing up in the last couple of shows, but he's apparently playing his own game or tied in with a group playing their own game.

The reapers are ..."

Yea... one thing I like about that show, is the bad guys (the Blue Bloods...yes catchy play on words there too) actually look as scary as they are weird. At least their monster face does. The spice shop keeper thing was cool. That's a good place to bring in as a repository of knowledge for Grim to tap into.

as I remembered the Reapers have some really scary faces...

I'll put this under a spoiler tag. I don't think it's a big spoiler, but I'll leave it to you to read it or not...

(view spoiler)[ We got more details tonight about the division in the "creature people". There 7 royal houses that are apparently sort of a despotic ruling system. They tied them into everything from the unrest all over the world today to at least the Nazis and so on. Then there's a resistance..and well, I'll leave that so you can get it from the program. (hide spoiler)]

Hoo-hoo-wow! that sounds really cool. I can't wait! (I need to goose my wife...(view spoiler)[ I mean prompt her to watch it off of xfinity, not the other kind of goose...ya big lug! (hide spoiler)] .. and watch it. We'll be caught up by Sunday Night, I think.

I need to find something if I want to watch TV Sunday...Full Metal Jousting finished up last week I think.

Okay so 2 shows I'm really into that are still running "new shows" Person of Interest and Grimm. (Justified has already been renewed, I read today they might start the "new season this Nov. or Dec.)

PoI is still cool. I thought we'd see Paige Turco again, but that was a one timer...well a two timer counting the first one.

We still watch Grim, PoI, Fringe (that has turned around and gotten better for me too), Hawaii-5 OH which has managed to stay good in the gritty cop show and Miami Vice tradition. And stayed okay with the original. Too different to say its the same but they've at least tied to pay homage to it. I like it. They gave up on that subtle second layer of complexity it had when Jack Lord was running things. (and the theme song still rocks!)

I need to try it. I have been watching Awake, but it's still meh. I saw it probably won't be renewed, don't know. Of course I left out Big Bang Theory, I like it, but it's not exactly "action".

I'm thinking of re-watching Grimm now and maybe the Person of Interest programs that are on On Demand. The last 2 weeks of PoI have been reruns.

I like The Big Bang Theory. I've got the first season on CD. I don't care when I watch that show. It always cracks me up. My wife, who's met my old "tabletop RPG group from High-school and before the Navy" still laughs and says it reminds her of us.

... I don't get it...(cough) no resembalence right? (cough, cough).

Oh I liked the reveal on the monster community at large. Impressive.

I'm sure you and your Dungeons and Dragons friends are the epitome of cool Hugh. Pay no attention to opinions otherwise.

I know LadyD. Looks like (view spoiler)[ the "meeker" of the creature world are going to back Nick because he's helped them. It also looks like Nick might end up at odds with the rest of the Grimms. (hide spoiler)]

Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "I'm sure you and your Dungeons and Dragons friends are the epitome of cool Hugh. Pay no attention to opinions otherwise.

I know LadyD. Looks like [spoilers removed]"

Well, I don't know. There was one time when I was around 20 before I joined the Navy and my mother had started dating before, the lot of us about 7 or 8 plus me and my brother were doing our thing around the table (it included beer and pizza) when my mother and her date came home. All we heard was...

"Let me introduce you to my boys."

The minute they stepped in, everyone went "Hi, Mom."

We never heard from the guy again. (No guts no glory as my mother says.)

We were a rather, scrungy looking if also Nerdy Lot.

If I'm not mistaken pizza is the official D&D food...though Chinese is a close second.

and crown royal...how else to you get those need looking felt bags that hold sooooo many of those poly-hedron dice?

I know LadyD. Looks like [spoilers removed]"

That will be a big game-changer for the series.

Yes. Grimm's sort of put himself in a Lawful Neutral position, sort of forsaking the Grimm Tradition in favor of criminal justice... should be interesting.

He actually went chaotic good last time out... You'll see what I mean when you see the latest episode.

See, and people once thought that those old Alignment definitions wouldn't ever be put to good use. I understand exactly what you mean!

Of course you did...silly mundanes. The Alignments are self clear as a paladin's conscience... well, most paladins.

Yea, tell that to Lancelot....

Silly Mundanes...was that a Piers Anthonly/Xanth reference?

It's what the people at conventions (game, comic, sci-fi etc) call people not in the crowd...the non-nerds. I was invited to the wedding of a couple of friends of mine a few years ago at a sci-fi convention. Everybody was in costume (the guy performing the wedding was dressed as Dr. Evil) . I was in a black suit and almost tagged a mundane...till they noticed my neck tie was decorated with small replicas of the Superman S insignia. :)

Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "It's what the people at conventions (game, comic, sci-fi etc) call people not in the crowd...the non-nerds. I was invited to the wedding of a couple of friends of mine a few years ago at a sci-fi c..."

LOL you were in your secret identity then huh?

I made "Dalcon" one year. My friends and I, one of which is out there somewhere Roger... are you listening....hmm competed in one of the funnest versions of D&D I've ever played.

Head to Head (Team vs. Team). One DM going between two shielded boards. It was like Medieval fantasy chess. We took 2nd, loosing the final battle in the wee dark hours of the next morning, moved to a hotel room because it was taking a long time.

Here's a tip, always remember that a Monk can really move in the last half turn of a combat series...a ring of regeneration can pay off, if you can use it just before they tally the score.

LOL. My best character (I think I've DMed more than played as a player, but had a weekly game as a player for a few years) was (as you probably guess) a Paladin. Paladins of course can only "own" 10 magic items other than their Holy Sword. Over the run of the game I gathered up rings of protection for fire, cold, electricity and so on. Since I couldn't use all the rings at once I "gave them" to the wizard and he'd loan them back to at need. I was also the groups tank.

Love D&D...yes, I'm a nerd.

We're way behind in the UK but really enjoying Grimm so far (and Touch and Homeland and AGoT... there's so, much to watch at the moment!)... :)

I hate cliffhangers.

Pretty good close...I kind of thought (view spoiler)[ the woman might be Nick's mother. (hide spoiler)] I hope the writers can resist the temptation to get cute and screw it up. I'm really into this program, first time I've gotten into a TV program in years.

Maybe I'm just getting older.

I'm catching up. I'm at the one where (view spoiler)[Murdock had dinner with Grimm and his girl. That was funny. (hide spoiler)]

(view spoiler)[ not being a know it all really, but I assume you mean Monroe (the blootbod/wolf guy)? It's not that I have a good memory, I've just watched the episodes several times. LOL. (hide spoiler)].

Hey, yea, him. I'm in a period of upheaval ... simple facts are hard to come by in my brainstorm conditions.

I know...and a detail about a TV program isn't really big stuff.

it's funny, i can remember shows from the seventies, but now days, things get a little busy and i can't remember my kids names. I'm like Bill Cosby's Dad.."hey, you, sam, bill gabi, Noah... what's your name? and don't lie to me, you live her I'll find out!"

...not quite that far yet, but yeah "stuff" from when I was younger is clearer that some more recent "stuff". I hate "reaching for" a word and not being able to come up with it.

I know what you mean about cliffhangers. As far as this cliffhanger goes it wasn't to bad. I thought the finale was pretty good. Haven't watch alot of the shows this season and I had no problem knowing what was going on. I think it improved as the season went on.

(view spoiler)[ The whole Juliet popping her eyes open was the thing. Did Adeline possess her somehow? Did she switch bodies? Apparently this is some ploy to get her "Hexan Beast" power back... Oh well, have to wait. (hide spoiler)]

(view spoiler)[ That's what I was thinking, that Adeline has taken over her body. I also thought it was convenient that she fainted (the wife) as soon as she'd know the truth. (hide spoiler)]

(view spoiler)[ That's what I was thinking, that Adeline has taken over her body. I also thought it was convenient that she fainted (Juliet) as soon as she'd know the truth. (hide spoiler)]

(view spoiler)[ Yeah, that bugged me a little to...that the spell took her just before she saw Monroe. I was also annoyed that they wrote it that Nick took her to the trailer first. It was predictable that seeing a lot of old weapons and hand drawn pictures wouldn't do anything but convince her that Nick has lost his mind. There was a lot of weakness in the writing of the last one. After all that happened with Hank (don't know what shows you've seen) and that potion he should have called Monroe and had him meet them at the Tea and Spice shop. She'd have seen 2 "Vesen" and Rosalie might have had a chance to help. The whole rushing Juliet to the hospital didn't make sense with respect to what Nick already knew. (hide spoiler)]

(view spoiler)[ I was thinking the first place I'd take her was to Rosalie after I realized she had been scratched by Adeline's cat. Very interesting that Nick's mom is back. (hide spoiler)]

(view spoiler)[ When the fight was going on in Nick's house I was thinking "that must be another Grimm" then it was like somebody hit me in the head..."I bet it's his mother". Then she did the female Darth line sort of..."Nicky". Might have been better if she'd said in a deep voice, "I'm your mother".

Anyway I wonder if she's like on the dark side. Maybe caught up by the coins or something. There have been hints that the Grimms in Europe are caught up on one side of the political type struggle supporting the "Seven Royal Houses". The Captain is apparently part of one of those. (hide spoiler)]

(view spoiler)[ Either on the dark side, or she gave him up because she was going undercover and she knew she couldn't keep her child safe. I think it's going to be interesting seeing that storyline expand. (hide spoiler)]

I have to laugh because the last seven post are just (view spoilers), here comes another.

(view spoiler)[I agree,Lady D. I would have taken her to Rosalie's first. I don't understand why Nick took her to the hospital in the first place? (hide spoiler)]