Saturday, November 3, 2012

Grimm: La Llorona


This episode had a very different feel from most Grimm episodes. I liked it a lot. The showrunners of Grimm take their inspiration from many different fairy tales, folk tales, and obscure stories. Some episodes are based very loosely on the tale that inspired it, and some stay closer to the original story. This Halloween episode stayed very close to its inspiration, La LLorona, a Hispanic legend about the ghost of a woman who abducts children and drowns them. The episode is even named after the tale. Like most fairy tales, the legend is a cautionary tale, to warn children of dangers that lurk outside in the real world. None of the Wesen have ever freaked me out before, but this ghost - creepy!

Observations:

This story is every parents nightmare - to have your child abducted. And even worse to see your child abducted.

It seems like every episode now we have a shot of Nick opening the "Grimm weapon closet." This time Nick is getting a weapon to lend to Monroe for his Halloween decorations. It's great that a Blutbad is borrowing a Grimm weapon.
Of course Monroe's favorite holiday is Halloween, when he has an excuse to let his true Wesen out.

It's great that Juliette is the Spanish translator. Bitsie Tulloch gets the opportunity to use the language she learned growing up in Argentina, Spain and Venezuela.

Valentina tells Nick and Hank that the woman's MO is to take three children, but in the newspaper articles on Valentina's wall, they say that two children were drowned. I wonder why.

I love that the little kids in the neighborhood know Monroe.

Raphael thinks La Llorona is an angel. He must not have seen the scary face we saw.

It's not a good thing to make Monroe mad - more specifically, a Blutbad.

Quotes:

Monroe: Hey, those who ignore the past, etc., etc.

Hank: Silencio, por favor. Okay?

Juliette (translating): He wants you to stop talking and find his son.

Monroe: Love the wolfman. Looks like my Uncle Herman before they chopped his head off.

Psychic (to Juliette): No hay creer en algo para que se la verdad. (You don't have to believe in something for it to be true.)

Hank: If this is real, how do you ever sleep?
Nick: Well, you've got my back.
Hank: Yea, but who's got mine?

Hank: I thought we didn't believe in ghosts.
Nick: We didn't.

Kid: We're not scared of you.
Monroe: Really? (he reveals the Blutbad in him) Well, how about now? (kids scream and run) Trick or treat.

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