Where Season 5 ended is where Season 1 or 2 should've ended

If they had introduced a rebellion like Black Claw early in the show, it would have negated the best part of the show, for me. I really enjoyed to evolution of Nick into a Grimm unlike others, one that actually "helped" Wesen that needed it, and only made trouble for the ones that crossed the line of the law. Granted, that line was fuzzed by the impossibility of actually reporting the facts of the crime and punishment, but word was getting out in the Wesen community: here was a Grimm that didn't just cut off your head.

The books really punctuated this difference in Nick. Whenever they read them, about any Wesen, even the benign ones, the punch line was always the same, ".....so I cut off his head...."

But you are correct, once that difference was established and recognized by some of the community and the Wesen council (which I am still mad about--so stupid that someone could get *machine* guns, let alone guns, into that meeting....but I digress...) the story could have taken a more serial turn.

But, that's not what they did. Some people liked the way the show went, some got disgusted and left, some are hanging in there hoping it will have some satisfactory conclusion. Personally, it's taking so long to get there, I'm not sure I care about the last season any more. Season 5 was just a sloppy mess for me. I would have been really anticipating a more cohesive season 6, but now that it's the known end, I don't know how much effort they'll actually put into it.

Man I used to really look forward to every new episode. If I didn't catch it Friday night I'd watch it on demand as soon as it was up. I bought the season 1-3 blu Rays and watched them over and over again. To me Grimm took elements of 'The X-Files' and 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' and mixed them together with a police investigation show to make a very entertaining cocktail. In season 4 the show started to lose steam and the cracks really began to show in the writing. Too many subplots, loose ends, character 180's, superfluous 'organizations' and Adelind babies began to lose my interest. I'd tune in and hope it would get better, but instead I got heaping amounts of Black Claw (groan) and...Eve. Ugh I didn't mind Juliette at all unlike some people, but killing her off and resurrecting her as an X-Men member was one leap too far into my suspension of belief. And then season 5- what a mess. There's Trubel on a souped up motorcycle ala James Bond, Nick shacking up with and falling in love with the woman who tried to kill him, his girlfriend, his mother, his partner, his friends and his aunt on numerous occasions, the captain becoming a pawn of the bad guys and willing to stay there and a gun battle in a secret underground government lair. What show am I watching again?