"Blood Magic" was the fourth episode from
the end.
The title hints at what is going to happen in the
last three episodes, but it does still have a creature of the week issue, and
is therefore the last of the regular episodes. In it, we learn about the Wesen
way of dealing with dementia.
I still had some concerns with how life was treated,
but I could also tell they were trying to be better. We see one friend caring
about the first victim, and then rather than watching a second killing, another
precinct's prior report of an animal attack is identified as having also been a
victim of this killer. He is not a robber or hired killer or anything you might
expect; just an old man whose failing mind and Wesen abilities are a very
dangerous combination.
For a family dealing with it now - even in
relatively early stages - it hit deep. My younger sisters have never watched
the show. (They generally hate the concept of sci-fi/fantasy and reject
anything in that vein outright, except sometimes when they don't.) However, one
saw part of the show while I was watching. She couldn't look
away because it hit so close to home.
In one scene the man is wandering and searching for
his wife, Elizabeth, calling her and misidentifying one girl (who is not killed) as her.
Then his wife finds him and she reassures him that she is there. He asks
"Who are you?"
Ouch, and real. Having someone you love desperate
for something that is right there, and nothing you do will convince them,
that's real.
With the frustration I had been having over how
casually people were allowed to die, it would have been easy to get mad at the
wife for not taking action sooner, but how do you decide? She didn't know that
he had killed two people, just that sometimes he had disappeared while she was
sleeping, exhausted. It seems like having the option of some control would be
comforting, but then you have to decide; how do you do that?
I was a mess during and for a while after that
episode, but sometimes it is good to get the tears out. It's good to remember
that you are not the only person with that sorrow. That is part of the value of
art.
Part of the value of science-fiction and fantasy is
that by changing some of the rules we can view things from previously
unexamined angles. What makes it effective is still the truth we find there.
It's still the humanity.
At least, that's what I believe, and how I try to
write.
So, one last post on Grimm tomorrow, and then
I really hope to be done.
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