Both are good (but early, so I'm wary), but the problem is they're both stories of reluctant heroes, and that doesn't work unless you believe the hero wants to walk away.
OUaT, I buy it. She has a lot of guilt about giving up her kid for adoption, his story is absurd, and it would be the easiest thing in the world for her to hop in her VW and go back to her old life. The Call to Adventure is a tough one.
Grimm, on the other hand, he's already a cop, so it's not like he didn't choose a gritty life to begin with. And he knows first hand that the monsters are real, so it's not a question of whether to believe it. The only hint of a price to be paid is his relationship with his girlfriend, and we really haven't seen that impacted so far, and they have no chemistry anyway. The basics are there, and they know how to tell a story, but I'm hoping these are just establishing episodes to set up stories I'm more invested in.
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Date: 2011-11-29 11:45 am (UTC)OUaT, I buy it. She has a lot of guilt about giving up her kid for adoption, his story is absurd, and it would be the easiest thing in the world for her to hop in her VW and go back to her old life. The Call to Adventure is a tough one.
Grimm, on the other hand, he's already a cop, so it's not like he didn't choose a gritty life to begin with. And he knows first hand that the monsters are real, so it's not a question of whether to believe it. The only hint of a price to be paid is his relationship with his girlfriend, and we really haven't seen that impacted so far, and they have no chemistry anyway. The basics are there, and they know how to tell a story, but I'm hoping these are just establishing episodes to set up stories I'm more invested in.