Grimm: 4x07 “The Grimm Who Stole Christmas”

“I have but to swallow this, and be for the rest of my days persecuted by a legion of goblins, all of my own creation. Humbug, I tell you; humbug!”
 

Monroe: “Ooh, it smells like a... Like a pungent, vinegarish, glandular, musky kind of, yeah, a chamber pot.” 

This was a Christmas episode and quite frankly it was sort of meh… and it left me with some questions, all starting with “What was the point of….” – please, fill in the blank. Or don’t. That depends on your take on this episode. Let’s compare notes.

It is the Christmas episode, so it is supposed to be light and joyful (though I question if there was anyone who liked seeing Christmas decorations being trashed and Christmas tree knocked down a couple of times). It is the episode where no one died or even got seriously hurt (though that first victim might disagree). It was also the episode where the bad Wesen turned out to be just bad behaving children on a hormone spree. As far as the case of the week goes, this one certainly wasn’t the worst, it was somewhat silly and funny… but still kind of meh….

What was the point of bringing Josh back? At the beginning of the episode I got a feeling that he might be a love interest for Trubel. Sometime in the middle of it I got a suspicion that he is betraying them and is in fact in search of a key and that showing him a trailer was an awfully bad idea (wouldn’t that be awesome? Instead they went with a meh… option). By the end of the episode it got clear he was a reason for her to move out. So off she goes. Meh… First of all, I didn’t understand the need to get rid of her all of a sudden, even now when Nick got his Grimm back. I love the interactions between her and Nick and her and a group, so I’d prefer is she stayed. Was she leaving due to Wu’s increased interest in her? Why wouldn’t  they send her off to work for FBI? BTW, where that FBI agent has gone?

Moving on... 

What is the title supposed to mean? “The Grimm Who Stole Christmas” – Nick was nowhere near the ‘stealing Christmas’ part? Am I wrong? Did I watch a different episode or did I just miss the point completely?

No Adalind or Victor, nothing new with Wu except that his snarky comments are starting to get repetitive and annoying.

So, Juliette is very likely pregnant. Do we need another baby? Why is she not happy? If she conceived while being Adalind, what does that mean? Does it even matter?

There was a lot of build up for mid-season finale. That group of wesen bikers looked dangerous especially when they put their masks on. There are also quite few of them, so I’m guessing Monroe and Rosalee will have to put on hold that whole romantic honeymoon.

Some observations  

I did not catch the number of the episode.

So, some members of the holly inquisition were Wesen and were using their power to root out impurity within the wesen society. Loved it.

Memorable Quotes

Josh: “Unbelievable. Unbelievable that this is now believable.”

Josh: “How do you spell Schakal?”

Bud: “Uh, s... sch... Just like it sounds.”

Sol’s rating: 2 out of 5, solely because I’m grateful that Monroe's excessively decorated house and front lawn survived the invasion of goblins.