Also since when is Monroe a pacifist? When bodyguarding Auntie, he tore the arm off a guy. So why pure defensive action, with no counteracts in the arena? In general this show is not that well written. Basically I watch it for Monroe, and I suspect at some point that will stop outweighing the rest. And yeah, I'm totally behind killing most of the rest of the characters, and renaming the show "Monroe" . Though captain Reynard can stay. And the current partner could remain a minor character appearing occasionally. It goes in the bin with Lost Girl - shows that are not very good I find entertaining for the moment. I don't know why Sanctuary is not in that bin. In spite of the absurdity of the scripts, it feels like a good show to me. Totally subjective. Don't ask me to defend it rationally.

Agreed, sj.

We see what the Wesen look like to the Grimm, I'd like to see what the Grimm looks like to the Wesen. Most of them practically piss their pants at the sight of him.

Though captain Reynard can stay.

It would be nice if they used him more, gave a little more of the back story of his character. That was one thing I liked about this episode. I'd also like the show to get over, the no one can know my secret thing. I'm so sick of that trope in Sci-fi/fantasy shows.

In this case it seems to be less "no one is allowed to know my secret" and more "I can't prove my secret cause no one else can see what I can see". Of course, given the level of writing, he could tell her his secret, be unable to prove it, and she could accept it because she has faith in him. (Yes, I know, accepting someone's hallucinations as real is not actually the most loving thing to do - hence the phrase "given the level of writing".)

I kind of watched Awake - it looks promising, but at the time I was being distracted.

I was left wondering - does the guy ever actually get any sleep? That may well be explained at some point and I missed it, but I often find myself wondering about odd little details.

Okay, Awake was okay. It had that air of a show that might succeed because the conceit's not explained at all, and has a pretty simple effect. No buttons, no switches, and probably on a couple other variations for sweeps.

No, it doesn't seem like he sleeps. Eyes close, eyes open. Fuck the show's cancellation, he's going to fritz the neurons in a year or so.

It seems to me that he sleeps, because he goes to bed in one reality and wakes up in the next, in the interim he sleeps.

He said he closed his eyes and then he opened his eyes. He didn't say or imply there was anything happening inbetween, so that's what I was going with.

I'm thinking that he closes his eyes, and if he doesn't dream, the next thing he knows is that he's waking up. And so the abbreviated explanation excluding his sleeping.

Which makes me wonder, what happens if he pulls an all-nighter? What if he gets called to a crime scene at four in the morning and doesn't get home until six, seven in the morning? Will he have already have woken up in the next reality, or will there be a shift at a specific time? Midnight? 6 am?

I'm thinking that he closes his eyes, and if he doesn't dream, the next thing he knows is that he's waking up. And so the abbreviated explanation excluding his sleeping.

I do think, narratively, it's on them to explain that. If they have him both say "I close my eyes, I open my eyes" with no implication of anything happening inbetween and also show the same thing (I didn't notice any shots of him sleeping), then it's entirely our decision to insert sleep there. It's not strictly incorrect, because I don't think that they have explicitly said it's not happened, but they have done absolutely no hinting of their own.

It wouldn't be a retcon, basically, if they said next week that he never slept, from the bits I've caught so far.