At some point I may regret not watching Grimm but I kinda doubt it

I can’t quite get over both networks that tried to develop a Fables tv series both ending up debuting an “original” series that basically ripped off Fables. I mean, if I was Willingham, I’d be pissed.

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The fact that you like The Abyss makes you a good person.

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@Farwell3d: Yes, because Willingham invented the idea of mixing fairy tales and the real world. While “Fables” and “Once Upon a Time” both have a Fairy Tale Characters banished to the real world premise the execution is totally different. And “Grimm” doesn’t even have that in common, being much more similar to early seasons of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” or “Supernatural”…

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“The Abyss” is one of the rare times that I actually prefer the edited-for-theatres version.

In the theatrical version, after the prologue there’s a clean progression from the surface, to deep ocean, to even deeper, cumulating in Ed Harris at the bottom of some crazy deep big hole (is there a word for that?). So then when we finally re-emerge on the surface at the final scene, it’s hugely dramatic.

The director’s cut adds a bunch of really cheesy-looking surface-world catastrophe drama crap intercut with Ed Harris meeting the aliens, and it ruins all of that. Plus it hyper-spells-out the whole LOVE IS GOOD message, even more than the theatre version does.

I don’t always favour theatrical cuts, but when I do, it’s The Abyss. And, strangely enough, Aliens. Maybe it’s a Jimmy Cameron thing.

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I saw the first episode of Grimm and never managed to work up the enthusiasm to watch another.

Is it still a poor quality police procedural with a twist and a genre-stupid protagonist?

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