The Ink-Pot and the Palette

I was marveling at this comment this morning. It occurred to me quite suddenly that my failure to perceive the kind of logical flaws you point out here is related to my lack of sense of direction. I don't know quite how to describe it, but there's a kind of whole-thing awareness--a sense of being confronted with the entire surface of the thing-sphere at once--in both cases.

Penetrating to the parts and connections takes me a very, very long time. I don't easily pick out different instruments in a musical arrangement (it's a whole song), or individual spices in a sauce (it's Sauce, not a set of ingredients) or logical flaws in a narrative.

I suspect the ability to do those things is a key to your prolific story-finding ability, that vast idea factory in your head.

Anyway, everything you say about Grimm is valid, and I'm sure it's all part of my perception that I'm not in the presence of greatness when I watch the show, but it would have taken me studying the damn thing with intent to fic before I'd have seen any of those flaws specifically.