Watched "Mommy Dearest" and "Deleted Scenes" from Grimm. This is the famous asuwang episode, with scenes actually shot in the Philippines, that Jazz has been telling Angelique and me about. A young, Filipino-American couple are featured here. The wife is pregnant and is visited by a tiktik that sucks amniotic fluid from her belly. The woman is rescued and hospitalized. She is actually a childhood friend and former girlfriend of Sergeant Drew Wu, whose grandmother in the Philippines used to tell him and his cousins stories about the asuwang.
Nick, Monroe, Rosalee, and Hank read up on a 1904 narrative on the asuwang in one of the books inside Aunt Marie's trailer, where, unfortunately, "aswang" (a modern spelling) should have been written as "asuang" or "asuwang" (the latter retaining the root words asu, or big, black dog that the asuwang usually transforms into, and "uwang", or black beetle). In fact, an asuwang and a tiktik really are not the same thing.
As it turns out, the husband's mother has flown in to Portland from Manila and has been morphing into the tiktik that stalks and attacks his pregnant wife per the (utterly made up) tradition that the first-born child of an eldest son must be given up to a tiktik mother so that she may live longer.
In the meantime Adelind, who is still inside the cottage in the Swiss Alps, gives birth to a baby girl with the aid of Meisner amid more poltergeist activity, and is able to morph into a Hexenbiest again. The baby girl, like Adelind, has powers; she prevents Meisner from caressing her mother's cheek.
A nice double-face there, "Mommy Dearest" referring to both the Filipino wife and to Adelind.
There are quite a few Filipino-Americans cast in this episode and a lot of Tagalog passages spoken, making everything more interesting.
There is a scene in which the Filipino-American man morphs into a tiktik while he is inside his wife's hospital room, which I thought was unnecessary and had no eventual closure, even if his mother is a tiktik (the concept of the series is that Wesen chromosomes are always passed on).
But why are the Philippine scenes in Manila and not somewhere in the Visayas?
Also, my personal knowledge of tiktik is that it is a manananggal (a.k.a wakwak) rather than a lizard-like creature.
And why is there no mention of pagi, and none of it even in Aunt Marie's trailer?
Nick, Monroe, Rosalee, and Hank read up on a 1904 narrative on the asuwang in one of the books inside Aunt Marie's trailer, where, unfortunately, "aswang" (a modern spelling) should have been written as "asuang" or "asuwang" (the latter retaining the root words asu, or big, black dog that the asuwang usually transforms into, and "uwang", or black beetle). In fact, an asuwang and a tiktik really are not the same thing.
As it turns out, the husband's mother has flown in to Portland from Manila and has been morphing into the tiktik that stalks and attacks his pregnant wife per the (utterly made up) tradition that the first-born child of an eldest son must be given up to a tiktik mother so that she may live longer.
In the meantime Adelind, who is still inside the cottage in the Swiss Alps, gives birth to a baby girl with the aid of Meisner amid more poltergeist activity, and is able to morph into a Hexenbiest again. The baby girl, like Adelind, has powers; she prevents Meisner from caressing her mother's cheek.
A nice double-face there, "Mommy Dearest" referring to both the Filipino wife and to Adelind.
There are quite a few Filipino-Americans cast in this episode and a lot of Tagalog passages spoken, making everything more interesting.
There is a scene in which the Filipino-American man morphs into a tiktik while he is inside his wife's hospital room, which I thought was unnecessary and had no eventual closure, even if his mother is a tiktik (the concept of the series is that Wesen chromosomes are always passed on).
But why are the Philippine scenes in Manila and not somewhere in the Visayas?
Also, my personal knowledge of tiktik is that it is a manananggal (a.k.a wakwak) rather than a lizard-like creature.
And why is there no mention of pagi, and none of it even in Aunt Marie's trailer?
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