Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4444715-20170524231429/@comment-4010415-20170524234924

Yeah, pretty sure you definitely didn't actually get PTSD. When flashbacks are triggered, you can get an anxiety attack, and in more severe cases, you can find yourself thinking that you're back in one of the situations that caused your PTSD in the first place, meaning you can't differentiate the flashback from reality. Some commonly observed causes of PTSD are things like fighting in a war, severe physical abuse, and events such as getting caught in a terrorist attack. A sudden tone shift in a webshow isn't going to cause PTSD.

And like SYUTK said, volumes 1 and 2 were criticized because people were unable to take the villains and the Grimm seriously and it felt too much like the good guys were invincible and would always win. It meant that we would never worry that something bad could happen to a good guy, even when the show tried to act like something bad almost happened. It also meant that the characters going on and on about how the Grimm threaten to push mankind into extinction sounds really stupid because it didn't look like the Grimm could actually do that. And, of course, if you can't take the villains seriously, what's the point?