Hexenadler, I agree with you about the cheap story telling. For reasons that escape my understanding, it’s simply the Grimm creative team’s preferred method. However, I also agree with syscrash that your reasoning stems from your personal/moral way of thinking.
We’ve had this discussion before, you’re repulsed by Adalind’s rape of Nick while I’m repulsed by Adalind being forced to prostitute herself with Nick in exchange for her baby. Both are personal reactions, and hopefully what the creative team was going for. If viewers watched Grimm objectively without bias to the characters and their actions, interest and ratings would wane exponentially. It is, as with any show, the fervor these controversial events cause that grabs and holds the viewers’ interest.
That said, any resulting fervor does not validate the cheap writing churned out by the creative team. Characters are routinely considered acceptable collateral damage for the story being told, and female characters specifically, are victimized. Any guess on how long G & K discussed Eve becoming Renard and having sex with Rachael vs. Meisner becoming Rachael and having sex with Renard? Juliette was human when Elizabeth created the spell that made her Adalind so surely Eve could create a spell that temporarily turned Meisner into Renard, but I doubt that was ever tossed around the bullpen.
There are many reasons Nick/Adalind is a bad idea, but I think Nick kidnapping Diana and Adalind raping Nick are lower on the list. In order for viewers to adequately absorb and interpret specific events in the lives/relationships of the characters, the show has to set up, examine, and develop the continuing relationship in a way that represents a meaningful progression of the characters. Then viewers can decide how much weight the kidnapping and rape carry. But as it stands now, I see a viable Grimm-style relationship for Nick/Adalind or Nick/Juliette-Eve in S6, but not a believable relationship because G & K didn’t progress the characters in that direction, they simply changed up behavior/persona at the last minute to throw Juliette-Eve into the already tenuous and strange Nick/Adalind ‘relationship’.
We’ve had this discussion before, you’re repulsed by Adalind’s rape of Nick while I’m repulsed by Adalind being forced to prostitute herself with Nick in exchange for her baby. Both are personal reactions, and hopefully what the creative team was going for. If viewers watched Grimm objectively without bias to the characters and their actions, interest and ratings would wane exponentially. It is, as with any show, the fervor these controversial events cause that grabs and holds the viewers’ interest.
That said, any resulting fervor does not validate the cheap writing churned out by the creative team. Characters are routinely considered acceptable collateral damage for the story being told, and female characters specifically, are victimized. Any guess on how long G & K discussed Eve becoming Renard and having sex with Rachael vs. Meisner becoming Rachael and having sex with Renard? Juliette was human when Elizabeth created the spell that made her Adalind so surely Eve could create a spell that temporarily turned Meisner into Renard, but I doubt that was ever tossed around the bullpen.
There are many reasons Nick/Adalind is a bad idea, but I think Nick kidnapping Diana and Adalind raping Nick are lower on the list. In order for viewers to adequately absorb and interpret specific events in the lives/relationships of the characters, the show has to set up, examine, and develop the continuing relationship in a way that represents a meaningful progression of the characters. Then viewers can decide how much weight the kidnapping and rape carry. But as it stands now, I see a viable Grimm-style relationship for Nick/Adalind or Nick/Juliette-Eve in S6, but not a believable relationship because G & K didn’t progress the characters in that direction, they simply changed up behavior/persona at the last minute to throw Juliette-Eve into the already tenuous and strange Nick/Adalind ‘relationship’.
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