(12-17-2018, 09:10 AM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: You don't really think that anyone outside of the royals would accept that "contract" as legally binding, do you? I see it as a dropped plot point that nobody from the Verrat never came back to Portland to kill Adalind for not living up to her end of it, but as far as anyone else in Portland was concerned, that thing wasn't worth the paper it was printed on.
You keep bringing up the contract being legally binding. Legality has nothing to do with it. It's irrelevant that it was a dropped plot point. It's irrelevant whether Adalind lived up to it or not. It's irrelevant the anyone outside of the royals would accept it.
The fact that cannot be argued is that it was a magical agreement, signed by Adalind. The fact that she, and only she signed it, signified that she was considered the custodial parent and had the authority to hand Diana over in exchange for another hexenbiest.
I have read many a debate about why Adalind never lived up to her side of the agreement. I have read many a debate about why no revenge was taken against Adalind for failing to honor the agreement
I have never read anything that questioned Adalind's sole authority to sign it.
(12-17-2018, 04:27 PM)N_grimm Wrote: The motive for taking Diana was preventing the royals (or the resistance) from kidnaping and raising her in a way that threatened the world. If Kelly had not taken Diana with her, it would have been just a matter of time before the royals would have done it instead. It was obviously traumatic for Adalind, but the intention was keeping the world safe. As in most other cases in Grimm, the law and the justice system weren’t suitable to handle the situation. Most people didn’t even know about Wesen, so how could they understand that Kelly raising Diana was like preventing terrorists for getting access to a powerful weapon? Instead of saying Kelly was “not given authority”, you could say she had a duty as a Grimm to keep the world safe from Wesen. That was, after all, the concept of the show.
You're missing the point of my post. Adalind never voiced any opposition to going somewhere where she and her baby would be safe from both resistance and royals. It was Kelly who changed the plan and decided that she alone would be the one to take Diana somewhere safe.
Suddenly Adalind was left out of plans that she was originally part of. Why? She had done nothing to make anyone believe that she wanted to just hang around, allow the royals and resistance to fight over her baby, and let the world go to hell.
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