05-28-2014, 03:48 PM
(05-28-2014, 12:24 PM)Belle Wrote: Wow, interesting, you see the show completely differently than I do. I saw Nick as trying to protect Juliette and think any woman who turns down a proposal should have a much better reason than she did. At the very least I think she should break things off with him, so he can move on with his life, especially if his being a grimm is such a problem for her.
Sorry, but I am still looking forward to the episode where they kill her off in some nasty way and Nick gets to move on and date someone good. I agree with the post which said Nick has more chemistry with Monroe than Juliette.
I agree Nick was -- in part -- trying to protect Juliette. The problem is that Juliette isn't a child Nick is responsible for. She's an adult in a relationship of equals, and Nick had no right to deny her that information, however justified he felt he was, or how good he thought his intentions were. One person doesn't get to decide to what's best for another person in a relationship. And then there was also the part of Nick that held back from telling juliette the truth out of fear of losing her. And while I can understand that fear, and how hard it would be to have that conversation, Nick held on to his secrets way too long -- past the point where they were getting her hurt, and where she actually begged him for the truth. I agree someone was being strung along, and someone was being selfish and needy, but I feel very differently about who was which.
I feel exactly the opposite about Juliette refusing the proposal -- if she'd accepted, I would have thought she was a fool. Getting engaged to someone when you know in your gut something's going on and there's something you're not being told is about as terrible a choice as you can make, and a recipe for a bad ending. If Nick wanted her to commit to him, he owed her the truth. And she was tremendously understanding about him not being able to give it to her -- there was no ultimatum, no pushing him into telling her before he was ready. She loved him and was willing was to wait for him to come to terms with things, but she had enough respect for herself and for their relationship to refuse to make a commitment when something was wrong.
Juliette has only just now voiced her frustration over the very real hardships Nick's calling has introduced into her life. She's had her home broken into multiple times, she's been kidnapped, she's been poisoned, she's had her memory stolen, she's been the victim of magic that almost got her raped, she's had the person responsible for that magic dropped on her doorstep for safekeeping, she's had a complete stranger whose history includes being an unstable thief brought to her house to stay indefinitely without so much as a heads up phone call, and now she's had someone wear her face to ambush her partner. And now -- only now -- does she reach the point where she feels it might be too much to handle. She has been beyond patient, beyond gracious, beyond sympathetic, and beyond understanding.