(10-31-2017, 02:43 PM)irukandji Wrote:When she took his powers, she didn't know he'd participated in the kidnapping. There's a scene where she goes to Nick asking for his help in finding Diana, that's how she got to Viktor because I believe he and Sean decided to tell her Diana was in Vienna. It's only after the de-grimming and returning to Vienna does she find out the truth. Viktor figured it out and told her he didn't have Diana did she realised Nick, Kelly and Sean duped her. What she said at the station was true but as an over reaching consequence of their original deception.(10-31-2017, 02:40 PM)Hell Rell Wrote:(10-31-2017, 02:28 PM)irukandji Wrote: Let me ask this first. Do you think she removed Nick's grimness out of hatred?
This question wasn't addressed to me but it wasn't out of hatred. Adalind did it because she thought it was the only way Viktor would let her see Diana again. She would've given Nick a pedicure if that's what it took to get Diana back. Besides, Adalind didn't know Nick had anything to do with Diana's kidnapping at the time.
That's not what she told Nick. I know what Viktor told her to do and she did it. But this is what she told Nick:
"You all act like I'm responsible for everything, but I only did what I did to you because you took my child from me."
Adalind wasn't wrong. Nick did take her child from her.
(10-31-2017, 05:21 PM)dicappatore Wrote:I think so much focus is placed on Adalind falling for Nick even though he helped kidnap Diana but forget that Nick equally fell for Adalind even after years of her screwing up his life (and Juliette's in particular). If Adalind had reasons to not fall for Nick, the same applied to Nick. These two couldn't help falling once they stopped seeing one another as people instead of enemies.(10-29-2017, 04:37 PM)Robyn Wrote: I think so too. I don’t think the writers did a good job progressing Nick/Adalind, but don’t doubt that their intent was for them to be in a loving, committed relationship before the show’s end.
But my point is the same - The show presented Adalind loving and trusting Nick, but it also presented Nick as her only option from the time she went to him at the end of S4 until the show ended in S6. And while I agree that Adalind loved Nick, I question if she would simply because they had a child together. Had Adalind been written as becoming more independent, getting a job, making a life for herself and Kelly, actively looking for her daughter, etc., would Adalind falling desperately in love with Nick still be the assumption? It’s easy to direct all your attention and energy to family if there’s absolutely nothing else in your life. And that was Adalind’s life for two seasons - Nick and Kelly in S5 and Nick, Kelly, and Diana in S6.
My question to you Robyn is. So, what? whatever the reasons for Nick and Adalind to fall for each other for whatever reasons or circumstances is insignificant.
I met my wife, working in a supermarket, back in high school across the street from the house she lived in. She would shop and I would run into her. Then she asked me out first. If I had never worked in that store, I probably would have never met her. Here I am married for 41 years. Is our affection for each other fake? Should we have dated others for 5 or more years before we started to date exclusively to make sure we were serious?
I am sure if Adalind did not get pregnant with Nick's baby, they would have remained mortal enemies for life. But she did have his baby. If that was the catalyst for them falling in love, again, so what? If that was their only option? Does it mean it’s a fake love?
The development team structured it as such and it can be a very believable situation, even in the real world, besides, just in a fantasy story.