izzy:
Izzy:
Adalind is the only recurring character who has never been shown to have the support of friends/family. In what realty, fiction or nonfiction, would the character not be all about protecting herself? As for spreading easier than peanut butter, what’s the accepted slices of bread before oozing into skank? Or maybe it’s not the number, but simply committing evil while having a vagina that’s unacceptable.
As a female viewer who is offended by the show’s use of magic requiring sex as the conduit and female characters suffering the subsequent degradation, that a male character is too busy to request a paternity test because he’s dealing with the fallout from the previous female he used to achieve his goal is par for the course with this show.
For me, Nick discovering he isn’t the biological father and reacting as though nothing has changed wouldn’t make his death tragic, but I might feel the show is presenting Nick in a better light than the prior five seasons.
No doubt we see the character very differently. You suggest a scenario that Nick might accept Adalind’s child as his. I’m unable to suggest a scenario that would make me believe Nick is capable of parenting a child. And as for Adalind’s reputation as the global slut, I think the show has presented Adalind’s progression from dangerous & evil tendencies to genuinely wanting to mother & provide a safe/loving home for her children, but failed to progress her from being a tool because she remains too emotionally dependent/damaged to adequately protect herself or her children.
Adalind living/having sex with Nick because she’s using him for financial support & protection is one thing. Adalind believing she’s in love with Nick and his friends are her friends is something else entirely. One suggests Adalind has the means to manipulate people/events in her favor, that she is a wielder. The other suggests that five season in and Adalind is still a tool, a victim unable to orchestrate & maintain a safe environment without subjugating herself to a benefactor.
Adalind using Nick for support & protection while simultaneously using Meisner to find & retrieve her daughter is a scenario that suggests the character I hoped for. Adalind sitting in the fome, doing nothing to find her daughter while believing she’s in love with a man who kidnapped her daughter is, well, season 5.
Quote:I thought about this for sometime. As we know Adalind is a manipulative (albeit lovable) skank. I like her outer persona, she is quite charming, however I have meet many Adelind's in my life.When you think back to how the Adalind+Baby+ Nick thing unfolded warning bells go off.G & K forced mismatched puzzle pieces to fit inside the last-minute Nick/Juliette/Adalind/baby story they decided to tell to the detriment of the characters. Looking only at the characters as G & K created & progressed them, you give Adalind much more credit than warranted. Adalind has always been a tool, never the wielder.
It all was a bit too neat and tidy, in terms of her placing his hand on her belly, the delivery, her little speeches, her apparent vulnerability, sex at the right time etc, etc. to an outsider it looks like a masterful fisherman toying with a creek chub. I think one can make a case that Adalind played Nick and reeled him in, hook line and sinker in his gullet.
Izzy:
Quote:I think it would be interesting (and rather logical) for it to be revealed that there is a little known fact that you cannot cross a Grimm with a Hexenbiest (i.e the egg cannot attach) and that Kelly cannot possibly be Nick's child. It would make sense. Adalind spreads easier than a jar of peanut butter, and Adalind needed protection from Juliette, Renard would have known they had not bumped uglies since baby one so Nick would be the logical one to make baby-daddy (since it appears she never got around to Meisner).Unless you’re suggesting a scenario completely different from the show, Adalind wasn’t presented as having sufficient free time for sex with anyone other than Nick. It’s either Nick’s baby or the result of leftover magic floating in the air - much like Adalind’s genitalia is believed to do on numerous occasions.
Adalind has always been all about Adalind and it all fits together perfectly with her actions. At the same time it builds a little sympathy for Nick so his possible death may seem a bit more tragic.
Adalind is the only recurring character who has never been shown to have the support of friends/family. In what realty, fiction or nonfiction, would the character not be all about protecting herself? As for spreading easier than peanut butter, what’s the accepted slices of bread before oozing into skank? Or maybe it’s not the number, but simply committing evil while having a vagina that’s unacceptable.
As a female viewer who is offended by the show’s use of magic requiring sex as the conduit and female characters suffering the subsequent degradation, that a male character is too busy to request a paternity test because he’s dealing with the fallout from the previous female he used to achieve his goal is par for the course with this show.
For me, Nick discovering he isn’t the biological father and reacting as though nothing has changed wouldn’t make his death tragic, but I might feel the show is presenting Nick in a better light than the prior five seasons.
No doubt we see the character very differently. You suggest a scenario that Nick might accept Adalind’s child as his. I’m unable to suggest a scenario that would make me believe Nick is capable of parenting a child. And as for Adalind’s reputation as the global slut, I think the show has presented Adalind’s progression from dangerous & evil tendencies to genuinely wanting to mother & provide a safe/loving home for her children, but failed to progress her from being a tool because she remains too emotionally dependent/damaged to adequately protect herself or her children.
Adalind living/having sex with Nick because she’s using him for financial support & protection is one thing. Adalind believing she’s in love with Nick and his friends are her friends is something else entirely. One suggests Adalind has the means to manipulate people/events in her favor, that she is a wielder. The other suggests that five season in and Adalind is still a tool, a victim unable to orchestrate & maintain a safe environment without subjugating herself to a benefactor.
Adalind using Nick for support & protection while simultaneously using Meisner to find & retrieve her daughter is a scenario that suggests the character I hoped for. Adalind sitting in the fome, doing nothing to find her daughter while believing she’s in love with a man who kidnapped her daughter is, well, season 5.
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