01-29-2017, 07:00 PM
G&K purposely made Juliette’s transition to Eve vague. The only flashbacks were HW tranquilizing her and taking her way, and Meisner punching her and promising that she’d learn to focus her anger.
That doesn’t promote the idea that Juliette was a willing participant. But if she was, and there wasn’t any type of force or brainwashing, then Juliette really is a selfish, heartless bitch. Choosing of her own free will to become a laser focused operative and putting all her negative energy into that effort, would not have required her rebuffing Nick’s questions. She could have simply told him she had to make a life for herself, and nothing she said would change the past. She did not need to insist that Juliette was dead.
Had Juliette actually chosen to become Eve, the Hexenbiest operative, the stick probably wouldn’t have broken down her Eve persona because a fake/created personality wouldn’t have existed.
But we’re looking at it as a season arc about a government black ops combating a Wesen takeover. In reality, it was about Nick’s personal vendetta against Renard. It was, as it always is, all about Nick drama.
BC was a reason for HW to be in Portland, which provided a place to park Eve until the show was ready for Juliette to return.
That doesn’t promote the idea that Juliette was a willing participant. But if she was, and there wasn’t any type of force or brainwashing, then Juliette really is a selfish, heartless bitch. Choosing of her own free will to become a laser focused operative and putting all her negative energy into that effort, would not have required her rebuffing Nick’s questions. She could have simply told him she had to make a life for herself, and nothing she said would change the past. She did not need to insist that Juliette was dead.
Had Juliette actually chosen to become Eve, the Hexenbiest operative, the stick probably wouldn’t have broken down her Eve persona because a fake/created personality wouldn’t have existed.
(01-29-2017, 01:55 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: Well, that's the whole problem with this plotline, isn't it? Nick never should have been in a position to "go after" anyone. HW should have given him a choice: join us, or spend the rest of this op off the streets in Homeland Security detention because you know too much to be allowed to run loose.I like your scenario, and would have preferred it, but G&K would probably think it overshadows their central character / hero.
As soon as HW knew that Conrad was in Portland and concluded that BC was "massing their forces" in Portland, the rest of the story should have been right out of "Patriot Games." Nick and the scoobies should have been bundled off to HW - under arrest if need be - and been watching on the big screen while a tactical display showed a bunch of black helicopters and APCs loaded with troops raiding every known BC location and surgically removing them. Or at the very least, when Nick took Trubel and Eve to rescue Hank, the BC assault on HW should have found HW empty because Meisner had taken everyone else out to run a simultaneous hit on the North Precinct instead of just sitting where they were to be attacked.
Then the final Nick confrontation could have happened after the op was over as a small band of BC who managed to escape the raids came after the scoobies attempting to avenge the destruction of their movement.
But we’re looking at it as a season arc about a government black ops combating a Wesen takeover. In reality, it was about Nick’s personal vendetta against Renard. It was, as it always is, all about Nick drama.
BC was a reason for HW to be in Portland, which provided a place to park Eve until the show was ready for Juliette to return.
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