09-06-2017, 11:24 PM
(09-06-2017, 08:32 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: The major obstacles to a happy Nadalind would have been Diana and Sean. You can see the set-up for this in the episodes that were in the production chute before the 13 episode announcement was released. 603 ends with Nick and Adalind in happy embrace and Diana looking on with an ominously hostile expression. In 604 Sean is suggesting to Diana that Nick might hurt Mommy and that she should come tell Daddy if he did. Then, before you know it, all that is forgotten, Diana and Sean never talk about how Mommy and Nick are getting along and the Schade-Burkhardt household seems like the happiest family in Portland.I think fan perception was that the return of "Juliette" would be the obstacle to N/A being end game. I mean how many articles were written over the so called "triangle" which never materialized, not even when the actors themselves technically debunked that idea once S6 started? It was expected by viewers but it never happened. They wrote Eve confirming Nick's love for Adalind as early as the second episode and Adalind secure in her relationship with Nick throughout the whole season and pushed that was it.
As you say, Diana and Sean were in fact the ones written on the show to being the obstacle between N/A getting their happy ending. We saw how Diana was unimpressed when she saw how close Adalind was to Nick because she wanted her parents together and Sean pulling her hear but suggesting she keep a watch over Nick just in case he hurt her Mommy because he wanted to destroy Nick and Diana said Nick would be sorry if he ever hurt Adalind.
With the shortened season focus shifted from N/A having relationship issues to the stick, symbols then Zerstörer with an over saturation of WotW episodes. I realise that my expectations were not realistic about the show's ending when for 5 whole seasons it was about WotW with a dash of an overall arc in the background. To expect differently (more serialized storytelling) was setting myself up for failure, it wasn't the writers strong suit.
If the show had a full 22 episode S6 and another full season, I believe the Royals would have been brought back because they had been searching for that treasure for centuries. S6 would have been a build up towards Zerstörer's in the final season. BC could have been written as a Z worshipping cult who mistakenly thought wesen out in the open was Z's plan when it actuality he wanted to create a hell on earth reality for everyone, not a wesen utopia. In S7 wesen, Grimm and Royals would all work together to banish/destroy the destroyer and a new age of enlightenment begins where the truth about wesen is out and everyone has to find a way to live together, with the Royals typically consolidating their power once more to dominate the world as they have always done over the centuries, but now it's no longer in secret.
I wouldn't have changed anything regarding N/A other than watching them grow stronger realistically over a much longer period instead of just 13 episodes.