05-29-2017, 06:01 AM
(05-28-2017, 03:18 PM)Hexenadler Wrote: There are "gray areas," and then there's lazy plot convenience. If I found out my girlfriend had been forcefully brainwashed into a cold-blooded automaton (even if she got one of my parents killed), I wouldn't have anything to do with the organization responsible. This is another case of the writers turning Nick into a malleable weenie who goes wherever the story demands he goes.I didn’t compare Juliette’s willingness to help Nick to Meisner/HW’s physical coercion splintering Juliette’s psyche. I compared HW’s use of Juliette to Nick’s use of Juliette. One was an organization aimed at completing an objective by any means necessary, the other was a man who loved and wanted to marry Juliette.
I also can't believe you're comparing Juliette's voluntary decision to help Nick get his Grimm powers back to being brutally beaten inside a cell. We're not talking about what "Eve" chose for herself, because by that point, "Eve" had already been fully indoctrinated to HW's cause. Juliette had no choice about what was done to her before Meisner gave her the Manchurian Candidate treatment. That's like a pod person from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" saying she's happy about being an emotionless conformist mutant after being absorbed into the collective. Her opinion on what's personally beneficial to her can't be trusted anymore, because it's already been compromised and made biased by an exterior force.
Grimm was full of lazy writing, contrived plots, and haphazard characterization. Juliette-Eve wasn’t the first or the last storyline and character that fell victim to the wild and chaotic machinations of the creative team. I wholeheartedly agree that Nick should have felt and expressed anger to HW’s manipulation of Juliette and keeping it from him. But if Nick’s expected to be angry at strangers for using the woman he loved and lying to him, he should have been furious with his trusted friend/ward/fellow Grimm for her complicity.
Yes, Juliette’s attitude and behavior were no longer her own because they were compromised by external forces - first by the Hexenbiest created by magic, then by HW. Juliette had already plunged into raging maniacal behavior before HW took her. HW’s options were to take her down permanently or splinter her psyche, take control, and focus her Hexenbiest abilities on a single objective. A third option - helping Juliette gain control over her new/different life and freely choosing to join HW’s mission wasn’t available to Meisner/HW. That was Greenwalt and Kouf’s decision to make, and they chose the cool lean mean fighting machine.
"If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well." Rainer Maria Rilke