05-20-2017, 07:05 AM
(05-20-2017, 05:28 AM)MarylikesGrimm Wrote: If that is the case, Kelly sees herself as a failure:Kelly would only see herself as a failure through inner reflection. I don’t think Kelly’s the type, nor is Nick, nor were G & K interested in character evolution. Nick often failed to be proactive even when he had sufficient information to act. Kelly and Nick have an arrogance about them that could reasonably be attributed to the Grimm personality. Regardless of the outcome, neither would see themselves as wrong. Consider the devastation and destruction that followed Kelly taking Diana. I don’t recall even an hint of Nick questioning if they were wrong to jump to conclusions and take Diana away from Adalind. Because it was him and his mother, the decision must be right.
In 20 years, Kelly was not able locate the coins.
In 20 years, Kelly was not able kill any of her husband's murderers killers for revenge.
She told Nick not to leave the ones who love then she leaves him.
Kelly was not able to destroy the coins.
When Kelly did not know what to do with Adalind and the baby she went straight to Nick for advice.
She got an email from Juliette with no details she ran back to Nick with Diana.
I agree with you that mama Kelly was not warm. Marie had warmer feelings towards Nick than Kelly and IMO Marie often gave better grimm advice.
Kelly went to Nick for a place to lay low and strategize. She wasn’t interested in Nick’s opinion or advice. Kelly’s response to Juliette’s email is so uncharacteristic it’s difficult to examine or even theorize. It was so obviously contrived by G & K, I don’t want to let it cast a negative about the character. Kelly not being warm and fuzzy doesn’t make her a bad person or a bad mother, and we don’t know that she wouldn’t have been loving and nurturing had she stayed with Nick. Most probably weren’t expecting Adalind to be a loving and nurturing mother either.
I think Kelly was 100% wrong to take Diana, but I don't see her as a bad person or bad mother because she doesn't fit my idea of good. Actually, I respect Kelly for who/what she is - a Grimm and a mercenary who doesn't apologize for who/what she is.
Quote:Meisner when he looked at Diana's pictures of hexenbiests he saw that as bad. IMO Diana now realized that she was adopted and was thinking about her birth parents completely normal thing for the physical age she was at. Experts say the later adoption is brought up the more it will be seen as negative in someone life.I agree with you about adoption and the negative and positive impact adults have on children. But G & K never bothered with logic or realism, they wrote what they considered exciting, action driven Grimm/Wesen stories. Consider the scene where Nick & Adalind take the children to Monroe & Rosalee’s house because Juliette went through the mirror. Logically, realistically, parents would have put their child to bed upstairs, away from the turmoil. But Adalind and Renard kept Diana downstairs as though it was totally natural for their child to be in the midst of the turmoil.
Notice that Diana always protected Adalind as a baby and later in season 5 and 6 unlike her other caregivers.
Who knows what Diana drawing Adalind as a Hexenbiest, or in human form for that matter, would suppose to mean other than a hint of where the story is going. I can’t imagine it was designed as insight into Diana’s characterization other than how she would fit in the upcoming storyline. Diana was emotionally disconnected when arriving at the BC house. How does that relate to her drawing of Adalind? Was the drawing an expression of an emotional longing or simply a memory? Was Diana capable of feeling/expressing love prior to the storyline requiring it?
Diana protected Adalind, even from Meisner’s touch and he was helping them at the time, but she didn’t offer any resistance when Renard handed her over to Viktor or when Kelly took off with her. If we argue that even as an infant Diana knew she was safer with Kelly, we have to question why at a older age she didn’t offer any aid when Kelley was attacked.
So is Diana the result of ritual/magic, or emotionally stunted from being passed around to strangers, or a plot twist used however and whenever G & K needed her?
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