(12-20-2016, 11:58 AM)rpmaluki Wrote:(12-20-2016, 11:05 AM)syscrash Wrote: The simplest answer is why would Adalind intervene. She could careless about Racheal. I know people will make the argument about how wrong it is to let her child kill someone. People forget Adalind and Diana are both hexenbiest in a world of wesen. After five seasons we have plenty of examples where that kind of logic about killing someone wesen don't find relevant. Second why would Adalind risk trying to intervene and have Diana turn on her. The only reason I see that Adalind even said anything was the shock of Diana doing it. Combined with the shock of Diana able to do it.Sean wasn't thrilled about his daughter's penchant for murder and wanted Adalind to do something about it. To me that doesn't strike me as hexenbiests thinking it's always open season and can kill all willy-nilly regardless of consequences. Yes they kill and so on but even they must have some order, isn't that the reason the wesen council existed in the first place, to keep all wesen kind in check so they can keep being undetected by the humans. It would be careless not to curb Diana's enthusiasm for murder at such an early age.
Adalind hasn't shown fear of Diana turning on her so why not steer Diana away from careless behavior (however expertly executed). I'm sure she's aware of the fury Diana can unleash but it hasn't stopped her from stepping out of bound, if you will, when instructing Diana not to use her dolls to make mommy and daddy do things they didn't want to do because they didn't love each other and getting Diana to project herself to help Nick.
Adalind didn’t give two figs about Rachel, that doesn't mean she wanted her dead or was happy about it, especially knowing that Diana did it. You insist on hexenbiests acting a certain way but immediately reject watching a hexenbiest (Adalind in particular) defy those expectations. I don't think you have the entire rule book on the dos and don'ts of hexenbiests. The writers themselves don't have it so I don't understand why you seem bent out of shape about what Adalind does or should have done in any given situation. Everything that happens in S5 could have contradicted everything that came before and we've seen it happen and not just with hexenbiests. We've seen it with Grimms, the Royals, Sean, Juliette, Monroe etc. It's the messed up nature of this show, that nothing is written in stone, that behavioral patterns change from one day to the next. The writers want us to work with the information provided, screw whatever we think should be canon.
There's no show bible on what a Hexenbiest is or what they do so I agree that trying to paint Adalind in that frame is futile. They tried to tell us in season 4 but did a poor job because they gave us two different Hexenbiests, Elizabeth and Henrietta, that contradicted what we were told about them. Adalind has also defied whatever we've been told about them so that can't be ignored. It's clear that the writers don't intend on us seeing her as the same old Adalind.
It's a microcosm of the entire show. Nick is not the typical Grimm, Monroe is not the typical Blutbad, and Rosalee is not the typical Fuchsbau. Even people who prescribed to the old ways such as Monroe's parents were starting to come around albeit slowly. There have been instances that Nick and the crew were attacked precisely because they're not what "nature" dictated they should be. The Adalind of season 5 was getting there as well and it's yet to be seen what she'll be in the final season.
Adalind has already been shown to not be the typical Hexenbiest. Saying otherwise is refusing to see what the writers have been trying to tell us even if someone doesn't think it's portrayed well which they would be completely justified in thinking. She hasn't been shown trying to fight her urges for nothing.