10-29-2017, 05:37 PM
(10-29-2017, 05:07 PM)silver Wrote: It WAS Adalind's attitude and choice of actions that helped others to react and respond to the situation and her the way they did. I realize you and probably nobody else feels Adalind is pure as the driven snow, but from recent posts here and there, they seem to think she almost is. If it weren't for her incredibly potent hex actions (whether she intended or not), they more than likely wouldn't treat her like they did. (She was a little snot, you know. XD) I don't know how anybody could blame them for holding her at arm's length to keep anymore tragedies from happening to them.Pull back the claws, silver. You’re the only one using pure as the driven snow to describe Adalind. My approach has always been to keep the character’s actions in perspective rather than automatically siding with the predetermined protagonists.
Unfortunately, just as the Royals are inbred in more ways than one, these secret societies like the Grimm, the Resistance, etc., have limited ways of doing things, and limited resources (people, as well), with which to carry out their agendas.
Yes, Nick reacted to Adalind based on his violent history with her. But Renard was a significant part of that violent history, and Nick didn’t have a problem getting over him being the mastermind behind his aunt’s assassination attempts and Hank’s near death. Nick accepted a truce with Renard in S1 because it was equally beneficial to him, just as he accepted a truce with Adalind in S4 because it was equally beneficial to him.
The show didn’t present Adalind as doing anything while in Portland in S3 other than trying to keep herself and the baby safe. Nick didn’t have reason to know that Adalind was any different after the baby was born than she was previously. But Adalind’s actions toward Nick only gives him the right to deny her access to her child if it’s believed that he has an inherent right to force his will on someone else.
And even if I could accept that being a Grimm gives Nick that inherent right, which I can’t, Nick couldn’t even fathom the possibility that he’d made the wrong decision even after everything crumbled around him. So good intentioned hero or egotistical jerk?
"If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well." Rainer Maria Rilke