(07-23-2018, 11:08 AM)irukandji Wrote: I think you're misunderstanding my intent when I posed the question about Adalind lying. I'm not criticizing her for doing so, I just believe that she would do anything to fight for herself and her baby. What's a lie in relation to that?
On the other hand, who of us really can state with any certainty that Adalind was wrong? She may have spent the rest of her days terrified of the hexenbiest.
I don't know how Adalind lying about what the Hexenbiest does to a person would be beneficial to fighting for herself and her baby. She would only lie if she wanted Rosalee and Nick to believe her. It wouldn't be optimal if they wholeheartedly believed what she had to say because they would always be walking on eggshells around her at the very least. They would have the thought about Adalind being up to no good in the back of their minds.
Adalind may have still worried about the Hexenbiest in the future but there wasn't anything alarming happening since she got it back in the final season and a half. There was never a hint of her straying to the dark side. It's an assumption but I don't get the impression her Hexenbiest was a major problem for her in those twenty years.
(07-23-2018, 01:43 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: When Adalind was a hexenbiest, or trying to regain her hexenbiest, she had no real friends and everything she did seemed to blow up disastrously in her face. Then she gets pregnant and takes that potion to suppress her powers, and all of a sudden everyone is protecting her, taking her into their homes to hide her, buying baby stuff for her, etc. Maybe it just hit her like a slap in the face that friends were better than powers.
I think this was the key difference. Adalind finally had a group to support her instead of exploiting her. She was happier with the people she had in her life than her Hexenbiest. Adalind was just afraid to fall into old bad habits but her life had become completely different than it was before.
(07-23-2018, 04:01 PM)syscrash Wrote: About Adalind lying about what happens when she gets her powers back. I hypothesize that it is having power is what she is scared of. Having power gets her in trouble. Consider she gets her powers, goes back to the company that considers her powers an asset. A company in season one was seen taking companies. She also went to the mansion, and made demands of Sean. Would she have done any of that if she did not have her powers. If she had not got her powers back, Nick would have not had to rescue her from the mansion. Once again her having powers got her in trouble.
It is like the guy that learns martial arts, and now feels they can go to a bar and talk crap. Or the guy that gets a carry permit and now feels they do not need to avoid dark streets.
Adalind definitely gave off an absolute power corrupts absolutely vibe to me. It enabled her to act on her worst impulses. She was a former bad girl who was convinced she would be bad again if she had the ability to do so. Her circumstances changed but she didn't yet believe that she was able to change along with them. Adalind didn't think she could have that type of power and not be tempted to do something malicious with it.