10-12-2015, 11:00 AM
(10-11-2015, 07:24 PM)Lin S. Wrote: I know it seemed a little weird, the plot line of Adalind digging up her mother, dissecting her mother, "drinking her mother." Just a random plot idea to gross us out?I will say @Lin S. you have a unique way of looking a the series so you have unique posts and threads. That said I don't see a lot of Shakespeare or history in the series. Some posts have reseach on the history of the 13 century crusades and the keys adding the 600 years Renard says it took the royals to get the 4 keys we are into the Napoleon time frame. Add the King of Portugal when to Brazil to get away from Napoleon only came up because of all the times Brazil is referenced in the series.
Maybe but after talking about the rape/forced relationship and how close that is to the situation of a real Hapsburg princess in 1810, the time period of the Grimm Brothers, I started adding up all the similiarities and it dawn on me why Adalind "drank her mother".
I wrote it here and don't want to double post, so you can click now or I can give you a real rough idea.
https://howtobeagrimm.wordpress.com/nicks-bedroom/
Without going into details Marie Louise was forced to marry her hated enemy Napoleon Bonaparte in order for him to produce an heir. Yes this is a case where only the baby is the reason for the marriage. She was surrounded by French politicans and courtiers that had survived the reign of terror, mostly because they had participated in it. Meaning they had sent her favorite aunt, Marie Antonette to the guilotine. Imagine having your aunt's crimes "dissected" in casual conversation before you at a state dinner table. Or being asked to join in a toast to Marie Antonette's death. "Drinking her own mother" is a metaphor for having to drink a toast to her family's murder.
Maybe they are using some biography of the events as their source for this "tale". They haven't quoted anything yet, but it's pretty clear they are following some storyline of Napoleon-Josephine-Marie Louise in their Nick-Juliette-Adalind story in season 4/5.
To your idea on did Adalind drink her mother you said "why" I see this as no she didn't to answer your question she drank a potion made from her dead hexen mother. The only one she could find. Later if she needs or wants her powers back could she use Henrietta body to undo the potion? What would the why be then? After the potion was run thru the hat was there anything of the mother left or did the hat change the very potion? How powerful is the hat I believe the hat is what made Juliette a hexen, so I believe the hat may the most powerful object on Grimm to date.
She did this to prove the potion worked to save herself from Juliette, but this and 5 dollars will get you a cup of coffee.