04-09-2017, 08:50 AM
(04-09-2017, 08:17 AM)irukandji Wrote:(04-08-2017, 11:12 PM)Mrtrick Wrote: Adalind doesn't love being with the royals. They were a means to an end. And having gobs of money and a mansion has never been her driving impulse. First it was about pleasing Renard. Then it was about revenge and getting back the part of herself that was stolen. And finally it's been about her children. She doesn't need a safe haven because it's hard to top the one she has. Full of people who love her and would lay down their lives for her. Adalind has said before, when discussing finances with Nick, that she likes to contribute, so becoming some kept woman in a Bavarian Castle wouldn't appeal to any perceived vanity you think she has. And Nick and Adalind are not going to stay in the FOME. That was always meant to be a temporary measure until looming dangers passed. With Zerstorer and Black Claw finished, and with the Royals in utter disarray, there's no reason for them not to start looking for a proper house to raise their kids in. Adalind doesn't need some prince to sweep in and give her a house. She and Nick will find something that suits them just fine. In the scheme of things, Adalind is more likely to start her own law firm than take handouts from some fancy dude in a Rolls Royce. She already got her Prince Charming in Nick. A guy she fell in love with because he wasn't like any of those other jerks.
I think Adalind enjoyed herself plenty at the royals expense. As a hexenbiest, she would have been very valuable to them, much more valuable than a regular garden variety assassin. I think she loved the life she led with them. I'm not talking about the last trip where she got tortured, but the other trips. She was affected when Trubel told her she'd been to Lisbon. I think she missed her old life.
As for Nick's life at the fome, Adalind took it because Adalind had no other alternative. Most everyone here stated she was desperate. The way I understand desperate, a person is reduced to taking what they can get.
It's not looking at Nick and the scoobies and figuring that because these people are loving and caring she's getting the better end of the deal. Loving and caring people mean nothing to Adalind. If that was important to her, she wouldn't have assumed Juliette's form. She would have stopped herself and thought of another way.
I see exactly what Tara and Juliette mean about Nick and Adalind in the fome. Nick didn't do anything any different than he did when he brought her to the fome. Adalind didn't do anything different than when she set a toe in the fome. So I can't understand when the big "click" happened, the lightbulb appeared over both of their heads, and they all of the sudden realized they were in love with one another. A love that is so all encompassing that it overcomes some quite severe injuries, assaults on friends, assaults on a beloved, and the whole gamut isn't within either Nick or Adalind. These two aren't Heathcliff and Cathy. They're two rather nondescript people and one invited the other into a warehouse because she was desperate and had no home.
Adalind may be walking around with blinders on in the hopes it'll all sink in. Taking her shirt off for Nick and offering him sex when he's about to leave for Germany just doesn't seem to offer any proof that it's all turned for her, however. In fact, to me, it makes her motives even more questionable.
So if a royal prince came along and offered her her life's desire, including going to Lisbon at least one more time than Trubel did, would Adalind jump at the chance? Of that I have no doubt.
(04-08-2017, 11:28 PM)Mrtrick Wrote: If Diana calls Nick "Dad", it's because she wants to. Not because someone told her to. That makes it about her feelings and nobody else's. Given that Nick and Sean are co-parents to this young woman, it's her feelings that settle the issue. If Sean is jealous about it, then he should get over himself.
As I said we don't know if Diana called Nick, "Dad". I happen to think she didn't. It could just as easily be argued that Adalind and Sean were on task that day, right? After all, they're one big happy family, and together. Supposedly. I take it with a grain of salt because it could have just as easily been stated sarcastically.
As for Diana refusing to call Nick, "Dad", I'm merely going by Diana herself. Even at the end of the series, she's no warm and cuddly person as compared to Kelly. She's cold, bossy and in a hurry. She knows what she wants. I don't believe she ever called Nick, "Dad" and I think he's probably perfectly fine with it. After all, what's he going to do to force the issue? Nothing.
(04-08-2017, 11:28 PM)Mrtrick Wrote: And we don't know if Nick and Adalind have more kids. Since they would be younger than Kelly and Diana, it's unlikely they would be out in the field much by this point. They could still be in high school or junior high. But given Adalind's rampant fertility, I wouldn't be surprised if they had a couple more. Of course it's no given that they would even have powers.
Right, right, right, we don't know anything, although I assume if there were more children, a sentence or two confirming wouldn't detract from the storyline. We don't know a lot of things including if Nick himself is still hanging around. I know, I know the truthful G&K said so, but once they're the authorities and once they lied, nothing they state can be trusted, in my opinion.
I would give you Kudos for what you have written but I can't give you anymore since the limit is exceeded. But I agree with you fully and completely.