(05-17-2019, 07:07 AM)brandon Wrote: Juliette did not lose her friends, it was her decision to move away from them.
But here's the issue with that statement. It was never explained to the viewing audience the *reasons* why Juliette did what she did. For example, in all of the previous 3+ seasons, Juliette was never shown to be a barfly. She becomes a hexenbiest and all of a sudden she's at a bar, causing mayhem.
Now, the only explanation to this would seem to be that this hexenbiest took complete control and Juliette ended up at the bar because *it* wanted her there.
How many here have believed from day one that the hexenbiest was *not* in control of Juliette? Answer: the majority of the forum.
So then we're back to square one. We're got a main character with no reasons for her behavior. She was Nick's touchstone, friend to the scoobies, and aided the team. All of the sudden she begins to behave irratically. We have her main character partner, who, while he's supposedly a brilliant detective, is completely ignorant about her irratic behavior. Top it all off with the remaining supporting characters who exhibit paralyzing dumbness in the view of one of the most serious situations in the series.
(05-19-2019, 04:25 AM)Hexenadler
There was no "recovery and rebuilding," Eric, because Eve denied being accountable for Juliette's actions right off the bat. This was by far one of the most morally reprehensible creative decisions the writers have ever made with their characters. Her monologue in 6x11 only made things worse instead of better, as she's [i' Wrote: still[/i] basically refusing to accept responsibility for Juliette's crimes. Nick went along with all this B.S. only because the writers told him to.
Hexenadler, I get what you're saying, but I also think the whole premise behind the character of Eve was that of a character who no one was going to get close to. Even Rosalee who is friend to all doesn't get within a mile of knowing what Eve is all about.
Aside from Nick accusing her of setting up his mother, even he doesn't try to get the facts behind the change. He's content to let her be known as Eve, while calling her Juliette from time to time.
I don't get Nick trying a philosophical conversation about "the way we were" when for two seasons, he could care less about the "way they were". I always wondered what he was looking for and what would he have done had Eve said she wanted things back the way they were. Would he have waved is magic stick and made it so?
In any case, I don't see where an apology from Eve would do any good because no one cares about her or she about them.
The other thing I wanted to bring up as a sign of regret was Adalind's apology. I don't question Adalind's sincerity, I wonder at her perceptions at the time. It seems to me people who are contemplating an apology should at least be in some kind of misery because of what they've done.
Adalind's misery isn't apparent at all. She's living comfortably in the fome, she's got Diana back, Kelly's there and she's got Nick. So let's just throw an apology in there when all is going great. It really fell flat as far as this viewer was concerned.
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