12-18-2017, 03:38 PM
(12-18-2017, 01:47 PM)syscrash Wrote:Quote:You're underplaying Juliette's actions at the spice shop. She was capable of killing them with just a thought, but that wasn't what Juliette was doing. She hyped the tension by forcibly training Nick's gun on Monroe with Nick's hand on the trigger. Nick couldn't stop his actions because Juliette's wanted to show them her powers and how little they now mattered to her and the fact that she had Nick pull the trigger shows her intention clearly. Monroe wasn't shot that night, not because of Juliette. Hank saved Monroe that night by basically tackling hm out of the gun fire. There's no other way around it. Her hesitancy that night wasn't out of some innate compulsion not to hurt them. She was taunting and trying to destroy Nick by making him shoot his best friend and Rosalee by making her watch her husband get shot. It's like how some criminals just kill their victims when robbing them vs others who play with their victims to hype their fear before actually killing them because they thrive on the fear. Juliette was behaving more like the latter than the former, getting drunk on the power. She was in a position of power and wanted Nick and the gang to never forget it.Then why didn't she stop Hank from intervening. Even her response afterward was not that of someone whose plan was stopped. What did she say after ward who that was close. Had she wanted to shot Monroe. Why not have Nick pull the trigger again after re aiming the gun. It is an automatic she could have fired several shots. By your statement are we to believe Juliette could not hit a moving target. After pulling the trigger he dropped the gun. something he could not do until she let him.
The one thing you did get right was her intent was to show she is the one in control. To think that Hank is the one that save Monroe life means you don't see her as having total control of the situation.
At the very least, this shows that Juliette was indifferent to whether Monroe got shot or not. Your argument would be much more substantial if Hank didn't need to tackle Monroe out of the way. The only reason that bullet didn't hit him is because of Hank's intervention. The flippant way Juliette said "that was close" like she flicked a rubber band at him speaks volumes. She doesn't get brownie points for not firing another shot after a third-party rescued her intended victim.
Antagonists taunting the protagonist instead of outright killing them is very prevalent in all of fiction. That's the reason John McClane survives every Die Hard movie. It just doesn't come to down to physical assaults. Juliette doing what she did was psychological torture. That's why she had Nick point his gun at his best friend while Rosalee watched.