01-04-2016, 04:52 PM
New guy, I fear you're getting very close to switching your t.v. watching schedule. If this thing with the new Eve gets some traction, I don't think you'll be able to stick around for the duration.
I probably am a shallow viewer also, because I don't have much concern that Eve will figure in the near future of the show, she is simply not stable enough for that, in my opinion. Her handlers, and I believe she could never be an independent agent, will learn quickly that they have a tiger by the tail - and will have to destroy her. I make no secret of my fondness for the Juliette character, but cannot fathom how such a fabricated creature could be allowed to move around on her own without causing tragedy. Surface fans like me can't plumb the depths of logic to any other conclusion.
I have always thought Adalind was a very powerful, though unseasoned, Hexenbiest. I still believe that. We shall see. No one other character has driven the story lines of Grimm as much as Adalind. She is at the center of almost everything that has happened on the show, including producing what has been touted as the most powerful child alive. She's just getting started, imo.
As for her training, it's apparent to me that she is self-taught. Her mother, Catherine, appeared to be a disinterested parent, at best. Adalind has done immature and vindictive things in the past, but there has been a gradual build-up toward more sophisticated Hexenbiest maneuvers as time went by. That awful business with getting her powers back took a kind of angry fearlessness in itself. While pointing to a grievous character flaw more than anything else, it nevertheless was a feat of maximum determination. And she's plenty smart - lawyer, etc. I predict she will far more useful than Eve in Nick's struggle with this uprising and all the extended problems that will follow.
But no romance between N and A, please. Note to file - Adalind said she's allergic to raw tomatoes. I think that means something.
I probably am a shallow viewer also, because I don't have much concern that Eve will figure in the near future of the show, she is simply not stable enough for that, in my opinion. Her handlers, and I believe she could never be an independent agent, will learn quickly that they have a tiger by the tail - and will have to destroy her. I make no secret of my fondness for the Juliette character, but cannot fathom how such a fabricated creature could be allowed to move around on her own without causing tragedy. Surface fans like me can't plumb the depths of logic to any other conclusion.
I have always thought Adalind was a very powerful, though unseasoned, Hexenbiest. I still believe that. We shall see. No one other character has driven the story lines of Grimm as much as Adalind. She is at the center of almost everything that has happened on the show, including producing what has been touted as the most powerful child alive. She's just getting started, imo.
As for her training, it's apparent to me that she is self-taught. Her mother, Catherine, appeared to be a disinterested parent, at best. Adalind has done immature and vindictive things in the past, but there has been a gradual build-up toward more sophisticated Hexenbiest maneuvers as time went by. That awful business with getting her powers back took a kind of angry fearlessness in itself. While pointing to a grievous character flaw more than anything else, it nevertheless was a feat of maximum determination. And she's plenty smart - lawyer, etc. I predict she will far more useful than Eve in Nick's struggle with this uprising and all the extended problems that will follow.
But no romance between N and A, please. Note to file - Adalind said she's allergic to raw tomatoes. I think that means something.
"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation." Bertrand Russell - printed on a beer mat in "Shaun of The Dead".