02-20-2016, 03:09 PM
One of my biggest issues with Eve is a writing issue (although I am also in the camp that is generally unimpressed by Bitsie's acting skills). The writers are telling us and not showing us. They're just TELLING us she's Eve now and that Juliette is dead and they're just expecting us to accept that without SHOWING us how or even why or illustrating any kind of larger consequence of that. And the fact that all the characters are just like "oh okay, Juliette is Eve now" without requiring a greater burden of proof or even having more questions about it just feels very disingenuous to me. It's like the writers want the viewers to just accept Eve with little fanfare and so they have the characters do it even though IT MAKES NO SENSE. If one of my closest friends claimed "she was dead" and there was now a new person occupying her body, I would react wildly differently to the way the scoobies have, even if I knew magic and wesen and stuff were really. The existence of magic or fantasy does not elimate the need for authentic and basic human experience.
I'm actually not one of the people who is abjectly opposed to Bitsie's return in any way shape or form. I wasn't a fan of her character, but I think if the storyline was better executed I could enjoy it. If they really wanted to make her Eve, there are SO many interesting ways that they could have done it, so many interesting things that they could have shown, which they just haven't done yet. I just don't believe the Eve character. And until I do, I'm not going to enjoy any of her scenes. But for right now, I find the whole thing ridiculous and I also roll my eyes whenever she's on the screen.
I know that a lot of people like or love the Eve character, and I think that's great for you. I wish I could get into it more because this is the first season of grimm where there is a significant portion of the storyline that I dislike. Unfortunately, I'm going to need the writers to put a lot more groundwork in before I can get there.
I'm actually not one of the people who is abjectly opposed to Bitsie's return in any way shape or form. I wasn't a fan of her character, but I think if the storyline was better executed I could enjoy it. If they really wanted to make her Eve, there are SO many interesting ways that they could have done it, so many interesting things that they could have shown, which they just haven't done yet. I just don't believe the Eve character. And until I do, I'm not going to enjoy any of her scenes. But for right now, I find the whole thing ridiculous and I also roll my eyes whenever she's on the screen.
I know that a lot of people like or love the Eve character, and I think that's great for you. I wish I could get into it more because this is the first season of grimm where there is a significant portion of the storyline that I dislike. Unfortunately, I'm going to need the writers to put a lot more groundwork in before I can get there.