(02-24-2018, 11:32 AM)Hexenadler Wrote: I think G&K secretly realized they dropped the ball with the entire Hexenette arc, and attempted to "redeem" the character by reformatting her into some kind of superhero-ish ass-kicker. Instead, they only succeeded in pissing off everybody: The fans who wanted to see more of Juliette, and the fans who hated Bitsie Tulloch and wanted her gone from the show completely. It was a lose-lose situation. Nick and Juliette's depressing breakup (combined with the idiotic Eve/HW subplot) wasn't the primary reason the show was ultimately cancelled, but I personally believe it was one of the contributing factors.
I think the beginning of the end occurred even sooner than that, when someone got the brilliant idea of bringing a baby into the series to make Adalind more appealing. Adalind was always an underdeveloped character. Instead of the creative team developing her own story where she could exist on her own and still be an eternal pain in the a** to Nick, the creative team decided the best thing for her was to make her part of the scoobies.
I agree with you regarding Juliette. What I also see with Juliette is that the character was mutiliated in order to bring Adalind into the fold, not make the series more interesting. I actually found the premise of a wesen uprising interesting, but in the reality of the series, what are they in revolt against? They woge when they want and kill when they want regardless. If these wesen wanted to take over, they could. So the series tiptoed around that because BC was never the big issue. And HW...well the posts about that speak for themselves. All the while they continued to try and pound into viewers' heads that Eve was really a different character. At the same time they made it plain they didn't believe it, and so the audience wouldn't believe it either.
Eve should have never even been invited to Monroe's birthday party. That wouldn't have been done because the scoobies were deliberating excluding her. It would have been done because they would have honored her affect and her statements that Juliette no longer existed.
Eve never should have attended because while she knows the scoobies, they are not the same people who she was close to as Juliette. Any memory of Juliette interacting even positively with the scoobies, should have been something that Eve would never deal with. Instead they have her going to a birthday party.
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