03-04-2018, 10:51 AM
We delved into the difficulties Juliette encountered continuing her relationship with Nick after he became a Grimm and the Hexenbiest’s volatile impact on her life, relationship, and friendships. But we haven’t devoted much of the recent discussion to the positive and/or negative impact of the Eve personality.
I instantly disliked Juliette being completely eliminated and replaced with the Eve personality that mimicked a CIA MKUltra project. I think it was an unnecessary negative impact on the Juliette character’s emotional/mental strength that had been established during the first four and half seasons.
But if the show was determined to eliminate ties to Juliette’s briefly volatile past, it should have at least committed to the new Eve character evolving and learning social interaction skills rather than a stick whammy merging the two personalities. I tried to take an objective look at the positive and negative, but kept reaching the same conclusion - Hexenbiest Juliette, Eve, and Eve/Juliette was a hot mess that didn’t advance the character or her role in the storyline.
The way it played out, the S6 Eve/Juliette hybrid was a mentally/physically compromised soldier deemed unfit to continue in the war against BC, a person without a clear past or future, whose friendships were rooted in her pre-Hexenbiest Juliette life. And just as the Eve/Juliette hybrid declares she’s accepted who/what she is and her role in the battle against evil, the character is stripped of her Hexenbiest strength/abilities and returns to being human.
Any thoughts on what I’m missing that would help make sense of the rollercoaster character changes?
I instantly disliked Juliette being completely eliminated and replaced with the Eve personality that mimicked a CIA MKUltra project. I think it was an unnecessary negative impact on the Juliette character’s emotional/mental strength that had been established during the first four and half seasons.
But if the show was determined to eliminate ties to Juliette’s briefly volatile past, it should have at least committed to the new Eve character evolving and learning social interaction skills rather than a stick whammy merging the two personalities. I tried to take an objective look at the positive and negative, but kept reaching the same conclusion - Hexenbiest Juliette, Eve, and Eve/Juliette was a hot mess that didn’t advance the character or her role in the storyline.
The way it played out, the S6 Eve/Juliette hybrid was a mentally/physically compromised soldier deemed unfit to continue in the war against BC, a person without a clear past or future, whose friendships were rooted in her pre-Hexenbiest Juliette life. And just as the Eve/Juliette hybrid declares she’s accepted who/what she is and her role in the battle against evil, the character is stripped of her Hexenbiest strength/abilities and returns to being human.
Any thoughts on what I’m missing that would help make sense of the rollercoaster character changes?
"If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well." Rainer Maria Rilke