(06-19-2020, 12:07 PM)Hexenadler Wrote: I'ts been almost three years, and I'm STILL not over what G&K ultimately did to Juliette. You have to stand back and study her arcs throughout season 4, 5 & 6 just to see how morally reprehensible it really is.
S4: Juliette turns into Hexenbiest. Juliette becomes extremely powerful. Power turns Juliette into an uberbitch. Juliette commits unforgivable crimes and has to be put down like a sick animal.
S5: Juliette is beaten up inside a cell by a creep who hides his blatant sadism behind a mask of practicality. Said beating results in Juliette becoming "Eve," a "stronger woman" who's in "full control" of her emotions, i.e. they won't run rampant to destroy everyone around her. Basically, it took a man to slap a leash on Juliette for her to become a good guy again. Juliette is absolved of all her crimes by adapting identity of Eve. Everybody is (ultimately) okay with this, including the writers working under G&K's reign of amoral incompetence.
S6: "Julieve" is mostly reduced to sniffing around a tunnel for most of the season until she goes on a detour with Nick, in which she blabs a monologue SUPPOSEDLY meant to resolve any lingering conflict, only to rip open old wounds by refusing to face accountability for her crimes for the umpteenth time.
As far as I'm concerned, the REAL continuity came to a halt at the end of TRIAL BY FIRE. The actual story unfolded elsewhere. We'll just never get to see it. Everything we saw on the television took place in an evil alternate timeline conceived by lazy, indifferent hacks who didn't care about the misery and trauma they were inflicting on characters whom the audience had the misfortune of liking.
Hi Hexenadler......Great post. Nice to see you here. I believe all of this was done for one reason and one reason only: The creative team did not know what to do with Adalind, and so in order to make her "fit", they created an alternative universe "Juliette". The old Juliette was killed off, leaving "Eve", who is absolved of all crimes having been "born again" according to Monster Meisner. The characters would be okay with this because their fearless leader, Nick, is okay with it. The thing I have thought about while reading all these innumerable posts about Juliette and the betrayal is that Juliette did not go unscathed in any of this. She lost her companion, her career, her friends, her happiness, and herself. She lost it all so that Adalind could take her place as the happy homemaker. And while all of them are okay with Juliette/Eve's lack of remorse, they are even more okay with Juliette/Eve losing everything in the process.
Would an apology to Nick have made any difference? I don't think Nick is capable of understanding the complex concept of forgiveness. You know, the series treats this "Nick getting his Grimm back" as some kind of reverent, time honored tradition and millions will perish if he doesn't take up the gauntlet. So Juliette's happiness with him as a true human is really pathetic by comparison. But here's the thing. Nick didn't take up the gauntlet because he believed in the time honored traditions of Grimm legacy. He took it up so Monroe and Rosalee could be happy, and he could be happy. So if he couldn't understand what would make Juliette happy, I don't think he would understand an apology from her. He just didn't understand Juliette.
And look at his life with Adalind. Nick doesn't have to worry about her asking intelligent questions or wanting a meaningful conversation with him. He doesn't have to worry about leaving the toilet seat up, sleeping in the garage that night, if dinner will be on the table, if little Kelly is being left alone with no one to care for him, or even if Adalind's coming to bed that night. In short, Nick doesn't have any worries with Adalind. He doesn't have to think or even be an adult around Adalind. No matter what he does, she'll still be in bed with him that night. What's not to like and why concern himself with Juliette/Eve's troubles?
Thanks for reminiscence.
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