(04-10-2017, 03:07 PM)irukandji Wrote:I think both of you are right. Juliette did take care of Nick but there was also a detachment, a sort of coldness between her and Nick that didn't go unnoticed. Adalind is only just coming into her role as Nick's partner, so she learning to take care of Nick, doing the some of the things Juliette used to do, like cook for him, look after the fome etc. She's only had this role for several months now, coming from behind, so to speak and Nick has attached himself firmly to her, and this is even more telling when barely a year ago they were still technically enemies. Izzy is right in Adalind appealing to much more to Nick's primal urges that place him in provider/protective mode. Nick was like that with Juliette but it was not without conflict, hence Nick and Juliette find themselves were they are today. He will always love Juliette but he's fallen in love with Adalind despite everything. It doesn't make sense to viewers but having watched Nick for six years straight, it was never outside of the realm of possibilities, especially if you consider that there had always been an underlying current of unspoken attraction between Nick and Adalind.(04-10-2017, 02:31 PM)izzy Wrote:(04-10-2017, 10:41 AM)irukandji Wrote: I don't think Nick will ever be over Juliette. It just means it's always going to be painful to him. If it's painful to him, shouldn't it be painful to her as well? Certainly Adalind is capable of understanding those events, right?
Well here is a male perspective:
What did we see on the show? A woman who many had trouble believing was actually in love with the guy because of the lack of expression, warmth, and affection that was portrayed by the Juliette character on the screen. Contrast that with the Adalind portrayal. Men really, really like women who dote on them, cherish them, make them feel good about themselves and who are free with their access to boobies. Men may respect and deliberately choose a mate that is different than than, but the internal male verses the sentient one, wants a girlish type who bolsters a man's ego. Adalind has all that in spades. Nick likely will forever have a soft spot for Juliette and may love her forever but Adalind is clearly Nick's woman (as the show wrote it) an Juliette never was a woman to Nick, not even close. It is the difference between eating the salad that is good for you and a bowl of ice cream or chocolate.
Plus there it the mother-of-my-children effect. In the end, I just don't see Juliette as painful to Nick, a soft spot yes, but in many non-substantive ways, he has traded up.
That's not true. She was there for him when he got into trouble with the muse, she helped him when he got the zombie poison, she was nursing him when he was getting headaches before becoming a grimm. Unless she was working late, she was always there when he came home at night. The one thing we saw about Juliette that we have never seen with regard to Adalind, is she made dinner for Nick. Not only dinner, but his favorite dishes. If that's not evidence of caring for the man, I don't know what is. I didn't see a lot of evidence of a sizzling chemistry between them, but I got the impression that they were very good friends and in my opinion, there's not a better path to true love than being a friend when in need. Sometimes a loved one needs a friend, not a bedpal.
As for the mother of my children effect, there have been studies where marriages end up in trouble at the arrival of a child. You wouldn't think it would happen but guess who gets ignored when the baby comes into play? The man of the house. A baby creates untold stress on a marriage/relationship, especially if the woman vows to be the best mother possible.
Nick is a complete doofus who values being a grimm above everything else, so it probably didn't affect him in the least. I never saw Adalind dote on him, but then the doofus in him probably didn't miss that either.