Quote:That is minimizing her actions.I never underscored Adalind's actions, I misspoke when I said "planned" instead of "sold" Diana. It was despicable of her. Adalind will never live long enough to make up for her mistakes, especially where Diana's concerned but robbing Adalind of her baby doesn't help the situation. She had an ephiphany where Diana's concerned, she discovered a love for her daughter and chose not to give her up, I don't care what she did before this moment, but the fact that she had a "come to Jesus" moment where her child is concerned is enough for me to commend her. That doesn't make her a good person or even mother of the year but considering who she was before that moment, I'll take what I can get, I'm not a fan of child abandonment. If the world crashed and burnt around her as a result of Adalind choosing Diana, I would be more than satisfied and I am. But lucky for the world, that never happened. She doesn't have to fix all her mistakes at once and she never will fix all of them but choosing to love and keep her daughter is a start for me.
Quote:How about for the rest of Diana short life. At the rate Diana is growing she will never see her 18 birthday.Why are you assuming Diana has a short life span? She's already defied physics and nature by her extraordinary birth, who's to say she won't do the same with he life? The writers haven't said anything definitive, so to say she will not see 18 is rather presumptuous.
Quote:Instead of going to class why not let her enjoy the short life she has left. Let her use her magic as she wants. She will be dead before the consequences become a problem.School isn't at the top of my "how to rehabilitate" Diana list, in the two short years she's been alive, she's been on the run, surrounded by death, committed murder and has zero concept of right or wrong. You can't let a child like Diana simply be free to use her powers as she chooses because that involves murder and levitating her baby brother for fun. She needs strong guidance that readjusts her perception of the world around her, she is a child it doesn't matter how grown she is, may look in the future or even how powerful she is. She has become a danger to those around her and thus needs to be shown the right way of doing things as Kelly had originally intended but never got far because now we have a homicidal Diana to contend with. The kidnapping of Diana cancelled out any good intentions Kelly had, stopped any plans she had for Diana because we saw the havoc it wrought in Nick, Juliette, Adalind and her own life in the end and we are still seeing the consequences of Kelly's error even today with Diana, the very person she felt would be better off without her mother.
Old adalind was immature, not ready to raise a special child like Diana. The old Adalind would have been happy to let Diana do her thing consequences be damned but life has taught Adalind a hard lesson and now wants better for her daughter and has shifted from being selfish and immature to thinking about what's best for her children now, it doesn't matter whether you agree with Adalind's approach or not, it is what she believes is right for them and that is a vast difference between this Adalind and the old Adalind who cared only about herself.
Quote:Considering Diana only has less then a year and she will be an adult. The best thing for her is for Eve to train her to protect herself. Instead of people continuing to think the best thing is to treat her like a child.Diana is a two year old in the body of an eight your old with powers of an old super "super" hexenbiest. even if she had the appearance of adult she would still be a child and nothing we've see so far says she acts her superficial age. She throws tantrums like any two year old only interested only in what she wants and nothing else but the difference between her an a normal child is a normal child will throw their toys, scream their lungs out and roll on the floor in frustration but Diana uses her powers dangerously, she kills without a second thought, that's her form of throwing a tantrum.
What in the world would Eve teach her? The child has more powers and more experience in using them. The last thing she needs is to be indulged in using her powers to solve problems. We know Eve will have an identity crisis in S6, no time to be training anyone in anything when neck deep in her own problems., plus Diana doesn't exaclty like Eve so even less chance Diana would listen to her than her own mother.
Quote:There is not normal life in Diana's future, Adalind saw to that. Instead of being in denial of what Diana is like Nick was in denial of what Juliette was. Diana like Juliette should be in training to handle her powers. Especially Diana she will be constantly challenged by those that feel they are stronger then her.So you advocate brainwashing a two year old to being nothing more than another emotionless killing machine? There is no normal for Diana, that much is true. However, it doesn't mean you throw up your hands and simply giving on trying to give her some form of a normal upbringing. She's literally the most powerful two year old in the world and could grow stronger the older she gets, nobody will likely ever be more powerful than her, she has nothing to fear even now as a child. Conrad may have thought he was the biggest bad that ever was but that two year old could probably run circles around him blindfolded with her hands tied behind her back.
She doesn't need to learn to control her powers, she has that control already. She just needs to learn to be a well adjusted member of society that doesn't resort to murder every time someone displeases her. The grown ups around her need to nurture her and see her a child that needs love and stability and normal is a start in helping Diana. Kelly miscalculated, thinking keeping mother and child would help Diana, it didn't. Diana needed her mother (screw up that she is/was) and I think Conrad possibly saw the wisdom in that at least when he pushed Renard to cook up a fake relationship with Adalind. Diana's attachment to her mother is key to getting what you want, whether it's "world peace" (Kelly) or world dominion (Conrad), It's a hyperbole by you get the point. To control Adalind is to control Diana to achieve your ultimate goal.
But thankfully Adalind now has a better view of what her daughter needs, but like she said to Nick, there are just people out there who will never leave them alone. I am glad that Adalind will at least spend S6 trying to rear her child as best as she can. It's not going to be easy but I'd rather that than have Diana be left with those who chose instead to use her for their personal agenda or even her father who cares more about amassing power, so he played into Conrad's hands instead protecting his child from people like Conrad, or her Royal relatives who are just shifty as hell and also care about the power that little girl has than anything else (Frederick and his obsession with hexenbiests and that's not forgetting his inability to stand up to his wife on Sean's behalf when his son had to flee for his life, so suddenly he comes out of the woodwork for his granddaughter? Please...) Diana has already had too many people (want) to use her in her very short life, I say enough of that and just let her be a child in a loving and stable home environment where she would learn to have responsibility of the immense power she has.