(12-21-2016, 08:48 AM)irukandji Wrote:(12-21-2016, 07:52 AM)Hell Rell Wrote: Adalind would have taken another batch because she was terrified of her Hexenbiest returning and poured her heart out to Rosalee about not wanting it back. We're not given any indication that she's lying. This episode aired well before she got her job back and I think how Adalind was feeling at the time dictates what she would've done. She would've taken any solution Rosalee came up with at the time.
This was never meant to happen so it's all speculation. Rosalee could've come up with a cure and the writers would've just come up with some contrived reason for why Adalind needs her powers. There could've been some direct threat to Kelly right before she takes the cure.
Well, I don't buy Adalind's terrified response because she has manipulated before and will do so again. And exactly what was she terrified of? Nick certainly wasn't going to do anything to her and it's his kid. So she was terrified? Really? Of what? If you view the arguments on the forum, no one believes for a moment Juliette didn't do evil of her own free will. What then would make Adalind any different? Certainly not the fact that she's now a mother. I know many women who are bitches on wheels, yet are fabulous mothers.
I also think there was actually no intent (on Adalind's part) that Juliette would take the potion much less survive its results if she did. I was thinking about this and wondering just what Adalind was hoping to accomplish by offering the potion to Nick in the first place. Was she really hoping Juliette's hexenbiest would be suppressed? To what end?
There's no way the two women would reside together in the same house. Adalind knows that if Juliette was transformed back to near normal that Juliette would have been taken in and Adalind would have been booted out. She never would have had a chance.
It was in Adalind's best interest for Juliette to take the suppressant and not be harmed by it because she would fear reprisal by Nick if it didn't work the way she thought it would. Adalind didn't think about what would happen if Juliette took the suppressant because she's not a long-term planner. She does whatever she thinks is best at the moment. There was even that confusing scene where Nick came to Adalind for help with Renard and she initially thought he was coming to kill her because she thought Juliette drank the suppressant and she wasn't needed anymore.
Adalind was not trying to manipulate Rosalee. It would make sense because of her prior history but the show isn't playing that angle plus they've gone through pains to show that Adalind thinks of Rosalee as her only friend. She came out to get Tony off of Rosalee's back even without her powers. Adalind could've stayed hidden and left Rosalee to get beaten but didn't.
Adalind was afraid of Nick for nothing similar to the way Juliette feared telling him about becoming a Hexenbiest. They both thought he might actually kill them which is ridiculous but that was one of the reasons actually given. Henrietta told Juliette that Nick's natural instinct as a Grimm was to kill her for being a Hexenbiest. Juliette had just witnessed Nick in the same room with Elizabeth more than once so she should know that was nonsense.
Aside from her eminent death being a fear, Adalind thought Nick would kick her and Kelly out of the fome. She thought that would happen as soon as Nick discovered the suppressant wore off without any further discussion. We know that this doesn't make a lot of sense either but this was another reason given.
Season 6 may prove me wrong but Adalind is not the same Adalind of the earlier seasons. She may not have had her name changed like Juliette but they're trying to show that she has changed. She didn't intentionally harm anyone in the entirety of season 5.
I think some people may think I'm advocating for Adalind to be this redeemed character. I'm not. I'm just forming an opinion based on what I've seen. I'm on record saying that I think she was a better character before she became a housewife to Nick. I also don't believe every character needs to be redeemed for me to find them interesting. That has backfired on several characters I used to enjoy watching and any attempt to fully redeem Adalind or Juliette would be a mistake as far I'm concerned.