04-06-2017, 09:48 AM
(04-06-2017, 09:19 AM)rpmaluki Wrote: I don't think so. I'd say they are fairly even. The issue I think most people have is the character arcs for the two women. One began as a villain and made her way over to the side of good and the other began as a heroine and temporarily became a villain and now she's good again. For some, they see Adalind with Nick and with both her children with her as if it's indicative of writers preference, like she won in the love interest grand slam that is this show. I disagree with this, I think it's the other way around. Romance on a show isn't the pinnacle of a character's worth on a show, in fact I've seen more comments to it being a deathknell to a character's overall development.
Typically, shows cause pain to their protagonists as a means to drive the story. The purpose for this is so there's a big pay off at the end for viewer, who hate the journey but love the destination. It's fiction 101. I believe for years, this was exactly what the writers hoped to achieve with Juliette's character but the wires got crossed between the writers' intentions and what was actually on the show.
Adalind, as a villain, received the typical villain treatment for most of her time on the show, and they hit the mark with her character. Viewers responded to her accordingly. And later, just like modern television is prone to do these days, they made her a little sympathetic by showing her about turn after the birth of her daughter. She was as much a better written villain as Juliette was a horribly written heroine.
When it finally dawned on the writers that fans weren't connecting with their heroine, they changed tactics, switched the two women's role, more for Juliette's sake than for Adalind since of the two, Adalind was better liked due to Claire's performance. And since that switcheroo, Adalind has faded into the background while the writers pushed Juliette/Eve to the forefront and in S5B and all of S6, it was at the expense of showing Nick as the true main protagonist. Nick could have disappeared between S6 episodes 3 and 11 and the show would still have played out exactly like it did and that was a mistake imo.
Take away the wesen of the week cases and all you're left with is Eve's journey from being healed by the stick, to trying to discover what the symbols on the cloth meant, to trying to discover the origins of the stick, to being stalked by Zerstörer, to stupidly crossing the mirror dimension to kill Zerstörer without a plan or exit plan, to her closure with Nick, being about her finding her purpose and not chase some notion of happiness because Nick feels guilty for what happened to her and lastly to having no regrets about the hand she was dealt over the years.
Season 6 is like an ode to Eve, formerly known as Juliette Silverton and Adalind was nowhere near this significant, relegated to playing Nick's girlfriend, mother to two small children and nothing more, the perfect docile housewife, a pitiful shell of her former self, that is not the show being biased to Adalind, as far as I am concerned, it's nearly the opposite.
I agree this completely!
I feel like the writers changed Juliette's characters so many times not to prop up Adalind, but to make Juliette/Eve more likable to the audience.