(04-08-2017, 04:44 AM)Juliette Wrote: I think if Nick had not turned away of her at the decisive moment when Juliette show him her new her - Nick and Adalind would not get together.
Of course, they would have the baby together BUT all other things would not be escalated like it did. It would not be so much escalated, as it has escalated. I am absolutely convinced of this.
I have seen some episodes of Grimm today - from 14-20 of the 4th season. I say: I'm sorry for Adalind. She really did not have it easy. For me it is a big step since I am more of the Juliette supporter. But I must admit it was not easy for Adalind. But I'll not fall into Juliette's back.
And I mean as I said it: If Nick wouldn't turn away of her and show her from the first moment that he was there for her. Juliette wouldn't have turn the sides. So I can very well understand that she was angry and disappointed. It is understandable that she did not want to talk to him. (I would not have spoken to him. At least not on the first or second attempt.)
And that's with a reason why I'm so angry and have a grudge against Nadalind : ) At first he doesn't accept it with Juliette but with Adalind.
For Nick, at the point where Juliette revealed herself as a Hexenbeist to him, his fear of what that meant, had become ingrained. He very much had the classic view of Grimm and Hexenbeist as mortal enemies. Adalind takes a great deal of the blame for that. To see the woman he loves, alter into this frightful figure, was a shock to the system. And it caused him to react with revulsion. It didn't help that Juliette's mind had already begun to alter, and she was cruelly taunting him with what she'd become. This only encouraged him to double down on his fatalistic outlook. Being a Hexenbeist seemed a curse with no redeeming qualities.
The circumstances by which Nick's traditional view would evolve into something more positive, was a gradual process. One that could have been derailed time and again. It was essential that Adalind enter this relationship as an ordinary woman. He had to get to know her without the specter of her old self inserting itself into the proceedings. By the time her powers started to rear their head, he already had feelings for her, even if they couldn't be defined as love just yet. But Adalind's fears of what becoming a Hexenbeist again could mean were as palpable for her as it was for him. After all, hadn't they both born witness to a worst case scenario in Juliette's downfall. But the truth is that Adalind had already become a different person before she took the suppressant. Those dark influences over her psyche had already been reduced to nil. By inadvertently whittling away pieces of the force within, she had effectively become master of her own destiny. Part of that power went to Diana. Part to Juliette. And maybe yet more faded in the magical conception of Kelly and link to Nick that psychically manifested itself later. The scene late in season five, where Adalind tells Nick the truth about her return to Hexenbeistdom, is absolutely essential to where Nick ends up on this issue. It's a tender and heartfelt moment where she confesses her fears and leans on him for support. Utterly devoid of the bitterness and animosity that marked this moment with Juliette. Those two scenes are polar opposites. Every expectation Nick would have had, gets blown out of the water. Here Adalind is, a Hexenbeist again, and still every bit the woman he's falling in love with. And that brings me to another point of great importance about that scene. Because I think it's in that moment, that the clarity of his love for her becomes apparent to him. It may take him a while longer to say it, but because her confession to him brings such a profound shift to his worldview, it dragged his heart right along with it. By the time we reach the end of the series, coupled with Eve's new found, though tempered, humanity, the whole thing becomes a non-issue to him. In some ways that's not an entirely accurate viewpoint either. Adalind and Eve are rather exceptional cases when it comes to Hexenbeists. It would be almost unheard of for the Beist within to exert no emotional influence over the vessel. But it does mean that, in the future, Nick will be more willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Funnily, I would say that it will be Adalind and Eve who come down harder on any Hexenbeists they deal with down the road.