(09-16-2017, 10:39 PM)wesen Wrote: I think Adalind was already beginning to show signs that she had started to fall in love with Nick, as early as the first few episodes prior to Trubel showing up. She told Rosalee that she wanted a normal life, and expressed her longing to have something like what Rosalee and Monroe had. It wasn't surprising that Adalind did fall for Nick, especially since he was so kind to her, and never used her or demanded anything from her. I also think that when she asked Nick to sleep next to her because she was 'scared', she may have used that as an excuse to conceal the fact that she wanted intimacy from him. She may have told Nick a bit too early that she loved him, but then again, she was scared he was never coming back. She probably wanted to let him know what he would miss at home, to encourage him to come back to her and Kelly. I do agree that the writers may have wanted to slow down their relationship, but the mistrust only started after Nick came back from Germany. Again, I think it could be explained that Nick felt scared about rushing things too quickly with Adalind. Maybe he felt he wasn't ready to be committed to her, especially knowing their history together, and despite his burgeoning feelings for her. Monroe telling him that he hoped that her 'change' would last, Eve's warnings to him about Adalind becoming a hexenbiest again, and finding out from Rosalee that Adalind had gotten her powers back without her telling him, only fuelled that sense of mistrust. Despite the slow down of their relationship, there was still an undeniable attraction, which the show writers showed when Nick still slept with Adalind despite knowing that she was a hexenbiest again and not fully trusting her. Based on what I've seen from the deleted scenes, I don't think it added anything to the progression of their relationship. There's no denying that those scenes further emphasised their growing closeness, but even without them, I still got the gist of it by what was shown on screen. They also weren't vital like say if Nick was shown to say I love you to Adalind, or him telling her about the stick. If those were the scenes that had been deleted, I would definitely agree that the show writers had wanted to change the progress/outcome of their relationship in season 5. Even though I do wish that the deleted scenes hadn't been removed, I do understand that the action/WoW came first above character development.I didn’t suggest the scenes, aired or deleted, indicated G & K planned to change the progress of Nick/Adalind, but that G & K stated in an interview that they made changes because Nick/Adalind wasn’t progressing as they wanted. Nick/Adalind went from comfortable with their living arrangement and united against any threat to family to Nick suddenly not trusting Adalind and her terrified over losing him.
I didn’t have any interest in Nick/Adalind other than anticipating an interesting and complicated dynamic. It was neither, and for me it was the most lackluster and disappointing character dynamic on the show. What you see in the second episode as signs of Adalind falling in love, I see as signs of just how immature and emotionally damaged the character is. She is stranded with the people who stole her first child yet immediately views Rosalee as her friend and sharing dreams of finding a loving relationship. That makes absolutely no sense to me, other than the character has always been presented as loyal to whoever she’s currently embedded with. She did it with Renard, the Royals, the Resistance, Renard again, then Nick and his friends.
Of course Adalind fell in love with Nick because he provided for and protected her. But she remained in love with and loyal to Renard long after it was obvious he wouldn’t provide for or protect her. There’s no reason for me to believe that Adalind wouldn’t have fallen in love with Meisner had they stayed together in S3 or with Renard had he stood up to Kelly, or to whoever took her in when she fled from the Royals in S4. That’s simply a part of Adalind’s established characterization over four seasons.
For me, G & K reducing Adalind’s evolution to the bad girl saved by the love of a good man established that she didn’t have any control over her life or aspirations, but rather, made the best of her only option - Nick and their son, but not her daughter that he and his mother took from her. Diana dropped into Adalind’s lap in the same way the keys dropped into Nick’s lap. Had BC not brought Diana to Portland, there’s nothing about Adalind’s behavior in S5 that tells me should would have ever made a move to find her.
Nick & Adalind are a couple and lived happily ever after because G & K wrote it that way, but they didn’t write a path that the two characters followed to get there. Nick and Adalind inexplicably trusted one another from day one, then inexplicably didn’t trust one another, then became a couple, without ever confronting the four years of violent history that both should have initially believed would be impossible to overcome.
For me, it's much like Juliette conveniently becoming Eve whenever G & K don't want to deal with the character's S4 walk on the dark side.
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