03-12-2019, 11:36 PM
(03-12-2019, 11:19 AM)WispyWillow Wrote: would juliette have had a better or happier life if she stayed unawared of the wesen world?
For me, the question on hand for the thread, is a bit confusing. Is the question about her future quality of life involve the amnesia to continue? Or with her memories of Nick coming back but the knowledge of the Grimm/Wesen world was kept from her? I will try to share my opinion for both scenarios.
Nick and Juliette already had bigger odds against their relationship due to Nick being in Law Enforcement. Relationships/Marriages involving one or both in LE, have a higher risk of their union being dissolved. Most uniformed LE Officers working on rotating shifts add to the stress and the opportunity for infidelity to occur in their relationships.
Nick being a Homicide Detective did not detract from the similar stress of a uniformed cop, since at least, a uniformed LE has a schedule to work with. If criminals committed homicides during the 9 to 5 shift things might work out better for them, including the additional overtime to contend with.
Unfortunately, homicides aren't restricted to an on duty shift, so, if Juliette had never gotten involved in the Grimm/Wesen world, whether she stays with Nick and the amnesia gone, or if she got it back and continued to add the stress to their relationship, it just made so much higher risk to fail.
if she was completely gone from Nicks life with her amnesia, she would have no remorse with just some photographic record of her past relationship. If she got her memories back and still broke off from him, she might have some break-up resentment for a while but eventually, and most likely, she 'd get over him. IMO, both scenarios would have been less unfulfilling for her..
If you go back to S6, E11. When her and Nick are having the conversation, just before the "Z" guy is about to attack them, She tells Nick, she was glad to have become a Hex. Her Hex has given her new found purpose.
Maybe it might be unreasonable to compare what her life would have been with out Nick and the knowledge of the Wesen world? But in that scene, she sounded content.
[b]Scene: Nick and Eve continue looking around.[/b]
[Nick exhales]
Eve: Good thing you brought that.
Nick: If I'd known I was gonna need this many bullets, I'd have brought more. [He sharply exhales as he checks his bullet count] Only three left.
Eve: I'll check outside the perimeter.
Nick: No, no, no. No, hey. We don't split up. We stay together.
Eve: I don't want to be rescued, Nick. I came here for a reason.
Nick: You can't take on the skull thing alone.
Eve: You have a son. You should be thinking of him.
Nick: You're here because of me. None of this would have ever happened to you if you hadn't met me.
Eve: So you think I wanna change that?
Nick: Yes, I do.
Eve: Well, I don't. A lot of bad things happened to me when all of this started. I didn't understand it. I was scared and angry, and I did a lot of terrible things. Things I can never forgive Juliette for. But I'm not Juliette anymore, Nick. She's gone. There may be a part of me that is like her, but it is not who I am now and it's not who I'm gonna be again. I don't blame you. When we were together, I only knew a part of who you were. You only knew a part of who you were.
Nick: None of us are who we used to be.
Eve: And that's good.
Nick: You really believe we're all better off?
Eve: I have a strength and a purpose that I never had before. I know you're here because you loved me once, and you feel responsible for the bad things that have happened, but you can't change any of it. And I can't change any of it. And if you could, would you really want to go back to the way things were, just to be happy? Happy doesn't interest me anymore, Nick. It just gets in the way. [Nick exhales as she puts her arms around him] You know, everything that has happened to us, that brought us together right here, right now... happened for a reason. So I think you're right.
Nick: Right about what?
Eve: I can't kill Zerstörer alone. It's gonna take both of us. [She starts walking away]
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