11-14-2017, 08:00 AM
Quote:All I can say to that is she didn't go with Meisner because he wasn't offering and she wasn't interested. Meisner didn't actually become an option for Adalind. He couldn't, at least not before she found out he was responsible for the Royals missing out on Diana and by then she was in love with Nick (and I'm sure Diana had already ended up with BC or nearly almost). If he'd initially offered to bring her to Diana when he first goes to the loft, it would have been just as difficult for her to leave Nick but for different reasons than what actually aired. We know she left Nick because BC threatened her and thus did it because she wasn't willing to chance anyone getting hurt, including Nick.
I’m not referring to the overall Nick/Adalind story. Only a specific timeframe of their story that alerted Adalind to Meisner being in Portland and a possible lifeline to getting Diana back.
I don’t remember the episode, but it was right after moving to the loft - Adalind had a conversation with Kelly about his sister and her hopes that they’d all be together some day. At the end of Maiden Quest, Adalind voiced concern for everything Nick was having to deal with. He hugged her as a way to offer comfort & assurance. Adalind’s facial expression suggested bewilderment, not contentment & relief, and certainly not growing feelings of love. There wasn’t any indication at that moment of anyone falling in love or having any idea of the possibility. It was in the next episode, Rat King, that Meisner came to the loft to find Trubel. There wasn’t any reason for Adalind to suspect he had taken Diana from the King or that he had any connection to Juliette. He was just the guy who risked his life to help her & Diana and never indicated he wanted to separate her from Diana. That’s it. There weren’t any questions or concerns about Meisner at that point. Maybe how reaching out to him and actively searching for Diana might compromise her arrangement with Nick, which would directly compromise Kelly’s safety, but not her opinion of Meisner based on her experience with him up to that point. It was in the next episode, Wesen Nacht, that the show introduced Adalind might be falling for Nick - her silly, school-girl response to Trubel’s question. And in the next episode, Eve of Destruction, Adalind learned of Meisner’s connection to Juliette and making her into a weapon.
I’m not suggesting the story needed to change so that Adalind reaching out to Meisner resulted in him scurrying her and Kelly off to join Diana in the safe house. I’m suggesting the flow & timing of information to Adalind allowed for her to express her need & determination to find Diana without actually changing the official story’s ending. And that the S5 Adalind who was content to play house with Nick and mother his son is a contraction to the Adalind who was willing to battle the Royals in S3 to keep Diana with her, and go to Nick in S4 because it offered the best protection for her unborn child.
There was sufficient time for Adalind to reach out to Meisner, which would have resulted in him pacifying her by pretending he’d try. The scenario doesn’t require Meisner to be Adalind’s knight in shining armor or love interest, it only requires Adalind to believe he intends to help her until she discovers otherwise. Another scenario that would accomplish the same would be for Adalind to debate and fret over what she should do. Her need to find Diana has her picking up the HW phone time and again to call Meisner, but each time the possible repercussions has her putting the phone down.
My issues with Adalind’s official storyline is only about her lack of determination & effort to get Diana back. It’s never been about her relationship with Meisner other than his connection with the Resistance and that they helped her in the past.
But I do think Adalind not trying to find Diana because she was in love with Nick is a very poor excuse for the show to provide. In what scenario does a woman’s love for a man outweigh a mother’s love for her child? If Adalind would forgo finding Diana because it might interfere with Nick wanting to be with her, then might she abandon Nick and Kelly if she fell in love and had a child with someone else in the future?
"If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well." Rainer Maria Rilke