(11-24-2017, 05:05 AM)Robyn Wrote: As I've said many times through the discussion, it has nothing to do with Meisner, Nick, or [insert name here]. My argument has been about Adalind's re-characterization from a determined and desperate mother to a readily available docile and desperate love interest for the male lead.
Uncertainties concerning Meisner or growing feelings for Nick are not conflicts or obstacles that would deter a mother of a missing child. They are however, deterrents to a straightforward storyline contrived to have the love interest wanting/needing a 'normal' relation by the second episode while the male lead experiences the emotional conflicts & doubts throughout the season.
I understood your position and offered a different perspective to explain why the character was not simply reduced by G&K to Nick’s love interest even though they intended her journey to end there. It was more about the character’s probable outlook on her situation. Why she would act the way she did.
I’ll clarify. I pointed out why it is reasonable that Adalind would not be reaching out to Meisner (or insert name) in search of her child. She thought her child had been taken by the king to Vienna not that the child was missing. The royals wielded lots of power, influence and had a private verrat/wesen army. She had experienced just how impossible to was to escape the royals. Sean had also stressed, when he told her that he had sent Meisner to her hotel, that the success of his escape plan was contingent on her not being taken into the royals’ custody. The character knew the escape from Austria had been Sean’s initiative. She knew Sean (& his connections - the resistance) had covered the cost. I spoke about things the character knew or believed at the time.
Everyone's storyline in Grimm was contrived by G & K to keep Nick as central focus not just Adalind's. Everyone of Adalind’s characterizations or storylines tied her to Nick’s story in some way or the other. She was Sean’s lackey that was discarded once she was no longer useful. Then she was the woman willing to do anything to get her powers back including conceiving and selling her child. Then she was the woman who had a change of heart and went on the run to keep said child but still lost the child. Then she was characterized as the desperate mother who was willing to do anything to be reunited with the child including making a deal with the same people that she had run away from and had tried to keep her daughter from. She ended up in a bind when she became pregnant and now had child number two to protect as well, while trying to get child number one back. She sought help from the father of child number two. He agreed to protect his baby and her. They failed to get child number one and both believed she had been taken by the royals. She then became the mother resigned to her first child being in the custody of the all-powerful king/royals in Austria (or so she thought), after the mess she had helped create. She was the mother who still had another child to take care of but with no means of her own.
In the later half of season 5, Adalind was also depicted as dealing with her own emotional conflicts just like Nick was dealing with his. She just didn't have a scooby gang to run to to table her issues. She ended up making the choice to leave Nick even though she wanted to be with him.