(11-25-2017, 05:48 AM)Robyn Wrote:(11-24-2017, 09:56 PM)rpmaluki Wrote: She didn't look for Diana at the beginning because she believed the Royals had her and without her own resources, knowing Sean (a half royal) would never help her because she already went to him and he turned her down and also having baby Kelly to think about, Adalind resigned herself to losing Diana at the beginning of S5...Adalind’s knowledge and fear of the Royals existed in S3 and S4. That she understood and feared their dominance in S5 isn’t new. In S4, Adalind went to a feared and hated enemy who stole her first child in order to protect her second child. She didn’t know Meisner had Diana until much later in S5, but even then, there’s not a difference between reaching out to the man who took her first child in S4 and the man who took her first child in S3. Both men took her first child because it benefited their personal objectives, and the only difference is that one is the male lead and one isn’t.
Consider if BC secreted Kelly away early in S5 just as Meisner, Renard, or whoever reunited Adalind with Diana. Would these same reasons for Adalind’s lack of action hold up had she accepted that her second child was lost to her and she needed to focus on her first child and her budding relationship with Meisner, Renard, or whoever? Did her lack of action concerning one of her children make sense because circumstances forced her acceptance, or did it make sense because of the specific male character she was in a relationship with?
Since Adalind had never gone against BC, I would say that she would attempt to get Kelly back several times like she did with Diana. She would only stop (or take a break to re-group) if circumstances meant she couldn’t go any further. Adalind went against the royals, then went to them to make a deal and then went against them again in hopes of keeping Diana. For all we know, she could have been planning in her head or fantasizing of assembling a rescue team once Kelly was a little grown and she had saved up the money to organize a rescue attempt once more to get Diana.
Adalind not reaching out to Meisner might have more to do with the little she knew about him, new information she found out from Trubel and him still being in contact with Sean (maybe possibly still working for him). Sean said the resistance now had Diana via way of Meisner but Sean had pointed her in the wrong direction with Diana before. The last time it had landed her in the hands of the royals after she reached out to them, only to find out they never had Diana. By now the character would know that she had to thread carefully with information coming from Sean or in dealings with Sean in general.
Her actions or lack thereof wasn’t because of a male character but because of what she knew about the royals after having gone against them a number of times and being imprisoned in their castle. You are reducing her actions or thought process to be about her wanting to be in a relationship with a man.
Adalind went to Nick at first because he was the father of her second child and offered a deal (a suppressant for Juliette) for his help. She didn’t go to him hoping to just ask him for help and get it with nothing to offer. She said as much.
Quote:Yes, every character’s storyline was contrived to keep Nick in the forefront. But that lead character requirement in writing shouldn’t necessitate finding ways to rationalize another character’s behavior. That should be accomplished in the writing process. Juliette was boring because she was a one-note character as the central character’s love interest. Adalind was equally boring as the central character’s love interest because she became a one-note character who existed only within his reflection.
I was always entertained by Adalind. I never found her boring. She still had some great lines (like HenryoG mentioned) even as Nick’s love interest though she had less scenes. I found Juliette more annoying than boring. I still try to judge the character's behavior based on what was written. Like Dicap would say, that’s the story we got. All the characters got the same treatment in the hands of G& K including Nick. I believe you said you found Nick boring, not so? Monroe and Rosalee’s pregnancy stagnated in S6. Diana was oh so special, then she wasn’t until she was, then she wasn’t again because the story was always about Nick, the grimm.
Quote:It doesn’t matter who Adalind ended up with or if she was in a relationship with anyone. Her character progression was jumpstarted in S3 after Diana’s birth. For her to be retrofitted as desperately in love with the lead character to the detriment of all else contradicts character growth/change established in S3 & S4.
Yes, Adalind was desperately in love with Nick but it didn’t make her confide in him about everything she knew in S5 nor did it stop her from leaving him when she believed it was her best cause of action. Adalind died asking Nick to help save her kids in her Z death, like Rp IIRC pointed out.