11-26-2017, 08:03 AM
(11-25-2017, 09:10 AM)Devegs Wrote: I don't recall her asking Trubel if the royals took Diana. I believe she stated that she didn't know how Diana was doing or something like that and Trubel mentioned she'd be alright. To which Adalind responded, "You don't know the royals like I do".No, I said Adalind asked Trubel if she knew - as in was she there when they took Diana or did anyone tell her. Trubel was attempting to appease Adalind’s concern because she knew Diana wasn’t with the Royals. But Adalind’s firsthand knowledge of the Royals was all the more reason for her to remain vigilante in getting Diana away from them.
(11-25-2017, 09:10 AM)Devegs Wrote: I still don't see Adalind reaching out to ask Meisner for help, so for me I don't see why she would struggle such a decision. She knew Meisner had worked for Sean to get her out and had some ties to the resistance. However, Sean was the one with the connections not Meisner. The resistance (not Meisner) had worked with Sean on the plan. She would regard Meisner as Renard's man like someone stated. Adalind would probably see Meisner as being in the lower rungs of power with the resistance. We did see her struggle with how to verify the information, without being forthright to Nick about what Sean told her, when she asked Nick to look to find out if Diana ever got on the plane.These are fictional characters experiencing fictional drama, but the idea is to be drawn into their stories and for at least 42 minutes and forget that it’s a made up scenario without real repercussions. If you don’t see Adalind having a reason to struggle over whether to reach out to Meisner, at what point does a parent stop trying to rescue his/her child? If instead of dying Bonaparte had taken off with Kelly to parts unknown, should Nick have given up and focused on Adalind and Diana because he didn’t have the sufficient resources to find Kelly?
(11-25-2017, 09:10 AM)Devegs Wrote: When Nick met up with Adalind at the BC mansion, there was a tacit acknowledgement of the Diana issue. After talking about him and Adalind as 'we' and how they would get the ring off her finger, Nick stopped and asked Adalind, "what are you going to do now, you have Diana now" something like that. For me, that was Nick acknowledging there was a Diana issue between them. Might not be much but for me, based on G&K's style for Grimm, it was something.Adalind said: “I need to be with you.” Nick responded: “And what about Diana? She's with you now.” So yes, the elephant in the room was addressed twenty-two episodes after Kelly was born and Adalind moved in with Nick when he questioned what Adalind intended with Diana.
I would assume that if people stay together for long, based on the epilogue, at some point they would have to confront issues that they had once avoided. Also, in S6, Nick and Adalind were already shown to have a number of off screen moments in which they confided in each other and progressed their relationship.
Adalind expressed her love for Nick in S5E11. Nick stopped pretending he didn’t have feelings for Adalind in S6E3. The closest they came to an actual discussion about themselves, their past, and where it led them was the table conversation in S5E7. Why any assumption that they didn’t remain in denial for the next twenty years? Their entire relationship was built on never mentioning anything that might derail their established routine in the loft unless it was forced on them - such as Diana was dropped in Adalind’s lap and she wanted to keep her.
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head with “G&K's style for Grimm”. They don’t do interpersonal, they do action that’s sometimes jumpstarted by personal events/motivation. And once the personal motivation has served it’s purpose, G & K set it aside and move on to the next action that focuses on the central character fighting the next monster/evil of the week. All is good if content with that narrow focus. But not so good if looking for fleshed out characters who have meaning and substance beyond a specific storyline, episode, scene.
"If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well." Rainer Maria Rilke