12-02-2017, 03:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-02-2017, 03:59 PM by dicappatore.)
(12-02-2017, 09:17 AM)rpmaluki Wrote: After returning from the hospital, before moving into the loft, Adalind tells Nick that she hoped Diana was doing okay (with the Royals), and he said the same to her. Diana wasn't completely forgotten until it was convenient for the plot to bring her back.
In S3 Adalind chose to keep her daughter instead of handing her over to the Royals. She escaped them with the help of the resistance. Adalind chose to be a mother and began her path to no longer be selfish. But finding out Kelly was Nick's mother threw her off and in fear she ran to Renard for protection. When Nick tracked her to Sean's and she woged, that scene played more like Adalind as a person wasn't changed. She was a mother willing to do anything to keep her child but her character wasn't changed. I know I have read posts that purported this exact thing, being a good mother didn't equal to being a good person.
It's only at her mother's grave at the end of S4 where Adalind decided to change her character for the sake of her children she already loved them but she was now consciously choosing a different path for herself as a person. It wasn't instant because she was a mother, although that was a great incentive. Adalind had to continue to make different life choices especially when she wasn't in immediate danger.
I never got the sense that Adalind was a changed person after Diana's birth. She would have done anything for her child and she did, twice over. @Robyn I think you give way too much credit to Nick being the reason Adalind choosing to be a good person rather than her children and that's probably due to the premise of the show keeping Nick central, an unavoidable consequence. And you are too focused on S3/S4 Adalind somehow being eclipsed by a supposedly lovestruck S5/S6 Adalind but wasn't S1 Adalind also driven by the love of a man to do very bad things (more so in fact)? Granted there's a big difference between S5/S6 Adalind and her S1 counterpart because now she has children that she's now responsible for and doesn't in fact hang on Nick's word/whim for her needs. S5 Adalind was far more capable of independence (despite her lack of resources so soon after Kelly's birth) than her earlier version who desperately hung on to Renard until he threw her out like trash.
The problem I see being brought up is that Diana wasn't her primary focus so soon after her son's birth. I think a scene in S4, after she finds out about her pregnancy, Adalind has a mini melt down about having another baby when she didn't even know the location of her last one. When Kenneth (read: Royals) turned on her, her purpose went from "find Diana" to "protect new baby". I honestly don't think she could have been able to do both so soon after Kelly's birth.
Should she have asked Meisner about Diana? In hindsight, sure but it wouldn't have gotten her any closer to Diana since I don't think Meisner was interested in giving Diana back. The other problem I see with her approaching Meisner in the first place is the fact that Adalind as far as she was aware, Meisner's last contact with Diana was when he handed them both to Kelly, years earlier, not a couple of months back at the most.
From what she understood of his character, there was no link between him and her/Diana. Sure they had a great repertoire when they were running in the woods of Austria together but he didn't present himself as someone who put down roots anywhere to form relationships beyond his dead girlfriend, he went from mission to mission and she was nothing more than that. I believe this was true, whatever connection they made in Austria, it wasn't deep enough to actually mean anything in the grand scheme of things. He told Sean what happened to Diana but not heher
Whatever lack of foresight on her part doesn't paint her in the negative for me because Adalind was working with the last information she had, the Royals had daughter, people died trying to keep that from happening but she hoped Diana would soon be reunited with her and her son as seen in the episode she runs into a former colleague.
The moment she gets new information about Diana's whereabouts she resumes her "search" but through Nick the father of her second baby, someone she trusts a lot more than the father of her first baby since he could use his own resources to check out Sean's story and even that trust in him is tenuous at best because she was keeping her powers secret.
I think the problem some have with Adalind in last two seasons isn't so much that she doesn't do anything to show her steadfastness towards getting Diana back, it's that she's not acting fast enough to get her back, not morose and hapless over Diana missing even though she's busy taking care of her new born with fear that there are people still out there who could harm him. The show has never presented Adalind prioritising Nick/her feelings for him over Diana, if that was the case, she never would have left him.
I believe Diana was a constant in Adalind’s psyche even if the show didn't come out to explicitly say in every episode. There's a line she says to Nick about Kelly teething and she says she's never gotten that far before. It's subtle but Diana is clearly there between them. It may not be as contentious an issue, nor is it blared off from the roof tops that Adalind longs for her daughter to be back in her life but it IS there, as hinted in 6x01 when Nick and Adalind are reunited.
Nick knew how important it was for her to get Diana back and now that they were together he gave off these vibes that Adalind would no longer want him, especially if Diana forced herself between them. He wasn't presumptuous that things would go back to the way it was between them because the reality was that Adalind finally had everything she could ever want and didn't need him anymore. For me, this flies in the face of comments that imply Nick was more important to Adalind. As I said the show never wrote her that way, not even when she died.
She loved Nick but I believe she loved her kids more and wanting to be together with all three of them instead of just her kids isn't a smite on her character as a mother willing to do anything for her children.
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