(01-04-2018, 08:21 AM)Robyn Wrote:No doubt. However the point to my post isn't so much about the issues between them but rather the writers and their candid way of dealing with their plot points. I mentioned the stick issue not to shine a spotlight to Nick and Adalind's relationship but rather the fact that the writers specifically wrote that single line from Adalind to cap a particular plot point. Since Juliette became a hexenbiest, there has been greater emphasis on getting rid of the hexenbiest and we were specifically told that was no longer possible to do so in the same way Nick did it in S1, so a lesser option that wasn't so well known was presented in the form of a suppressant.(01-04-2018, 07:09 AM)rpmaluki Wrote: This show deals with every plot point at face value, what you see is what you get. Look at the stick issue and the daft way they handled it when when all of S5 it was a big secret and with one line from Adalind in S6 it's no longer this major issue between them, in fact it sounded like she'd known about the stick for a while even though it was never seen on screen.I agree. But references to off-screen events, especially ones viewers considered pivotal to the characters/storyline, lends to speculation of other possible off-screen events. To me, Nick keeping the stick’s existence from Adalind because he didn’t trust her was a huge relationship issue to resolve with her one line reference to learning about the stick earlier in S6. Had Nick suddenly said something in S5 that established he knew the suppressant had worn off and was okay with it would have been as strange as S6’s Adalind knows about the stick reveal.
In 5x12, Adalind was desperate to be rid of the hexenbiest whether permanently or another suppressant and worked with Rosalee to find something, anything that would help her do away with her wesen nature no matter for how long and the writers specifically told us that there was nothing Adalind could. She believed she was at a dead end and had to resign herself to being a hexenbiest without any possibility of changing that.
Suggesting that Adalind did something even off screen doesn't match with the events on the show as seen between 5x12 and 5x19 after her confession and eventual leaving of the loft. This situation isn't at all like the stick secret issue because even though they had the conversation offscreen, there's onscreen confirmation of it taking place with that one line from Adalind. There's nothing of the sort hinting or confirming Adalind casting some spell on herself when the focus was still on her fear in turning bad towards the end of S5.
I think Nick's eventual acceptance of her hexenbiest (from before her confession) went a long way in alleviating most if not all of her fears about what she might do as a hexenbiest by the beginning of S6. On whatever level Nick had accepted Adalind for what she was and hadn't act as she had feared. Instead of growing apart, they grew closer. I think that is what helped Adalind stay the course.