05-06-2018, 08:40 AM
I didn’t get the impression Nick was necessarily obsessed with making Juliette human again, but rather, determined to right what he considered a wrong. Juliette wouldn’t have become fully human again had she taken the suppressant. It was only a short-term fix to an assumption that the Hexenbiest was causing her bizarre behavior. Regardless, two seasons later Nick still assumed Juliette had been shortchanged rather than recognizing and respecting that she was now in control of the Hexenbiest and her life choices.
The Nick/Juliette exchange Henry posted could just as easily be interpreted as expressing how confused and overwhelmed Juliette was. She leaped from fearing the repercussions of being a Hexenbiest, to the point of reaching out to acquaintances instead of Nick and trusted friends, to desiring the power and awareness the Hexenbiest provided.
To me, Nick & Juliette weren’t a happy couple before she became a Hexenbiest. They came across to me as two people refusing to stop trying to be happy because they refused to accept they didn’t work as a couple once Nick became a Grimm. So the relationship was never more than one life-altering crisis away from completely falling apart. The show catapulting Juliette into a maniacal villain was surprising and disappointing, but not that the relationship lacked the foundation to survive Juliette becoming a Hexenbiest.
The Nick/Juliette exchange Henry posted could just as easily be interpreted as expressing how confused and overwhelmed Juliette was. She leaped from fearing the repercussions of being a Hexenbiest, to the point of reaching out to acquaintances instead of Nick and trusted friends, to desiring the power and awareness the Hexenbiest provided.
To me, Nick & Juliette weren’t a happy couple before she became a Hexenbiest. They came across to me as two people refusing to stop trying to be happy because they refused to accept they didn’t work as a couple once Nick became a Grimm. So the relationship was never more than one life-altering crisis away from completely falling apart. The show catapulting Juliette into a maniacal villain was surprising and disappointing, but not that the relationship lacked the foundation to survive Juliette becoming a Hexenbiest.
"If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well." Rainer Maria Rilke