12-17-2018, 05:57 PM
(12-17-2018, 04:27 PM)N_grimm Wrote:(12-16-2018, 06:31 PM)irukandji Wrote: Kelly was not given the authority to do what she did. She was merely a cog in the plan. I'm not stating I believe she should have killed Diana. What I am saying is that she had limits. She put everything on the path to disaster by taking control and hatching a ridiculous plan that had no chance of working. The small amount of good intentions really amounts to nothing compared to the massive pain and suffering her bad judgment caused.
The motive for taking Diana was preventing the royals (or the resistance) from kidnaping and raising her in a way that threatened the world. If Kelly had not taken Diana with her, it would have been just a matter of time before the royals would have done it instead. It was obviously traumatic for Adalind, but the intention was keeping the world safe. As in most other cases in Grimm, the law and the justice system weren’t suitable to handle the situation. Most people didn’t even know about Wesen, so how could they understand that Kelly raising Diana was like preventing terrorists for getting access to a powerful weapon? Instead of saying Kelly was “not given authority”, you could say she had a duty as a Grimm to keep the world safe from Wesen. That was, after all, the concept of the show.
Did Kelly’s lack of presence in much of Nick's childhood play a role? Maybe, but it was of secondary importance, just like Adalinds feelings and safety.
Was it a "ridiculous plan that had no chance of working"? The royals were only able to find Diana when Juliette turned evil and betrayed Kelly and Nick.
The kidnaping was clearly a “game changer” in the storyline, but all the stuff that happened was a result of decisions taken in the wake of the kidnaping, and not the kidnaping itself. There would be no need to kidnap her if the royals didn’t want Diana in the first place. And how could Kelly possibly know that Adalind would use an old hexenbiest spell to take Nicks powers and then Juliette becoming an evil hexenbiest when taking part in reversing it? It would be much less pain and suffering if Juliette didn’t betray Nick and Kelly. Juliette herself knew about the kidnapping and helped keep the secret from Adalind. But if we are going to use the logic about the kidnapping putting things in motion, it also resulted in a lot of good: baby Kelly, Nick and Adalind, and it resulted in Diana being raised to help Nick & co fight evil.
N, do you get the feeling of SOME-one trying to blame Kelly herself for her demise? Am I the only one sensing Some-one trying to blame Kelly for what Juliette did? Talk about stretching the consequences of Kelly's actions to save the world from evil causing her demise is something else. If that was the case. Given the little time she did spend with Diana, she was still able to put her on the right path. Her sacrifice would make her a hero, not a looser, as SOME-one is trying to claim.
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