09-13-2020, 03:08 PM
Considering Nick’s journey to becoming a Grimm began in the first episode & Adalind was created as a one-arc character, I think it’s more likely the writers intended her woge to be taken at face value.
Nick witnessed an event that was either a horrifying hallucination indicating he was losing his grip on reality, or, witnessed an event that was ultimately more horrifying because it revealed what his normal human life would become.
When the first Nick/Adalind scene was written the writers didn’t have a clue about the future “you were my first” conversation between baby Kelly’s parents. But the writers did know that Adalind would be Nick’s first personal-life foe and he saw her true face even before understanding what it meant.
The one thing I’ve come to depend on with series of any genre is that writers suck at relationships, especially the main characters, because denying the characters any semblance of mature, straightforward interaction allows for unbridled fan bias and healthy relationships are boring.
Did Juliette go too far to be forgiven? The character has as much right to be forgiven as any other on the show. Her most ‘unforgivable act’ was that she stopped loving Nick, the hero. Adalind did unimaginable things to Hank & Juliette, first to get Renard to love her then for revenge. All was later forgiven, not because she became a better person or good mother, but because she loved Nick and he accepted her into the fold.
And because Adalind had the good sense to name the baby Kelly.
“Did that shocking ending go too far?
It did unnecessarily. The reversal spell could have been confirmed as an unstoppable force behind Juliette’s extreme behavior as a Hexenbiest and her inability to control her actions/emotions. All the same events, emotional & physical damage could have occurred, just compelled by the reversal spell and not a woman scorned.
But again, a scenario that establishes everyone is equally to blame, or blameless, might be too boring.
Nick witnessed an event that was either a horrifying hallucination indicating he was losing his grip on reality, or, witnessed an event that was ultimately more horrifying because it revealed what his normal human life would become.
When the first Nick/Adalind scene was written the writers didn’t have a clue about the future “you were my first” conversation between baby Kelly’s parents. But the writers did know that Adalind would be Nick’s first personal-life foe and he saw her true face even before understanding what it meant.
The one thing I’ve come to depend on with series of any genre is that writers suck at relationships, especially the main characters, because denying the characters any semblance of mature, straightforward interaction allows for unbridled fan bias and healthy relationships are boring.
Did Juliette go too far to be forgiven? The character has as much right to be forgiven as any other on the show. Her most ‘unforgivable act’ was that she stopped loving Nick, the hero. Adalind did unimaginable things to Hank & Juliette, first to get Renard to love her then for revenge. All was later forgiven, not because she became a better person or good mother, but because she loved Nick and he accepted her into the fold.
And because Adalind had the good sense to name the baby Kelly.
“Did that shocking ending go too far?
It did unnecessarily. The reversal spell could have been confirmed as an unstoppable force behind Juliette’s extreme behavior as a Hexenbiest and her inability to control her actions/emotions. All the same events, emotional & physical damage could have occurred, just compelled by the reversal spell and not a woman scorned.
But again, a scenario that establishes everyone is equally to blame, or blameless, might be too boring.
"If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well." Rainer Maria Rilke