07-14-2015, 02:20 PM
It basically says to the viewer that under the right circumstances, even our closest loved ones will stab us in the back.
When Juliette became a Hexenbiest, the possibility that she could somehow keep her evil impulses under control wasn't even entertained by the writers. It gets under my skin how Kenneth was so smugly certain Juliette would betray Nick and his friends upon learning about Adalind's second baby, as if he could predict the behavior of a Hexenbiest to a T. And Juliette fell for it. Even Adalind seemed convinced Juliette wouldn't hurt Nick that deeply.
Maybe Juliette realized this herself after allowing Kelly to be murdered. She wasn't a queen, as Kenneth had promised, but a pawn. Worse yet, she had violated the trust of Nick's mother, an action she couldn't pin on Nick this time. This was entirely her doing.
So, Juliette went home to...what? Confront Nick? Apologize to him? Both? It's clear how she veered from being remorseful and mocking in the blink of an eye that she wasn't sure herself. But whatever she was trying to do, it was still too late.
What are we left with? A fatalistic tragedy that tells the audience these characters, whom we've come to know and like, will commit the unthinkable if the proper chain of events were to unfold. We can't trust them anymore. And that's a shame.
When Juliette became a Hexenbiest, the possibility that she could somehow keep her evil impulses under control wasn't even entertained by the writers. It gets under my skin how Kenneth was so smugly certain Juliette would betray Nick and his friends upon learning about Adalind's second baby, as if he could predict the behavior of a Hexenbiest to a T. And Juliette fell for it. Even Adalind seemed convinced Juliette wouldn't hurt Nick that deeply.
Maybe Juliette realized this herself after allowing Kelly to be murdered. She wasn't a queen, as Kenneth had promised, but a pawn. Worse yet, she had violated the trust of Nick's mother, an action she couldn't pin on Nick this time. This was entirely her doing.
So, Juliette went home to...what? Confront Nick? Apologize to him? Both? It's clear how she veered from being remorseful and mocking in the blink of an eye that she wasn't sure herself. But whatever she was trying to do, it was still too late.
What are we left with? A fatalistic tragedy that tells the audience these characters, whom we've come to know and like, will commit the unthinkable if the proper chain of events were to unfold. We can't trust them anymore. And that's a shame.