Nick hadn't chosen Adalind over Juliette, he chose to protect an unborn child.
The suppressant was a temp solution yes but when you consider how extreme and quickly Juliette's change happened (I'm referring to her attitude and not her hexenbiest) the suppressant could have afforded her the time she needed for her and Nick to prepare for the inevitable.
When Juliette transformed, it was immediate, unexpected and traumatic to her. Her emotions were all over the place and at the mercy of powers beyond her ability to control. With the suppressant wearing off, those powers would have trickled back instead of being hit all at once as we saw. Mentally she'd be prepared and likely get counciling from a hexenbiest, like Sean's mother and not Adalind or get the HW treatment without "killing" the Juliette persona and still help the scoobies or HW. She would have been herself and not some vengeful hateful woman or the robotic emotionless version. Nick would have been supportive of her and accept the love of his life biest and all because there would be trust between them that they weren't going to kill each other in their sleep. She wouldn't have turned on her friends because she would have had some measure of control. It's not a certainty but a chance I would have taken instead of what we got.
You don't see the benefit of the suppressant while I see/saw it as a means to salvage Juliette's humanity and her relationships with her friends as well as Nick. In her right mind Juliette would feel terrible for what she did. For all we know, the magic stick emotionally reawakened Juliette and we'll see her guilt over her actions (not the acceptance of her biestiness). In a roundabout way the stick would have suppressed the more vile tendencies of her synthetic yet powerful hexenbiest and enable her to come to terms with what she is without losing who she is.
I don't like Juliette, I never have but I truly believe she deserved better than what they wrote after she got her powers. I saw so much potential in her transformation but they opted for cheap drama and gave us S5, Nick and Adalind (I like them together but I'm not blind to how badly they have been written as a couple or as individuals) among other not so great things. Instead of making Nick and Juliette so much stronger because of her transformation they destroyed a character that had already been through so much because of being in Nick's world. I have zero interest in Eve, who wanted to convince people she wasn't Juliette but failed imo because of how she responded to Nick and Adalind (like I said cheap drama).
What little interest I almost had in her storyline when Juliette transformed died twice, in S4 after burning the trailer and Kelly's death and this past season after she came back from the dead as Eve. Which is sadly ironic because the most positive I have ever felt for her character was that brief period between her getting her powers and her going mental on her friends. Its too bad I can't get back to that and instead am stuck with one of the worst storylines this show has ever come up with.
The suppressant was a temp solution yes but when you consider how extreme and quickly Juliette's change happened (I'm referring to her attitude and not her hexenbiest) the suppressant could have afforded her the time she needed for her and Nick to prepare for the inevitable.
When Juliette transformed, it was immediate, unexpected and traumatic to her. Her emotions were all over the place and at the mercy of powers beyond her ability to control. With the suppressant wearing off, those powers would have trickled back instead of being hit all at once as we saw. Mentally she'd be prepared and likely get counciling from a hexenbiest, like Sean's mother and not Adalind or get the HW treatment without "killing" the Juliette persona and still help the scoobies or HW. She would have been herself and not some vengeful hateful woman or the robotic emotionless version. Nick would have been supportive of her and accept the love of his life biest and all because there would be trust between them that they weren't going to kill each other in their sleep. She wouldn't have turned on her friends because she would have had some measure of control. It's not a certainty but a chance I would have taken instead of what we got.
You don't see the benefit of the suppressant while I see/saw it as a means to salvage Juliette's humanity and her relationships with her friends as well as Nick. In her right mind Juliette would feel terrible for what she did. For all we know, the magic stick emotionally reawakened Juliette and we'll see her guilt over her actions (not the acceptance of her biestiness). In a roundabout way the stick would have suppressed the more vile tendencies of her synthetic yet powerful hexenbiest and enable her to come to terms with what she is without losing who she is.
I don't like Juliette, I never have but I truly believe she deserved better than what they wrote after she got her powers. I saw so much potential in her transformation but they opted for cheap drama and gave us S5, Nick and Adalind (I like them together but I'm not blind to how badly they have been written as a couple or as individuals) among other not so great things. Instead of making Nick and Juliette so much stronger because of her transformation they destroyed a character that had already been through so much because of being in Nick's world. I have zero interest in Eve, who wanted to convince people she wasn't Juliette but failed imo because of how she responded to Nick and Adalind (like I said cheap drama).
What little interest I almost had in her storyline when Juliette transformed died twice, in S4 after burning the trailer and Kelly's death and this past season after she came back from the dead as Eve. Which is sadly ironic because the most positive I have ever felt for her character was that brief period between her getting her powers and her going mental on her friends. Its too bad I can't get back to that and instead am stuck with one of the worst storylines this show has ever come up with.