(11-24-2017, 03:05 PM)dicappatore Wrote: IMO, I forgot which interview or comments were made by the production staff how surprised they were to make it to 100 episodes, let alone 123. I really believe the Adalind character, which was planned to be just on a few early episodes was re-written into the program due to viewership influence.
That viewership input also effected the Juliette/Nick arc and they decided to go a different route, which eventually brought together Nick/Adalind. I really do not believe by season 1 or 2, they were planning on bringing Nick to hook up with Adalind. I do believe this union was brought on by viewership preferences that the production team recognized.
I recall the interview comments too about the network wanting to expand the Adalind character. But not sure G & K went with Nick/Adalind because of fan preference, unless, they decided to pick a side in the shipping war and just go with it. Because they certainly didn’t do anything to make either character or their relationship more interesting.
(11-24-2017, 05:51 PM)Devegs Wrote: I understood your position and offered a different perspective to explain why the character was not simply reduced by G&K to Nick’s love interest even though they intended her journey to end there. It was more about the character’s probable outlook on her situation. Why she would act the way she did…[/quote
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@Devegs, I agree with everything you said. She didn't look for Diana at the beginning because she believed the Royals had her and without her own resources, knowing Sean (a half royal) would never help her because she already went to him and he turned her down and also having baby Kelly to think about, Adalind resigned herself to losing Diana at the beginning of S5...
Adalind’s knowledge and fear of the Royals existed in S3 and S4. That she understood and feared their dominance in S5 isn’t new. In S4, Adalind went to a feared and hated enemy who stole her first child in order to protect her second child. She didn’t know Meisner had Diana until much later in S5, but even then, there’s not a difference between reaching out to the man who took her first child in S4 and the man who took her first child in S3. Both men took her first child because it benefited their personal objectives, and the only difference is that one is the male lead and one isn’t.
Consider if BC secreted Kelly away early in S5 just as Meisner, Renard, or whoever reunited Adalind with Diana. Would these same reasons for Adalind’s lack of action hold up had she accepted that her second child was lost to her and she needed to focus on her first child and her budding relationship with Meisner, Renard, or whoever? Did her lack of action concerning one of her children make sense because circumstances forced her acceptance, or did it make sense because of the specific male character she was in a relationship with?
Yes, every character’s storyline was contrived to keep Nick in the forefront. But that lead character requirement in writing shouldn’t necessitate finding ways to rationalize another character’s behavior. That should be accomplished in the writing process. Juliette was boring because she was a one-note character as the central character’s love interest. Adalind was equally boring as the central character’s love interest because she became a one-note character who existed only within his reflection.
It doesn’t matter who Adalind ended up with or if she was in a relationship with anyone. Her character progression was jumpstarted in S3 after Diana’s birth. For her to be retrofitted as desperately in love with the lead character to the detriment of all else contradicts character growth/change established in S3 & S4.
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