01-04-2018, 06:42 AM
Adalind’s objectives in S4 were to successfully barter Nick’s protection in exchange for a suppressant for Juliette and get Diana back by circumventing Kenneth’s plan while under Nick’s protection. Adalind wasn’t concerned, and rightly so, in helping Nick and his people unless helping them benefited her & the children.
Adalind’s measure of integrity in S5 & S6 depends on whether her loyalty to Nick and his people is considered sufficient to qualify her as a good person. I personally don’t. Adalind was loyal to and helped the man she was in love with, just as he was to loyal to and helped Renard in S1. The only core difference in Adalind’s behavior is that the recipient of her loyalty changed.
I’m not questioning the better choice between Nick & Renard. Clearly, Nick seeing Adalind as the mother of his child provided her a better environment than Renard who saw her as a weak woman who could be manipulated into a henchman. I’m only referring to Adalind’s motivation - Nick and the benefit to her children was the by-product, or, her children and a relationship with Nick was the by-product.
I do think the show’s intent was to present Adalind as becoming a better person. But, the show is bias in it’s delivery because it’s prime objective is to showcase Nick as the hero and protagonist of it’s interpretation of good. And that’s where I think Adalind’s evolution becomes murky. It’s difficult to distinguish Adalind’s individual evolution into a better person and loving mother from Adalind’s evolution into Nick’s love interest.
I don’t think the show even hinted that Adalind used magic to prevent the Hexenbiest from negatively influencing her. But I can understand why irukandji would suggest the possibility. The show had Adalind frantic in S5 over the Hexenbiest’s ability to control and influence her. The problem with Adalind’s out of the blue panic was that the show didn’t substantiate it in prior seasons. Henry’s right, Adalind was just as bad and perhaps worse while human and completely free of the Hexenbiest influence. In contrast, the Hexenbiest returning after Diana’s birth didn’t have any negative influence or control over Adalind’s newfound determination to be a good mother.
Adalind’s measure of integrity in S5 & S6 depends on whether her loyalty to Nick and his people is considered sufficient to qualify her as a good person. I personally don’t. Adalind was loyal to and helped the man she was in love with, just as he was to loyal to and helped Renard in S1. The only core difference in Adalind’s behavior is that the recipient of her loyalty changed.
I’m not questioning the better choice between Nick & Renard. Clearly, Nick seeing Adalind as the mother of his child provided her a better environment than Renard who saw her as a weak woman who could be manipulated into a henchman. I’m only referring to Adalind’s motivation - Nick and the benefit to her children was the by-product, or, her children and a relationship with Nick was the by-product.
I do think the show’s intent was to present Adalind as becoming a better person. But, the show is bias in it’s delivery because it’s prime objective is to showcase Nick as the hero and protagonist of it’s interpretation of good. And that’s where I think Adalind’s evolution becomes murky. It’s difficult to distinguish Adalind’s individual evolution into a better person and loving mother from Adalind’s evolution into Nick’s love interest.
I don’t think the show even hinted that Adalind used magic to prevent the Hexenbiest from negatively influencing her. But I can understand why irukandji would suggest the possibility. The show had Adalind frantic in S5 over the Hexenbiest’s ability to control and influence her. The problem with Adalind’s out of the blue panic was that the show didn’t substantiate it in prior seasons. Henry’s right, Adalind was just as bad and perhaps worse while human and completely free of the Hexenbiest influence. In contrast, the Hexenbiest returning after Diana’s birth didn’t have any negative influence or control over Adalind’s newfound determination to be a good mother.
"If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well." Rainer Maria Rilke