02-27-2016, 08:13 AM
(02-26-2016, 10:23 PM)irukandji Wrote: Adalind had the luxury of expending tremendous amounts of money, time, and energy to look for Diana. That seems to have faded fast. Now she's just mooning around, 'hoping' Diana is okay. So much for searching for her.
Respectfully and completely disagree.
Adalind had an expense account provided by the Royals. It covered expensive hotel suites, clothes, pretty things that keep a woman happy. She has no means financially or through means of a support group to find & retrieve Diana.
Adalind being on her own with no one to count on has been a constant in her storyline with two exceptions: Meisner and Sebastian in S3 and Nick in S5. But that support has it’s limits. Meisner delivered Adalind & the baby to what he believed was a safe route out of Europe then returned to his personal cause - revenge on the king. Nick is supportive of Adalind to the extent that she is the mother of ‘his’ son. He’s never expressed any genuine concern or remorse for Adalind’s daughter or her heartbreak over the child being kidnapped twice.
Quote:Nick never got the luxury of being outraged over himself, his home and lover being violated. He didn't get the luxury of being able to think the entire situation through, even to the point of tracing it back to the kidnapping or Adalind's attempted murder of Marie. He didn't even get the luxury of talking to Juliette about the embarrassment and humiliation he must have felt, thinking it was Juliette he was with and instead it turned out to be Adalind. Instead, he was whispering to Hank about how he wished he had his powers back even though he told Juliette he wanted to be normal.
What could have been a great story arc got buried in mediocrity.
I agree with Nightschade that most of this lies with the writers. Character evolvement & analysis always takes a backseat to what they consider the real story. But. I think it’s worth looking at Nick’s reactions & behavior from a different angle.
Your opinion is that Nick was denied the opportunity to be outraged, embarrassed, comfort Juliette, and work his way back to the beginning - it all started with Adalind - so he could come full circle.
My opinion is, that’s not the man the writers created over the course of 4 ½ seasons. Nick wasn’t outraged at being sexually assaulted because that part didn’t matter to him as much as the loss of his Grimm. If Nick felt raped it was because his Grimm had been taken from him, not his dignity or the intimacy he shared with Juliette.
If we consider it strange that Nick didn’t regard Adalind’s act as rape, then shouldn’t we also consider it strange that Nick was willing to risk Juliette to get his Grimm back? Juliette agreed to the spell because she loved Nick enough to risk it. Why didn’t Nick love Juliette enough to refuse taking the risk?
Nick doesn’t come across as man of high moral character. As the seasons progressed, Nick became more like Sean - he likes the power and he doesn’t want to give it up. My comparison to Sean is mostly about the love & need of power. I don’t think Nick is ruthless & heartless like Sean. But when he decided to allow Juliette to risk the spell, he decided being a Grimm was his priority.
And as Nightschade suggested, we have to consider the writers’ motivation & priorities. The show is based on Nick, the Grimm, so Nick can only not be a Grimm for a certain amount of time. The writers either didn’t care how the hero was made to look during the process, or, the hero of questionable moral character is what they were going for.