(05-06-2014, 10:10 AM)Belle Wrote: I concur. I also thought it was weird how Juliette responded to Nick bringing home "trouble". I thought she'd be a bit more welcoming to the poor girl under the circumstances. I also found both Nick and Juliette's reaction to "trouble" talking smack about them not being married a bit strange. I mean once you propose to someone the genie is out of the bottle. I find it hard to believe any man would let a woman crank yank him for as long as Juliette's been stringing Nick along.
How on earth has Juliette been stringing Nick along? I find it amazing she didn't get tired of his BS a long time ago.
Nick was keeping secrets from Juliette when he proposed to her, she knew it, and she handled the situation with incredible wisdom, maturity, and grace. She loved him and had no desire to end the relationship, but she wasn't about to commit to marriage when she knew something was off.
In the train wreck that was season 2, Juliette had a lot more patience for Nick stonewalling her than I ever would have. He kept mum, then eventually made it clear there was information he was withholding from her about what had happened to her, and she refrained from completely flipping out on him over that. She also took steps to try to remember him and rekindle their romance before the whole curse disaster kicked in.
Once she had her memory back, she never once held it against him that he left her spinning and without answers that she had every right to. She welcomed him back with open arms.
Since then, she has embraced his life with the most open mind anyone could expect of her. She wants to learn about it, she participates and helps when she can, and she rolls with every unannounced arrival on their doorstep that comes along. Juliette is brilliant, brave, and possessed of more understanding and empathy than anyone has a right to expect of her. She's a heroine in every sense of the word, and Nick is damn lucky to have her.
I have to say, I've always seen incredible chemistry between Nick and Juliette. In season 1, in particular, they would forever be leaning into each other, touching with this sense of familiarity that comes from knowing someone inside and out, reaching out to catch each other's fingers when they were talking about everyday things. I loved the scene in "Bears Will Be Bears" where Juliette was reading the article off Nick's computer aloud, and he brushed her hair back and started nuzzling her throat. Eroticism and sensuality live as much in small, intimate gestures as in flashy displays of lust.
Juliette and Renard made my skin crawl. I need my on-screen lust to be consensual for it to be sexy. (Actually, Renard in general infuriates and disgusts me too much to ever be sexy.)