01-28-2018, 02:46 PM
Quote:Taking a look at Adalind she was just as conniving doing the cat scratch as she was when taking nicks powers.
Quote:Adalind took Nicks powers beacuse she wanted Diania back plain and simple…Actually, syscrash is right. Adalind was conniving when taking Nick’s Grimm. Just as Nick was conniving when hiding the stick from Adalind, and Monroe & Rosalee were when sneaking into the tunnel knowing Adalind wouldn’t be home. Conniving is an approach used to achieve their objectives, it doesn’t speak to their motivation. Adalind never contemplated revenge, she only wanted to find and be with her baby, which motivated her to carryout Viktor’s request to take Nick’s Grimm. Nick was motivated to conceal something he believed was powerful and potentially dangerous if it fell into the wrong hands. A person being cunning doesn’t indicate that person is committing a bad act.
Quote:There is a problem with that statement. Yes victor told her take Nick powers and she could see Diana. Problem is Victor did not have Diana. Even though the character thought he did. It becomes a false statement to argue in the definitive when we know it is a misleading fact.I disagree with this as a counter argument to Henry rejecting Adalind was cunning/sneaky. That the writers chose to present Adalind as only being compelled to see her baby makes her ‘false’ belief relevant to the character and the story. If the writers didn’t have a specific intent with Adalind’s actions, they could have simply written her as performing the spell and left her reason ambiguous. The writers’ plan was Adalind pregnant with Nick’s baby in S4, but that plan didn’t require them to establish that Adalind wasn’t motivated by anger and revenge.
You also have a problem with the statement because nothing proves that she had to sleep with Nick to take his powers. We have no logical reason for the writers to use that method. From a story stand point It drives the story arc of the eventual breakup and Juliette's animosity towards Adalind.
The show used sex as the conduit for a spell in the first season without providing a stated reason that sex was the only viable conduit. Considering that Adalind used her mother’s book for instruction, it’s equally reasonable that the book identified sex as the only viable conduit in taking someone’s Grimm just as it was assumed in the S1 spell on Hank.
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