12-17-2017, 12:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-17-2017, 12:40 PM by dicappatore.)
(12-17-2017, 08:04 AM)Robyn Wrote: The demon was intended as metaphorical rather than actual. Adalind’s obsession with being a Hexenbiest again is the only reason she became a mother. Bonding with the child, realizing what it meant to love unconditionally replaced her obsession to be a Hexenbiest with a passion to nurture and protect her child. It wasn’t the Hexenbiest that caused Adalind’s many woes, but her belief that the Hexenbiest defined her, enabled her to be what she believed, and was taught, she should be.
I see her initial approach to Nick a little differently. I don’t think her offer to Nick or testing the suppressant on herself had anything to do with Adalind wanting to rid herself of the Hexenbiest or help Nick & Juliette. The offer was presented as a straightforward trade - protection for her & the unborn child in exchange for suppressing Juliette’s Hexenbiest.
Through the end of S4, Adalind’s storyline was mostly independent of Nick’s, and was mostly about her and told from her point of view. Her evolution was as fast tracked and chaotic as her dire circumstances, but it was plausible and predictable based on her overall storyline.
I don’t think S5 was intended to present Adalind’s desire to mother her children as less than what the two prior seasons indicated. I think G & K moved the character from her S3 & S4 determined mother role into a S5 Nick’s love interest role, and weren’t concerned with the contractions created in Adalind’s, and Nick’s for that matter, overall story.
So while I agree that Adalind didn’t make any attempt to set the terms of her own life or her children’s, there’s not much a character can do when the majority of their story is played out within the confines of a two-room loft and for the most part only interacting with one other character.
I have received a lot of flack over this, but I still believe Nick/Adalind too closely resembled Renard/Adalind. And for me anyway, Nick being the object of Adalind’s fixation doesn’t make her behavior any less retrofitted. With Renard, Adalind ignored his lack of affection and worked harder and harder to be what he wanted, do whatever would please him.
Despite their flirty and sometimes playful interaction, once Adalind confessed she loved Nick and they had sex, Nick turned an about-face, becoming visibly distant and distrusting. And as she did with Renard, Adalind ignored Nick’s behavior and worked harder to be what she thought would make him happy and make him want to be with her.
As with beauty love is in the eye of the beholder, and for me, that’s not love, that’s fixation and desperation. The character evolution Adalind underwent during S3 & S4 would have helped her realize she couldn’t convince Nick to love her, nor should she have to. But Adalind’s previous evolution was set aside because it didn’t fit the simple and direct path to G & K’s Nick/Adalind endgame.
But the same can be said about Juliette’s storyline and evolution being stunted and sidetracked to fit within a central character focused story. It what reality would an emotionally detached, laser focused solider threaten to come for Adalind, or anyone, if they hurt Nick? G & K’s original plan for Eve to confront Nick that his commitment to family interfered with his obligation to HW fit Eve’s characterization. What aired was forced to fit a central character focused storyline. Even Meisner’s S5 side story and the Wesen uprising season arc were compromised to fit within a WoW format. But these storylines ultimately had little to do with the characters who were simply plopped down on their marks as the story required.
Robyn, the only problem I have with your summation, and it is a thoughtful one but you keep drifting in and out of what is scripted and what should have been. I won’t argue the merit of the writing, since I will mostly agree with you. But, I think the discussion should be kept on what we got, not what we should have gotten. Just my two cents.
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