03-28-2015, 09:52 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-28-2015, 10:04 AM by Hexenadler.)
"This is forever."
- Juliette Silverton
There have been countless occasions in television shows and films where a major character undergoes a significant transformation (literally or psychologically), only for the writers to subsequently backpedal and regress everything back to the status quo. It's practically become a trope in itself.
I doubt a lot of fans would willingly argue that Juliette's "evolution" into a Hexenbiest was a poor creative decision. For the first time in a while, the character is emotionally engaging in ways that haven't been seen since season 1. Her plight on the show is unique, in that she acts as an "ambassador" for the audience to the Wesen world, perhaps more so than even Nick. While Nick is a Grimm, and will always be somewhat alienated from many of his friends because of that fact, Juliette was "one of us" who became "one of them." That kind of rich potential in a character shouldn't be wasted. Having Juliette turn back into a human would fly in the face of the show's overarching theme about acceptance.
Keep Juliette a Hexenbiest. Take the conflict and story possibilities of that development and use them to their maximum potential. And above all else...let Nick and Juliette's love win out in the end. This is not to say that GRIMM should de-evolve into the TWILIGHT saga, but allowing Nick and Juliette to transcend their differences in a genuinely deep and meaningful way would set GRIMM hundreds of feet above the rest of the competition.
- Juliette Silverton
There have been countless occasions in television shows and films where a major character undergoes a significant transformation (literally or psychologically), only for the writers to subsequently backpedal and regress everything back to the status quo. It's practically become a trope in itself.
I doubt a lot of fans would willingly argue that Juliette's "evolution" into a Hexenbiest was a poor creative decision. For the first time in a while, the character is emotionally engaging in ways that haven't been seen since season 1. Her plight on the show is unique, in that she acts as an "ambassador" for the audience to the Wesen world, perhaps more so than even Nick. While Nick is a Grimm, and will always be somewhat alienated from many of his friends because of that fact, Juliette was "one of us" who became "one of them." That kind of rich potential in a character shouldn't be wasted. Having Juliette turn back into a human would fly in the face of the show's overarching theme about acceptance.
Keep Juliette a Hexenbiest. Take the conflict and story possibilities of that development and use them to their maximum potential. And above all else...let Nick and Juliette's love win out in the end. This is not to say that GRIMM should de-evolve into the TWILIGHT saga, but allowing Nick and Juliette to transcend their differences in a genuinely deep and meaningful way would set GRIMM hundreds of feet above the rest of the competition.