(03-28-2015, 09:52 AM)Hexenadler Wrote: "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.

(03-28-2015, 10:17 AM)OtterMommy Wrote: I'm also a little offended by it. It almost seems to me that, by making Juliette a Hexenbiest, they are saying that non-Grimms and non-Wesens are essentially weak. Early on in her Hexenbiest life, that was a big thing for Juliette--she didn't need Nick to protect her. But, look at her encounter with the Manticore. Before she woged she was huddled on the floor and whimpering. I don't think she ever looked so weak as she did in that moment.

(03-28-2015, 10:32 AM)Hexenadler Wrote: Well, let's also keep in mind that, a few seconds later, she completely annihilated him. I don't think Juliette was so much afraid of the Manticore, as what she was going to become if pushed. Think Carrie White with a scary ghoul-face. Both Renard and Henrietta have warned Juliette about losing control, and that could be a plot ingredient that'll reach its boiling point near the end of the season.

(03-28-2015, 11:37 AM)OtterMommy Wrote: Yes, she did....as a hexenbiest. That's the contrast I think they are drawing, whether or not they are doing so intentionally: humans (non-Grimm, non-Wesen) are weak and Grimms and Wesen are so much stronger. It has to do with what people are, not who they are...and that is what I don't like about this.

Look at Wu and Hank. They are both cops and it is safe to say that they are both physically strong and have received professional training that would make them "stronger" than a civilian. Yet, neither of them would really be a match for a Wesen. So far in this show, we haven't seen any indication that they would be any good against a Wesen criminal without Nick.

Quote:I would much to see characters who are strong because of who they are--Juliette doesn't have to be a hexenbiest to be strong, she can be strong on her own and I wish that she had been so since the beginning. On the other hand, Adalind is a hexenbiest and, in many ways, she is very, very weak. I think Juliette could have been--and maybe could still be--an illustration of everything that Adalind is not.

(03-28-2015, 01:21 PM)Hexenadler Wrote: My point is, undoing Juliette's status as a Hexenbiest is giving in to societal pressure, of being made to feel insecure about your status as the "Other" and accept that being a "Normal" again is your only real hope. Yes, Juliette received her Hexenbiest powers involuntarily, but I'd more intrigued to see how she comes to grip with her condition as opposed to finding a "cure."

(03-28-2015, 02:10 PM)OtterMommy Wrote: With Juliette as a hexenbiest *now,* it will be interesting to see where they go with it. That being said, I think the biggest mistake the writers could make would be to let this hexenbiest thing permanently break up Nick and Juliette.

(03-28-2015, 12:59 PM)Grimmster123 Wrote: I just kind of see the writers recycling the same plot over and over again and each time it seems as though the characters have learned nothing from their past experiences. This is probably the fourth or fifth time that Juliette and Nick have gotten into a fight.

First it had to do with Nick not telling her he was a Grimm and then it had to do with Adalind putting her in a coma and then it was because she turned into a hexenbiest. I mean how many times do they have to get into a fight to realize that arguing with themselves makes zero sense. I'm fine with a little conflict here and there but at least make them learn something from it.