(04-27-2017, 08:21 PM)irukandji Wrote:This is how I felt it should have been written but the writers ruined it by framing it as Nick "cheating" and Juliette being the one "hurt" by Nick's actions instead of acknowledging Adalind violated Nick. I couldn't believe that entire conversation in the car to Monroe's wedding. Fast forward to now, that entire incident between Nick and Adalind does morph into something else because of Kelly and those two actually being in a relationship together. I think there's a general consensus about how we viewers see/should see Adalind's actions but at the same time there's Nick's own reaction in the situation should be taken into account even if we may not agree with him not feeling violated by Adalind. These characters are walking puppets for the writers who were the real villains in what happened between Nick and Adalind and not being sensitive, not only in the strange conversation in the car, but in putting Nick and Adalind together without properly ironing out the ramifications of that decision for not only the characters but the viewing audience.(04-27-2017, 07:41 PM)izzy Wrote: I think Juliette was a bit harsh (I am only taking about the Nick stuck Mr. Happy in Adalind disguised as Juliette) given the fact she looked just like her. Although I think he should have suspected something was odd.
Juliette's reaction was weird, period. I agree with you that she was harsh, as far as questioning Nick. Aside from that, the whole, "pull the car over so I can be sick thing" was completely fake. I would have preferred Dr. Juliette, first putting the thought in Nick's head that while he considers it the ultimate male fantasy, think about why Adalind would do such a thing. In other words, did she injure him with her sexual antics? Then, I would have liked to have seen a very angry Juliette, not at Nick, but at Adalind. That shows Nick just how important he is to Juliette.
I don't mind Nick and Adalind together. I love them individually and have come to enjoy them together but the writers completely messed it up in how they put them together. It could have been done better.
(04-27-2017, 09:14 PM)irukandji Wrote:What do you mean by this?(04-27-2017, 08:41 PM)Mrtrick Wrote: Nick didn't consider it a male fantasy...It is a male fantasy. This is predicated on the writers view of events. Nick's perspective is filtered through that. Meaning, he sees it in basic terms. Without the qualification of an external viewpoint, the fantasy aspect only represents itself as normalization. Not in the sense that the circumstances aren't bizarre, but rather in the notion that the act itself was not transgressive toward his psyche. To him, the sex was like any sex. It's in his relationship to Juliette that this carries an emotional burden for him. That he cares at all, is indicative of his feelings for Juliette. If she tried to convince him that this was sexual assault, she would simply be projecting her own feelings on him. And perhaps Nick was a doofus in this moment, but if so, he's was just the standard male doofus.
So the male fantasy here is having their woman have sex with them and then severely injure them afterwards?