Renard worked with the Resistance and organised for Adalind to be taken to a place of safety and Kelly was the one to do it. Kelly got to Portland, realised the nature of Diana's powers and therefore importance and basically dumped the plan and convinced the father to take Diana herself without her mother's say so. At this stage there's no difference between Kelly and the Royals apart from not killing Adalind. Kelly, with Renard's permission stole Diana from her mother. She did what the Royals intended to do, take Diana and possibly influence her upbringing for their benefit. It was known Adalind had nothing from the beginning hence the rescue plan from Austria so I don't see how that matters as to whether she has a right to her own child or not. Kelly should have protected both mother and child from the Royals as originally intended.
There's no way of looking at Diana's kidnapping and not seeing the flaws in that wretched plan. It's because they took Diana that so much damage was wrought in ALL of their lives. Juliette's a hexenbiest Kelly and Nick's neighbors are all dead because of that shortsighted plan. There's nothing that says Adalind should have been kept outside of the loop or left behind for Diana and everyone else to be protected. Fooling Viktor initially certainly helped get him off the scent and he wouldn't have bothered to trace Adalind since he was surprised and annoyed to find her begging outside his gate possibly weeks after Kelly disappeared with Diana. Instead of emailing Nick about Diana's progress floating objects around, Kelly should have been working to have Adalind join her wherever she hid herself.
In retrospect Kelly's being hypocritical because she made the choice to leave Nick and regretted it every day and then she goes and manipulates Adalind into doing the same only Adalind was not willing to leave her child so Kelly takes Diana instead. Perhaps if she'd given Adalind the choice like she did Sean (and even that's not without problems) I'd have no issues with the events of S3. And since all I see are the terrible consequences (death and destruction, murderous toddler Diana) that far outweighed the possible benefits (everyone safe, Diana not used as a force of evil), Kelly, Nick, his scoobies as well as Sean were wrong in what the did to Adalind and Diana. it's only after Diana's reunited with her mother do we see her become the very thing Kelly wanted for her, a force for good.
I have nothing against keeping Diana far away from the Royals. It was important Diana never fall into their hands. I just will never agree with keeping Adalind away from Diana when it would have been to everyone's benefit they stay together hidden away as was the intended goal from day one. Sean would have stuck to that plan if Kelly hadn't changed it and the rest of the show, no doubt, would look different. No baby Kelly, no hexenbiest Juliette, Kelly snr alive and well as the neighbors too. If the Royals kept hounding for Diana, they would deal with the Resistance (they were the ones intending to hide Diana and Adalind) and since Frederick was really the one who wanted Diana, Meisner could still deal with the king whenever the opportunity presented itself.
Looking back, I'm sure it all had to play out like it did, fine. Unfortunately that doesn't mean I have to pretend some of the crap done by the "good" guys don't stink just because Adalind wasn't a moral model citizen with plenty of her own resources coming out of her pores so she didn't need anyone's help, ever.
There's no way of looking at Diana's kidnapping and not seeing the flaws in that wretched plan. It's because they took Diana that so much damage was wrought in ALL of their lives. Juliette's a hexenbiest Kelly and Nick's neighbors are all dead because of that shortsighted plan. There's nothing that says Adalind should have been kept outside of the loop or left behind for Diana and everyone else to be protected. Fooling Viktor initially certainly helped get him off the scent and he wouldn't have bothered to trace Adalind since he was surprised and annoyed to find her begging outside his gate possibly weeks after Kelly disappeared with Diana. Instead of emailing Nick about Diana's progress floating objects around, Kelly should have been working to have Adalind join her wherever she hid herself.
In retrospect Kelly's being hypocritical because she made the choice to leave Nick and regretted it every day and then she goes and manipulates Adalind into doing the same only Adalind was not willing to leave her child so Kelly takes Diana instead. Perhaps if she'd given Adalind the choice like she did Sean (and even that's not without problems) I'd have no issues with the events of S3. And since all I see are the terrible consequences (death and destruction, murderous toddler Diana) that far outweighed the possible benefits (everyone safe, Diana not used as a force of evil), Kelly, Nick, his scoobies as well as Sean were wrong in what the did to Adalind and Diana. it's only after Diana's reunited with her mother do we see her become the very thing Kelly wanted for her, a force for good.
I have nothing against keeping Diana far away from the Royals. It was important Diana never fall into their hands. I just will never agree with keeping Adalind away from Diana when it would have been to everyone's benefit they stay together hidden away as was the intended goal from day one. Sean would have stuck to that plan if Kelly hadn't changed it and the rest of the show, no doubt, would look different. No baby Kelly, no hexenbiest Juliette, Kelly snr alive and well as the neighbors too. If the Royals kept hounding for Diana, they would deal with the Resistance (they were the ones intending to hide Diana and Adalind) and since Frederick was really the one who wanted Diana, Meisner could still deal with the king whenever the opportunity presented itself.
Looking back, I'm sure it all had to play out like it did, fine. Unfortunately that doesn't mean I have to pretend some of the crap done by the "good" guys don't stink just because Adalind wasn't a moral model citizen with plenty of her own resources coming out of her pores so she didn't need anyone's help, ever.