06-02-2018, 08:58 AM
(05-31-2018, 06:44 PM)irukandji Wrote: I figured you wouldn't...Adalind’s ‘vow’ to her dead mother was about her desire and responsibility to provide her children with a stable and loving environment, not because her baby, conceived for selfish reasons and exposed to a Hexenbiest ritual, possessed enormous powers or a lack of empathy. There’s nothing on the show that suggests Adalind wouldn’t have made the same promise had Diana never shown any abilities or killed in S3. Adalind did exactly what she vowed to do. She remained focused on creating a loving and stable environment for her children.
I understand the meaning behind Adalind’s promise to raise her children right, and her devastation that Diana killed because she perceived Rachael as threat to her family. What I can’t understand or relate to his your position that a child with zero experience of a loving family environment should or could rationalize her action having a negative impact on the newly formed family dynamic.
I can’t conclude based on one scene how Diana would have reacted had Adalind said Renard choked her. It’s reasonable that Diana wouldn’t have considered it necessary to retaliate against her father had she not bonded with her mother. If Adalind and Renard were mere stick figures for Diana to bend to her will in her pseudo family, it’s reasonable that Adalind surviving to continue her stick-figure role would have been sufficient.
While at the BC house in S5, Adalind was a mother trying to bond with her child who was taken as an infant and returned as ten-year-old. Diana’s powers and lack of understanding of the parent/child bond and familial relationship weren’t the reason for Adalind’s endeavor, but a deterrent she and Diana had to overcome in order to reach the arrived conclusion at the end of the series.
It’s not farfetched that Diana bonded with Adalind first, or that when confronted with her mother wanting them to live with Nick she chose to remain with her mother rather than live with her father. Adalind was the only person who wanted Diana simply because she wanted her daughter. Adalind wanted them to be a family even before Diana understood what a family was. Renard allowed a violent group access to Diana because it advanced his political and power status aspirations, and continued with them after Bonaparte hurt Adalind. Adalind told Renard, and Diana later confirmed, that Diana used him to kill Bonaparte because she wanted her daddy to be the hero protecting his family.
You may have been on the right track with Diana also opening the portal because she didn’t want to lose Nick either. Nick had demonstrated through his actions and decisions that he would protect his family and friends with his life. Up to that point, Renard had not demonstrated he would sacrifice anything, even for those he supposedly loved.
We will never find common ground, and have yo-yoed this debate far too long. If I haven’t by now, I’m not going to change my interpretation of Diana as a child who was victimized by her mother’s selfish quest then further victimized by others wanting to use her and her powers for their personal benefit. I can’t expect Diana to possess the maturity and understanding that would enable her to rationalize the emotional needs of the adults around her and ensure that her wants and behavior doesn’t interfere with those adults - even her parents.
I can’t and have no desire to defend the show having Diana refer to Kelly as her other mommy. My assumption is that the scene was about Juliette’s guilt and Diana’s awareness of Juliette’s involvement. But it doesn’t make any sense to me from any angle. If the scene was meant to demonstrate Juliette’s acknowledgment of guilt and remorse, a scene of Juliette and Adalind having an honest and adult conversation would have been much more prudent. If anything, the writers looked stupid suggesting Diana was worried about Kelly after not expressing any concern or even interest for the woman since her violent death two seasons earlier. But making sense of the writers’ immature approach with the characters always made watching the show difficult for me.
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