12-02-2015, 10:15 AM
(12-02-2015, 08:26 AM)Hexenadler Wrote:(12-02-2015, 08:24 AM)New Guy Wrote: Your description of Hexenette "unsympathetic amoral villainess" is accurate, IMHO. In her final scene she speaks of love to weaken Nick in order to enhance the violent mutilation of him as she delights in physical and emotional torture of the man who loved her and would rather die than kill her. Her life's ambition was to maximize Nick's pain and to see him die in agony.
New Guy
When you say "her life's ambition," do you mean she secretly wanted to give Nick hell even before she transformed into a hexenbiest?
As for Juliette "shining" as a bad guy, she only shone in the sense that most of the viewers at home wanted her DEAD as soon as possible. That isn't what a good villain should do. Good villains should almost make you want to root for them, even while they're murdering people in plain sight.
I think she pulled off the role of villain quite convincingly and while I knew her death was end game she kept topping herself with how deliciously evil she could be and I was most definitely rooting for her and she was bad for all too short of a time. I hope she comes back as the big bad for an extended period of time.
She reminds me of Angel and Angelus on Buffy where the sweet tender person just pulled a complete 180 and became just evil incarnate when they had a taste of the dark side.