(07-10-2016, 06:32 PM)syscrash Wrote: With Nick working as close as he is with Meisner who's main asset is Juliette. Adalind would have reason to think Nick is working against her. Remember she blackmailed Nick into helping her by using his son. It could be because of his son that Nick is playing along with Adalind's advances. Until he is able to take his son away from her. They same as they are doing with her daughter. Nick has never initiated any advance toward Adalind. Why would she not think he was using her.That’s how I expected Adalind to be in S5, but I didn’t see that on the show. The writers seemed determined to have Adalind in love with Nick and completely trusting him. The why, how & WTF of Adalind loving and trusting Nick alludes me.
(07-10-2016, 06:32 PM)syscrash Wrote: HW and Meisner was interested in the group working with them. Yet it was never even suggested they where interested in Adalind, even though they knew they had her daughter. When Meisner saw Adalind with Nick why didn't he try and recruit her.I think parts or variations of this ended up on the cutting room floor. Greenwalt said in a interview that parts of the latter half were rewritten because the story wasn’t moving in the direction they either intended or switched to - can’t remember which.
Claire Coffey said in an interview that Adalind would eventually side with HW in it’s fight against BC and be swept up in the war in a serious way. The serious way may be Renard/Diana/Bonaparte. Adalind warned Nick but nothing that aired suggested she’d joined or even sided with HW.
She also said that Eve decides to involve herself in Nick's home life because she’s worried his relationship with Adalind will affect his loyalty to Hadrian's Wall. We now know that scene was changed to Eve threatening Adalind and possibly experiencing old feelings for Nick.
I think part of what ended up on the cutting room floor might have been Meisner reaching out to Adalind, and possibly her reunion with Diana coming from a different source. But looking at it solely from the scenes that aired, it’s reasonable that Meisner only heard Eve’s side of the story about Adalind.
(07-11-2016, 04:13 AM)syscrash Wrote: Here is a question I pose to people who speculate about Diana. Does anyone still think that Diana being with what was perceived the wrong hands would have influenced her. Does anyone think, Diana being with Kelly, then HW, followed by BC had any effect on her. Every time poster try and frame comments about Diana from the perspective of a child I laugh. Diana has never been a child never thought like a child. We have seen, no one has been able to provide even the smallest of influence over Diana. The Diana we saw escaping from Vienna is the same Diana we are seeing now. It makes me wonder exactly what people are basing the idea of Diana being part of this happy family. Lets start with we have seen more hexenbiest then any other wesen. Not one hexenbiest have we seen even allude to having had some kind of family relation. Add to this Diana does not seem to form any type of attachments. I can not find one thing that would lead to thinking a happy family is possible. Other then those posters who only see rainbows and unicorns as the only possible outcomes.The show has kept Diana ambiguous from day one. It allows them to take the character in any direction they choose without restrictions of past behavior. The way the show has set up Diana, Adalind & Renard could believably realize that because of her chaotic beginning she has been unable to bond/love. They could also believably realize they don’t actually have a daughter, but rather, a powerful entity that is currently residing in a child-size body. Diana may be a Hexenbiest because of her mother’s bloodline, but she could be much more than that because of spells/rituals/potions while in utero. Like I said, a very ambiguous character.
The show decided to contradict the Hexenbiest can’t bond/form family ties theory with Adalind. For whatever reason, at the end of S5 the show presented Adalind as completely in love with and completely loyal to Nick. She refused to help Bonaparte find him more than once, and initially resisted when the choking started.
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