(02-20-2016, 08:17 PM)irukandji Wrote:(02-20-2016, 07:06 PM)droid327 Wrote: I kinda wonder how the writing would have evolved differently if they had originally cast Claire as Juliette and Bitsie as Adalind...
Thank goodness they didn't do that. Claire pulls down the series enough as it is. She's the eternal character they just don't know what to do with.
Yeah but that's the character, not the actress, as others said above...I dont think Claire pulls anything down, I dont get upset when she comes on screen - I just get upset sometimes with what her character does, being stupid or nonsensical, but again that's the writers problem, not Claire's.
Claire has shown emotional range, Bitsie has not. Juliette needed that emotional range to respond to all the changes that happened in the Nick-Juliette dynamic through the course of the show. Simply as "good Adalind" now, she's fairly innocuous, if you ignore all her hexenbiest history...if she was Juliette all along, I think she would have done a better job.
Conversely, Bitsie comes off cold and distant even when she's supposed to be in love with Nick. That would have played much better as Adalind, and I think they could have simply left Adalind as the bad guy and an eternal foil for Nick.
However, yes, trying to switch those horses midstream came off way too awkward and now we have a sympathetic love interest that has too much negative history to simply ignore (she condemned Nick's fiancée to death and raped him, while he killed her mother. Great "how'd you meet" story huh?), while Juliebiest was a villain whose motivations were entirely too personal to be useful to the plot, and who was hamstrung dramatically by the heroes' inability to treat her like a villain, and now JulieEve is a pseudo-ally whose history, again, overwhelms whatever they want her character to be now.