Though the show has always had dark stories and themes driving it, the characters have always been rooted in optimism. They suffer but they always have someone pulling them up by the bootstraps and dusting them off. Season 4 was the emotional nadir of the series. The single darkest period for them as characters. But the last two seasons have sought to find a gradual path out of that morass. The finale marks a personal high point for Nick and company in that climb. It's where we leave them for now, but it doesn't mark the end of their journey. They're a deeply united front right now, and seeing them verbally tear into Eve behind her back, over how she deserves what she's getting, seems out of character. And I think you fundamentally misunderstand Eve's state of mind. She doesn't literally think Juliette is a different person. Just one side of the two headed coin representing herself. The Juliette in her drives the motivation she has toward fighting the good fight. Her guilt sends her through that portal alone, seeking redemption, as Adalind put it. The Eve side is the remnants of her programming, allowing her to push past the quicksand of loss and regret, and consider the mission first. She's still a soldier. Just not for Hadrian's Wall. Her fight is for team Grimm now, and they need her for what she is. If lives are lost in the future, because she couldn't contribute, is that acceptable because atleast she got what was coming to her. Barrigan may be justified, but you offer no counterpoint to his argument. If she was suddenly stuck in Hexenbeist mode, as full on Juliette, what use is that to anyone? I'd be shocked if she doesn't fling herself off a bridge soon after, because Nick can't watch her day and night. Adalind might object, (although in this iteration of the story, he might not care, since he was kind of a dick to her.) Maybe, after this, Juliette lives in the tunnels under the FOME, skulking around like a troll. How does one redeem themselves when they can no longer live in society. Other than Nick, most of the characters don't seem like they'd care one way or the other.
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