08-29-2017, 10:43 PM
(08-29-2017, 09:43 PM)wesen Wrote: Or it could be argued that adalind and Nick were destined to be together all along, and fate brought them together eventually. The first woman that Nick saw after he bought an engagement ring wasn't juliette, it was adalind. She was also his first woge and his introduction to life as a Grimm. No matter how they despised each other and fought against each other, time and time again they seemed to be drawn back together due to unforeseen circumstances. Nick could just as easily have chosen to remain friends with Adalind, there was no reason for him to have started a relationship with her even after juliette left him. He was a handsome guy who happened to be a detective, there were plenty of women who would have wanted him. He could just as easily have chosen any other woman besides Adalind or even lived a solitary life like what juliette did in the end. It seems that juliette/Eve was the one who had no other prospects of a relationship after Nick. Adalind could just as easily have ended up choosing to merely co-parent Kelly with Nick, she had a choice in the end whether she wanted to remain with Nick or live independently with Kelly. She was offered her job back which would have allowed her to support Kelly as a single mother. However Nick and Adalind chose to be together, despite their horrible history, not just for the sake of their son but because they genuinely cared about each other. They couldn't seem to get enough of each other. They were either hugging, kissing, or snuggling closely together.
What I also noticed (I don't know if other posters have picked up on this) was Nick actually made a choice at the end of who he really wanted to be with. The magic stick allowed him to fulfil his heart's desire. If he had truly wanted a life with Juliette he could have changed everything to make it fit into what his ideal life with her would be. Instead we see him going back to a life with Adalind, Kelly and diana, and with Eve gaining back her hexenbiest powers.
They did go through major issues as a couple, otherwise we wouldn't have seen them acting distantly towards each other. They had a difficult time opening up towards each other and had a lot of trust issues. Unlike Nick and Juliette though, they were able to overcome it, maybe because their personalities complemented each other more than Nick and Juliette's ever did. And like I said they were under no obligation to hook up, both could just as easily have remained merely friendly for the sake of their child. The show also emphasised the idea of destiny, that everything that happened was meant to happen, so this would actually mean that Nick and Adalind didn't settle for less. Instead they ended up together because they were soul mates all along and they were destined to be together.
wesen, your interpretation is not just an argument, it’s what happened. Take that one episode that someone brought up in the Episode Discussion thread of Season 1, E16, The Things with Feathers. WTF was her compromising in that whole episode. Nick went way beyond bending backwards to meet her demands. At the end, he gets involved in law enforcement matters that were out of his jurisdiction.
She refuses his proposal for keeping to himself. After she spent a whole weekend getting involved in other people’s marital issues complains about how troubles seem to follow them. If that was me, after she rejected my proposal, my response would have been.
Really bitch. You have the balls to say how troubles follow us after I spent my hard-earned cash to get away for a romantic weekend and all you did was look for crap to get involved in on a weekend that was meant to spend time with each other? And you wonder why I keep my job shitz to myself? Fine, you don’t want to marry me yet? I think it’s time we spend some time away from each other and see if we are meant to be. Pack up your stuff and find somewhere else to live for a while! Let’s put this, whatever you call it, to the test!
I know in the beginning of this thread, it was posted not to make this into another Adalind vs Juliette thread but you have to if you want to show why Nick and Adalind clicked and Nick and Juliette did not.
Where was her compromising of anything? After the local LE shows up at the house and does nothing about it, she blames Nick by cutting him off before they even went to bed. We can all surmise that it wasn’t gonna be a romantic evening in bed that night. Too bad she wasn’t a Hex yet, at this time of the game. She would have probably handled it herself. Screwed the abusive husband for spite before she made him member disappear, blow up his head, walk away happy and maybe Nick would have gotten laid too!
You know you are OLD, when you see the Slide Ruler you used in college selling in an ANTIQUE SHOP!!