12-17-2017, 10:10 AM
(12-17-2017, 08:58 AM)rpmaluki Wrote: While there is no difference between Adalind's attachment to either Nick or Renard, there is a difference in how the men ultimately treat her and the feelings both have for her. Sean grew colder and meaner towards her, Nick grew to love her, deeply. One thing I do know is love is too unpredictable to ever have two people falling at the same time always. Nick may be slow to love Adalind at least he got there, for her sake.As I said to Henry, I’m not examining Nick’s intentions toward Adalind or his capacity to later love her vs. Renard’s. As you said, I’m examining the lack of difference between Adalind emotional attachment to Nick vs. Renard.
When Adalind slept with Nick, he had some type of feelings for her, much more than Renard ever had for her. He just couldn't define them as love when Monroe asked him point blank. Adalind falls too quickly in love, that's hardly surprising and I don't think having a new found sense of drive and feeling unconditional love for her children means she automatically matures when it comes to matters of the heart.
If Nick didn't actually fall in love with her and in the end had treated her no differently than Sean, her relationship/her feelings for Nick would be just as abominable as her earlier relationship/her feelings for Renard.
Nick’s about face should have sounded off warning bells for Adalind. She’d been down that road before and should have been afraid of being burned again, as well as disrupting a much needed civil partnership with her baby’s father. Her obsession with Renard didn’t just end in heartbreak, it devastated her personal and professional life. Yet, when Nick is suddenly distant and uninterested in her as a woman Adalind responds exactly as she did with Renard.
Another example is the writers wrote Adalind as making a big deal when Renard asked her to lie under oath that he was with her when Rachael was killed. She was adamant that it put the children at too much risk. However, within the same hour she readily agreed to lie under oath when Nick asked her to.
What statement did that make about Adalind, the person and mother? And why even showcase that extreme contradiction? Was Adalind willing to risk loosing her children for Nick? If not, why have her use the children as her reason only when refusing Renard’s request? Why not have her simply tell Renard she wouldn’t help him because she and the children would be better off if he’s convicted and out of their lives?
"If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well." Rainer Maria Rilke