02-27-2018, 02:36 PM
(02-27-2018, 01:41 PM)dicappatore Wrote: Robyn, I am sure the reasons why most disliked Juliette is for the same reasons why I disliked her. 1st, how they wrote her in the "Coma" episodes and then when they made her turn against the main character. Could it be that easy? Yes. Was it the fault of the creative team? Yes. This is what was given on the screen. This is what we have to go with.It is this personal reaction of liking or disliking a fictional character that confuses me. I can understand evaluating characters as interesting vs. boring or simplistic vs. complex, etc. but not based on them behaving the way they were written to behave. I don’t understand disliking one fictional character because he/she is mean to another fictional character. For me it’s whether the actor made the portrayal interesting and entertaining.
Complaining how the writes screwed up her character does not change the character we saw on the screen. As for character Nick, coming in second or third is also due to how the character was written, which is still higher than Juliette.
For me, BT did not accomplish that in portraying Juliette, and when compounded by G & K’s weak characterization & writing, I didn’t have any interest in the Juliette and Eve characters. But as I said in my earlier post, I didn’t have any interest in the Nick character either. He could have been written out of the show and replaced with another Grimm character in S1, and I don’t think I would have wondered about what might have been. But I don’t personally dislike the fictional character Nick because of anything he did to another fictional character.
At the end of the show, it’s exactly that, a show. I didn’t need Juliette to live up to my standards of what a coma patient is supposed to be, nor did I need her to satisfactorily love Nick and support his Grimm endeavors. I just needed for Juliette and Nick to not have less personality than a rock. So I suppose I don’t understand your rationale that discussing the creative team’s approach to characterization and writing is complaining any more than you understand my confusion with liking and dislike fictional characters because of their behavior.
"If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well." Rainer Maria Rilke