Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-79.118.186.70-20180415020517/@comment-33528609-20191212021307

In S5 he didn't care, he was still angry over his mother. In S6 he assumed responsibility over her after the stick sort of scrambled her brain. He cared for her again but towards the end, he overreached that responsibility as he kept seeing her as the woman that needed saving, especially by him. It's a distorted perspective that negates Eve's agency. He wasn't intentional about it, he was feeling guilt and it was making him act in a way Eve had to quickly and definitively shut down.

Honestly, the writers sucked at all the emotional beats when it came to Nick, dropping the ball at crucial moments particularly during the last 3 seasons and excelled at their wesen of the week format. Most of their writing was done as if paint by numbers. In that last alternate world scene, they were doing too much in so little time, with a context that's haphazardly put together, there's no way it could have been a writing's slam dunk. It's not a great scene at all other than Eve owning her life as it is now.