Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-3125844-20150314161443/@comment-25862208-20150407154819

Grimm Analyst wrote: LCD2YOU wrote: PDXBlazer wrote: I think it's funny people complain about Juliette's "pity party". How would you act if this kind of thing happened to you? I bet most people would be having much bigger pity parties. It is a staple of the character.

That is all she's done it seems I think that whether one considers Juliette "whiney" or not is one of those fundamental divides where people will just have to agree to disagree - kind of like arguments about which was the greatest rock band: the Stones of the Beatles. :-) I've had some issues with Juliette's character from time to time but, I never considered her to be whiney. Considering the kind of crapola that's been raining down on her head from the very beginning of the series, I'd say she's coped pretty well. Just my point of view.

I will make one point about her resistance to accepting that she is a Hexenbiest. In her various confessions, Rosalee revealed that it took her years to accept the idea of being Wesen, and that was even though she was born that way and had a supportive family. She had to survive a major drug addiction and total personal humiliation before she finally "got her act together," in her words. And it really wasn't until her happenstance meeting with Monroe that she really began to play a significant role in the Wesen community.

So to expect Juliette to just accept such a drastic overnight change in her essential being with a carefree, "Whoop-di-doo, look at me! I'm a Hexenbiest!" seems a little naive. If she wasn't experiencing significant feelings of remorse and resentment then I would consider her to be a ditz. Remember that Rosalee told Juliette, "you don't know strongly some Wesen just long to be normal." Well, now she does! Yeah, I don't really get the complaints about Juliette's character either. I really liked her in Season 1, but I thought her character got much more interesting once she fully accepted the Wesen world and Nick being a Grimm. What she's going through is like a cruel twist on trying to accept the Wesen world all over again, except this time, she's actually trying to learn how to accept herself, and honestly, I think that's brilliant writing.

You can see she has moments where she clearly expressess she wants to be normal again, but at the same time, she has acknowledged that this might not be possible. I think under the circumstances, Nick is also trying to do the best he can, but he clearly does not want to and will not resign himself to the thought that Juliette is forever "stuck" this way, most likely because he feels a tremendous amount of guilt that he's responsible for what's happened. It's very interesting to see Juliette put off by that--part of her is kind of embracing her new identity, and that part of her wants Nick to either walk away or love her no matter if she's human or Hexenbiest. It's why she laughed when Nick told her he's not giving up on finding a way to make her human again because he loves her, almost like she was thinking, "If you truly love me, love me as I am."

I really sympathize with Nick though, because he's just been blindsided by this and is almost in a lose-lose situation (imagine what he'll think if he finds out Adalind is pregnant with his child!), and I can also understand where Juliette's coming from. What I'm afraid of though is that Juliette's identity and personality is changing as well and for the worse.

Monroe said a long time ago when talking about Nick and his Grimm powers that he can see a Wesen's "true self", who they really are. I have a feeling that in the next several episodes, we will start to figure out who Juliette is going to become and if she has still retained the remnants of her human self.