User blog:Suzanne Beryl/Passive Julitette

It's Nick's fault that Juliette is acting passive. Like Sleeping Beauty's father, Nick is trying to protect Juliette by keeping her in the dark. In the fairy tale Beauty's father burns all the spinning wheels in the kingdom and keeps Beauty ignorant of the curse so that when she sees a spindle for the first time, she reaches out curiously and pricks her finger. If her father had let her know the truth about bad fairies, it wouldn't have happened. So too, Nick is to blame for endangering Juliette by sheltering her from knowlege of bad fairies. He terrorized her by telling her about wesen in a bizarre way and she reacted hysterically as any normal person would. Watch Nick's dialogue and facial expressions in that episode. He set out to scare her and he did. It's not Juliette's fault. The writers are making this storyline true to the fairy tale. Juliette is acting like a victim because that's what the Sleeping Beauty story is really about. Juliette is now passive because in the Grimm fairy tale Beauty is in a coma for months after the prince kisses her. Therefore, Juliette hasn't woken up yet. She's sleep walking. Trapped in a bad dream.

In the Grimm fairy tale the prince rapes Beauty while she's still asleep. And that's what is happening to Juliette. Juliette says she wants to resist Renard but is powerless to do so. It's a disturbing fairy tale, not like Cinderella or Snow White at all. The prince is not her rescuer but her capturer. It's Beauty's father, i.e. Nick, who is her real protector, the one who really loves her, but he made wrong decisions on how to protect her. And in the end Beauty is left to protect herself against the prince's evil mother.

Sleeping Beauty isn't about awaken sexuality which is what Cinderella and Snow White are about. It's a tale of victimization. The Grimm version is very dark and a little sick. I think Bitsie is playing this role exactly true to the story, if you know what the story is really about. I hope Juliette gets back her love of Nick and true love triumphs. She can then be a kick ass member of the Grimm Team.