Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-79.118.186.70-20180415020517/@comment-44285497-20191217155632

Rpmaluki wrote: Nick taking special care of Eve (rather than it being Adalind) at the start of S6 was not part of the writers agenda, considering they knew this would be the last season. They'd set their mind on where they wanted Nick to be and wrote everything else around that. Nick's priorities were largely on Adalind first and Eve after. See Nick's reaction after Adalind volunteered to go after Eve into the alternate world. That's why i find it difficult to buy the idea of Nick suddenly wanting to get back with Juliette when they have that confrontation in the other world. There's literally no build up towards Nick's supposed change of heart (and no follow through as i previously stated). When he thought she was strong Eve, he steered clear of any responsibility even when she was living with him. Her landing in the hospital somewhat proved her vulnerability and now being powerless propelled him to step back into his protective mode overtime where she was concerned. You can note the difference between Nick at that point and the Nick at the beginning of S6, like 2 different guys. It has nothing to do with romance or which woman he wants to be with. It's that protective nature rising up again for someone that was once extremely important to him after brushing it off for nearly two whole seasons. Nick taking care of Adalind first before, Eve in the scene that Adalind volunteered to save Eve was not out of love in my opinion. His priority is to keep his family safe (his child and the mother of his child). In any event that Nick would die, Adalind would be there to take care of Kelly then, come others like his friends. Nick is what you would call the cliche self-sacrificing hero. He would rather let himself die than, see others sacrifice themselves for a greater good.

He has a hero cliche to him through and through and topped with that he wants to be a responsible father who wants his son taken care of, no way in hell was he letting the mother risk her life without knowing her chances of survival. (not to mention, Adalind is weak because not only did she just give birth but, her hexenbiest spirit has been tamed down, so what are her chances of survival there?)

Even if Nick did love Juliette or not, we can never erase from him that he will always feel responsible for her. They've been together for 7 years, almost a decade, there will be some things there that people can never take away from them.

Besides, them being in the other world fighting off Z and Nick asking Juliette about happiness and if there was anything they wanted different and all that. Why would you ask something like that at such a dangerous place at such a wrong time where either one of you could die?

Nick asking "Do you really believe we're all better off?"

Till now it really catches me off that there was something more Nick wanted to ask and know but, he never got around it. Because why would you ask that? Those words have so much implications on them, especially when he knows that Juliette came back from being Eve. The dynamic between them changed when Juliette came back.

The only thing that really made Nick stop himself from going back to Juliette was his son Kelly and wanting to keep a family together. Because god knows that's all Nick Burkhart wants, after being deprived of a mother and father at such a young age. He wouldn't want that for his son.

All in all, in my opinion, Nick truly did love Juliette but with their circumstances he chose to be a family man to the woman who gave birth to his son. Also, Juliette never cleared up to him how she truly felt and if there was still love there.

They never really got true closure of talking about things properly so, we will never know.