Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-24399666-20151114213555/@comment-24399666-20151116164814

Ah well... that's a topic for another thread. :) My point in bringing it up was simply to explain why I'd totally forgotten - assuming I ever noticed in the first place - that there was also some cuteness between Nick and Kelly in that scene.

Which... I think I may have figured it out. See, every single one of the imagined scenarios I came up with in my previous post that might make me feel something between Nick and Kelly, all have one thing in common - in my head, Adalind is not present during any of those scenes.

To be clear, Adalind herself is not the problem. It's that damned hammer that's the problem! The hammer that beats me on the head during all the scenes in which people who have ample reason to be wary around Adalind... are mysteriously not wary around Adalind... and the hammer still looms, even in scenes where the characters are behaving appropriately around her (such as the in final scene in the episode).

Again, the problem's not Adalind. As evidenced by the scene where she and Kelly are shopping and she chats with an old lawyer acquaintance of hers. The hammer was blissfully absent in that scene, and as a result, the scene was actually kind of pleasant to watch.

How am I supposed to notice love, or tenderness, or affection, or playfulness, or even relief that this is a totally innocent creature, when I'm worrying about getting hit on the head?

In which case, the solution is shockingly simple: just have some alone scenes with Nick and Kelly (or with Nick and Kelly and somebody else that we've liked from Day 1, like Monroe). Adalind got an alone scene with Kelly in this past episode, and that was great. Why can't Nick get an alone scene with Kelly?