Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-79.118.186.70-20180415020517/@comment-40230049-20191212014743

But none of this explains why some of the viewers participating in this thread look at Nick's questions as something else entirely. I can see that point of view, certainly more than I can the thought of the scene being one where both characters take different paths and end up somehow finding true contentment.

Nick states Eve is there because of him and then goes off into some strange diatribe about trying to get her to admit she that if she could change it all, she would. Eve, on the other hand tells him she's no longer Juliette, tells Nick he's there because he loved her once and feels responsible. Eve states she has a strength and purpose she never had before, but yet there is no purpose for her at that point. Nick doesn't even consider his new life, but instead questions if they're really better off.

So the scene fails because it's not realistic as part of the story arc. There have been heated arguments over the romantic chemistry between Nick and Juliette versus Nick and Adalind. I don't think Nick and Juliette had a lot of romantic chemistry. The thing I always believed they had is the chemistry that comes from a great friendship. Nick and Juliette had that in leaps and bounds.

I wish that, if this was supposed to be a scene where the two characters finally meet and decide they are content with the way things turned out, the creative team would have shown us brought that friendship back between the two characters. Unfortunately, as it stands, all the scene really reveals is that both of them didn't get what they wanted in the end and they really aren't content with the divergent paths, as you stated above.