Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-24.150.82.174-20150428165432/@comment-25875828-20151110192328

Unak78 wrote: I just wanted to mention, since the first dozen or so posts fail to mention, that Adalind's earliest misdeeds were at the direction of Captain Renard when he was still trying to control Nick without his knowledge. Nick managed to forgive and later work with Renard, why not Adalind who was equally manipulated? Short of being drugged or having a gun held to your head. There are something’s you can't forgive. Adalind changing to look like Juliette then sleeping with Nick violates on so many levels. So many post try and just overlook this fact. I wonder if the genders where reversed would people still want to brush it off.

The idea that Adalind is absolved of her actions because Sean or Viktor told her to do it, would mean if she killed someone, better yet if Hank had died it would not have been her fault.

Now to be fair, post try to justify Juliette’s actions as she is under the influence of being a hexenbiest. Well you could use the same argument for what Adalind has done. My only problem with that idea is Adalind was born a hexenbiest and knows what the effects are, by now she would have control of the urge. Juliette was thrown into the hexenbiest pool with no instruction or idea of what she was dealing with. She hever had the time or the teachers to help and learn how to deal with her urges.

I see the conversation Adalind had with Rosalee about her powers returning, trying to address that idea of the uncontrollable urges of being a hexenbiest. The idea that Adalind realizes that as a hexenbiest the urge to do bad is hard to resist, is why she is afraid for when she gets her power back. I could even see Nick while dealing with Adalind’s returning powers begin to understand Juliette problem and start to realize there was a way to have helped Juliette. He would realize that she was powerless over what she was doing.

Then I never did understand why Nick turned away from Juliette in the first place. Was she getting out of control? Sure she was, she was becoming deadly. She was getting hurtful and vengeful. But that is the same that Adalind was feeling. But just like having a loved one that has become an addict or an alcoholic. Causing them to become very unreasonable and say plenty of hurtful things, do you turn your back on them.

It is going to be interesting how Nick deals with Adalind’s return to being a hexenbiest. Will he have learned from Juliette that the actions are not that of Adalind but, that of the biest inside her. Of course this will require a period of time of Adalind not being a hexenbiest so Nick and the audience can see what type of person she is.

This would also explain the reason for why the show needed Juliette to become a hexenbiest, So Nick would know how to deal with Adalind the hexenbiest.