Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-25875828-20160301103151/@comment-27845103-20160314213528

Aleebsi wrote: Short answer: YES. Juliette is worse than Adalind.

Long Answer: Juliette has not tried to fight the hexenbiest instinct, in the least. Adalind, for her part, got her powers back, but getting them back didn't turn her into a cruel person. She actually started becoming a better person when they came back. While Juliette's character strived to prove that Hexenbiests are inherently bad people, Adalind's proved that they are not.

Honestly, I've never liked Juliette. She went from being milque-toast to having her own (terrible) amnesia storyline, to suddenly being OP hexenbiest. I feel like the show TRIES to play up sympathy for her, but... I just can't find it in me to have sympathy for her. Every storyline they do with Juliette makes me cringe.

Adalind, on the other hand--she was a Hexenbiest her whole life. She was raised in it, but that did not make her an entirely bad person. Clearly, she was a hard worker; she became a lawyer, and when she came back to Portland, her firm wanted her back. Meanwhile, almost no one cares that Juliette is 'missing'. She did care about Renard--and he was just using her. The Royals were just using her. When her powers were stripped, her mother disowned her. And when she got them back, when she was showing no signs of wanting to harm anyone, the 'good guys' took her daughter. That was cruel of them, to lead her to safety and then take her child away because they made the decision that Adalind was unfit. That was not their decision to make.

Juliette has been a downward spiral, but Adalind has been a consistent driving force of the show--good or evil. I'm not liking where they are taking her relationship with Nick, but that's not because of Adalind. How did Adalind become a better person after she got her powers back? If you mean that she became more motherly and treated her children right, then sure; but as for treatment of other characters, I sincerely think she was lacking in this department. She did tell Renard to kill Nick when she escaped his place to Renard's after coming back to Portland with Diana for example. Then she decided to strip Nick's powers away to get her child back. I don't think this was justified even if she was trying to be a good mother; her being subsequently double crossed by the Royals is just desserts for her.

In the latest episode (100), Adalind said that being a Hexenbiest does things to you and your mind, and that she doesn't want it back. This attitude is a far cry from when she tried to sell her only daughter on the Black Market to get her powers back when she first lost them however, this shows that Juliette's downward spiral was completely normal. What do you expect of someone who wasn't born a Hexenbiest?

As for Adalind losing Diana, Adalind should have realised that with a child like Diana, then hiding her away is probably the best option for her. Yes it was sad and I actually felt sorry for Adalind then, but as a mother, she needs to understand what is best for her child and not put her own selfish needs to be with her in the face of danger first.

Since episode 100, Adalind is getting her powers back and it's like Juliette 2.0 all over again. Can't wait for the games to begin :D