Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-1.175.95.73-20150528183119/@comment-24399666-20151022010611

Blutbau Fuchsbad wrote: It wasn't her job to help with the cases. But she did help him with some of them. Like El Cucuy and the Big Foot. (Forgot which episode that was and I'm too lazy to look for it right now xD)

You expected her to defend herself from the wesen as a Kehrseite? Just run up to the Dämonfeuer and attack him with lipgloss? She did, however, express her wish to carry a gun multiple times (each time Nick said no). Besides, it's hard to defend yourself when you

A: Don't know what's going on

and

B: Aren't strong enough to do anything anyway.

She wasn't the protagonist of the series, she was, in some cases, the damsel in distress to Nick (the protagonist). But in some cases she was the good guy. Call me desperate but I wouldn't have a problem with her resurrection if they could make her the way she was again. I kind of liked her character.

My favorite Juliette moment was actually in Wesenrein and Tribunal. In the other board I'm a part of, there are a number of people who complain that Juliette is selfish, and I always think of those two episodes. She was going through something legitimately terrifying, and yet she tabled it to a) comfort and support Rosalee, who was also going through something legitimately terrifying, and b) not distract Nick at a time when he needed to be 100% focused on finding Monroe. If that's not selfless, I don't know what is.

That said, I'm generally disappointed all-around with pretty much everything related to her character. Before she became a Hexenbiest, she was so... boring!

And after she became a Hexenbiest, the writers had a huge opportunity with her character. ''Huge. ''For the first time, Nick and Juliette, after working through difficulties centered on their inborn instincts (during which we would have learned more about the world and what Grimms are and what Hexenbiests are), they could have arrived at compromises, made changes in their relationship in order to keep it going, and could have eventually become equal partners that complemented each other. They could have tied it into one of the main themes of the show, which is that nature doesn't have to dictate who you are as a person, and that people have choices.

Instead, they not only made her a villain, they made her a cartoon villain. They needed her to become a villain, so they made it happen, and the "why" was treated as an afterthought, if it was treated at all. During Iron Hans, when she's talking to Kenneth... that's when I realized I no longer understood anything about why she was behaving the way she was. She was behaving that way because that's how the writers wanted her to behave, and apparently she has no thoughts or feelings of her own.

So when she died, my feelings were mixed. On the one hand, there's so much wasted potential. On the other hand, at least it's over, and, more importantly, her death creates a brand new potential in the form of Nick's character development. Between her death and Kelly's, plus everything else (the major emotional confusion that would surround Juliette's death, the baby that came from Nick getting raped, the inquisition that must happen when the international authorities find the King's dead body and find Nick's and Hank's fingerprints all over the place (why was Trubel the only one to wear gloves?), etc.), I do look forward to where this leads for Nick.

Various things I don't want to see happen in the first half of next season:

- Woops, Juliette's alive! Because... reasons. It would completely derail all of the potential that's out there right now.

- Trubel working with Kelly. See my previous post for the reason (summary: big obvious continuity error). The phone call to Trubel in the finale was from Chavez. I am 99.99999% certain of this.

- Nick getting involved with Adalind. Because a) he's deeply traumatized, and shouldn't be involved with anybody for at least another  8 months  (and then, maybe he'll be ready for a short rebound relationship), b) he's a fundamentally monogamous man who was deeply in love with Juliette for years, and shouldn't be involved with anybody for at least another 8 months, c) he and Adalind make no sense to anybody who still remembers Adalind up to mid-season-4. It'll be at least another year of her character evolving before any such relationship could possibly make sense, and d) she RAPED him.