Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-24399666-20151107180145

I posted this in the episode discussion of "Clear and Wesen Danger," but on second thought, it really needs a discussion of its own. In this episode, there was a scene where Adalind and Rosalee are talking, and Adalind talks about how she doesn't want to be a Hexenbiest again (which is a total 180 for her character, btw)... apparently because she "wasn't a nice person." It's heavily implied that a) she was not a nice person because she was a Hexenbiest, and b) if and when she becomes a Hexenbiest again, this will automatically make her bad again.

Ugh.

(fyi, this is where the copy/paste of the other post begins, so if you've already read it, it's unchanged)

Are we really going the route that being a Hexenbiest makes you evil, and as long as Adalind stays human, she'll be good, but when her Hexenbiest comes back, she'll be evil again? ''Really? ''I hated that implication last year when it was Juliette, and I hate it even more here.

​Not only is this a total subversion of my favorite theme of the show (that being, what kind of person you are doesn't have to be dictated by the circumstances of your birth), but it's ludicrously simplistic... and it doesn't even make sense from an in-universe perspective!

Let's see: Elizabeth DeSalle (Momma Renard) and Henrietta are/were both Hexenbiests, and neither of them seemed particularly evil.

But more to the point... here's a basic rundown of all of the major things Adalind has done to our main characters over the years, what she was at the time, and why she did it, in chronological order. See if you can spot the outlier:

- Attempted to kill Aunt Marie. Done while she was a Hexenbiest. Done at Sean's behest, because she had a crush on him and wanted to impress him.

- Drugged, raped and almost killed Hank. Done while she was a Hexenbiest. Done at Sean's behest, because she had a crush on him and wanted to impress him.

- Poisoned Juliette, put her in a coma, ensured that she would lose all memories of Nick, and ensured that the only way to come out of the coma would result in Juliette and Sean developing a dangerous obsessive attraction to each other, and plotted with the Royals. Done while she was human. Done entirely on her own initiative, out of pure spite and viciousness.

- Impersonated Juliette in order to have sex with Nick without his knowledge, in order to cast a spell on him to take away his powers. Done while she was a Hexenbiest. Done at Viktor's behest, because she believed Viktor had her child and he was making it a condition of even being allowed to see her child again.

So... being a Hexenbiest makes you evil, and being human makes you good, writers? Really?

That said, I can see Adalind feeling that way. Maybe she feels different as a Hexenbiest, and doesn't want that feeling to come back. Or maybe she just grew up, and became human at the same time, and thinks that correlation equals causation. I'm just irked because it really seems like the writers want us to feel that way... and it makes no sense.  