Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-72.27.177.204-20170516031750/@comment-197.91.184.209-20180123110137

Regarding Nick and Adalind, the only thing I can think of is that the writers wanted to settle the matter instead of doing a typical song and dance of "will they or won't they" for too long. I'm certain it had to do with the writers realising they were at the final stretch of the show and preferred to dedicate most of the writing to their wesen of the week cases as they had daone for seasons past with an underlying arc. Grimm was never about Nick's relationships although they did use them to frame his development from being a plain cop to a Grimm/cop to mostly a Grimm. It feels like he was always reacting to what happened within each relationship especially after S2. I don't think the writers were great at writing romance unless it was Monroe and Rosalee.

Oddly enough I did see the potential with Nick and Adalind to be something quite amazing had they been given the proper build up. I enjoyed them regardless. In the first four seasons, I was never a Juliette fan. I couldn't warm to the character and felt there was something that didn't quite gel with what was depicted of her reationship with Nick. I felt that relationship was more of a chore to watch as they never seemed to be on the same page for too long before dealing with some new drama from Nick's Grimm life culminating with the dumpster fire that was the second half of S4. It didn't help that Juliette was often depicted as whining about her circumstances even though she made the choice to stay with Nick. I blame the writing.

What I find a bit odd is how the writers went out of their way to make Nick and Adalind a sure thing by S6 despite having far more baggage to overcome (insurmountable by other viewers' standards and I understand why) than Nick and Juliette before them where I felt for four seasons the writers seemed to sabbotage them and I'd say unintentionally. S3 is perhaps the only time where they got it right but they quickly ruined them at the end. S4 was another opportunity to right them with Juliette becoming a hexenbiest (now they both could belong in Nick's world and actually be a unit) but the blew that up to smithereens before the end of the seasons.

I believe Nick and Adalind were unintentionally similar in the ways he and Juliette were different, that's why when S5 came and they could finally be in a room without trying to kill one another they automatically drew to one another. S5 certainly played up the importance of family for both characters without putting a name to it until the last episode of the show when Nick thought he'd lost everyone near and dear to him. In short, they wanted the same things in life and weren't put off by the consequences of the world they were both born into and how it related to pursuing a relationship in its wholeness as opposed to him with Juliette, who seemed to have the opposite effect despite being in love and wanting to actually be together for nearly four years of screen time.