Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-24399666-20151206191036/@comment-24399666-20161024183658

Please note that I posted the original post back in December. :) When Adalind was not a strong woman. That has nothing to do with her being a working mother; it has to do with her being afraid to stand up for herself or act independently for fear of getting on Nick's bad side, at the time. And her intelligence, which was proven in S2, was nowhere in evidence (and actually hadn't been for a couple of years). That's why I was complaining.

I don't need somebody who can protect Nick all the time, but I do want Nick to not be doing all the protecting in a relationship. It is (or was, back in December) very one-sided. It's kind of the same complaint I had about the Nick/Monroe relationship, which was very one-sided up until S4 (with Monroe always dropping everything to help Nick with Nick's things, in every. Single. Episode.)

In both respects, things did get better. Wesenrein and Tribunal went a long way to resolving my complaints about the Nick/Monroe relationship (when Nick, for the first time ever, dropped everything to help get Monroe out of a situation that he did not get Monroe into in the first place!), and I did like how Adalind was able to warn Nick of the danger towards the end of last season.

But another aspect of this is just... so many of the themes of this show have always revolved around diversity and acceptance. Up through S4, it always was big on showing that enmities make you weaker, and joining together with people who are different from yourself makes you stronger. I loved that aspect of Grimm, and I wanted to see it explored in every aspect of Nick's life, including the romantic aspect. Because if Nick is so accepting of all Wesen who respect the law (remember when Nick was like that?), and his friendships with Wesen make him so much stronger, then it kind of takes away from that if he's snobbish in his romantic relationships (only liking Kehrseite).

And, again... I just really want to see a dynamic duo. :)