Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-24.150.82.174-20150428165432/@comment-24399666-20151103175000

Does Adalind "deserve" a second chance? No. Even if you say that:

- "she was forced to do sleep with Nick and take away his powers" (which was rape by fraud, btw, and the emotional effects on Nick were typical of a standard rape, and it's kind of frustrating to see people proclaim that men can't be raped when it's a proven fact that they can, IRL). ---I can see your point. It wasn't her idea. It was Viktor's, he took advantage of her very real desperation, and the blame for it ultimately falls on Viktor's head.

- "she was forced to sell Diana." Yes, I can see your point.

- "she was made to try to kill Marie and rape and almost kill Hank"... well, no. She did it because she had a crush on Sean and therefore was willing to do anything he asked of her. A person with a moral compass would have refused.

But even if you take the stance that she did all of the above because outside forces made her do it... that still leaves what she did to Juliette in the S1 finale, and all through S2. Nobody made her do any of that. At all. It was all her idea and her initiative (which, btw, made her a force to be reckoned with, of a sort that she hasn't been since), and she did it entirely out of vindictiveness, and she did it to a completely innocent party.

So no, she doesn't "deserve" a second chance (or more to the point, a fifth or sixth chance). But that's not to say that we don't want to see her redemption anyway. After all, Jaime Lannister didn't deserve a chance for redemption either (that's not really a spoiler), but we still love that he got one. We like redemption stories, if they're done well. Or at least I do.

And I should probably mention that I'm not speaking for everyone... there are several people in the tv.com forums, for example, who are made physically ill at the thought of Nick and Adalind "playing house" together, and at the thought of Adalind getting away with everything she did.

And speaking for myself... honestly, I could be ok with Adalind getting her redemption arc and being made into a sympathetic character, IF it's not rushed, and IF there's an acknowledgment on the part of the writers that Nick, Rosalee, Monroe... none of them OWE Adalind anything. SHE owes THEM. And IF there's no romance involving Nick and Adalind for AT LEAST a year, and then it had better be a year that's chock full of Adalind proving that she's really changed!

I do like that Nick is agreeing to a truce with her (again, though , there are many who don't) for the baby's sake. I like it because it shows what a good person HE is, that he can make such a hard emotional decision on top of everything else he's going through.