Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-25875828-20160301103151/@comment-27929688-20160307004702

Short answer: YES. Juliette is worse than Adalind.

Long Answer: Juliette has not tried to fight the hexenbiest instinct, in the least. Adalind, for her part, got her powers back, but getting them back didn't turn her into a cruel person. She actually started becoming a better person when they came back. While Juliette's character strived to prove that Hexenbiests are inherently bad people, Adalind's proved that they are not.

Honestly, I've never liked Juliette. She went from being milque-toast to having her own (terrible) amnesia storyline, to suddenly being OP hexenbiest. I feel like the show TRIES to play up sympathy for her, but... I just can't find it in me to have sympathy for her. Every storyline they do with Juliette makes me cringe.

Adalind, on the other hand--she was a Hexenbiest her whole life. She was raised in it, but that did not make her an entirely bad person. Clearly, she was a hard worker; she became a lawyer, and when she came back to Portland, her firm wanted her back. Meanwhile, almost no one cares that Juliette is 'missing'. She did care about Renard--and he was just using her. The Royals were just using her. When her powers were stripped, her mother disowned her. And when she got them back, when she was showing no signs of wanting to harm anyone, the 'good guys' took her daughter. That was cruel of them, to lead her to safety and then take her child away because they made the decision that Adalind was unfit. That was not their decision to make.

Juliette has been a downward spiral, but Adalind has been a consistent driving force of the show--good or evil. I'm not liking where they are taking her relationship with Nick, but that's not because of Adalind.