Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-27720018-20160906015503/@comment-219.90.160.125-20180723163149

Personally I loved Adalind in the first few seasons, she was a great antagonist. She willingly played the pawn to other people's games and caused so much harm. Finally trying to be free once she decided to keep her baby was a good plot move, even her going back to what she knows best (being a weapon for someone else's plan because she is desperate) makes a lot of sense. But in the event of getting rid of Nick's Grimm powers she rapes him and that is the point in which she became irredeemable for me. Yes rape. Because hiding your identity to have sex with someone who normally wouldn't want to be in the same room with you otherwise is rape.

Juliette and Nick at the beginning had a great loving relationship which eventually broke down because of a burden of secrets and mystical shenanigans. Juliette/Eve going so far off the rails felt like the writers trying to balance out Adalind trying to be a less harmful character (a sort of 'she can't be bad because the other one is badder' situation). Ultimately the Nick/Adalind stay together for the kids and fall in love plotline felt forced (and for me it felt quite icky). What really annoys me is the way the other characters re-accept Adalind so eventually a nuclear family could form. The show couldn't allow itself to be awesomely different by killing off Adalind and letting Nick and Sean platonically co-parent raise the two kids as siblings.