Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-3125844-20150314161443/@comment-26232195-20150407122000

LCD2YOU wrote: PDXBlazer wrote: I think it's funny people complain about Juliette's "pity party". How would you act if this kind of thing happened to you? I bet most people would be having much bigger pity parties. It is a staple of the character.

That is all she's done it seems I think that whether one considers Juliette "whiney" or not is one of those fundamental divides where people will just have to agree to disagree - kind of like arguments about which was the greatest rock band: the Stones of the Beatles. :-) I've had some issues with Juliette's character from time to time but, I never considered her to be whiney. Considering the kind of crapola that's been raining down on her head from the very beginning of the series, I'd say she's coped pretty well. Just my point of view.

I will make one point about her resistance to accepting that she is a Hexenbiest. In her various confessions, Rosalee revealed that it took her years to accept the idea of being Wesen, and that was even though she was born that way and had a supportive family. She had to survive a major drug addiction and total personal humiliation before she finally "got her act together," in her words. And it really wasn't until her happenstance meeting with Monroe that she really began to play a significant role in the Wesen community.

So to expect Juliette to just accept such a drastic overnight change in her essential being with a carefree, "Whoop-di-doo, look at me! I'm a Hexenbiest!" seems a little naive. If she wasn't experiencing significant feelings of remorse and resentment then I would consider her to be a ditz. Remember that Rosalee told Juliette, "you don't know strongly some Wesen just long to be normal." Well, now she does!