Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-86.145.40.63-20160616141202/@comment-25862208-20160816233354

DavicusPrime wrote:

The turning on Nick and her former friends, the betrayal of Mama Kelly, the attempt on Nick's life... That was Juliette.

I feel like I'm doing you a disservice, Davicus, for only quoting the one line above, but I agree with the above poster, very well-thought out post made by you. I'm quoting that one line above though because I think this is an oversimplification that I've seen a lot of fans make that usually affects people's view of Juliette's character.

I think we all know that Juliette as her normal, human self would have never done the things she did after she turned into a Hexenbiest. We had confirmation this past season from Adalind that being a Hexenbiest does indeed change how you think and how you feel, essentially making you a different person. The individual who did the terrible things to Nick, Juliette's friends, and Nick's mom may have been Juliette in a physical sense, but mentally and emotionally, Juliette's humanity faded fast, leaving behind someone on the complete opposite end of the "humanity" spectrum.

For Walking Dead fans, a similar analogy might be made between those who are still alive and those who have turned into walkers--someone/something completely different altogether, despite inhabiting the same body.

So, the turning on Nick and her former friends, the betrayal of Mama Kelly, and the attempt on Nick's life... that wasn't the authentic Juliette. That was, as Adalind put it last season, someone who thought differently than Juliette and someone who felt very much different than Juliette because she had literally and figuratively turned into someone/something different.

Here's the exact quote from Adalind last season: "You don't understand what it's like being a Hexenbiest--what it does to you, the way it makes you think and feel. It's not good."