Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-27720018-20160906015503/@comment-33528609-20181010153538

I think Nick and Juliette could have worked out their relationship, had she not reacted vengefully towards Nick. I actually felt sorry for her when she discovered she'd become a hexenbiest. Despite Nick's aversion towards them (as the worst of the worst) I thought with a little time, both would come accept what she'd become. Nick wanted to try because he did love her but Juliette lost her mind and started burning her bridges (to Nick's heart) literally. Things didn't have to escalate that far but Adalind being pregnant was the last straw for her and in her anger, she lost all rational thought. It's unfortunate.

As for Adalind, she didn't cast a spell on Nick when he started having some type of feelings for her because her powers were suppressed. That's just wishful thinking. For half the time she lived with Nick at the loft, she didn't have her powers and when she got them back, she hardly used them except when she met with her old boss for her job back. By then, Nick had already formed a bond with her.

Nick started the show in a relationship with Juliette, by today's standard tropes for romance on TV, that didn't guarantee that he would end the show still in a relationship with Juliette. Nick and Adalind meet the conditions of at least one popular trope, that of enemies to lovers. I feel N&J lacked fiery passion. They were just there (nothing memorable about them) when the show started and then it all went to hell in a basket when Nick's Grimm life presented obstacles for them/danger for her through Nick's enemies (Sean and Adalind) and it was at a disadvantage because the writers didn't show us how they got together. The best part of TV romance is often the Will they or won't they journey and as a view, that was a missed opportunity for them. Perhaps the writers wanted to be different but that decision and their writing failed the relationship from "beginning" down to its very end. Adalind shouldn't have been an option for Nick but the writers saw what they believed was an opportunity to shake things up and Claire Coffee fell pregnant in real life and they purposefully wrote her pregnancy onto the show but I'm getting ahead of myself.

After S2, I was through trying to find excuses for N&J remaining in a relationship. The writers botched them and didn't write anything remotely romantic (being supportive of one another no matter what) for them like they did with Monroe and Rosalie. From general comments on the show, people hated one or the other of Nick's relationships (sometimes both) but they loved M&R. At the end of the day, I believe people watched this show for all of the wesen stories, not to see who Nick picked as a love interest because that wasn't the wtiters' strong suits.