Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-5732287-20141213032435/@comment-69.91.87.55-20150222185436

I was a little disappointed that we didn't get to see Adalind's initial reaction to Juliette stopping the vase in midair but, I figure that frame just fell victim to the scene editing. I was also surprised that Adalind immediately launched into a counterattack but, after thinking about it, I imagine that was just her instinctive hexenbiest sense of self-preservation kicking in. Think about the scene where Juliette kills the Wesenrein kid in the forest or the scene where she stops the mantacore's stinger and then turns it on him. Juliette was only just beginning to recognize her power at that point - the hexenbiest entity seems to have a mind of it's own. So Adalind just did what came naturally to her inner hexenbiest - fight back. At first they're fairly evenly matched but then Juliette's superior power begins to manifest itself and that's when Adalind realizes she's "staring down the barrel of" an ueber-hexenbiest and turns tail. So I'm able to live with that aspect of the fight.