Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-24.150.82.174-20150428165432/@comment-24399666-20151108225305

83.97.252.96 wrote: yeah absolutelly, i´m agree with Blutbad, i neither think that she was evil, just a puppet in the wrong hands, the last seasons, and later Adalind acted guided by the revenge, and made mistakes, but now she´s being a good person, and even want lost her power of Hexenbiest just for take care of baby Kelly in a normal way...and after this last episode....of 5X02, i think that the writers are gonna to take the road of a romance for Nick & Adalind, they share too much chemistry for waste it...& the Redemption Arcs are always so interesting...and in this last episode seemed that Nick was about to kiss her....when Hank called him...i really want a romance for this pair. I don´t see the problem, is just a show. I guarantee you, Nick was not about to kiss Adalind in this episode. It has been an estimated THREE DAYS since the events of "Cry Havoc ." What you took for sexual tension was really just... tension.

That said, I do see potential sexual tension, but a lot has to happen first.

For starters, Nick has to grieve. He's a fundamentally monogamous man who just lost the woman he'd been madly in love with for years. Not to mention his mother. Both in really, really traumatic ways.

For Adalind's part, she has to show a willingness to really, truly redeem herself. As in, actually take risks and put herself on the line for Kelly or Nick when the occasion calls for it, and do it consistently. And she has to acknowledge that there is something to be redeemed for.

It may just be a show (although I think you just revealed yourself to be not a serious fan. Begone! Away with you! :D ), but there are a lot of fans who are hit in real life by the subject of rape, and it takes a lot to get them over it. I'm not one of them, but there are a lot of them. And speaking for myself, my beef is simply that if I can't suspend disbelief about the characters (because they're behaving unlike themselves for no reason other than the writers want them to behave that way), then I no longer know who they are or respect them, and I can no longer identify with them. And if I can't identify with the characters, then it doesn't matter how much chemistry the actors have... I will still feel flat and bored.

In other words... I actually do like the idea of Nick and Adalind. But only if it doesn't break character. And given their history, the only way to have it not break character is... draw it out, until Nick has had enough time to grieve, and Adalind has had enough time to prove herself.