Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-73.172.218.41-20191219051042/@comment-33528609-20200111190048

Screen time doesn't always mean anything. Some have argued she lost quite a lot of what made her fascinating moving in/falling in love with Nick, that she became background. In S5 & S6 she had some screen time but didn't drive the storyline like the first four seasons. Adalind (a recurring character for tha majority of the show if not all) was often the B-story on the show long before the actress was pregnant. We followed her villainy in S1, her trying to get her powers back in S2, being pregnant and giving birth in S3 and trying to get Diana back in the first half of S4 before we the actress' own real life pregnancy becoming part of the plot.

I do think after S4 the show struggled with Juliette's place in the show. Using Claire pregnancy shouldn't have changed the fabric of the show and making Juliette antagonistic towards Nick was a big mistake, something the character never recovered from. S4 should have been used to cement Nick's relationship with Juliette, not only as lover and partner but as a kindred who now had the wesen world in common with him instead compared to the old human Juliette being outside looking in. I don't like Juliette's character but I realise that hexenbiest Juliette was such a missed opportunity for the show.