Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-27720018-20160906015503/@comment-41.13.18.48-20180929193826

Pretty much this. It was a mistake to have them in a relationship from the start because it meant the only way left to go was down. In terms of romance on tv, the best thing to do is to build up to two people falling in love. For me, it was hard to care for these two. Nick was just learning who he was and there was the added baggage of him lying to Juliette, his work life being an ever present threat. The mistrust (several times Juliette thought he was cheating on her). In S4, it was apparent they had different ideas about the life they wanted. No matter how much they loved each other, I wasn't invested in this train wreck. They were given problems after problems without any real long lasting wins and I just wanted it over. At the end of S4 I wasn't surprised by Juliette's bitterness and resentment towards Nick. She should have left him back in S1 as soon as the second episode when she realised he was lying to her and kept at until the end when his life as a grimm nearly cost her her life and sanity. Sometimes even love is not enough to build a life together. They were forcing something that just wasn't working. His life with Adalind was like the difference between night and day. They had the worst start, beginning as enemies but both had grown and developed as individuals who knew themselves and ultimately what they wanted in life and shockingly, they found it in one another. It's very different to what he had with Juliette partly because it is Adalind. Nick is a protector by nature and Adalind responds to that in a way Juliette couldn't and would not accept after becoming a hexenbiest. She found it offensive while Adalind readily accepts it. Nick and Adalind fit one another in a way that is natural and surprising for a grimm and a hexenbiest. Juliette had an independent spirit while Nick (and Adalind) desperately sought to belong to and with someone. You see how all grimm are independent wanderers but Nick settled in one place surrounding himself with a growing number of people, something that was clearly ungrimm-like. I feel Nick and Juliette were fundamentally different and would never work out in the long run. They certainly tried and tragedy was a consequence of holding on to something they should have let go.