Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-24399666-20151206191036/@comment-27401663-20151215030222

Your post was intriguing and I was surprised at the lack of response. So, posting my first comment to any TV show message board in a really long time.

I agree with you, Katerine4569, that the writers seem to be going for sympathetic as a way to make Adalind ‘good’. But I find their approach lazy as it’s an over used method of a allowing viewers to watch a character learn the error of his/her ways. It was entertaining with Dan Aykroyd in Trading Places - with Adalind on Grimm, not so much. Because as you noted in your post, the feisty Adalind in the earlier seasons was more interesting.

And the thing is, I think the writers accomplished Adalind ‘seeing the error of her ways’ by the end of S4 when she finally understood the bigger picture. Winning in her relentless battle-of-wills with Nick wasn’t important if she lost who/what was most important to her. So she sucked it up and went to the last person she’d expect to help her, and the last person she’d want to beg for help.

But evidently the writers think differently - or they just want to make sure viewers who dislike Adalind and Nick/Adalind get to see her suffer for the sake of suffering, rather than because it moves the storyline forward. So given that TPTB don’t give a hill of beans about my personal preferences, I’ll take the Nick/Adalind scenes & characterizations as they are and work them out as best I can.

Also agree with you that Adalind is 100% dependent on Nick for everything. But. I see Nick leading the way for Adalind to be comfortable with this dependent lifestyle. I know you said in your post that you want Nick to have an equal partner, but I don’t really see Nick wanting that, at least not in the fighting evil kind of partner. If he ever did, I think that’s changed, at least for now. Nick strikes me as feeling that everything that happened to Juliette was something that he either didn’t prevent or couldn’t fix. So he set up a ‘fortress’ to keep Adalind and the baby separate/safe from his Grimm world.

Nick told Adalind in ‘The Rat King’: “I’m so sorry this happened. I thought I’d gotten us away from all this.” A part of “all this” was Trubel’s return and Nick still didn’t want the elements associated with her return to penetrate the ‘fortress’. So I’m looking forward to ‘Eve of Destruction’ to see if the return of Juliette/Eve pushes Nick to want Adalind to get her powers back, or whether he wants that or not, believes it’s for the best because it will help keep her and the baby safe.

A final opinion about the writing - I feel like someone in the writers' room said: “Let’s get my 12 year old niece and her friends to write the Nick/Adalind scenes/dialogue”. Because most of it is befuddling. But that’s a different conversation. *grin*