Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-3125844-20150417214605/@comment-26232195-20150505134632

Wolfwand wrote: in fact i think all charachter playing in natural role ... Yes, that's exactly why I love Grimm. The characters behave like real people, which means that they're not always likeable and don't always respond to situations in the way we would like them to. Even though many of the characters are Wesen, they are less cartoonish than the characters in a lot of "real world" dramas.

@ (P) Macabros77

I agree with everything you say about Adalind and I wasn't trying to defend any of her actions, just saying that the majority of the time she has not been acting as a free agent. Who is worse, the narcissitic sociopath, or the person who knowingly uses the narcissitic sociopath to do their dirty work for them? The answer is that neither is necessarily worse than the other but, the cynical manipulator is more often the one who gets away with murder.

And just one other point, many people who suffer from non-psychotic personality disorders spontaneously improve over time, if they live long enough. So Adalind genuinely changing would not be an unnatural development. But yeah, I wouldn't let her stay in my guest room either! ;-)

And I love Juliette. She's never really been given credit for putting up with all the crap she's been through and now that through this strange chain of events she has been given this extraordinary ability, the only thing the other characters can think about is how to take it away from her. I don't really blame her for roughing them up a bit. She needed to knock some sense into their heads.

The biggest problem with Juliette as a super-Hexenbiest is that the writers have created a monster, and I'm not referring to her physical transformation. Her character is just bigger than the show right now. She can't go back to being a member of the Scooby gang - they're just not her peers anyone. The writers need to find her a storyline that fits her new powers. They could just have go completely nuts but, that would be a shame. She's much, much too smart - she's probably the smartest character on the show - to let herself be maniupalated by the Royals. If she retains any of her former sense at all, she'll eventually realize that killing off Adalind wouldn't really be all that much more of an accomplishment than killing a cockroach. I just hope the writers find her a purpose, good or evil, that fits her new potential.