Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-79.118.186.70-20180415020517/@comment-33528609-20191210035650

Lucille55 wrote: I wondered about a couple of things that happened during this scene. First, why does Nick choose the land of the Z to decide Eve needs to reveal her feelings to him? Second, the choice of questions are also strange. Why does he ask Eve if she wants to change things when he knows things can't be changed? Why does he continue to a question  like, "Do you really believe we're all better off"? While I don't hold with the thought in the above post that Nick is convinced Eve wants nothing to do with him, I do believe the creative team wanted the audience to see that Nick apparently still feels something for Eve. Nick is not a perceptive person in the romance department. For him to ask such pointed questions in such a dangerous environment where they both might die at any minute seems very unusual to me. As the post above me said, the show was ending and the writers were trying to tie off loose ends however clumsily they achieved it.

In your own words, Nick is not perceptive. Eve on the other hand was, starting with the beginning of the final season when she verbalized Nick's own feelings, something hexenbiets seem akin to as part of their abilities. They can supposedly read people. The one thing Nick certainly is, is cautious and constant. He never went from one extreme to the next in an instant and why question her about what she wants and not simply confess to what you believe he supposedly feels? That's far simpler and conclusive if that was indeed the writers' intention to rekindle that relationship. Let's not forget he had plenty of time between the end of S5 and beginning of S6 to reconcile with "Juliette" seeing as he sensed her "return" after the stick healed her, and that Eve was also feeling all sorts of resurfaced feelings for Nick. Why would the writers pass the very opportunities they wrote themselves to put them together and wait until he's serious about Adalind to suddenly want him to go back? I'm not saying the writers couldn't have done it. I'm saying they simply did not. And for their hero to be shown with one woman while in truth is longing for another, isn't really heroic. It's duplicitous and cowardly and Nick is neither.

If you remember Monroe's birthday weekend when everyone was under a spell, Eve reacted immediately when she laid eyes on Nick, which is how the spell was activated. Note how Nick in his normal state rebuffed her, he couldn't have known she was put under a spell to avoid taking advantage of her compromised state. He just wasn't interested in her like he was when they were together and was put off by her spellbound advances. That's yet another opportunity to revisit their past relationship but Nick's focus was on Adalind until he laid eyes on Rosalie, activating the spell on him. Nick is a simple guy that's fairly single minded, at least when it came to the woman he chose to be with, whether it was hexenbiet Juliette in S4 before she broke bad or finally Adalind in S6.

In this episode, it was far too late in the story for the writers to start swinging the other way without following through with this and actually restore Nick and Juliette together and simply have him co-parent with Adalind. The purpose of that scene was for Eve to have her agency back. She don't need saving, she found her place and they both ended up where they were meant to be with what made them happy. She wasn't his responsibility any more, something that had weighed down on him in varying degrees since she became a hexenbiet. Nick being slow, needed to hear it from her more than once and even that still wasn't enough.