I don’t think they really made Juliette evil, per se. Can someone be evil when they’re not in control of their own mind or actions? I think of Juliette’s actions in late season four as more sickness than evil, and in season five and six so far she’s definitely been an ally and asset to Nick and Team Grimm. And, more and more, we’re seeing glimpses of the old Juliette, the one who loved Nick and would do anything to protect him.
The getting-with-his-rapist thing though, yeah…that’s really gross. There’s no excuse for that and I will always wish the writers hadn’t gone there. There had to be better ways to deal with Claire getting pregnant than to have Adalind have a baby with Nick, and even if they chose to do that, they didn’t have to manufacture this stilted romance between them like none of the last five years of antagonism, violence, rape, and hatred ever happened between them.
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