I’m starting to really believe Nick and Juliette are endgame. She’s obviously still in love with him so he only has to wake up. I wonder if the stick went near Adalind if she would be fixed back to her normal self rather than this fakery going on. It was powerful magic that changed her and Juliette and it’s not fully undone yet. My heart broke when I saw her in the tunnels by herself under where he lives.

I feel like we got a pretty solid glimpse in that last episode of Nick’s lingering feelings for Juliette as well. I’m not sure how much they’ll explore this in the next two episodes, but this synopsis makes me think we’ll definitely see more development between the two of them in episode 11. (Thanks for sending me the link, @teamrebecchi !)

The thing about Adalind, though…I don’t necessarily want to see her revert back suddenly to being bad but I’m not sure what else they could do that would make sense. At this point the changes in Adalind were either powerful magic or shitty writing, but either way they’ve let it go on too long and played it too sincere without saying or even implying anything in canon that would make it clear that it’s the former.

And I just wish if they were going to try to redeem her character they had even made an attempt to actually earn it. Because they could have done a real, sincere redemption arc and shown incredible character development. Or, they could have had her go good temporarily due to magic before reverting back, and kept the amazing antagonist while adding an almost tragic storyline, a kind of “we got a glimpse of what she could have been” situation.

But neither of those things is possible now, and with only five episodes left I don’t know that there’s anything the writers could do at this point that would completely fix her character arc. The writers have ruined Adalind’s story, and it’s a shame, because the character was interesting and complex, and Claire Coffee’s performance has always been amazing.

I know it would probably the spell but hearing Monroe talking about how much he admires Eve for everything she has been through and everything that she’s lost and managing to survive it. Such a beautiful moment and I wonder if Monroe really feels that way towards Juliette/Eve. That he really does admire her but the spell just brought that out and made him tell her.

I think it’s very possible he does feel that way! Just not in a romantic context. I mean, we know Juliette/Eve said things that she really felt or had thought at moments in the past while under that spell. And Wu didn’t just spontaneously learn poetry because of the spell…he had to have that in him prior to the spell.

So I don’t think it’s inconceivable that Monroe does admire Eve for surviving everything she’s been through and managing to come out stronger every time. It’s just not something he would have felt comfortable voicing to her otherwise, and certainly not in the context of a romantic declaration; pretty sure that part would never have occurred to him.

is there maybe a gifset or something with the times sean woges? Cause if not i might actually try making something (partly to see if the other anon is right, partly beause i love his woge /very/ much)

I don’t have one. I’m sure the gifs are out there, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one that compiled all his woges. Would be interesting to see how much they differ side-by-side like that, though!

If you decide to make one, Nonny, please tag us! We’d love to see/ooh-ahh over/reblog it!

How did Renard go from ‘I must protect the Grimm, I must help the Grimm, I must be on the Grimm’s side, the Grimm’s friends are my friends, keep Team Grimm safe,” to ‘Hey tiny daughter if Nick happens to step out of line you should kill him.’ Like how???

This is basically what I’ve been screaming most of last season and all of this one. I will never be fully satisfied with the way that arc was written and how far they took his foray into villainy. He was such a great, ambiguous character, someone you wanted to trust and were never quite sure you could. Well, now the mystery is dead because we know for sure we can’t, and it’s just damn unsatisfying. Aside from one other plot development which shall go unnamed, it’s probably my least favorite thing the show has done, and the most nonsensical.

It also doesn’t make sense for his character now. Assuming I buy that Renard never had any loyalty to anyone but himself, and was just that ruthlessly pragmatic and ready to jump ship at the first sign that he might get a little more power elsewhere, his actions in that scene make zero sense still.

We know Renard doesn’t give a shit about Adalind, aside from maybe being put out that she doesn’t want him anymore, so it certainly wasn’t for her benefit that he said that to Diana.

And he knows Nick very well, so there’s no way he was actually worried about Nick being abusive toward Adalind in any way.

And it’s been made very clear to him that if anything untoward happens to Nick, he will pay for it. Sure, he has a superpowered daughter, but she’s gotta sleep sometime, and Hank and Wu are patient.

Apparently, too, he’s not at all worried about what kind of toll it might take on his child to be responsible for multiple murders once she’s old enough to fully understand the ramifications of her actions…but then again he doesn’t seem to have much of a conscience unless someone is literally making him have one via haunting him (thanks Meisner), so maybe he doesn’t even understand how it might bother her someday.

Sorry, Nonny, you didn’t ask for this rant. It’s just that this question inadvertently opened a wound and, since I’m literally made of the stuff when it comes to this topic, salt went pouring into it.

I find it super cute and healing that Roaslee invited Juliette. She wasn’t excluded even though she’s had a crazy year and they’re still not sure what’s going on with her. It’s like they’re realizing she is still Juliette whatever happened with Eve and the Beist, and Juliette was their friend

It warmed my heart for sure! I love seeing the two of them becoming friends again…it’s not the same as what they had before, but it’s such a Rosalee thing to do, to reach out and draw her friend back into the group. I love how too sometimes there are moments where Rosalee gives Eve this look, like she knows it isn’t Eve she’s really talking to anymore and hasn’t been for a while, but she isn’t going to say anything until Juliette is ready to talk about it.