I really feel like in some ways, Grimm is Juliette’s origin story. Whether that’s a villain origin story or not depends on your perspective, but plenty of fans put her in that box long before she actually fit it simply because she committed the cardinal sin of being a love interest who had thoughts, goals, desires, and feelings that weren’t 100% about propping up the white male protagonist’s ego and validating all of his choices. Even though she rarely acted on them.
Juliette went through more betrayal, suffering, and evolution than any other character on the show, and she did the hardest parts almost entirely alone. From being lied to and gaslit for years by the man who claimed to love her, to having all her friends desert her and turn on her when she needed them most, to being brainwashed and robbed of her emotions, to being given those emotions back when she wasn’t sure she wanted them. Juliette’s mind, body, and agency were violated again and again, often by people she called friends.
And that’s what makes her descent into villainy in season 4 so compelling to me. Juliette as a hexenbiest doesn’t just lash out at random. Every destructive act is purposeful, targeted. All of it was a way of exorcising the pain she feels over being lied to, gaslit, used, betrayed, attacked, and abandoned, over and over and over again, for the sake of Nick’s journey as a grimm. She rocked Team Grimm to their core, and in some ways she was a much-needed wake-up call for Nick thar I wish they show had explored more than just with one speech made by Rosalee.
She goes after the trailer because it’s the symbolic source of all her problems: the day that thing appeared in her yard was the day her happy, relatively peaceful life with Nick was over. She targets Monroe and Rosalee because they’re the first Wesen friends Nick made, and were key players in keeping her in the dark as long as she was. She targets Adalind…well, do I really need to even explain that one?
I’m not saying the things Juliette did as a hexenbiest were right, or good. But they are understandable to me. For years I watched her quash her anger, set her pain aside, forgive the unforgivable, and ignore her own needs in favor of being there for her friends and her boyfriend and what they all needed. And I was screaming on the inside “WHY AREN’T YOU ANGRY?!”
That level of selflessness is not sustainable, nor is it healthy. Something was bound to break eventually. It’s just luck (and maybe karma on Nick’s part) that what becoming a hexenbiest broke was her bullshit tolerance and not her spirit.
I felt vindicated watching Juliette on her rampage. I did a fist-pump when she laughed in Nick’s face after he tried to use “I love you” to solve all their problems. She was finally letting herself be angry for years of being last priority and last to know and first to make a sacrifice. And though the romantic in me was heartbroken watching all her sweetness and selflessness turn to violence and rage, a much bigger part of me was nodding and saying “good for her.”
This category probably refers to an on-screen moment, but this photoshoot (I think it was Entertainment Weekly, maybe 2013?) was the first time I realized how much this cast loved each other and how lucky we were to have them. It was my phone wallpaper for ages.
On October 28th, 2011, the weird little show that could aired its first ever episode on NBC. It’s hard to believe, but the 10th anniversary of that day is almost upon us! To celebrate we’re doing 28 days of Grimm, and we want you to get involved!
So for the next 28 days, please tell us…
You can make a post or send an ask, and we’ll be answering and reblogging throughout the month! Just be sure to mention your ask is for the 28 Days of Grimm, and tag your posts with #28daysofgrimmversary so we can find them!
Tell us what fandom inside joke or saying makes you cackle!
#just gotta be how it’s just Monroe lol #no other name just Monroe
@starkmartell bringing out the classics! Just Monroe was such a big thing in fandom that the writers themselves teased us with it at the dude’s wedding!
What does everybody think? Is he Something Monroe after he marries Rosalee? Or is he Mr. Monroe Calvert?
Sadly I don’t know of any, and I can’t think of any I learned about scrolling the tumblr tags. I wasn’t in the fandom when the show was airing, you see.
Hey, that’s okay! We’re so glad you found the show later on.
Feel free to check out our blog for gifs, meta, and liveblogs going all the way back to season 1’s original airing. Or! If you’d like to talk to some Grimm fans, you can join the Grimm Discord!
We’re currently doing a question of the day over there, too, albeit with slightly different questions. I’ll make today’s question the same, though, so you can hear some Grimm fandom lore from all us olds (I’m kidding…there are people of all ages on the Discord, though some channels are locked to 18 and over).
On October 28th, 2011, the weird little show that could aired its first ever episode on NBC. It’s hard to believe, but the 10th anniversary of that day is almost upon us! To celebrate we’re doing 28 days of Grimm, and we want you to get involved!
So for the next 28 days, please tell us…
You can make a post or send an ask, and we’ll be answering and reblogging throughout the month! Just be sure to mention your ask is for the 28 Days of Grimm, and tag your posts with #28daysofgrimmversary so we can find them!
Oh…..there are so many. I do prefer the more subtle ones from the first season and still (three years on, oops) haven’t really decided how I feel about the later versions (which tbh I don’t remember stating here?). But the one that has always stuck with me as a favourite has to be Rosalee’s woge. Couldn’t tell you why, though.
I almost went with Kimura – I love these soft-spoken assassins – but huntjagers are particularly chilling. The detente with Nick at Union Station is intense!
On October 28th, 2011, the weird little show that could aired its first ever episode on NBC. It’s hard to believe, but the 10th anniversary of that day is almost upon us! To celebrate we’re doing 28 days of Grimm, and we want you to get involved!
So for the next 28 days, please tell us…
You can make a post or send an ask, and we’ll be answering and reblogging throughout the month! Just be sure to mention your ask is for the 28 Days of Grimm, and tag your posts with #28daysofgrimmversary so we can find them!
Day 7! Time to look back on the incredible moments the cast shared with us at cons, panels, interviews, and on social media, and tell us your favorite!
The fierceness with which these two loved and protected each other just knocks me over every time. They fought so hard to get to a place where they could be honest and protect each other, and I was devastated when the final season teased a resolution for them only to never deliver. But I will never be over the sweetness of the early seasons, the longing looks of the last two, or the sheer euphoria I felt watching Eve relearn how to feel just from being in Nick’s presence (or kick ass from one side of Portland to another on a quest to rescue him). No matter how it ended, like Eve…
Monroe and Rosalee are a true partnership of equals. Juliet is always at a disadvantage because she’s not part of the Grimm/Wesen world, so she’s dependent on Nick for knowledge and protection, and by the time Nick and Adalind get together, she’s solely dependent on Nick as well. But Monroe and Rosalee are courageous, intuitive and intelligent – they’re in it together.
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