Season 3 was such a mindfuck for Adalind. She’s being protected by total strangers. People who don’t know her, sacrificing themselves to save her and Diana. After a lifetime of being alone or used. That kind of thing definitely changes your perspective. The look on her face as they drive away from Sebastien. 😭

Seeing Adalind’s pregnancy storyline and related plotting really makes me think of Sean’s mom and what that must have been like. Did she contemplate using her son as a bartering chip? Did she have to hide her pregnancy or who the father was, because of how valuable her child would be to all the wrong people? Was she alone and young and scared? Was Frederick there for her at all?

I gotta hand it to Claire Coffee. She is queen of subtle face acting for an unsubtle character, which makes Adalind so fun to watch even when I’m mad at her. 😂 She makes Adalind seem transparent without overacting, which is hard to do!

This little twist to her mouth when she’s about to get exactly what she wants (or thinks she is), like she’s trying not to appear too giddy. The way her smile is just a little too tight when she talks about her mother. The way her whole face falls when Frau Pesch can tell she has no powers just by looking at her. She really owns every scene she’s in, even if all she’s doing is sitting on a couch having a conversation.

You know, I don’t think Adalind knew anyone well enough (other than maybe Sean) to do this on purpose, but she really did play on everyone’s greatest hangup/weakness with that damn sleeping beauty spell.

I gotta wonder how much of Adalind’s revenge was carefully calculated and how much she was just trying to cause as much pain and chaos as possible.

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There’s such an ugly symmetry to Nick and Adalind’s arcs. And the whole thing of Hexenbiests and Grimms being each other’s Achilles heels still raises SO many questions about both their origins! Questions I’m still dying to get some answers to.

God rewatching Adalind’s interactions with her mother almost makes me feel bad for her. Every single exchange they have is so backhanded and critical.

While we’re asking questions… may i ask if you have ANY idea what the F U C K was going on when Adalind was stuck in the castle dungeon and that creepy man was in the walls and stuff? It makes no since to me. Was it real? Was it the result of something that whichever prince it was did? Me and my family cant stand it and always skip it while rewatching.

I think we’re meant to assume Victor had drugged her or had someone spell her? That was my take anyway. It was almost a way to break her I think. Or an attempt to.

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Are you rewatching, too!?!?

I know we don’t see eye to eye on Adalind but this statement is 💯.

Her arc tho. There was room for improvement but her arc was quite the transition. And I like all the analysis that came from it, too! She’s a very… interesting character to say the least but always, always woven within the thread. She one way or another decided the outcome, whether she anticipated it or not.

Yes! Well, very slowly, as real life allows.

And yes, there’s no doubt that Adalind has one of the most drastic changes from start to finish of any other character on the show (I think the only comparable one is Juliette, and I think in a lot of ways their arcs actually mirror each other).

And she absolutely moved the plot more than any other single character I can think of, from start to finish. In fact I feel like every major shift in the show’s plot came from her character in one way or another. The end of seasons one, three, and four without question, and arguably the endgame is set into motion by her as well, in a way.