Tag: adalind schade

Good lord, but they really piled the makeup onto Claire in the first season. She has like…hot pink lipstick, bright blush, a solid couple millimeters of black eyeliner all the way around the eye, dark eyeshadow, very plucked and shaped eyebrows.

It’s interesting because even though it’s a lot of makeup it creates a very young look, like someone who’s trying to look older and more imposing than they are. Which actually kinda fits with her character in a weird way.

I love Grimm but seeing n’adalind makes me mad. She raped him for heaven’s sake. It’s like everyone forgot all the bad things she’s done. Also I did not expect the two deaths in the latest episode. I’m so sad right now.

I’m devastated by those two deaths. They seemed so unnecessary, and so incredibly violent. I mean, Grimm is actually a pretty dark, violent, gory show sometimes…but hardly ever is that kind of horror visited directly upon the main cast, and never in a way that’s permanently fatal. So that they killed two people was a massive shock on its own…never mind the senseless, heinously violent way it happened…in particular with Hank, which I don’t understand. Wu’s death was horrific and sad but it wasn’t over-the-top on the gore. Why did Hank’s have to be that way?

I’ve also never been on board with Nadalind for the exact reasons you mention, especially because the way they wrote it was so rushed and failed to show beforehand that Adalind had changed or articulate whether or not Adalind is responsible for the things she did while she was a hexenbiest. They kind of did it later, but not in a way that was definitive or consistent enough to absolve her completely. Never mind that no amount of absolving would have changed the effect her actions had on Nick.

Basically I wouldn’t have been happy with it no matter how they wrote it, but the way they chose to go about it was especially bad because it just…never rang true to me. The only way I can make it work in my head is that it’s another side-effect of the twinning spell Adalind performed on herself, Juliette, and Nick in season 3.

That being said, I don’t think anyone has forgotten what Adalind has done…least of all Adalind. There have been several moments when others on the team and Adadlind herself have acknowledged her fucked up past. Eve threatened her last season because she was afraid Adalind would cause Nick more pain. Rosalee and Monroe have both shown some wariness toward Adalind in season 5, however kind they are to her otherwise.

And Adalind has spoken of redemption. She knows what she did. She’s sorry for what she did. That doesn’t undo it, excuse it, or make it okay…but I think she’s always thinking about the mistakes she’s made and looking for ways to do good instead anyway. And as I’ve said before, I’m really glad she got to that point…I just wish the writers had done it without all of this romantic nonsense between her and Nick.

They did not have to become romantically involved just because they had a child together, especially considering that the circumstances of Kelly’s conception were non-consensual and traumatic. They could have raised the kid together and found their way to an amicable co-parenting relationship without any of that, and in my opinion they should have. Based on the shoddy writing, I’ll always believe on some level that the writers were just conceding to the demands of Nadalind fans, rather than writing something because there was romantic chemistry or because it worked, story-wise.

Sometimes I don’t see where the writers are going with something on first watch, but I always manage to get there if I think about it a little harder. I even think I understand, now, what led to Sean’s descent into villainy in season 5. With this, though, I’ve thought about it from every angle I can and that’s all I can come up with. And in my opinion it will always be the one glaring, irredeemable flaw in an otherwise solid show.

I don’t like A’dalind very much, but I appreciate the fact that she apologized to Eve/Juliette in episode 5.

It was a nice gesture, but what’s finally made me believe her compressed redemption arc is how she’s treated Eve since then. I’ll never ship her with Nick or be okay with what terrible writing that was, but she’s been sincerely kind and helpful to Eve this entire season, and was even willing to risk her own life to go save Eve from the Mirror World.

That’s a long way from the Adalind we knew in season one, and I’m glad she got there. I’m just sorry the writers didn’t give us that starting two seasons ago, instead of rushing an unnecessary romance arc and putting her character on the back burner for so long.

I know it’s a serious trailer and all (and it’s definitely sad, I expected some deaths but actually not what we’ve seen so far) but the way Adalind/Claire yells “run!” in that promo sounds so weird that it almost amuses me? I don’t know! I do wonder if that’s purposeful misdirection though seeing as it implies that Adalind will get killed and while I think her dying to protect her children does seem ic I’m not sure if they’d show it in the trailer?

Yeah…I noticed the editing is a little weird there. It seems like it’s supposed to be almost a slow motion effect? Or like the scream has been isolated from all the other sound? But it’s hard to tell, there’s so little context to go by and there’s so much going on.

It looks as though Zerstorer is standing behind her and about to run her through with the staff, and she’s making it her last act to warn everyone that he’s coming.

But again. It’s hard to tell. A couple of years ago the promo editors had me convinced Nick was going to shoot Juliette in their living room, so…trailers lie and anything can happen.

Do you think it’s strange that Adalind has been on the sidelines almost all season?

Not really, no. Adalind has never been at the center of things on Grimm. I mean…she’s been the cause of a lot, but she’s never been an integral member of Team Grimm necessarily. And the show is very much about Nick and his close-knit group of friends, so that has always made sense.

I mean, let’s look at Adalind over the seasons:

Season 1: Pops up every couple of episodes as Renard’s villainous secret agent. Her actions drive the lead up to the finale, but she only appears in eight episodes.

Season 2: Spends most of the season in Vienna. Returns to Portland long enough to gloat over Juliette’s comatose condition and get pregnant by Sean. She only appears in nine episodes.

Season 3: She appears much more in this season, in all but two episodes. However, her scenes are relatively brief and she is not in Portland for the majority of the season. Again, her storyline leads to the big finale, but it isn’t integrally tied to the rest of the team until she returns to Portland with Diana.

Season 4: She appears in 17 out of 22 episodes, and spends the first half of the season back in Vienna (her frequent flyer miles must be A M A Z I N G). She then spends the majority of the rest of the season with the Royals, trying to leverage her relationship with them to get Diana back somehow. She doesn’t team up with Nick and his friends until near the end of 4×19.

Season 5: This marks the first season where Adalind appears in every episode. She spends the majority of that time in the bunker with Nick, and is still not really a full member of Team Grimm. Whether because of their past with her or because she’s not interested or some other reason, Adalind isn’t along for most of their cases and isn’t included in key information…like the Stick of Destiny and what it does. She is separated from Nick and the team again in the penultimate episode.

Season 6: She has appeared in every episode so far except for “The Son Also Rises.” She spent the first episode separated from the team and most of the second episode doing what she could on her own to help them. She’s been included in the team’s activities more this season, but spends most of her time off-screen with Diana and Kelly.

So no…I don’t think it’s really that strange. In a way, it makes sense. In the past when we saw a lot of Adalind even though she was far away from Team Grimm, it was because her actions were building towards something that they were going to have to deal with. Now, she has pretty much everything she’s fought or searched for throughout the series: her powers and both of her children. Any revenge she wanted to mete out has been dealt, and far seeking more of it she seems to regret many of her past actions. The fact is…there isn’t an awful lot for Adalind to do on screen anymore, especially with four episodes left and whatever big bad is coming on its way.

Granted, I don’t necessarily like this state of affairs. Adalind was always so interesting as a villain, and now it seems like the writers just don’t know what to do with her. They rushed a redemption arc that didn’t make any sense and as a consequence rid Adalind of all the traits and conflict that made her interesting. The result is that we have less of her in the final season, and the few scenes we do have are relatively brief and don’t allow her to dominate the screen the way she did when she was bad.