Okay, so…this isn’t just a gradual they’re-coming-back-a-little-at-a-time thing, then. Her powers are ALL the way back. And now she’s going to be using them for work?

ADALIND. HONEY. You NEED to tell Nick. Like damn, your weird relationship is messed up enough, you could at least be honest with each other.

There are a lot of little threads running through this season for the different characters. For instance:

  • Is Rosalee’s “old friend” from the past gone for good, or will he be back?
  • Will Adalind tell Nick about her powers returning before he finds out on his own?
  • Is Meisner still daydreaming about Adalind?
  • Will Sean really join up with Black Claw in order to get Diana back, or is he playing them?
  • Is Adalind going to go off the deep end again in order to get Diana back?
  • Where is Trubel? Is she coming back this season?
  • Does baby Kelly have any powers of his own?

Hopefully we get some answers before the season is over!

Not that I particularly approve some of the writing when it comes to the Nick/Adalind, as I agree it’s going too fast. But it seems that people are ignoring Adalind’s motives and her differences from Juliette. When Juliette first voged Nick was shocked and confused. But he was willing to help her and accept it, given some time. But Juliette wanted him to accept it right off and then she went bananas. And as we’ve heard said, being a Hexenbiest changes you. Adalind just wants to be a mom.

Actually, if you go back and watch, when Juliette first woged in front of Nick she was barely holding back tears and terrified the entire time. And do you know what he did? Instead of talking to her about it, about how she felt about it, about whether she was okay? He immediately started asking how she could get rid of it.

Which may make sense at first, but bear in mind that this is after Juliette has found out that she can’t get rid of it and she hasn’t really come to terms with that yet.

When she tells him this, that she’s already tried so hard to get rid of it before even telling him about it because she was terrified for her life? You know what Nick does then? Well, he makes it all about him. He’s mad that she didn’t come to him first, he’s upset that she’s like this forever (with no regard to how she must feel).

Then he walks out and leaves her there alone, crying.

The scene you’re referencing, where she wants him to “accept it right off” actually happens later, after he’s had time to think about this and what it means, and how he feels about it, and how she might feel about it.

People tend to conflate those two scenes and combine them in their minds and think that Juliette was too hasty, but Nick had time by that point. He was just too busy making it all about what this would mean for him to care about what it meant for Juliette. And that was one of the main factors that fueled her downward spiral.

If you go back and watch that whole mess, Nick at no point considers how Juliette must be feeling about this. She immediately becomes a problem to solve rather than a person with feelings, starting with the moment she reveals the truth to him. And in the moments when Juliette crosses lines, that’s what she’s thinking about. That’s not even my fanon interpretation. That’s canon.

When she pulls away from Nick and the team? It’s because Nick ran away from her and wouldn’t talk to her about it, but he told Hank and then basically forced her to tell the team whether or not she was ready.

When she laughs in his face after he says he still loves her? She tells him to answer his phone, go hunt down bad Wesen, be a Grimm, because that’s what he’s good at. She rejects the notion that he loves her as ludicrous. She’s realized it’s just empty words to him, and she tells him what made her realize this: that he has never been there for her the way she was there for him.

When she burns down the trailer? She remembers Nick’s rejection of her, his inability to accept what had happened to her even though this entire world of his is what caused it, and then she attacks the biggest connection to and symbol of that world he has.

When she sends that email to Kelly and sleeps with Kenneth in her old bed? She’s surrounded by the place that used to be her home, looking around it and remembering her life there with Nick, and she’s doing things that betray the emotional and physical connection they had: sleeping with another man in their bed, breaking his trust by luring his mother in for the Royals.

TL;DR: This kind of got off-topic, I guess, but the point is that no, Juliette did not want Nick to accept it right off. He had time, but Nick never actually tried to accept it or treated Juliette like anything but a problem after he found out, despite claiming to love her. Which is why many fans find his easy acceptance of the notion of Adalind–who he doesn’t know how he feels about and who has actually done a lot of damage to him and his (including Juliette, by the way) in the past–getting her powers back ridiculous.

Even though I agree with you with the whole “Adalind falling in love with Nick? What?” thing, if they worked on it a little more it would make complete sense- on Adalind’s part. She is very good at making poor life choices and she seems to always fall for a guy even though it might be a good idea to do so. Her falling in love with a guy who was her mortal enemy can be considered in-character for her.

I think you’re right in that it would be in character for Adalind. I’m really glad they didn’t have Nick be all suddenly gung-ho in love though, because it would have been terribly out of character for him, even if they didn’t have the history they have.

And I still don’t think they developed it enough for it to make sense for either of them to feel anything except cautiously amicable toward one another at this point. I’m not sure they can go back and fix it now, because they just rushed it for whatever reason and now a lot of fans are left scratching their heads going “where exactly did that come from?”

A couple of episodes ago she was perking up at the sound of Meisner’s name and blushingly, hopefully asking Trubel whether he’d ever mentioned her, and now she’s in love with Nick? Not attracted to, not beginning to have feelings for, in love. 

Adalind may be a lot of things, but sentimental she’s not. This direction at this juncture doesn’t make any sense for her and is horrible for Nick. I just don’t know what to do with it except throw up my hands and try to watch around it for the rest of the plot.

nunia:

comradewithbenefits:

fuckyeahnickburkhardt:

phoenics1908:

fuckyeahnickburkhardt:

YES. FINALLY. CONFIRMATION.

Being a hexenbiest fundamentally alters the mind and emotions of the person. Adalind is literally TERRIFIED of having those powers back

If this is true – can the writers try not to have the other characters constantly bash Juliette every episode? It makes it so hard to swallow as realistic given Juliette went bad over 2 episodes and then the writers made it so she can’t ever be redeemed. It feels imbalanced in the writing of Juliette vs Adalind. I know a lot of folks hated Juliette but she was fundamentally a good person at heart. So if Adalind gets the “she was only bad because HB”, then it’d be nice if the show acknowledged that with Juliette. But I guess they cannot do that because Adalind is the reason why this happened to Juliette and they are trying to make Adalind the good one now.

I hate Saint/sinner writing. 😦

Yes, this. This is all I want. If they’re going to redeem Adalind based on the notion that she wasn’t herself or wasn’t in control when she did all the terrible things she’s done, they need to stop throwing Juliette under the bus, too.

They’ve been hinting at this for a awhile I can’t help but think – what about Sean Renard? He’s a zauberbiest, which is the same thing except gendery. Renard isn’t all evil and murdery and he has his powers.

Only Renard has pointed out several times they are not the same thing, like when Juliette went to him for help after she changed.

Actually, Renard has been pretty murdery in the past. He killed people in season one, including his own cousin. He facilitated human trafficking for that horrible fighting ring until they stepped outside his rules for who they kidnapped.

He was also the mastermind behind a lot of Adalind’s early actions, including the attacks on Aunt Marie and Hank.

It was only after he underwent that purification spell to save Juliette that he started to become nicer and less shady (which he only did because she tied Nick to Portland and he wanted Nick where he could keep an eye on him and have a chance to get at the key he had).

phoenics1908:

fuckyeahnickburkhardt:

YES. FINALLY. CONFIRMATION.

Being a hexenbiest fundamentally alters the mind and emotions of the person. Adalind is literally TERRIFIED of having those powers back

If this is true – can the writers try not to have the other characters constantly bash Juliette every episode? It makes it so hard to swallow as realistic given Juliette went bad over 2 episodes and then the writers made it so she can’t ever be redeemed. It feels imbalanced in the writing of Juliette vs Adalind. I know a lot of folks hated Juliette but she was fundamentally a good person at heart. So if Adalind gets the “she was only bad because HB”, then it’d be nice if the show acknowledged that with Juliette. But I guess they cannot do that because Adalind is the reason why this happened to Juliette and they are trying to make Adalind the good one now.

I hate Saint/sinner writing. 😦

Yes, this. This is all I want. If they’re going to redeem Adalind based on the notion that she wasn’t herself or wasn’t in control when she did all the terrible things she’s done, they need to stop throwing Juliette under the bus, too.