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Are Nick and Adalind Stiller together?

It’s a bit difficult to say, but on balance I’d say…for all intents and purposes, no.

It’s not as if we got a traditional “break-up” scene, but Adalind did leave him and doesn’t appear to have any plans to return to him any time soon. Add to that the fact that they’re both pretty wrapped up in surviving their respective situations, and somehow I think their relationship status is probably so far down their priority ladder that it’s fallen off the bottom rung.

If or when they actually have the time and space to revisit that question again, a lot of things will have changed. Juliette is back, and it’s clear from Nick’s behavior toward her that he hasn’t moved past his feelings for her, as tangled and convoluted as they may be by what happened last season. And Adalind now has a daughter who’s shown something of a volatile streak towards people who aren’t either of her parents trying to date either of her parents. 

Granted, she didn’t seem to have a problem with Nick toward the end of that episode (and may have even acted to save him and not just to punish Conrad for hurting Adalind). But still…that might change if she were to see Adalind and Nick together, especially if the first thing Nick does in season six is go all decapitare on her dad.

So basically, it’s complicated. But for the moment? No, they’re not.

What do you mean by not liiking the tone of this season?

Well, I can’t tell you for certain what the anon meant when they asked that question, but I can give you a short list of the things about this season I haven’t liked at all, which have worked together to contribute to the problem:

  • the forced development of a romance that makes no sense between Nick and Adalind.
  • the “hexenbiests and zauberbiests can’t help being bad” thing that is the only explanation they’ve given so far for why Team Grimm (and the audience) should forgive Adalind or why Sean is acting so OOC.
  • Sean being completely out of character, while we’re at it, and the show giving no decent explanation for the sudden change.
  • years of character development for Sean and relationship development between him and the rest of Team Grimm thrown out the window.
  • everyone blaming Juliette for what happened to her while never taking responsibility for their part in it (except Rosalee, god bless Rosalee).
  • Adalind getting tons of understanding, support, and the benefit of the doubt from Team Grimm while having done nothing to earn any of it (and in fact having a history that suggests she shouldn’t be given any of those things).
  • Adalind’s entire character and her arc being scrapped with a retcon that waters her down and robs her of nearly all agency (not to mention makes no sense in the context of the rest of the show).
  • the show abandoning several important themes that have always been at the heart of it (the power of choice over nature, for example).
  • Bud Wurstner being nowhere to be found.
  • the lack of trust between the members of Team Grimm (because I absolutely consider Sean a member of Team Grimm); the split and messed up and uncertain loyalties between people who were toasting to their friendship after risking everything to save one of their own barely more than a year ago.
  • the general “sea change without satisfactory explanation” that has been enacted on so many characters, relationships, and world dynamics.
  • the show’s continued inability/unwillingness to acknowledge that men can be victims of rape.

Just to name a few. I’m still hoping the Grimm Writers will pull through in the eleventh hour, but even if they do, some of this will seem just completely unnecessary.

And the really sad thing is, I think they’re doing most of this to try and make the show seem darker. Yet overall, the show is not really any darker than it’s ever been. Just murkier. Nothing makes sense, and not necessarily in a way that feels intentional.

Everyone is saying that Nick is angry about Adalind but I saw it that he was angry about losing his son and that is why he reacted the way he has. What do you think?

I think he was angry and hurt about both, but that his focus is on getting his son back right now, because Kelly is the most vulnerable party here (at least until he shows some sign of powers of his own).

I also think that while Nick grew to have an attachment to Adalind, he wasn’t in love with her and he isn’t going to feel that loss as hard as he’s feeling the loss of his son right now. He doesn’t blame her, he knows she truly felt she had no choice…but that isn’t going to stop him from doing whatever he has to do to get his son back, either, even if that puts her at risk.

After this ep, I have a feeling Diana is going to kill both her parents’ love interests. But before she can hurt Nick, Adalind intervenes and ends up dying instead. That way she can die a good person, and Nick Juliette and Kelly can be a happy family.

I’m….not sure that’s how that will work, Anon. For one thing, Nick and Juliette still have a lot they need to sort through, and I think it’s pretty clear after this episode that some part of Eve/Juliette feels betrayed by Nick and the team’s continued compassion, support, and understanding for Adalind when they couldn’t offer any of those things to her when she desperately needed them.

For another, I feel like having Adalind die to save Nick would be just as cheap a cop-out way to redeem her character as all this romance and domestic mess they’ve tried to do all year.

Granted, that doesn’t mean they won’t do it. *sigh*