Found this from yesterday. GREENWALT | There’s part of her that was dead, that she had killed, that they had killed. Suddenly it was awakened. And because she’s a Hexenbiest, it had a super effect. So we’ll have to see what happens with the Eve side of her personality and now having all these feelings, which is going to include a lot of guilt. It’ll be complex.

And it has definitely been complex so far! It seems as though Juliette’s emotional connection to her memories and friends is definitely back, but there’s still that layer of control that is Eve there. It seems as though there’s a big part of her that’s afraid to be Juliette again, too, and I’m sure that just adds to the complications.

I would rather Nick be single, or else be involved for some new character. But since the writers so clearly set it up that it would either be Juliette or Adalind (and confirmed this in interviews) I guess what I’m saying is that I understand why people would ship Nick and Adalind. I don’t like it, what she did was gross and wrong, but the entire thing with all three of them is so messed up and not handled very well by the show.

I wouldn’t want Nick to suddenly become involved with a new character here at the very end. That would seem…cheap and rushed and out-of-nowhere, to me. There wouldn’t really be time to develop the character or the relationship well and take care of all the other stuff they need to answer and deal with.

I will say this: I do understand why people would ship Nick and Adalind, both before and after the rape at the end of season 3. I understand as in comprehend, not as in agree with, support, condone, or ship it myself.

I understand it for two reasons: 1) we are trained from birth by the things we see portrayed in media to process antagonism, dominance, violence, and aggression as evidence of passion rather than abuse, and 2) we are not trained to think critically about the importance and nature of true consent, or to see men as potential victims of rape and women as potential perpetrators.

I can also definitely agree that the show hasn’t handled either relationship perfectly or even very well, and they definitely screwed up with the way they explained hexenbiest powers and the way they supposedly affect people. They broke their own continuity in that regard, and they’ve made it so their two main contenders for Nick’s affections at the end are a woman who doesn’t deserve him and a woman he doesn’t deserve.

Nadalind as a ship is unsalvageable from the standpoint of being healthy or positive in any way. Even if you argue that she did what she did under duress and because she was a hexenbiest, there are things in canon that contradict both conclusions and it doesn’t change the fact that Nick was still violated.

And even as much as I love Silverhardt, I can fully acknowledge that the writers would have to do a whole lot of work to make anything between them remotely healthy again…work I’m not convinced they really have time to do. Nick’s tendency to deceive Juliette and dismiss her feelings whenever convenient for him was a problem from like the third or fourth episode of the first season, and one they’ve never fully addressed.

Still, at the end of the day I know it’s going to be one or the other of the two. And in that context, I can wrap my head around Nick ending up with someone he needs to work on his relationship with over his ending up someone who literally raped him as well as one of his best friends, any day of the week.

Did you see the longing between Nick and Juliette in that episode, even in just that one scene where Nick asks Juliette how she feels? They are both incredibly vulnerable and confused about how they feel and what has happened to them, and if there are some things that can’t be forgiven, and way in the hidden parts of their hearts, that love … They stood so close to each other. They were steps away from physical contact. Both keeping careful distance. Both nervous. Both still very in love.

Yes! I did see it and I’m still emotional about it. And can I just say this ask is so beautifully-stated. It’s exactly what I was seeing while watching them. There’s so much confusion and no time to process any of it, Juliette isn’t sure who she is at the moment or what she is, and Nick is a twisted-up ball of fear and uncertainty and adrenaline and worry and love.

Both of them have to be thinking “too much has happened, too much muddy water under that bridge, too much pain and blame on both sides. Not even worth thinking about, really.”

And yet they gravitate toward each other any time they’re both in a room. They are always aware of each other. They protect and help each other like it’s an inborn instinct. And all that love is just swimming under the surface whenever their eyes meet, along with a question they’re afraid to ask. Case in point:

So I’m in the UK and can’t catch up on it until tomorrow but I followed your every post tonight and SilverHardt better be end game. I cringe every time he gets lovey with Adalind. I can’t forget everything she’s done.

Me either, friend, me. either. Not only that, I don’t feel the writers have earned this redemption arc they’re trying to push through for her, much less a romance between her and one of the people she’s hurt most…if such a thing could ever be earned at all without sending a hugely toxic message, which it can’t.

That being said, clearly Nick/Adalind is not the only game in town. I mean first off, Nick and Eve are SO protective of each other. The only time Eve showed any emotion last season was around Nick, toward Nick, and in response to the possibility of someone threatening Nick. In the finale last year she basically kicked in doors and fucked shit up from one end of town to the other in order to rescue him, and he in turn rescued her.

(Spoilers for the premiere below the cut)

And he freaks out beyond all proportion when she looks the least bit in distress in this episode. And I mean…Nick is not a super emotional person by any stretch. He’s not single-man-tear macho, but he’s not naturally effusive, either. He doesn’t gasp or exclaim or any number of yummy verbs. He generally puts emotions he finds difficult aside for a later that never arrives.

But when Eve makes a sound of distress and nearly collapses? He yells her name like she’s not right there two feet away and dives to catch her. And the way they look at each other…the way his voice goes all…I don’t even know what…when he asks her how she feels now…

I could write a novel about the ways in which that submarine is rising from the watery depths, but. I think you get the idea, yes?