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I’m starting to really believe Nick and Juliette are endgame. She’s obviously still in love with him so he only has to wake up. I wonder if the stick went near Adalind if she would be fixed back to her normal self rather than this fakery going on. It was powerful magic that changed her and Juliette and it’s not fully undone yet. My heart broke when I saw her in the tunnels by herself under where he lives.

I feel like we got a pretty solid glimpse in that last episode of Nick’s lingering feelings for Juliette as well. I’m not sure how much they’ll explore this in the next two episodes, but this synopsis makes me think we’ll definitely see more development between the two of them in episode 11. (Thanks for sending me the link, @teamrebecchi !)

The thing about Adalind, though…I don’t necessarily want to see her revert back suddenly to being bad but I’m not sure what else they could do that would make sense. At this point the changes in Adalind were either powerful magic or shitty writing, but either way they’ve let it go on too long and played it too sincere without saying or even implying anything in canon that would make it clear that it’s the former.

And I just wish if they were going to try to redeem her character they had even made an attempt to actually earn it. Because they could have done a real, sincere redemption arc and shown incredible character development. Or, they could have had her go good temporarily due to magic before reverting back, and kept the amazing antagonist while adding an almost tragic storyline, a kind of “we got a glimpse of what she could have been” situation.

But neither of those things is possible now, and with only five episodes left I don’t know that there’s anything the writers could do at this point that would completely fix her character arc. The writers have ruined Adalind’s story, and it’s a shame, because the character was interesting and complex, and Claire Coffee’s performance has always been amazing.

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?