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Just a curious person here, how do you feel about how Juliette/Eve`s character developed over the past couple episodes? I feel like since after “Blind Love” her feelings for Nick have been coming back. It just feels weird having her suddenly feel something for Nick again after all that`s happened between them, and what she`s done. Personally, I think Juliette`s coming in sort of late with the whole “I love Nick again” thing, now that Adalind`s in the picture. Like sorry Juliette 😒 bit too late.

Well, Anon, I have to disagree. First, I think there’s a lot more to Juliette/Eve’s character development this season than just her feelings for Nick. Second, I think it’s pretty clear that her feelings for Nick have been coming back since long before that. Really, I don’t think we have compelling evidence that they ever left.

The only times Eve showed emotion in season 5 were either in Nick’s presence or directly related to Nick. And there have been little glances and long, sad, searching stares going on all season long this year, and in last season’s finale. “Blind Love” was just the first time she verbally acknowledged it.

And I don’t think it’s ever “too late” to be sorry for what you’ve done or how things turned out, or to feel something or acknowledge your feelings. Simply feeling something or acknowledging she feels it doesn’t mean she’s actually planning to act on those feelings. In fact, I think she’s doing the exact opposite. She tried to distance herself from Nick by moving out of the bunker, her stated reason being that she needed her space and so did Nick and Adalind.

Even if she did decide to act on them…I mean it’s not like they’re completely one-sided. Nick has always acted weird around Eve. He’s never stopped looking for Juliette in her face. He’s always been ready to run to help her when she needed it.

And ever since it became clear that Juliette wasn’t completely gone at the end of season 5, things between them have shifted and Nick has been thinking a lot more–with literal flashbacks in case we weren’t quite getting it–about his life with Juliette and how much she means to him, and everything that happened between them. Which actually shows how much he’s grown as a person since the early seasons.

There was a time when Nick couldn’t allow himself to sit still and just be there for Juliette, he had to be out doing the Big Man Thing of trying to fix the problem (which is kind of how this whole hexenmess spiraled out of control in the first place). But now? He hears that Eve is hurt and he drops everything he’s doing and runs to her side, and just sits there by her bed, waiting. So she won’t be alone when she wakes up. He even forgets to call her Eve. In that moment she is Juliette to him, and she is hurt, and so he’s there.

So yeah. I don’t think Juliette/Eve is the only person whose feelings have “suddenly” come back (read: always been there and are finally being re-acknowledged).

Now, whether either of them was or is prepared to deal with those feelings further after everything that happened between them in season four–in which Juliette was not the only one at fault and Nick was not the only one hurt, I’d remind you–is a totally different story.

Do you think Nadalind will be endgame?

At this point, I honestly do not know.

On the one hand, the last couple of episodes have clearly shown that Juliette/Eve and Nick still have feelings for one another, and have even hinted that Adalind is aware of this.

On the other hand, there are only four episodes left in the show. Nadalind is established at this point, for better or for worse, while Silverhardt has for all intents and purposes had a year apart, and only just begun to acknowledge their feelings for one another still exist.

Then, too, the writers have hinted strongly that Nick will end up with one or the other by the end of the series. I don’t like to think they would build the Silverhardt feelings back up just for it to come to nothing, but I also don’t know how they would dissolve the Nadalind relationship and then switch to Silverhardt being back on and at an endgame sort of place in just four more episodes.

So although I’m not happy about it, I’m concerned that Nadalind will indeed be endgame. Either that, or the show will end with neither relationship on.

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.