Whereas the last section of this post was about balance, it seems for the women their characterizing points are opposites.
I liked what they did to Adalind in the fourth season because of her stance as an antagonist and paying for it through the loss of her child. Where Juliette has become the antagonist, Adalind has fully settled into her role as the mother of (eventually) two children. Somehow we are to believe that is who Juliette is but for a character who was never given a set of attributes what are we supposed to believe of Tulloch's character exactly? The amplified anger would be triply dangerous and now it's all for Juliette herself. Grimm somehow managed to invert that to their advantage. With all the emotional ammunition, yes, it's more than fair that Juliette on the Wesen flip side would be amplified for her hate, but it all is still rooted in the empathy she once had for Nick which also made her Adalind's target. The blond-haired woman is the good girl and the antagonist is either a redhead or a brunette fighting over a man. But it's the first glance of it that has always made me queasy and one of the oldest soap opera rules known to mankind. Regardless, it's a woman internalizing a man and with Adalind destroying that man and by extension Juliette, it's understandable why the Burkhardt unit would collectively hate her.
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Sure, before the transformation she had her moments of extreme passion defending her fuchsbau best friend when the abusive boyfriend broke into the house, learning how to use a gun and fighting off the Siegbarste with nothing but boiling water! But it's through her passionate nature that also destroys her through internalizing the damaged person who Nick naturally is. Because she was always the home life that was to never get in the way of Nick's profession, Juliette was never even given any characterizing agency until she is turned into a Hexenbiest.
Only through Adalind's continuing antagonism on Nick then Juliette, Juliette begins to hate her almost as much as Nick does.īut it's the relationship between Nick and Juliette that has always concerned me. Juliette was treated as something Nick struggled to keep separate from his Grimm and work life, someone who could see into the private places of himself, including the loss of Marie and the type of person he is having lost his parent(s) at an early age. The issue I have ties Adalind into all of this from the moment Juliette tells Nick that she "will kill her." Since the start of the show, Grimm has kind of been a boy's club but with some sensitivity thanks to the guy love Monroe-style. But she continues to do the evil thing because she does not know any better! In the season finale, you can see her struggling between her human and Wesen side much like how Renard's mind was not completely his own. Juliette only continued down this spiral of what it means to be Wesen and the balance of it throughout the rest of the season, it shifted from beating a dead nuckelavee (yep, went there.) into these really interesting moments. But, like The Grimm Podcast has said, this (and the Renard/Jack the Ripper storyline) could have been nailed in 3 episodes or less! Once again, it's all about those editing choices! Instead, it was stretched out to sixteen episodes right up to the possible "mercy killing." What would happen if someone was created Wesen instead of being born with it, what would be the differences? What would be the struggle? Balance? Duality? Perhaps it is because Juliette has never been a consistent character to begin with, it works as long as they keep it tight and disciplined in about 2 or 3 episodes. This is one part of the huge mess of what people have called " hexenbitch" that has been rather poetic. Unfortunately, it backfired on Juliette as we all know making her into a hexenbiest.
Between the coma and the shock of learning about the Wesen world (which she had been a great help with considering "Stories We Tell Our Young" and "El Cucuy"), Juliette was made fully comfortable in her character until Elizabeth found a way to give Nick his powers back. Obviously Juliette as a character has grown over the last 3 seasons either as a fault of the shallow writing, she has been given or what her character has gone through to bring her to this point. Where Nick and Monroe's relationship has been deflated by the lack of focus, it's been no secret that the gender equality or really just the role of women has strengthened.