Juliette/Eve Plot Line Dissection
What feels like hundreds of years later I'm back to yap about Grimm
Most of my yaps have been to my friend and moot @atombombaby and I got off on the tangent of the Juliette/Eve plot line.
Contains spoilers if you haven't finished the show.
And how I think it is a brilliant allegory of the "woman who changes herself for the man, losing who she was originally"
The plot is that Nick kills Adalind's spirit, Adalind turns herself into Juliette and has sex with Nick, killing Nick's Grimm abilities. In order to get Nick's Grimm back, Juliette has to turn herself into Adalind and have sex with Nick.
At this point we have the woman literally changing herself to fix the man
The consequences of the potion to change into Adalind made Juliette turn into a Hexenbeist, something that was unprecedented.
The woman has permanently altered herself for the man.
Nick can't stomach the idea of Juliette as a Hexenbeist.
The man doesn't like what the woman has become.
Juliette is then "killed" and kidnapped by Hadrian's Wall, who expirement on her and wipe her memories, turning her into a tool to use against Nick.
HW in this allegory represent the "writers", the writers take the woman and erase the person she used to be, molding her into whatever they need to make the story work, completely ignoring every bit of what made her who she was, turning her into a completely different character.
I don't know if the writers did this on purpose, I wouldn't think so, but looking at it, it's absolutely perfect. I hate it but I love it. I hate it, because a woman is permanently changed to further the man's story. But I love it, because it's done in a way that feels like it's done for the purpose of making the statement about how women, especially the love interest, are treated.
I just think the show has moments of being beautifully written, and then it turns around and "Hey that war that's been building to be a major plot line for the last season and a half? It's over, what are you doing?"
