Update: 30th March Here is a 2nd Sneak Peek
Sneak Peek 1
TVLINE | Was Adalind being pregnant again your idea, once you found out you were expecting?
No. Definitely not my idea… When [series creators] Jim [Kouf] and David [Greenwalt] told me they were writing it in, they said the character probably wouldn’t deliver until the following season, and this was way back before we’d gotten the pickup or anything. I was very surprised first, and then I thought, “Well, the great thing about this is that I will have no pressure to lose the baby weight.”
So that was good news. I was more just sort of like, “How are they going to make this plausible, or how are they going to get the audience on board with this?” But they’ve figured out a way to do it that raises the stakes for everyone. As you’ve seen, things have gotten so bats–t nuts all over the place, and this is just another way of upping the ante for everybody.
TVLINE | At the point that you’re shooting now, which characters know that Adalind is pregnant again?
We’re about to shoot [Episode] 19, and 19 is when everybody finds out… Adalind takes a couple of episodes to kind of like, “Okay. Let’s take a minute to figure out who the father is.” She knows it’s Nick, but publically, I think she’s trying to figure out which father will benefit her the most.
No. Definitely not my idea… When [series creators] Jim [Kouf] and David [Greenwalt] told me they were writing it in, they said the character probably wouldn’t deliver until the following season, and this was way back before we’d gotten the pickup or anything. I was very surprised first, and then I thought, “Well, the great thing about this is that I will have no pressure to lose the baby weight.”
So that was good news. I was more just sort of like, “How are they going to make this plausible, or how are they going to get the audience on board with this?” But they’ve figured out a way to do it that raises the stakes for everyone. As you’ve seen, things have gotten so bats–t nuts all over the place, and this is just another way of upping the ante for everybody.
TVLINE | At the point that you’re shooting now, which characters know that Adalind is pregnant again?
We’re about to shoot [Episode] 19, and 19 is when everybody finds out… Adalind takes a couple of episodes to kind of like, “Okay. Let’s take a minute to figure out who the father is.” She knows it’s Nick, but publically, I think she’s trying to figure out which father will benefit her the most.
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So adalinds pregnancy was always planned. Here I thought it was written because Claire was.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what will happen, part of me feels the whole adalind/Juliet appearing as each other is gonna somehow make it Juliet's. Which does sound weird in a way.
The result, she tells TVLine, is that the character landscape “has
ReplyDeletechanged completely by the end of the season. It’s like, ‘Well, who’s
good? Who’s bad? Who are you rooting for anymore?'”
I would genuinely like to believe this but that would mean the Grimm writers would have to find a way to make Adalind a character viewers are willing to back. Considering everything Adalind has done, that seems like an extremely difficult task.
No, they wrote it into the story because of Claire's pregnancy.
ReplyDeleteI'm probably one of the few Adalind sympathisers, because I remember how badly she was treated by Renard and her mother in the first season. She had a decent life and a successful career as a lawyer, but it was her fierce loyalty to Renard and her willingness to do his dirty work that triggered all of her problems. It was Renard who ordered her to kill Nick's aunt, and it was Renard who pressured her to seduce Hank (using magic) and hold his life hostage in order to blackmail Nick. As a result, Nick was forced to take away her powers to save Hank. Up to hat moment, I couldn't stand the character, but Claire Coffee did such a great job of portraying Adalind's vulnerability, that I found myself empathizing with her situation, What made me sympathize even more, was when both her mother and Renard, rejected her and made it clear hat she was of no use to them without her powers, So suddenly within the space of a day, she had lost her identity as a Hexenbiest, and the love and respect of the people she cared for the most, Plus, her mother was also sleeping with Renard, behind her back. So until she gave birth to her daughter, she was basically alone, and then she lost her daughter.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I think that a lot of Adalind's actions have been driven by love, hurt and a fear of being alone, which is why she makes poor judgment calls (like aligning herself with the Royals). I think that putting Juliette in a coma to get back at Nick for ruining her life was inexcusable. But I also think that taking NIck's Grimm powers away to get her daughter back was understandable (I suspect that a lot of mothers would have done the same), especially since neither Renard, nor Nick, gave her a say in deciding the welfare of her baby, which was wrong. I've always found her character to be one of the more interesting and complex characters . I think the reason she hasn't been able to gain empathy from a lot of viewers is that she's been given so little screen-time. If the writers want more people to back her story, they will definitely need to do a better job of portraying things from her point of view.
I think you make a lot of good points about Adalind. I believe that, in spite of all that, people find it hard to back her because she seems to enjoy doing a lot of the horrible things she does. Any moral conflict she had at the beginning of the series seems to have disappeared long ago. Maybe if she got that back viewers would be more open up to her point of view. Plus, giving her better storylines would help a lot too. ;)
ReplyDeleteShe does seem to get a lot of pleasure out of tormenting Juliette.
ReplyDeleteStill, the very idea that Kouf and Greenwalt were the ones who suggested writing in Claire Coffee's pregnancy is simply infuriating. Do they really think viewers would like to another inane pregnant Adalind/special baby storyline? Couldn't they have just opted to write Adalind out of the show, or better yet kill her off as viewers have been pinning for?
ReplyDeleteI'm a fan of Adalind too and I think beyond all the bad things she has done there was a good purpose - like you said, when she looked for her daughter.
ReplyDeleteNick, that is so not the time to answer a call. Missed call later, long overdue talk with Juliette now. I would say that Juliette needs to take a step back and remember the infinite patience Nick showed her when she had amnesia. However, the Hexenbiest in her may slowly be creeping into her personality. I just feel for these two. After all they've been through, they have to deal with Juliette's Hexenbiest situation AND Adalind's pregnancy. That's just too much to throw at these two all at once.
ReplyDeleteSeriously? I love the Adalind character, and I think Claire Coffee is doing an amazing job.
ReplyDeleteAfter the hexenbiest fight did they explain how they repaired the trashed house?
ReplyDeleteLet me clarify, I'm not saying that Claire Coffee is doing a poor job, just that the writers have given her poor material to work with. All the baby drama is just ridiculous & somewhat pointless.
ReplyDeleteJuliette always was a hexenbiest. When Henrietta had her drink the restore powers potion, I was perplexed. Juliette hadn't lost her powers, had she. Turns out she had. perhaps there's some sort of hexenbiest prophecy that Adalind inadvertently got herself mixed up in. Considering what Adalind put Juliette through, if Juliette's memory returns along with her former personality, she's going to need Nick's protection
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