User blog comment:Lurkenfrau/Dropped Plot Points? Maybe Not.../@comment-27523265-20160106032717/@comment-26235944-20160106051136

I remember that...it was the creators of the show, Jim Kouf & David Greenwalt, who said that in an interview at Comic Con last July. I think it was Greenwalt who said that they were going to finally figure out what the Keys led to. And yeah, it was a bit disconcerting to hear the main showrunners say that and admit that they hadn't worked this out yet. You aren't the only one who caught that...a lot of people were amazed that they would admit that. It's in keeping with other things in this show, though...as far as the way that the show uses a 'short story' method of story-telling rather than the long-form method of a novel. The show is not based on a book. But even though it's been loosely based on the Grimm Tales and other folk tales...they have added serial elements that carry over as well. The Keys have served as a McGuffin; something that is sought after, that is valuable and worth fighting for. They may have intentionally kept the treasure undecided so that they could tie in other things later as they developed...and not knowing if the show would be renewed each year, they kept putting it off. I don't know, I'm just guessing here. But they can't blame us for being curious about the Keys since they have been reminding us of them by showing a Key in the intro footage of each episode. Heh.