Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-24.150.82.174-20150428165432/@comment-24397663-20151113204435

Lurkenfrau wrote:

Syscrash53 wrote:

I am surprised how people always want to  hope for a happy ever after. ...

Well, Fairy Tales usually have a happily-ever-after ending...that is, the modern day versions of Fairy Tales that have been whitewashed & rewritten to have happy endings.

And this is what people are more familiar with.

But you're right, 'Grimm' has gone back to the original scarier versions of Fairy Tales for their source material. Ah... but even the old scarier versions have happy endings... not just for every person involved ;-))

And a happy ever after... who wouldn't want that for himself?

Lurkenfrau also wrote: While the original Fairy Tales and folk tales rarely had a happy ending, they did often have a 'Moral of the Story'; a point to the story that the author or storyteller was trying to prove and using the story to illustrate that point.

That was the most important point in these old folktales. Yep, not fairytale - folktale. People told these storys their kids to warn them of dangers. Take Hänsel&Gretel for example, or even Snow White. In the end it's always about 'Don't take things from strangers!'

And these little fairies were never nice and sweet flowerfairies to beginn with. The Sidhideach were most cruel and had a nasty appitite for human flesh...

Lurkenfrau also wrote:

...But people should be careful what they wish for, if they like Adalind and are wishing for her to be redeemed somehow.

Tv writers have another 'tell' that is formulaic...when a villain is redeemed it often means they are going to be killed off.

In the world of tv writers...tragedy = drama.

So they engineer tragedies to be as dramatic as possible.

If they killed off Adalind back when she was doing dastardly things...then most viewers would say "Good! She deserved it."

But that is not nearly as dramatic as killing her off after they have 'redeemed' her and made more of us like her, so that we say "Oh no! Adalind cannot die now! I like her now!"

Jepp, classic storytelling... Lurkenfrau also wrote: In Adalind's case, it could be a Gypsy Curse that does her in. Gypsy curses were often a part of the old Fairy Tales and folk tales.

Well, Adalind sold her baby to a Gypsy Queen, Stefania...and Stefania kept her part of the bargain, but Adalind didn't.

If ever there was a good reason for a Gypsy to curse someone, this is it.

This plot point is just lying there, in waiting, for the writers to bring up again.

Or not.

Who knows what they will do...but that scenario is there for the taking, if they want to use it. Jepp, that sword of Damocles is always pending above her head... and it could definetly be fatal...