Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-24.150.82.174-20150428165432/@comment-26235944-20151113032529

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. 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. But tv writers have 'tells' that often foretell what they are going to do... For example, last year I said..."Maybe they are going to kill off Juliette, since that's what happens when writers make a good character turn bad, so that the audience will accept it." As it turns out, that is exactly what they did. 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!" 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.