(09-26-2016, 01:39 PM)eric Wrote: I know I in the minority on this site, but I do not know why Grimm's magic has to make "sense". All fiction and fantasy is "logical" and "rational" and "scientific" up to a point. Harry Potter, the Oz series, the Grimm stories full of talking animals, any comic book character movies depend upon suspension of disbelief(reality). If you insist that any of them follow science or logic, while still keeping the fantasy, its like pulling a thread on a sweater, the whole thing comes apart. The point of fantasy is to entertain, maybe teach a moral, but cannot be expected to be subject to scientific peer review. In one of the Superman movies a bullet hits the hero's eye and crumples--makes no real world sense, but hey, its okay that he can jump over tall buildings or bend steel bars with his bare hands? The beauty of magic, its attraction, is that it is not "real", but fun, an escape from "real". Schendlier's List is real, how many times have you seen it? Stars Wars is totally unreal, and they keep being churned out. It is a multi-billion dollar unreal franchise.
I think every show needs an internal logic or something known as a "show bible". This is important in every genre. Forums like this attract people who like to analyze and interpret characters and scenes and it becomes difficult to do that if the writers are making stuff up as they go along and are inconsistent and sometimes even invalidate their earlier writing.
Even most shows and movies that have magic have internal rules that govern how that magic is used or not. For example, I've seen a handful of entertainment that involves genies and right off the bat they'll say something like you can't wish for someone's death or you can't wish for someone to fall in love with you. There could be some loophole but this is dangerous to do. I find the "anything goes" style of writing to be a sign of weak writing.
I read an article years ago about the relationship between the writers and the audience. It mentioned something about an unofficial agreement of trust between the two. The writers can violate that trust by having characters act sporadically and using contrived plot twists. Whether a show uses magic or not, it still has writers that control everything that happens and nothing happens by chance so the writers need to stay consistent and not be tempted to make anything happen for the sake of the current plot.