12-01-2016, 02:58 PM
When I am reading or reading a story one of the things l am always trying to find out is he rules that define how the story is build.
As a simple example, a story based on real life like an investigation procedure series the rules are easy to know.
A fantasy/magical show use to have real elements but they also have its own rules to describe the extraordinary elements added to the show universe.
Let's take grimm as example. Nick is a detective and this way he should follow real life rules. But he is a Grimm and grimm do not exist in real life. What a Grimm is, how a Grimm identify wesen, why wesen fears grimm are all questions that the answers add new elements to the fantasy universe of the show.
I know the should not give a detailed teaching about this because the show would be boring for doing this. But those rules would give consistency to the show if we could indirectly see them in the story.
What I mean is, for example, the show never gave any minimal sign of why Juliette became hexanbiest. In the first season hexanbiests were much less strong than they are in the end (just compare how Kelly killed Adelaind mother.... Would she be able to Conrad or Eve in the same way?).
But now the show is hitting its end and we don't have time to answer all the questions about the rules of the Grimm universe.
My questions are:
What questions do you still have?
How would you answer them?
As a simple example, a story based on real life like an investigation procedure series the rules are easy to know.
A fantasy/magical show use to have real elements but they also have its own rules to describe the extraordinary elements added to the show universe.
Let's take grimm as example. Nick is a detective and this way he should follow real life rules. But he is a Grimm and grimm do not exist in real life. What a Grimm is, how a Grimm identify wesen, why wesen fears grimm are all questions that the answers add new elements to the fantasy universe of the show.
I know the should not give a detailed teaching about this because the show would be boring for doing this. But those rules would give consistency to the show if we could indirectly see them in the story.
What I mean is, for example, the show never gave any minimal sign of why Juliette became hexanbiest. In the first season hexanbiests were much less strong than they are in the end (just compare how Kelly killed Adelaind mother.... Would she be able to Conrad or Eve in the same way?).
But now the show is hitting its end and we don't have time to answer all the questions about the rules of the Grimm universe.
My questions are:
What questions do you still have?
How would you answer them?