05-30-2013, 03:00 PM
(05-30-2013, 02:47 PM)Lou Wrote: They writers have used up bears, big bad wolves, wicked witches, trolls. Not sure the American Viewing Public's knowledge goes much past werewolves and vampires anymore, anyway. so the writers have been somewhat creative and un-literal minded. And its ok by me.One thing I really liked about this season was that the writers took previously introduced "creatures" and used them in interesting situations. We got a blutbad being a preacher for Seelengut (sheep-wessen). We got a Ziegenvolk lawyer. Seeing different wessen interact in different social settings is one of my favorite things about this show.
The problem with playing it close to fairy tale stories, or even vampire or werewolf legends, is that those archetypes bring lots of baggage with them. Vampires, for instance, have lots of dumb contradictory requirements that a majority of a show's audience will cry out in fanrage if removed. Vampires can't go out in the day time (even though Dracula had no problem doing so), they have to drink blood, be immortal, be previously human, etc. All these issues result in a story-telling trainwreck. It's the same way with zombies, and how many "zombie fans" require them to be Romero zombies.
I'd rather the writers on Grimm avoid the baggage altogether and let fans imagine the connections between Grimm and the original stories on their own.