Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-24593235-20171007225142/@comment-1916997-20171009050431

GothicNarcissus wrote: TheRose123 wrote: I think, honestly, under the circumstances, the writers did the best they could. With the majority of the cast leaving, the lack of fairy tales to adapt, and the decreasing viewership, they were under a lot of pressure for Season 7.

I hope consecutive episodes get better as they will know where they are going with this story. Season 1 was similar in the sense that they didn’t know how the show was going to turn out by the first episode. The writers have said that they didn’t know what storyline or tone they were going for until episode 7.

Lack of what? The Brother Grimm's body of work alone contains, like, over 200 fairy tales. Condense the ones that are too similar and you still get an overwelming number. Add in Andersen if you want to keep it Western European, the 1001 Nights to go Middle-East-y, Afanasyev's collection of Russian and Slavic tales… and that doesn't even cover ancient mythologies or non-Euro-Mediterranean folklore. They could have gone on forever just on raw material to fish from. Except your forgetting an important fact, most of those tales would be unknown to 99% of the audience. How many people were going to watch a season of the Princess Mayblossom? Adam and Eddy could have done amazing twists on that tale, and no one would care. No one would even know they were twists, because no one knows the original tale. This show only works because the things being adapted are things the vast majority of the audience knows about.