So, this is my first ever blog! I
love to read and write, but I occasionally I find a show that is interesting to
me. This week’s blog has to have something to do with pop culture. So I pick my
new favorite show, ABC’s Once Upon A Time.
We all know the fairytales from what the Grimm Brothers gave us and then later,
we see Disney’s much softer versions of the same tales. These tales have been
rewritten and retold in many different ways. But NOT this way. From the writer’s of Lost, comes an inventive
idea, what happened between the lines? What happened after all the happy
endings? What if there were no happy endings? I love fairytales, and I admit it
I like Disney or Disney characters like Mickey and Minnie and all of our
favorites. I am also a fan of the Grimm’s Brothers. This show does a wonderful job of taking the
original, sometimes scary stories and meshing it with the softer Disney’s
version. Also I think they did a good job with the cast.
A little about the show without
giving it all away: The evil queen has trapped every fairytale character in a
town called Storybrooke, Maine, the characters are people in the modern-day
world and do not remember who they were before. Kinda cheesy, I know, but I
love it. So far, each episode has been revealing a character in Storybrooke and
giving the background story from Fairytaleland. It’s the stories we all know
but with twists and you don’t quite
expect what happens, (or I don't anyway, I just want to see how they put it together).
"We kept circling back to the idea of fairytales. The very first
stories that you hear when you're a kid. They're full of magic and heroics and
fear and joy. But we also found fairytales are full of all these unanswered
questions. Like why is Grumpy grumpy? Why is Geppetto so lonely that he'd
actually carve a little boy out of wood? And did the Evil Queen really try to
kill Snow White simply because of vanity? With Once Upon A Time, we set out to
explore those questions and not re-tell these stories but attempt to dig
beneath what we all know and try to discover something new."
- Adam Horowitz, Co-Creator/Executive Producer
- Adam Horowitz, Co-Creator/Executive Producer
Behind the Scenes:
It’s something that hasn’t really
been attempted before, or not that I know of. So far, I think they’ve done a
pretty good job! Of course, the
imagination can take us wherever we want to go, we just have to let it. J
The last episode told the story of the Genie of the Lamp. Interestingly twisting and tying him to the Evil Queen, Guess who the man in the magic mirror is? And all the episodes do this, they are all interwoven, it's really an interesting plot, since we don't really know what's gonna happen next. So far we've seen (and this isn't in order) Rumpelstiltskin's story, Prince Charming's story, Genie's story, Hansel and Gretel's story, we've been getting pieces of Snow White's story, we know Cinderella's story, and we've seen many more characters introduced, Red Riding Hood and Granny, Maleficent, The trolls from the troll bridge, the Drawves. The last episode was number 11, can't wait to see what happens next!
For more information and to watch episodes
It is interesting how we keep returning to these similar stories, reinvented for each new generation. You should check out Angela Carter's short stories, they are also really interesting takes on fairytales.
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