Is anyone else watching this show? Someone recommended it to us. I didn't think Wick would like it, but he is as intrigued as I am.
If you haven't seen it, the show is based on the idea of taking familiar fairy tale characters and putting them in a town in our world, which seems to be the UNreal world, and the Magic Forest is the REAL world.
A few liberties have been taken with the characters as previously known, but by and large, they are true to their fairy-tale counter-parts.
So....okay, we have Snow White, who is looking for her Prince Charming, who seems to be married to someone else, but maybe she is not real, and maybe their memories have been magically altered.
We have Emma who came to Storybrook in search of the son she gave up for adoption, who just happens to have been adopted by the Evil Queen, who apparently controls all the characters in Storybrook.
Rumpelstiltskin is just as unattractive as in the fairy tales, living in Storybrook as Mr. Gold. But we get a back story to explain why he became wicked and evil.
Henry, the biological son of Emma, has a book of fairy tales, and has assigned character equivalents to each of the people in Storybrook.
I just reread this, and am not sure if it makes sense or not.
We are hooked on the show, and tivo it every week. I grew up reading fairy tales, and loving them, so I guess that explains my obsession with it.
What I can't really figure out is why Wick likes it. He is normally the logical, sane, sequential one of us, while I am totally random and abstract.
Whatever the reason, we enjoy it.
Try it; you might like it.
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I didn't know this show existed. The Hubby and I will have to check it out online. (We don't have a tv.) It sounds like something that we would enjoy, also.
Jan... I see these previews every week and I am fascinated by what I see. Like you, I was raised on fairy tales. The reason I haven't watched the show is because it looks scary. My dreams are always a catch all for what I see during the day and I didn't want to have nightmares. Is the show really that scary? Let me know, okay? ; )
MotherT, if you grew up on fairy tales, I think you will like it. Linda, it's not really scary to me, since we don't know which is supposed to be real, Storybrook or the Forest. but if you find fairy tales scary or disturbing, you may not want to watch. I enjoy the twists on the old familiar stories; the writers are quite imaginative.
never heard of it... ill try it though!
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