(10-24-2015, 04:52 PM)Adriano Neres Rodrigues Wrote:(10-24-2015, 04:47 PM)Lin S. Wrote: Since Nick also took a purification potion mixed by Rosalee following the ingredients in Catherine Shade's "shopping list" does that mean he is now a "prince" also? Can he awaken a sleeping beauty?
Lin, great question. This debate rises more questions than answers. I think the potion was just about the pure of heart thing and not about the prince thing.
I confess that I never understood that plot. Why Sean needed to be a prince and after the not prince Nick needed to drink the potion?
I don't know "why" Sean had to do anything. I just know it follows "loosely" a fairy tale called the Sleeping Princess. Why it does could be asked of any fairy tale they quote. Why does the first episode follow Little Red Riding Hood? Because it does. That's what Grimm is about, rewriting fairy tales.
The Sleeping Princess
Well I know one thing. Nick is the protagonist of the TV show. When they do a fairy tale Nick will replay whatever is the protagonist of that fairy tale. In the story Briar Rose, sleeping beauty is not the protagonist. She doesn't do anything, has no decisions to make, she is just the hapless victim.
The protagonist in Briar Rose is her father the king. He's the one who wants a daughter, he's the one who invites the fairies to the christening, he's the one who hears the curse and then tries to keep the curse from happening by banning spinning wheels. He's just a failed protagonist because he loses.
Renard is Nick's antagonist in Grimm so he plays the antagonist in whatever fairy tale is going on. The Prince is not a friend to the king her father. Waking Briar Rose is good for Briar Rose but it's too late for the father to see his daughter again. Sleeping for a hundred years, until after the king himself dies, is as good as losing his daughter to death from his point of view.
In the archetypes are lined up like this:
Nick = protagonist
Renard = antagonist
mentor friend = Monroe
mentor magic giver = Rosalee
sidekick = Hank
temptress = Juliette (light temptress) or Adalind (dark temptress)
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