NBC's Grimm vs ABC's Once Upon A Time

Anyone else still keep up with this show? According to The Other Wiki it's actually performing decently better in more recent eps than OUAT.

edited 17th Dec '11 10:54:25 AM by Mattonymy

Well, I decided this week that it just wasn't worth keeping up with. The bludbad sidekick and his apparently evil boss are interesting but the speisodes are just minor variations on a theme.

Deadline seems to report Grimm reaching new lows each week, even at Thursdays.

Viewership may be dwindling but as far as quality goes the most recent eps surpassed Once's

I picked Grimm fairly early on...It's a show with a lot of potential, while Oua T annoyed me in the very first episode. This looks like something which will drag on forever and will never go anywhere. When the show is over and people say that it got a satisfying solution I might risk it, though.

Honestly, I don't like either of them. I feel they bastardize out childhoods and bring the real world into them. I feel it's just professional fan fiction.

I know what you mean, but I think at least Grimm does often a really good job not to bastardize the tales, but instead to work out the very core of it. This is one of the reasons "Danse Macabre" is still my favourite episode, it translated the tale into the modern world without compromising the original meaning. When they are spot on, they are really spot on.

Sadly, they too often just throw in a quote and then tell their own story, or they are so influenced by common misconceptions about the original tale that they miss the mark by a mile. But it is worth to stick around for the really thoughtful takes.

I recently happened upon a "what happened so far" episode of Once Upon a Time and I was really not impressed. I mean, for me the show is not really based on fairy tales but on Disney movies either way, so I don't care how it relates to the original stories, but as an old Disney fan, I really don't want the characters I love to be changed around so much. I liked the Evil Queen as, well, evil.

I might be mistaken, but I don't think they're the same evil queen; different names and all.

ABC belongs to the Disney Company and the actors are picked based on the what animated versions look like and are usually named after them, so I can't help making the connection.

Not necessarily (sorry for a necro).

OUAT tends to devlop their characters passed their Disney counterparts. The Evil Queen is just as much based on the fairytales as she is on Disney. She doesn't really look like Disney's Queen to say the least. She's more than just evil, which I take to be a good thing. She's grown as a character.