History YMMV / TheStoryteller

* CanonDiscontinuity: The comics tend to ignore the Greek Myths spin-off, bringing back the original Storyteller, although his repertoire is now expanded to telling stories from all over the world, including Africa, Asia and Oceania. Funnily enough, some stories do feature legends and myths rather than traditional fairy tales.

* CanonDiscontinuity: The comics tend to ignore the Greek Myths spin-off, bringing back the original Storyteller, although his repertoire is now expanded to telling stories from all over the world, especially Asia and Oceania. Funnily enough, some stories do feature legends and myths rather than traditional fairy tales.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The ''Greek Myths'' episodes, for some, due to a tendency for {{Downer Ending}}s [[note]]Tjough that may be more a result of the myth selected[[/note]]; "Perseus and Medusa" is arguably the only one that bucks the trend.

* RetroactiveRecognition: A non-acting example -- the script writer for the series was Anthony Mingella, then just some guy but who went on to write and direct such films as ''Film/TrulyMadlyDeeply'', ''Film/TheEnglishPatient'', ''Film/TheTalentedMrRipley'' and ''Film/ColdMountain''.

* CompleteMonster: The [[NoNameGiven nameless]], WickedWitch from "The Three Ravens" seduces a [[TheGoodKing good-hearted king]] and attempts to usurp his kingdom by [[BalefulPolymorph changing his sons into ravens]]. The king helps his daughter escape, but she is rendered mute for three years in order to break the enchantment. The witch murders the king and seduces another who is the father of the princess's future husband. Every time the princess has a baby, the witch takes the children and [[WouldHurtAChild attempts to murder them]] by throwing them down a well, unaware that the raven princes are saving them. The witch then [[FrameUp frames the princess herself for the murders]] and attempts to have her burned as a witch, knowing she can't speak a single word to save herself.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The ''Greek Myths'' episodes, for some, due to a tendency for {{Downer Ending}}s; "Perseus and Medusa" is arguably the only one that bucks the trend.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Some of the interactions between the Storyteller and the Dog could become these. From "The Soldier and Death", we get this exchange.
-->'''Dog''': (''sniff, sniff'') What's in that bag? I can smell biscuits!\\
'''Storyteller''': Imagination.\\
'''Dog''': Let me see!\\
'''Storyteller''': Certainly not! (''grabs bag, while the Dog grabs it with his teeth and yanks on it'') There are many important things in this bag! And besides, I need those biscuits for my story!\\
'''Dog''': (''lets go of bag'') Well, tell your story! [[SkewedPriorities Then we can eat them!]] Is it an old story?\\
'''Storyteller''': [[BluntYes Ancient. Antique.]]\\
'''Dog''': Oh. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Stale biscuits.]]

* TearJerker: All of the {{Downer Ending}}s. The story of Daedelus in particular will ''rip out your soul.''
** Although Hans the hedgehog and his wife end up living HappilyEverAfter, his mother dies of a broken heart when he leaves home near the beginning. Sob.
** Also, "The Heartless Giant". Even if you feel that the [[spoiler: Giant deserved to die]], the ending line, "A little boy met a giant, and they became friends," will drive you to tears.

* UnnecessaryMakeover: YMMV, but Anja ("The True Bride") looks better with straight blonde hair than she does with the curly red mop she gets when she becomes a princess.

* CompleteMonster: The [[NoNameGiven nameless]], WickedWitch from "The Three Ravens" seduces a good-hearted king and attempts to usurp his kingdom by changing his sons into ravens. The king helps his daughter escape, but she is rendered mute for three years in order to break the enchantment. The witch murders the king and seduces another who is the father of the princess's future husband. Every time the princess has a baby, the witch takes the children and [[WouldHurtAChild attempts to murder them]] by throwing them down a well, unaware that the raven princes are saving them. The witch then [[FrameUp frames the princess herself for the murders]] and attempts to have her burned as a witch, knowing she can't speak a single word to save herself.

* RetroactiveRecognition: A non-acting example -- the script writer for the series was Anthony Mingella, then just some guy but now famous as a writer and director of films including ''Film/TrulyMadlyDeeply'', ''Film/TheEnglishPatient'', ''Film/TheTalentedMrRipley'' and ''Film/ColdMountain''.

** Although Hans the hedgehog and his wife end up happily, his mother dies of a broken heart when he leaves home near the beginning. Sob.
** Also, The Heartless Giant. Even if you feel that the [[spoiler: Giant deserved to die]], the ending line, "A little boy met a giant, and they became friends," will drive you to tears.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The Greek Myth episodes, for some. It does not help that only one episode does not end with a DownerEnding (arguably, Perseus and Medusa).
* UnnecessaryMakeover: YMMV, but Anja (from "The True Bride") looked better with straight blonde hair, than she does with the curly red mop she gets when she becomes a princess.

* RetroactiveRecognition: A non-acting example -- the script writer for the series was Anthony Mingella, then just some guy but now famous as a writer and director of films including ''TrulyMadlyDeeply'', ''TheEnglishPatient'', ''TheTalentedMrRipley'' and ''ColdMountain''.

* TheyChangedItSoItSucks: The Greek Myth episodes, for some. It does not help that only one episode does not end with a DownerEnding (arguably, Perseus and Medusa).

* TearJerker: All of the {{Downer Ending}}s. The story of Daedelus in particular will ''rip out your soul.'' Although Hans the hedgehog and his wife end up happily, his mother dies of a broken heart when he leaves home near the beginning. Sob.
** Also, The Heartless Giant. Even if the [[spoiler: Giant deserved to die]], the ending line, "A little boy met a giant, and they became friends,"

* CompleteMonster: In "The True Bride", the Troll and the Trollop.
** The WickedStepmother in "The Three Ravens" becomes this when she drops babies down a well to frame their mother for killing them.
*** So when she was ensnaring the king by making him think she looked like his dead wife, putting creepy-crawlies in his children's toybox, turning his sons into ravens with the gift of cursed shirts, and poisoning him to death with a snake, she was only 99% monster?

* TooGoodToLast

* TearJerker: All of the {{Downer Ending}}s. The story of Daedelus in particular will ''rip out your soul.''
** Although Hans the hedgehog and his wife end up happily, his mother dies of a broken heart when he leaves home near the beginning. Sob.

*** So when she was ensnaring the king by making him think she looked like his dead wife, putting creepy-crawlies in his children's toybox, turning his sons into ravens with the gift of cursed shirts and poisoning him to death with a snake, she was only 99% monster?

* CompleteMonster: In "The True Bride" the Troll and the Trollop.

** The WickedStepmother in "The Three Ravens" becomes this when she drops babies down a well to frame their mother for killing them

* TooGoodToLast