Grimm Season 3 - Zombie Nick

S1E13: link


Although “the prince kills the dragon and gets the princess” is some sort of trope, there aren’t actually many fairy tales which feature a dragon. Those are way plus common in legends. If my memory serves me right “The two brothers” is the only one of two Grimm fairy tales featuring a dragon. It’s actually a fairly long and fairly interesting story, featuring a lot of symbols typical for all fairy tales, so I hope that they will visit it again later on.

Reference Rundown

- The episode plays heavily on the “Hero rescues princess from dragon” motive, but this time around,...

S1E03: link

This episode is based on two different sources. The quote is from “Bluebeard”, a Perrault story. Interestingly there was a version of it in the original Grimm collection, but the story and some stories with similar themes were removed in later versions of it. For this episode, the writers of Grimm threw the Greek Satyr mythos into the mix (Satyrs, par the way, weren’t always half goat, the artists just settled on this image at some point and it stuck).

Reference Rundown

1. The names: “Capra” is the Spanish word for goat, so Billy Capra is basically a Billy Goat. “Faith”...