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Bigfeet

May 19, 2012 at 01:41

We wanted to save a really famous fairy tale for the finale and Sleeping Beauty (aka The Briar Rose) has been in our minds since the beginning. Working with this tale allowed us to play with several of the unanswered questions pertaining to both the mythology and personal life of Nick Burkhardt, specifically his relationship with Juliette. It was time for Nick's life to take a significant turn and we couldn't be more excited about what's to come.

  

Happily Ever Aftermath

May 5, 2012 at 01:42

We've been sitting on Cinderella for a while, just waiting for the right time to bring the classic tale into our world. We had a lot of fun integrating some of the more modern aspects of financial fraud and corruption into the classic theme. We also found that the sibling rivalry so integral to the original plot bears a striking resemblance to that of some contemporary elite circles, making our story all the more relevant and engaging.

 

Leave It to Beavers

April 28, 2012 at 02:08

We used the bullying theme from the fairytale "Three Billy Goats Gruff" and bumped up the stand-up-for-yourself tone. It worked really well to reintroduce some of our previous Eisbiber (beaver) creatures, whose skittish disposition mirrored that of the goats in the original story. We also wanted to heighten the recent disconnect between Nick and Juliette by bringing Monroe into their home on more formal yet seemingly innocent terms and achieved this through some suspicious dinner conversation.

 
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Bigfeet We wanted to save a really famous fairy tale for the finale and Sleeping Beauty (aka The Briar Rose) has been in our minds since the beginning. Working with this tale allowed us to play with several of the unanswered... More»

Happily Ever Aftermath We've been sitting on Cinderella for a while, just waiting for the right time to bring the classic tale into our world. We had a lot of fun integrating some of the more modern aspects of financial fraud and corruption... More»

Leave It to Beavers We used the bullying theme from the fairytale "Three Billy Goats Gruff" and bumped up the stand-up-for-yourself tone. It worked really well to reintroduce some of our previous Eisbiber (beaver) creatures, whose skittish disposition mirrored that of the goats in... More»

Cat and Mouse Some of the motivation for this episode came from the Grimm Brothers' "Iron Hans." In that fairy tale, a king sends a number of huntsmen into a dangerous forest from which they never return. This morphed into a bounty hunter... More»

Love Sick In this episode, we tied the Grimm tale "Donkey Cabbages" into Adalind's ongoing "relationship" with Hank. It was important for us to further underscore Nick's struggle and subsequent inability to tell Hank the truth about Adalind. The menacing mother... More»

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