The Ignorance of some

I've just watched a new episode of Grimm. Check the title, if you know your literature, you'd get a sense of what the story is about. Yes, based on the old Brothers Grimm tales, so if you know your Grimm story books, you'd get the idea of the show. Only problem being, I'm dealing with someone who has never heard of the stories of the Brother's Grimm!

Now, being the Librarian, story teller, reader that I am, I know very well who the Grimm boys were, what they wrote and how their stories were a base for so many other things. What I find disappointing is some dude out there wrote a great storyline for a new tellie-series and there are numerous plebs who won't get the witty one liners, opening sequences, and character portrayals. I feel sorry for that poor person who had the great idea, and then all these people are watching this show for the chewing gum, brain numbing effect that teev seems to have on people and missing all the witty one liners, character development and repartee. And I have to explain it. Seems such a waste sometimes. Maybe they were appealing to all those intelligent folk who did get the stories of old and understood where some of our best and scariest children stories came from? It certainly wasn't Walt.

Never underestimate the importance of a Librarian in explaining character/plot development and who the various characters are supposed to be. Have I also mentioned I'm a cracker to have on your side when it comes to Trivial Pursuit and anything Music/literature/television? :-)