Well, I find I don't have much more to say in response.
My assumption was that Gold was talking strictly about nuns. Fairies never crossed my mind. It kind of implied a terrifying Catholic upbringing, which I thought was hilarious.
The Six (Seven?) Swans is this awesome story about a girl (princess?) with seven (or six) brothers and her evil stepmother turns them into swans. She can save them by weaving them shirts out of nettles, but she can't speak at all while she does it or they'll be stuck as swans forever. A random king happens by and decides to marry her. I don't remember if she was cool with it or not. Anyway, it's one of the rarely-done fairy tales, so of course I have a soft spot for it. Juliet Marillier wrote a nice novel version of it that I believe was called Daughter of the Forest.
Re: resurrecting characters: okay, somehow when I read that paragraph you wrote about it, it reminded me of how the witch in Stardust (movie, not book) reanimated Septimus' body to duel with Tristan. That is probably my favorite scene in the movie; it's just so nicely done!
Re: David Anders, I seem to recall in one of his earliest appearances someone was like, "Watch out for him!" I took that to mean, "Watch out for him, he destroys women!" Or maybe I derived it from his behavior around Ruby.
I really like the idea of all this being one kingdom and other major characters having duchies or other various kinds of provinces but they all ultimately answer to Snow White and James. Yeah, I forgot about Midas. So we know of at least three kingdoms.
My assumption was that Gold was talking strictly about nuns. Fairies never crossed my mind. It kind of implied a terrifying Catholic upbringing, which I thought was hilarious.
The Six (Seven?) Swans is this awesome story about a girl (princess?) with seven (or six) brothers and her evil stepmother turns them into swans. She can save them by weaving them shirts out of nettles, but she can't speak at all while she does it or they'll be stuck as swans forever. A random king happens by and decides to marry her. I don't remember if she was cool with it or not. Anyway, it's one of the rarely-done fairy tales, so of course I have a soft spot for it. Juliet Marillier wrote a nice novel version of it that I believe was called Daughter of the Forest.
Re: resurrecting characters: okay, somehow when I read that paragraph you wrote about it, it reminded me of how the witch in Stardust (movie, not book) reanimated Septimus' body to duel with Tristan. That is probably my favorite scene in the movie; it's just so nicely done!
Re: David Anders, I seem to recall in one of his earliest appearances someone was like, "Watch out for him!" I took that to mean, "Watch out for him, he destroys women!" Or maybe I derived it from his behavior around Ruby.
I really like the idea of all this being one kingdom and other major characters having duchies or other various kinds of provinces but they all ultimately answer to Snow White and James. Yeah, I forgot about Midas. So we know of at least three kingdoms.
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