New Mythology
Especially taken as a whole, the series takes on a weight, filling its own history and backstory, providing stories that live beyond the confines of a mere pop-television show and add up to be something deeper and more meaningful…. After all, although early fables were formulated through an oral tradition as a teaching device, people like the Brothers Grimm were nothing more than creative types looking to sell and collect sets of stories [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_Grimm].