Well, that was anticlimactic. All three stories ended in about the least interesting way possible. And the connections between them never actually became relevant. Like, big pig is the cop who's investigating teacher wolf and red's father's girlfriend is Hansel and Gretel's witch, but none of the characters even seem to be aware of these connections. They certainly don't have any effect on each other's stories.
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| At no point does the wolf impersonate grandma. |
I'll start with red riding hood. Her wolf kidnapped her grandmother at the end of the previous episode, so he calls Red up and tells her to come to the hotel. She does, and they hang out in the room there for a bit before Red agrees to go with him if he lets grandma go. He does, but then sets fire to the room in an attempt to kill grandma and cover his tracks. I don't know how he expected that to work out for him because obviously Red's not happy about it and starts trying to save grandma. And then, entirely coincidentally, her father arrives and rescues them.
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| Grandma, what large flames you have. |
They leave the wolf to die in the burning hotel (which goes up like it's made of straw or something) and go home. The wolf, of course, isn't dead and shows up at their house for one last fight scene in which he dies by being pushed down a staircase. No woodcutter; no axe; after all the injuries he's not only survived but basically shrugged off over the course of the series he just falls down the stairs and dies. That's it.
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| Oops, I'm dead. |
Meanwhile, before the fire, Gretel and her gym/army friend scope out the hotel and identify the witch and her mother. Then they kidnap the mother and offer to return her and the money if the witch frees Hansel. Seems like a pretty good deal, honestly, but the witch turns them down and captures Gretel.
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| Now you have no money and two prisoners. Not sure how this helps you. |
Then the two of them fight their way to freedom and kill the witch. Not sure what happened to her mother though. Also they got to keep the money, I guess? They didn't push the witch into an oven, but they did burn her face on a stove, so that's close, I suppose. Also, since the hotel burned down, I guess the evidence of any of this was probably destroyed, so they might be in the clear? So that's... good?
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| It wasn't even shocking since it was so obvious that it was going to happen. |
Finally there's the three pigs. Well, one pig since the other two are already dead. The wolf finds out that the good detective is dead and decides that he needs more evidence to take to some other cop, so he breaks into big pig's house and steals the diamonds - once again demonstrating a profound lack of understanding with regard to how evidence works. Then he contacts the good cop's partner, not realising that he's the one who killed her.
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| Big pig's wife is having a really bad time lately. |
This leads to big pig confronting him in the hotel and demanding the diamonds back. Wolf somehow tricks the two cops onto turning on each other and big pig kills the other one. Then there's a fight and wolf comes out on top - but at the last minute he can't bring himself to shoot big pig, so big pig shoots him instead. Wolf's dead and big pig gets away. For about a minute before he gets hit by a car and killed. Yep, that's how this ends. The bad guy just got hit by a car and died. That's the ending they decided on.
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| We've been partners for years and have no reason to trust you, but if you say he's a traitor that's enough for me. |
If the stories had actually meshed with each other in any meaningful way and if the endings hadn't been so incredibly weak, this might have been an all right show. But in the end all it had going for it was a half-arsed gimmick, and that's just not enough. Especially when the red riding hood story was so weak from start to finish. A good ending could have redeemed the other two but it was just bad.
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| If you can't figure out how to end the story, just say the bad guys all suddenly died. |
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