[DISCUSS] Gaston is better than the Beast

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by Amake

It's also worth mentioning many of the old fables weren't built around "morals" so much as "let's scare the crap out of our children, ohoho". Not that I mind such classics as "Don't be kidnapped by a monster, even if it is an enchanted prince", "Don't throw out your magic beans and then climb on the giant beanstalks to the clouds and screw with the giants who live there", "Don't have a baby-eatingly evil stepmother", "Don't follow the enchanting naked violin player into the river" and of course the ever-popular "Don't be an orphan".

they do still often work as advisory tales. The ones that seem sillier are often "beware the fae", which to the people of the time were very real creatures to worry about. Heck most can be summarized as, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is