Beauty and the Beast Discussion

Beauty and the Beast.  Is it the best damn story ever told?  I think it might be.  

I’m interested in generating some discussion about this story; not only how OUAT has interpreted and departed from it, but why so many writers keep going back to it.  Robin McKinley has done it twice - once with an ending I have to imagine is, if not unique to her then certainly quite rare, where Beauty chooses that the Beast remain a Beast.

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Beauty and the Beast Discussion

Beauty and the Beast.  Is it the best damn story ever told?  I think it might be.  

I’m interested in generating some discussion about this story; not only how OUAT has interpreted and departed from it, but why so many writers keep going back to it.  Robin McKinley has done it twice - once with an ending I have to imagine is, if not unique to her then certainly quite rare, where Beauty chooses that the Beast remain a Beast.

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