Mar 7
i don’t think little red riding hood is a good fit for into the woods.
i love the deconstruction of the moral messaging of fairytales and the potential for reconciliation shown in the show, but the addition of little red breaks it a little. like, the rest of the characters commit actual crimes: theft, manslaughter, kidnapping, child abandonment, etc., then little red is like “i shouldn’t have strayed from the path” which is odd enough even before you take her actual interactions with the wolf and his predatory manipulation into account.
these genuinely wrong things being put on the same tier as being manipulated into a child sex abuse allegory feels really weird to me, even if i do sort of get the intention.