- Angst? What Angst?: Near the end of "Sapsorrow", The bad sisters say that their parents both died, particularly their father died recently, but they don't seem to be upset over this, with Sapsorrow, only now hearing that her dad died, only looking a little saddened. This can be justified, in that now Sapsorrow no longer has to deal with the law that she had to marry her father, and the sisters were concerned about losing their inheritance if he remarried and had even tried to fit the ring on so their father would marry one of them and they'd keep the inheritance.
- Complete Monster: The nameless, Wicked Witch from "The Three Ravens" seduces a good-hearted king and attempts to usurp his kingdom by changing his sons into ravens. The king helps his daughter escape, but she is rendered mute for three years in order to break the enchantment. The witch murders the king and seduces another who is the father of the princess's future husband. Every time the princess has a baby, the witch takes the children and attempts to murder them by throwing them down a well, unaware that the raven princes are saving them. The witch then frames the princess herself for the murders and attempts to have her burned as a witch, knowing she can't speak a single word to save herself.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: The two Storytellers, John Hurt and Michael Gambon would both end up in the Harry Potter films, with Hurt playing Mr. Ollivander and Gambon playing Professor Dumbledore.
- Nightmare Fuel: Hans, My Hedgehog
- The transformation scene in "The Three Ravens"
- The law forcing the titular character in "Sapsorrow" and her father into Parental Incest.
- Retroactive Recognition: A non-acting example — the script writer for the series was Anthony Minghella, then just some guy but who went on to write and direct such films as Truly, Madly, Deeply, The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley and Cold Mountain.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The Greek Myths episodes, for some, due to a tendency for Downer Endings note ; "Perseus and Medusa" is arguably the only one that bucks the trend.
- Replacing the original Storyteller didn't help either. There's a reason he was brought back in the comic series.
- Unnecessary Makeover: Some feel Anja ("The True Bride") looks better with straight blonde hair than she does with the curly red mop she gets when she becomes a princess.
- Some viewers thought the princess in "Hans, My Hedgehog" looked better with white hair and thought it was a shame it changed back. While the intended effect was probably to make her look like a disheveled Old Maid, not only did it makes her look like a White-Haired Pretty Girl, it perfectly contrasted her husband's black hair.
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