series a a whole jim henson best work . john hurt be the storyteller . often oscar caliber screenplay and not surprising when you consider minghella do the writing . oscar caliber acting and always . sapsorrow everybody love the soldier and death and but something about sapsorrow push it an iota higher in my favor . in the first ballroom scene and the costume and the music perfection . hurt and the dog typically semi interact with the story and but this time minghella push it up that extra notch in the ring scene between hurt and sapsorrow . the chemistry between character be especially well developed and more so than usual in the series and in reference to the friendship between straggletag and the prince . see it . see it again . pay more attention ( to those of you who do not fanatically adore this 22 minute piece of cinematic perfection ) . never see it . i be so and so sorry . luck child not as sophisticated a sapsorrow and but very clever in it own right . this be a story about irony . irony upon irony and within irony . i love it . every character be act to perfection and with the exception of the ferryman . he be do drama while everyone else be do romantic comedy . i forgive him . this be my favorite of the primarily comedic episode and sapsorrow and the soldier and death be example of more dramatic episode . side note represent greek myth . what it lack in minghella subtlety ( different writer ) it partially make up for in boldness a it portray the four chosen myth with more sympathy and respect and history than be usual . also check out the jim henson hour if you can get your hand on it . for storyteller adicts and it feature the man himself introduce the myth and the lion from true bride and and . no annoy opening theme . half storyteller and half pure and unadulterated muppet wit .