Is Snow White the New Trend?

Current Obsession: Jason Isaacs and Ralph Fiennes' films
Music: Heads Will Roll by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Food: Avocado

This is my belated Halloween post. Seems like I'm always tardy for everything...

I was suppose to go to several Halloween parties but something got in the way so instead I went to none. (Actually, I went to one a week prior but it was also part gallery show so it shouldn't count.) Probably one of the first Halloween in at least 4 years where I didn't do anything.

It was a tradition in my art school to celebrate the holiday by dressing up and then parading in the gallery with onlookers cheering and raving at the sidelines. Since this is my first Halloween after college, I decided to continue the tradition and do a little closet/trial (aka. last minute, why are you surprised?) costume. For this year, I was Snow White... or at least tried to be.

I ran out of apples so here's me with a tomato.
Whaaaaat? Tomatoes are fruits and they happen to be red-orange, which is similar to red but more orangy.
Someone thought that I was a school girl doing a tomato juice ad. Kinda far from Snow White.
*Fails*

For the past year, there is rising trend with fairy tales, Snow White in particular. She is not close to being my top my favorite fairy tale character and probably one of my least favorite Disney princesses; however, there is something about her story that intrigues people enough to usually star her as the main protagonist in many of pan-fairy tale based fictions. Television series such as 10th Kingdom and the new Once Upon a Time had her story as a basis for their show. She is also the main character in the Vertigo graphic novel series, Fables. In the upcoming year, 2012, there is already 2 movies in production about Snow White, one starring Kristen Stewart (the Twilight Saga) and the other with Lily Collins (The Blind Side, Abduction), not to mention the countless number of Snow White films in the past.

Why is there such an obsession with Snow White? Is she the Batman of fairy tales or is there something I'm missing? Or perhaps society nowadays, blackened by the evil clutches of greed and corruption, look towards a tales of purity and innocence as a means to escape the awful reality. I will probably see the movies anyway because I like creepy fairy tales.

Is it avocados? Because I have avocados.