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matleo
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ok, before you flame for this, let me explain.....
the other day, a freidn loaned me a tpe of Fraggle episodes many of which I haven't seen in nearly 20 years.Mos of it is the really early episodes, "30 Min Work Week" "the Beginning" "Preachification of Convincing John" "Boober's Missing Hat", The Pipebangers" and so on and so on. I've watch abotu 8 of them and one of the things hat's really struck me is how weak some of the episodes are. Particularly "Pipebangers", "30 Min. Work Week" and "Boober's Missing Hat". The story's are forced, the jokes are forced, the music is good but ithe actual lead-ups to the songs are forced and I hate to say this but some of the performances just aren't there at all. I mean there are performers (I won't say who) who seem to phone in their characters, even minor ones.
Now I remember Terry Angus telling me a looooong time ago in a chat one night that they shot the episodes out of order and the "The Beginning" is actually like the 8th episode they shot and it's obvious that "30 Min. Work Week" is clearly a first episode because the Trash Heap and Sprocket look horrible. She has no defined head, and Sprocket has no Fur on his head.
Now "the beginning" is, well, it's decent, but you can tell it's still missing something. Same with "Preachification of Convincing John". Same with the one where Gobo gets trapped in outer Space. And the one where Gobo plans to go looking for Uncle Matt is ok too. I've seen the one where Red wants to be Mokey and it's decent but still eanign toward pretty forced. Characters are there but writing is still forced on a lot of those episodes. out of the 8 episodes I've seen, the only one that has really seemed like Fraggle Rock to me has been the one where they go looking for the treasure of Fraggle Rock.
Anyway, I was wondering if any of our more staunch Fraggle fans had any thoughts on this. It kind of makes me REALLY want to see an FR complete Season 1 on DVD with audio commetaries for the first few episodes. I mean, Fraggles became one of the BEST shows ever and I've heard how a lot of people associated with the show are proud of it and rightfully so. but those first few episodes are really pretty bad. So I'm just kind of wondering when did Fraggles get good? Anyone????
--Matt
the other day, a freidn loaned me a tpe of Fraggle episodes many of which I haven't seen in nearly 20 years.Mos of it is the really early episodes, "30 Min Work Week" "the Beginning" "Preachification of Convincing John" "Boober's Missing Hat", The Pipebangers" and so on and so on. I've watch abotu 8 of them and one of the things hat's really struck me is how weak some of the episodes are. Particularly "Pipebangers", "30 Min. Work Week" and "Boober's Missing Hat". The story's are forced, the jokes are forced, the music is good but ithe actual lead-ups to the songs are forced and I hate to say this but some of the performances just aren't there at all. I mean there are performers (I won't say who) who seem to phone in their characters, even minor ones.
Now I remember Terry Angus telling me a looooong time ago in a chat one night that they shot the episodes out of order and the "The Beginning" is actually like the 8th episode they shot and it's obvious that "30 Min. Work Week" is clearly a first episode because the Trash Heap and Sprocket look horrible. She has no defined head, and Sprocket has no Fur on his head.
Now "the beginning" is, well, it's decent, but you can tell it's still missing something. Same with "Preachification of Convincing John". Same with the one where Gobo gets trapped in outer Space. And the one where Gobo plans to go looking for Uncle Matt is ok too. I've seen the one where Red wants to be Mokey and it's decent but still eanign toward pretty forced. Characters are there but writing is still forced on a lot of those episodes. out of the 8 episodes I've seen, the only one that has really seemed like Fraggle Rock to me has been the one where they go looking for the treasure of Fraggle Rock.
Anyway, I was wondering if any of our more staunch Fraggle fans had any thoughts on this. It kind of makes me REALLY want to see an FR complete Season 1 on DVD with audio commetaries for the first few episodes. I mean, Fraggles became one of the BEST shows ever and I've heard how a lot of people associated with the show are proud of it and rightfully so. but those first few episodes are really pretty bad. So I'm just kind of wondering when did Fraggles get good? Anyone????
--Matt
Probably another reason I thoroughly enjoy these shows is because, since it is the beginning of the series, I just have this childlike excitement and wonder about getting to know these characters, explore this new world, etc.
