Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Fraggle Blog - The Great Radish Caper

Episode IIIxiv, written by Sugith Varughese.

So they made a gigantic Junior Gorg hand to be in scale with the full-size Fraggles!

Mokey is wearing a pull top from a can. Is that new?

Junior's farewell letter writing speech sounded weird, like it was recorded at two different times and edited together.

Mokey thinks she can make everything right by returning Geraldine to Junior Gorg...but of course, by picking the radish, the Fraggles have killed Geraldine, who was after all a living thing.

Also...why does Geraldine have a regular human-type name? Well, I guess there are a few Fraggles with regular names. Like Marlon Fraggle.

"What are friends for?", is what Mokey asks at the end. And that's one of the very best things about this show: The aversion to overt moralizing. There's no one moment when Junior and Mokey realize that they have become friends. No bonding moment. It happens, and we realize it, but it seems that the characters themselves never quite do. That, of course, is a bit more difficult to write and play successfully than the obvious, hit-em-over-the-head type moment most shows would have.

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