Monday, April 5, 2010

Fraggle Blog - Gone, But Not Forgotten

Episode Vvii, written by Laura Phillips.

I like Mudwell's logic about scarcity. And he's got a nice, folksy, Burl Ives-y singing voice.

Ooh, but he's kinda schizo.

How frustrating it must be for Sprocket that he can't talk. He's somewhere between Pluto and Goofy on the evolutionary dog chain.

What the heck was that? Boober and Wembley and the blankets...?

Oh, I guess this is the many weird ways the Fraggles have of dealing with death...

"We'll meet again, someday/Just a dream away"...that's what we hear Mudwell singing at the end.

That was a strange but nice episode. A sensitive way to deal with grieving for someone who died. The whole "mudbunny" premise is pretty weird. So he lies down next to a pit of boiling mud to die, and then he turns into some sort of mudbunny-shaped mud lump, then a lizard pops out. Very strange. But really, nicely handled as far as the grieving part goes. Very nice, sensitive performance by Whitmire. And Mudwell was a very strong Richard Hunt character; he accomplished a lot in a very limited amount of screen time.


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