Friday, April 9, 2010

Fraggle Blog - The Gorg Who Would Be King

Episode Vxi, written by Laura Phillips.

Camping! Outdoors!

I like the idea of a change in monarchs being tied to a natural phenomenon like a leaf falling.

What a pretty song Junior sang! It must be noted that the music seems to have gotten a lot better since the first season.

This is a neat episode. I have absolutely no idea what's going to happen next! Junior just disappeared! What's next?

There's something very weird about the Junior Gorg hand puppet. Nice though that they even built blinking eyes into the puppet.

So...were the Gorgs really unaware of Marjory before? I wouldn't have said so.

Marjory quotes The Stones!

Junior's learning not to thump!

"We each lead ourselves and we all lead each other." Thus spake Wembley, summing up nicely the entire Fraggle way of life.

Wembley didn't know Doozer constructions were made from radishes? I hope they did their fact checking...

Nice idea, showing the bomb on wheels and showing it whizzing past.

Really great episode. Love how they tied it all together at the end, with Doc and Sprocket finding the discarded Gorg crown. Junior has always been such a dunderhead, but he got enlightenment just in the nick of time, and learned "first hand" about the Fraggles' lives, and the Doozers' too. His first and only act as King was to abolish the title, because the universe seemed to run pretty well all on its own. I'm not sure exactly what kind of a political statement that makes, or how practical it is in terms of maintaining civilization...but I do love the overall "global thinking" of this show, and this episode in particular.


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