Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Fraggle Blog - Uncle Matt's Discovery

Episode IViv, written by Jerry Juhl.

What the heck was Wembley doing? Bonking his nose? Hilarious and weird.

Oh, so that's why the garden gnomes were so big...so Doc could mistake Matt for one!

Why is Matt's mic so hot? Crazy! How could no one notice that?

Did they really need to rhyme "bawl" with "all"?

Wow, a location shoot! We got to see the Captain's Inn! Doc, Sprocket, Matt and Gobo all outside in Outer Space!

You know, there was such a sense of amazement and relief in seeing the characters in a different environment. It makes me wonder about the scenic design choices for the show. The entire show is very brown. Even Doc's workshop is pretty brown. It's so nice to get some color into the settings, I wonder if there wasn't a way, in hindsight, that they could have made the Rock more colorful.

At any rate, a really neat episode. I felt that Matt's cowardice was played up a bit too strongly though. It was as if he suddenly had a huge, debilitating character flaw that hadn't really manifested itself in the previous 70 episodes. Matt has been more bumbling and stupid than actually terrified. But that quibble aside, it was a good one.


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