December 28, 2009

Fraggle Rock: Seasons Four & Five



Data
Title: Fraggle Rock: Seasons Four & Five
Year: 1986 / 1987
Network: CBC, HBO & ITV
Episodes: 26, at 25 minutes
Creator: Jim Henson
Directors: Terry Maskell (season 4, 5 episodes; season 5, 4 episodes), Eric Till (s4, 3; s5, 5), George Bloomfield (s4, 2; s5, 1), Norman Campbell (s4, 2), Wayne Moss (s5, 2), Les Rose (s4, 1), Richard Hunt (s5, 1)
Writers: Jerry Juhl (season 4, 4 episodes; season 5, 3 episodes), David Young (s4, 3; s5, 1), Laura Phillips (s4, 1; s5, 3), Jocelyn Stevenson (s5, 4), Sugith Varughese (s4, 2; s5, 1), Susan Juhl (s4, 2; s5, 1), Robert Sandler (s4, 2), B.P. Nichol (s4, 1; s5, 1)
Starring: Dave Goelz, Jerry Nelson, Steve Whitmire, Kathryn Mullen, Karen Prell, Richard Hunt, Gerard Parkes
Music: Philip Balsam & Dennis Lee

My reaction
Synopsis: fun-loving, cave-dwelling creatures don’t understand their neighboring species
How I saw it: on video (have on DVD), over the past few weeks
Concept: Great.
Story: Great.
Characters: Great.
Dialog: Great.
Pacing: Great.
Cinematography: Indifferent.
Special effects/design: Good.
Acting: Good.
Music: Great.
Subjective Rating: 10/10 (Favorite of my favorites). Absolutely wonderful. Toward the end of the last season, characters and relationships develop as if this were a stand-alone movie, not a potentially-syndicated franchise. Everything is changed and completely resolved by the end. It's pretty exciting to watch it all happen. But it makes me wonder how they could possibly think it's a good idea to make a Fraggle Rock movie.
Objective Rating: 3.6/4 3.7/4 (Great)

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