The brand new continuation of Fraggle Rock: Again To The Rock seems superb, good, I’m undoubtedly watching this. Since I used to be slightly child, the present I’ve most needed to see introduced again is Fraggle Rock, extra so than The Muppets. The Muppets have by no means gone away, and each every now and then inform us a brand new enjoyable story, however Fraggle Rock is one lengthy narrative that has a lot that means and is so highly effective, I feel 2022 will probably be precisely the right time to deliver the message of Fraggle Rock again to screens. I’m on this present, not simply as a fan who desires to see this story continued but additionally its results on individuals, particularly youngsters. I grew up watching Fraggle Rock obsessedly since I used to be little or no, I at all times thought it was all so vibrant however hoped for brighter colors and settings, this new sequence offers that, I’m so excited to look at this. Ditzies! We get Ditzies! Followers discover these things and I for one find it irresistible, modernized Doozer autos with lights travelling underneath the development! That is precisely how I’d pictured and hoped a return to Fraggle Rock would appear like. I’m so excited, are we getting Sprocket? How will Doc’s substitute be written into the story? Will poor Sprocket should show Fraggles are actual another time for a second time? Or is there a brand new aspect now with Fraggles interacting with people, slowly gaining their belief as they did with the Gorgs within the unique? The Gorgs! I actually hope they’re again, how do their modernized seems examine to the unique? Will we lastly be getting Gorg 6” Funko flocked figures? I’m so excited for all this, the whole lot about it, I feel it’s all completely completed.
When the trailer first got here out, I couldn’t imagine my eyes, the image artwork alone had me desperate to press play and I did and I discovered it superb. Not simply the present, that feeling, the childhood pleasure that all of us felt as youngsters, each time we zoomed in by the window, into the workshop, in direction of the Fraggle gap and thru it till we came across Gobo who guided us into Fraggle Rock through the theme music. That feeling of déjà vu nostalgia that takes you again to your childhood days watching the unique and nothing else was taking place round you. After I watched it, about ten occasions, I then stopped and determined I wasn’t going to look at it once more, I loved it, I’m keen to look at the present, however having fun with it a lot was bothering me. Steve Whitmire, he’s the one aspect lacking from this improbable new rebuilt world of the Fraggles, although I nonetheless plan to look at this as a result of there isn’t a approach I cannot watch. I started to learn the feedback, actually, I needed to see if there was something about Steve Whitmire or Wembley within the remark sections. Most everyone dislikes the brand new Mokey and the digital backgrounds should not preferred by many, I really don’t have an issue with this, in actual fact I feel I want these adjustments, I actually like them. As I learn the feedback, I used to be joyful, Fraggle Rock: Again To The Rock was not getting the reward it deserved, why was I joyful? Deep down the Steve Whitmire factor bothers me a lot, I really feel unhealthy for liking and planning to look at the present and subconsciously having hatred in direction of the brand new present that I used to be joyful to see negativity round it. How is that mind-set on my half within the spirit of Fraggle Rock? How can I be so excited for one thing but nonetheless not really feel enthusiastic about it like the unique? When the whole lot about this new model is ideal, aside from the vacancy of Steve Whitmire’s absence.
Mokey, I at all times felt like she was extra mature, older than the opposite 4 Fraggles, I didn’t like that for one motive. I most popular to imagine the Fraggle 5 had been all clean slates studying collectively, alongside it’s viewers, all on the identical time, no one had a bonus over anyone else. Because of this when Cantus randomly appeared or the Trash Heap gave recommendation it was so vital and priceless, not only for the Fraggles however the viewers too. I like that this new Mokey appears youthful, extra aged just like the others. I assume she began carrying her hair up and stopped consuming Fraggle Berries, she seems youthful and extra alert, hopefully she received’t be excluded from merchandise as a lot now. I do hope that generally Mokey lets her hair down, or possibly seeing her tie up her hair as they discuss amongst themselves. Sounds foolish, however it might make it simpler to really feel the phantasm that that is our Mokey returning after a few years. A brand new Mokey, who we’re seeing remodel at occasions in entrance of us into this new haired up model with wider eyes, which remains to be her and never an up to date model of the puppet.
As for the digital backgrounds, I like them, although I do perceive why others don’t, I hope we do get some extra pure cave settings, as I feel has been confirmed we’ll. What I like about this new expertise, though it may not be as acquainted as followers would love, is the truth that it permits the Fraggles to discover extra locations, particularly the Gorgs backyard. What’s past the Gorgs backyard? May the Gorgs and Fraggles enterprise out additional away from the fort? May they discover extra areas inside the caves? May they discover new places the tunnels lead into? So many extra potentialities at the moment are out there for these characters, that has me so excited. The Darkish Crystal: The Age of Resistance was unimaginable, added a lot to the unique film, like Fraggle Rock one other lengthy narrative being advised and I additionally suppose it got here again on the good time. Nearly as good as Age of Resistance was, Netflix determined to not renew season two, funds prices. I hope the funds for Fraggle Rock is stored as little as attainable, in order that we don’t keep wanting a season two we received’t get. Hopefully Fraggle Rock will get many seasons, it undoubtedly deserves it, possibly if it succeeds The Darkish Crystal’s lengthy narrative can proceed to be advised with a season two on Apple TV+.
Wembley from Fraggle Rock: Rock On was good, Wembley from the Fraggle Rock: Again To The Rock teaser additionally appeared good. Nothing towards the 2 separate guys performing them, they each appear to do a superb job, I hope these performers get their very own characters to construct up inside the world of Fraggle Rock. Regardless that these are good Wembley’s, it’s not Steve Whitmire’s Wembley. To me if a performer passes away or steps down it feels just like the hand contained in the puppet, the soul, has needed to depart and now all that’s left is a dull puppet, who turns into retired however just for a sure period of time. With time, having a brand new performer, a brand new hand, a brand new soul revive that character is welcomed, wanted, accepted and the phantasm can proceed. When the performer is forcibly eliminated, when that hand, that soul has been taken away and introduced again by one other instantly, I can’t join with that character. I can’t fall into the phantasm that these are actual characters that I’ve adopted since childhood, my associates. I really feel like I’ve betrayed not a lot the performer, however slightly the character, I do know this sounds foolish however the whispers popping out from the opening in my kitchen are telling me that this makes a whole lot of sense.
Think about if Steve Whitmire had been allowed to be a part of the sequence, at this level solely voicing over Wembley for the primary season and returning to deliver Wembley to life in future seasons. What energy, what energy that might give to this new present, outdoors of the story there could be particular that means of a real-life expertise followers can connect with with the present. How way more in style may this present be with headlines saying “Steve Whitmire returns to The Henson Firm”. I’ll watch the present it doesn’t matter what, however including Steve Whitmire, as a fan to me, that might add a lot worth to this present being eternal in my thoughts alongside the unique. There could be a lot that means surrounding this new sequence, a lot pleasure, a lot happiness. The Henson fandom is split, this might repair that, the fandom repaired, the whole lot and everyone slowly coming again collectively alongside a brand new Fraggle Rock sequence, how highly effective. It may in all probability repair a lot if Steve Whitmire had been included with the Fraggles, it’s the very last thing lacking for my part.
Fraggle Rock: Again to the Rock — Official Teaser | Apple TV+ – YouTube I can’t wait to look at this, seems like an ideal continuation, I want Steve Whitmire had been a part of it, give me Gorg merchandise.
– Nicholas Napoli
