#fuchsiagroan

[ariellamermaid]

“In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that last enormous, unanswerable question.” ― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

[ariellamermaid]

“ But Fuchsia might as well have been carved from dark marble. Only her tears moved. “  Gormenghast

[fuchsiagroan-blog]

Longgg answers for Fuchsiagroan <3

Decency is overrated. And this is cute. :D I don’t even ‘ship it, and this still makes me smile. (Okay, I might ‘ship it a little.)

[fuchsiagroan-blog]

I was 5 when AIW premiered in 1991, maybe a little older when I actually started watching it. And I was still watching it at least occasionally when they stopped running it, so 1997-ish? (I seem to remember that Bear in the Big Blue House usurped its time slot.) Anyway, I agree, it’s more suited to the elementary school crowd; too old for the preschool shows but not quite ready for the tween/teen stuff.

I think part of the reason it was mislabeled in the library might be that they don’t really make shows for that age group anymore. The older-than-preschool-but-younger-than-preteen group. Maybe I’m wrong, since I don’t have kids and don’t really keep up with current kids’ shows, but just based on what I see when I walk into the toy aisle, they outgrow Dora and go straight to Hannah Montana with no stops in between.

I wonder if this is also part of the reason AIW hasn’t been released on DVD, that they don’t feel like there’s an audience for it.

[teaforten]

I think you're right - I don't really see a middle-ground anymore (although I'm guilty of not keeping good track of that stuff.) My niece is almost three, and she's loved Dora and Sesame Street, but I heard that she now watches the Disney Channel, which mostly has the same bullshit that I probably would object to her watching because of the creative bankruptcy, misrepresentation of real people, and canned laughter. I don't want to get too analytical like I know what I'm talking about, but I have heard that at least the girls in our society are starting to grow up too quickly and not thoroughly enough, if that makes any sense. And I actually am starting to feel like AIW is a more female-friendly show. I have never met a male AIW fan, so I've just started to think about why it's now being propelled by women, or young women. It probably has to do with the fact that Alice is seen as a role model and boys have a hard time looking up to girls (I'll leave out the sexist implications), there's a musical theatre emphasis instead of an action emphasis (even if there's lots of small actions), and... I don't know, I'm going to guess that the less rowdier girls were more interested in sitting down for a language and scruples lesson. This doesn't mean I think boys disliked the show, though! Anyway, woah, tangent. You were talking about age! You know, I don't know about the mislabeling at the library. The tape I ordered didn't make it because they couldn't find it. I think it (and all the rest) were probably labeled centuries ago, so it's all a mystery. I just hope at least one of these videos is traceable. I NEED MY CRACK-SHOW, AND I NEED IT NOW. Long entry is long, but I've spent some time putting together a few facts I've learned, and I feel certain AIW didn't premiere until 1992. Some of the cast has said (Patrick, at least, I can remember) that shooting took a year and a half. The script I own for episode 90 (Queen's Best Friend) is dated January 1993. They did two episodes a week if it was a full-time schedule, so they might've finished shooting in March 1993. Go back in time a year and a half and that puts shooting in the Fall of 1991. Even if more time transpired than some of the actors realize, Patrick also told me that there was a notable gap between the first episodes shot and their airing. I've seen a poster for its premiere (that I posted somewhere on this blog) that announced its first air date as March 23rd, no year, but I'm finding it highly unlikely that shooting and airing was crammed into the beginning of 1991, and everyone was underestimating the length of time they did such intensive work. The math just doesn't add up. So there's an interesting trivia!

It's always a good sign when you can create art someone doesn't ship and they don't go "OGHH. My EYES." Then I read your last comment and made quite an impish smile. :}

[jadeharleyofseville]

Snob/Luke/Film Brain (yeah, I know it's a triad and not a pairing. :P)

[jethroq]

12, 23, 25

Sorry for the mega-late answer (do I ever make any other type, tho?) To make up for that, I'll try make my answers long:

12: Is there a reviewer you think needs more love?

Well, there's quite a few, but many of them have trouble with schedule, so it's bit of a question of tough love. I also miss a few producers that have left, Iron Liz in particular, I liked Pen & Paper Corner.

But of those on the site that are active, I'll go with Diamanda Hagan, who I am a huge fan of as anyone who knows me in the fandom already knows. She has her fans (and she has a fair amount of them), but the mainstream of the TGTG fandom seems part indifferent, part hostile to her. I was so happy she did the crossover with Nostalgia Critic.

23: What’s your favorite injoke?

Escargoancitizen, he's our injoke. But of the jokes the reviewers make... Lupa's cat voice, especially in Brows Held High: The Future. PAAWWWW PAAWWWWW

I also like that Linkara still drops jokes about cardgames on motorcycles.

25: Which reviewer do you think is the smartest?

Easy answer would be Oancitizen, with his onscreen persona contrasted with many of the other reviewers' comically dumb personas. But in truth... I don't know, I'm bad at judging these things, there's many ways to measure intelligence and wisdom. Doug has entertainment smart; he knows what gets people laughing, what gets them quoting, and what gets them to reccomend it onwards. Kyle has literary intelligence, he quotes Shakespeare from heart, and I'm pretty sure the research that goes into an episode fo BHH is less than it would take for me to do that amount of research. Brad has his own encyclopediac knowledge of his niche of cinema. There's no one on the site I would call ignorant.

[helakkas]

E, Q, O

E - Have you added anything stupid/cracky/hilarious to your fandom, if so, what

Er, probably way too much Film Brain/Luke to be proud of... Oh! Well, I did draw that Sherlock AU thingy, that counts as crack. And I should probably continue that at some point. xD

Q - A ship you’ve abandoned and why

Nothing in TGWTG... but I stopped caring about my last OTP, Stan/Kyle, when the source material became too, um, cynical and depressing for me.

O - Choose a song at random, which OTP does it remind you of

P!nk: Who Knew

For some reason, Hermione/Draco. I don't even know.