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Remember the Matrix? I see a perfect parable to what is about to happen.
In the year 2005...on the 50th anniversary of the Muppets...we will see two consecutive realities form. One one plain of existense, there will be us. Those of us who believe, the performer's person feelings, legacy, etc. We live live vicariously through what has been and what could have been...living through video tapes, dvds, memories. A world where Palisades will try and bring Muppets and Sesame back together, and we can pretend February 2004, and to some extent the early 90's never happened.
Then there will be the real world. One where everyone but us sees a new version of the Muppets where they arent quite themselves...(or even playing themselves) This will be what the public sees, the Disnified Muppets. Will a generation from now ever remember a pre Disney Muppets? This is the world where all the franchises are split(and I realize Sesame has been split since 2000), and the Muppets have become nothing but self paordying nostalgia.
Oh to think...just 2 years ago things seemed so sweet. A Very Merry Xmas surprised us, with an edgy new direction. The Muppets were to be back in a new edgy prime time Fox show...even a pitch vhs was circulated in fan circles of what was possible to come. Even Mupept fandom was still relatively unified. Heck, by mid 2003 JHC was freed from the chains of EMTV.
Now this...almost makes ya want to take a time machine back to 1989 doesnt it? On the eve of the Muppets 50th Anniversary...we are faced with
that special comeback we have dreamed of since The Muppets have been toiling in relative limbo for 14 years. But all indications now look quite sobering, and a reality is setting in. With the closing of almost all New York related things, the letting go of long time folks, and other abysmal things JHC was left defenseless to Eisner. Had Disney not bought the Muppets, theyd still be doomed...but at least wed have our dignity and pride.
Two worlds...ours and Eisners. I said 2005 will be make or break. And I try to be the optimist. But if any of Jim Hill's recent revelations are to be believed, along with common sense...a requiem for the Muppets now seems to be in order. The Muppets means more than I can muster to type for all my life,
and a little part of me still wants to think that this is just the neccesary evolution they need to undertake.
In a perfect world Muppets would have gotten snatched up by the right choice with the right vision. We'd see an ambitious move to truly make them hip again, not regress back to an indecipherable mix of early 90's classic retelling ambiguity and identity crisis. Muppet fandom would be united, a new Muppet theatrical film and tv show would be in the works. When it comes down to it...we just have to hope and have faith. Perhaps, like the Boston Red Sox this year, a miracle can happen. "Someday we'll find it..."...even if it takes an epoch wandering a desert.
In the year 2005...on the 50th anniversary of the Muppets...we will see two consecutive realities form. One one plain of existense, there will be us. Those of us who believe, the performer's person feelings, legacy, etc. We live live vicariously through what has been and what could have been...living through video tapes, dvds, memories. A world where Palisades will try and bring Muppets and Sesame back together, and we can pretend February 2004, and to some extent the early 90's never happened.
Then there will be the real world. One where everyone but us sees a new version of the Muppets where they arent quite themselves...(or even playing themselves) This will be what the public sees, the Disnified Muppets. Will a generation from now ever remember a pre Disney Muppets? This is the world where all the franchises are split(and I realize Sesame has been split since 2000), and the Muppets have become nothing but self paordying nostalgia.
Oh to think...just 2 years ago things seemed so sweet. A Very Merry Xmas surprised us, with an edgy new direction. The Muppets were to be back in a new edgy prime time Fox show...even a pitch vhs was circulated in fan circles of what was possible to come. Even Mupept fandom was still relatively unified. Heck, by mid 2003 JHC was freed from the chains of EMTV.
Now this...almost makes ya want to take a time machine back to 1989 doesnt it? On the eve of the Muppets 50th Anniversary...we are faced with
that special comeback we have dreamed of since The Muppets have been toiling in relative limbo for 14 years. But all indications now look quite sobering, and a reality is setting in. With the closing of almost all New York related things, the letting go of long time folks, and other abysmal things JHC was left defenseless to Eisner. Had Disney not bought the Muppets, theyd still be doomed...but at least wed have our dignity and pride.
Two worlds...ours and Eisners. I said 2005 will be make or break. And I try to be the optimist. But if any of Jim Hill's recent revelations are to be believed, along with common sense...a requiem for the Muppets now seems to be in order. The Muppets means more than I can muster to type for all my life,
and a little part of me still wants to think that this is just the neccesary evolution they need to undertake.
In a perfect world Muppets would have gotten snatched up by the right choice with the right vision. We'd see an ambitious move to truly make them hip again, not regress back to an indecipherable mix of early 90's classic retelling ambiguity and identity crisis. Muppet fandom would be united, a new Muppet theatrical film and tv show would be in the works. When it comes down to it...we just have to hope and have faith. Perhaps, like the Boston Red Sox this year, a miracle can happen. "Someday we'll find it..."...even if it takes an epoch wandering a desert.
