liberty
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- Jan 2, 2013
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It's Not Easy Being Greenscreened
I'm really bothered by the stiffness of everything I saw, and especially by the realization that all of the interactions with Muppets looked like they were greenscreened. Even when Pepe rubs Gaga's leg, there's no shadows, and the hands don't line up right. I turned off Gypsy because it looked like the producers couldn't even put Kermit and Gaga in the same room for a duet. How can we expect Gaga to have anything else but stiff interactions if she's presumably on another coast when she delivers her lines? How can we expect the Muppeteers to respond to her naturally if one or the other has been prerecorded?
I'm not saying it was awful, but it was the first time I've ever not watched a Muppet special all the way through. Halfway through Gypsy, I turned it off an put on the Gilda Radnor episode of TMS. I hope that when I watch the rest of it on DVR, I will see glimpses of Muppet brilliance that will save this special, in the way that Fozzy's escape from the Crocodile Hunter saved another stiffly scripted holiday special. The bubble wrap came close, but didn't have enough sustainable mayhem to suit me.
I'm going to watch everyone slip on the ice at Fozzy's mom's house and get back my holiday spirit.
I'm really bothered by the stiffness of everything I saw, and especially by the realization that all of the interactions with Muppets looked like they were greenscreened. Even when Pepe rubs Gaga's leg, there's no shadows, and the hands don't line up right. I turned off Gypsy because it looked like the producers couldn't even put Kermit and Gaga in the same room for a duet. How can we expect Gaga to have anything else but stiff interactions if she's presumably on another coast when she delivers her lines? How can we expect the Muppeteers to respond to her naturally if one or the other has been prerecorded?
I'm not saying it was awful, but it was the first time I've ever not watched a Muppet special all the way through. Halfway through Gypsy, I turned it off an put on the Gilda Radnor episode of TMS. I hope that when I watch the rest of it on DVR, I will see glimpses of Muppet brilliance that will save this special, in the way that Fozzy's escape from the Crocodile Hunter saved another stiffly scripted holiday special. The bubble wrap came close, but didn't have enough sustainable mayhem to suit me.
I'm going to watch everyone slip on the ice at Fozzy's mom's house and get back my holiday spirit.