Some thoughts: · 5:45pm Dec 29th, 2013
Our transcript is up here.
A few thoughts:
1. If you haven't read the Bunnicula books, remedy that. They're hilarious, gripping, and occasionally genuinely moving, and this episode reminds me so much of that rabbit. Already some of the fan artists are drawing Angel Bunny as Bunnicula.
2. Did they get Danny Elfman to collaborate on the song? I got a strong Halloween Town vibe from this, which of course is what I'm supposed to feel, but I've rarely heard Ingram pay such direct and deliberate homage to these very specific subgenres of music.
Of course, most of Elfman's music for Nightmare Before Christmas was blatantly imitating Kurt Weill (the originator of "Mac the Knife" before Bobby Darin bowdlerized it), but hey, at least Elfman picked a good composer to rip off (in fact he picked a great one). Not sure where I was going with that one; it's late and I'm tired.
3. Twilight now has a mission-briefing hologram spell. Have I mentioned that I love this show?
4. I like the double moral. A macro one and a micro one. The localized lesson about peer pressure and how it can come from friends as well as foes, even with the best of intentions (Froborr was ecstatic about that lesson, as I knew he would be), and one about the problem with short-term solutions to long-term problems... a classic environmental lesson, and one that sort of applies to economics as well.
