Comments on: Let’s make our way to the Garden of the Night https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/lets-make-our-way-to-the-garden-of-the-night Lollards in the high church of low culture Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:44:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Anime https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/lets-make-our-way-to-the-garden-of-the-night/comment-page-1#comment-550359 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:44:08 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12251#comment-550359 ITNG- is really a great programme. A great entertainment for kids.

Tom Randy

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By: pink champale https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/lets-make-our-way-to-the-garden-of-the-night/comment-page-1#comment-508710 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:41:21 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12251#comment-508710 tom – yes! that’s a great explanation.

another of the (slightly self conscious) ‘quality’ aspects of this is the nicely archaic use of language – “isn’t that a pip?”. between ITNG and thomas the tank engine, my three year old has the vocabulary of bertie wooster.

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By: Pete https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/lets-make-our-way-to-the-garden-of-the-night/comment-page-1#comment-508705 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:36:46 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12251#comment-508705 What are the chances that this thread will go the way of the LazyTown one with people perving over certain characters. Is there anyone to perve over In The Night Garden.

And is there a Night Gardener.

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By: Alan https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/lets-make-our-way-to-the-garden-of-the-night/comment-page-1#comment-508684 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:07:06 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12251#comment-508684 the scale is confusing. i think those giant daisies are meant to be normal sized daisies, and everything in the night garden is teensy. though ninky nonk shakes around like a small model, it is always portrayed as larger than the main characters when they are in frame together. upsy daisy IggleP and the tombliboos all shot are at the same size, it’s just the actor in makkapakka that is doing everything on green screen when interacting with the others.

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/lets-make-our-way-to-the-garden-of-the-night/comment-page-1#comment-508679 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:03:26 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12251#comment-508679 I guess the Ninky Nonk’s radical shifts in size are to do with a child’s understanding of pushing a train about on the floor while at the same time imaginatively ‘riding’ in it….?

I like the size changing thing too!

And yes Jim Woodring – can’t believe I forgot that! Of course a lot of his stuff is an exploration of dream logic too, can’t remember whether Frank is intended as such tho. There are some brilliant dream strips in JIM tho – “the bomb that never stops exploding” and suchlike.

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By: pink champale https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/lets-make-our-way-to-the-garden-of-the-night/comment-page-1#comment-508673 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:53:05 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12251#comment-508673 …further to the further sop to middle class parental sensibilities, the narrator is derek jacobi.

there’s something quite odd going on with scale too. most of the characters are of markedly different sizes, makka pakka is only half the size of the tombliboos for instance, which is no doubt meant to mimic a young child’s experience of the world being that you’re always relating to people and objects of radically different (and surely for a young child entirely random) sizes. this i think works really well, but i’ve never quite got my head around what’s going on with the train thing (the ninky nonk?) which most of the characters seem to ride in at various points but is also seen trailing around at knee level at other times. but perhaps i’m getting into comic store guy territory.

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By: Emma https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/lets-make-our-way-to-the-garden-of-the-night/comment-page-1#comment-508538 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:09:10 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12251#comment-508538 Well our 14 month old is currently 110% bewitched by the pontipines efforts to catch the Ninkynonk and therefore I can use the computer without him wailing & dribbling on my knees :)

I don’t know what it is about the theme tune but it makes me quite teary.

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By: Alan https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/lets-make-our-way-to-the-garden-of-the-night/comment-page-1#comment-508044 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:09:19 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12251#comment-508044 All this and no mention of Jim Woodring! MakkaPakka, the Pinky Ponk and the Ninky Nonk all look like they’ve strayed from a Frank comic. (ok, some of the less psychotic pages)

There’s a definite visual difference between Iggle Piggle in the boat and in the night garden. It could be just a quirk of production – the title sequence made early on with a puppet – but I see the IP in the garden as IP’s dream version of himself – slightly taller, thinner, smarter looking somehow.

IP is the only one of the 3 main large characters that doesn’t say his/her name (pokemon style), with just a sort of squeak/baby gurgle sound instead. Do girls identify with IP as much as Upsy Daisy then?

i have yet to see an ep with the Wottingers (the ‘blue Pontipines’!)

(how much do i love the theme tune)

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