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May 3rd, 2008

Thinky thoughts about Stefan quitting (see previous entry) and stuff.

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One of the things he said was that he didn't think there ever was gonna be a movie. I thought that was a bit odd, until I realised to him LazyTown is Latibær, not it's descendant, and while I don't think the four years since LazyTown went on air is a very long delay for a movie if series is still being filmed, Shelby's pilot was probably a year or two before that, and we've only had two proper seasons plus a season of shorts that are still in production in that time. Not to mention that given he's pursuing his career in the US, LazyTown is probably an Icelandic tie he's gratefully rid of.

Interestingly, while there's been a whole heap of various thoughts about Julianna and/or Magnus getting too old and being replaced, no fan seems to have ever given a thought to replacing Robbie. Both Stephanie and Sportacus have one very good reason to leave LazyTown: as accepted as they are, neither is originally from there and either may one day move on. LazyTown is Robbie's home, and if he got fed up and left, we have a distinct lack of villain. Sportacus has a presumptive replacement in Number 11, while I'm sure another bright, bouncy, little girl with unusually coloured hair, a single-hue wardrobe, and a love of singing and dancing could find a reason to move there, especially with how things have improved since Stephanie and Sportacus did. I can't see any good reason for a Jonas Quinn of Robbie to move to LazyTown. The point of Robbie is he wants to hold onto the old, pre-Stephanie-and-Sportacus, ways. Even if "Jonas Rotten" was everything else we love about Robbie without being shark-jumpingly like him, either he's not Old LazyTown or he was strangely quiet before Robbie left.

Julianna's situation isn't really time critical: I now think that if Magnus or LTE had really wanted an actress who looked like a little girl for long enough to film more than one season they wouldn't have chosen a 13 year old, and if they had been planning to change actors to keep Stephanie looking like a little girl they wouldn't have retained her for season two. To TV only fans, Julianna is Stephanie, just as much as Miley Cyrus is Hannah Montana, and even if they did want to replace her I don't think it would be a very smart business decision unless she forced it by quitting. Only, Stefan forced Robbie's replacement by quitting. If such a thing is possible without jumping the shark. There's enough stage make-up involved in Robbie that The Other Darrin has a far better chance of working for him than for Steph or Sportacus, though.

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