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1) Yes
2) She still does the Eye of the Tiger bit, but her first line after "Simplicity is beneath me..." Came off as fairly ditzy and unsure as opposed to the strong and confident tone as before. This comes off that way a few other times. I might be wrong, but I preferred Simplicity as she was before. I might be wrong about everything, though.
2012 Doctor is back!
Igor and Swampy replacements have no comedic timing.
2) She still does the Eye of the Tiger bit, but her first line after "Simplicity is beneath me..." Came off as fairly ditzy and unsure as opposed to the strong and confident tone as before. This comes off that way a few other times. I might be wrong, but I preferred Simplicity as she was before. I might be wrong about everything, though.
2012 Doctor is back!
Igor and Swampy replacements have no comedic timing.
Sigh, why can't they just use Fido.
i'll have to see it and report back on it. Because it all really depends on what the line was and how it was delivered.
Glad the 2012 doctor is back, sad to hear about Swampy and Igor. Hopefully that's a thing that will improve over time.
i'll have to see it and report back on it. Because it all really depends on what the line was and how it was delivered.
Glad the 2012 doctor is back, sad to hear about Swampy and Igor. Hopefully that's a thing that will improve over time.
Here's a video I recorded of Fiends last night.
So great that the Doctor Freakenstein from 2012 is back!
So great that the Doctor Freakenstein from 2012 is back!
movielike said:
Yes. It is so unfortunate that they look less trashy.
What's the point of having "naught nurses" that aren't very naughty?
I agree. Unfortunately the park can't seem to do sexy. All they can pull off is wannabe strippers.
And David, I see no point in the Nurses full stop.
And David, I see no point in the Nurses full stop.
The nurses are definitely still naughty, and they're definitely not "wannabe strippers". Everyone I spoke to yesterday loves Fiends this year & the nurses. Seems that this site disagrees :unsure:
Honestly the shows are the great things at Howl-O-Scream this year - we should be hating on the mazes. They need a lot of work. Even the terror-tories weren't as bad as the mazes. Love fiends though!
Honestly the shows are the great things at Howl-O-Scream this year - we should be hating on the mazes. They need a lot of work. Even the terror-tories weren't as bad as the mazes. Love fiends though!
You are right there is, and this, in my mind is trashy not sexy.Reece said:
I would argue that old vaudeville is sexy, but women on display for the sake of being eye candy is trashy.
I find the Nurses in Egor's food thing not nearly so trashy as they are obviously a rip on Old Nightclub act girls. Further their vocal and acting talent comes through, taking them a step away from stripping.
Let me tell y'all about how thoroughly upset I am with Fiends. I absolutely hated it. Honestly, there were only two things I even remotely enjoyed in this show, and it's the doctor and the vampire.
I was beyond thrilled to find out that the 2012 doctor was coming back for Fiends this year. Only to feel sickened that he had to go through the absolute shit dialogue that is 2013 Fiends.
The vampire I actually enjoyed a lot for some reason. I'm not sure why, to be honest. Maybe it's because last year's vamp was a bit too Edward Cullen for me, and the previous year I couldn't get past that trash they called a wig on that man's head.
Igor absolutely terrifies me. Like not haunted house scary, but legit "You need to stay the fuck away from me" scary. I don't understand why he was constantly wide eyed and smiling, and sticking out his tongue. It was terrifying. I felt physically uncomfortable watching him. And I have no idea if they told him to be this creepy guy or that's just his take on Igor, but it is awful.
The Werewolf, I'm not sure if it was an improvement or not. I legitimately cannot tell. While on the one hand, I'm thankful that that awful fur suit is gone. But, gluing fur to your legs, and having fuzzy wrist cuffs, while trying to "be sexy" is far from appealing. I can't stand how they continue to keep "Hungry Like the Wolf" as the 'sexy' song. You cannot be sexy with fake fur glued to your legs. You just can't.
I did like Simplicity better this year, than last year. But I'm sure just about anything was better than last year's Simplicity. So I really can't say if it was an improvement or not. I do see how PK saw how she went back to the ditsy girl, rather than keeping the 'strong woman' trope, after "Eye of the Tiger". Overall though I do like her.
Swampy really didn't have that good of comedic timing. Combined with Igor's general creepiness, it made that whole sequence painful to watch.
why the hell did they put the creation in a wig. More importantly, why did they put him in a generic, trashy, Party City wig.
That's what he wore basically. (It's late and I'm tired and bitter, so my google searching will only get me so far tonight. But, trust me when I saw I've seen that wig many times before.) It's absolutely awful. If they were trying to make him look like Rocky from Rocky Horror, they failed in the most tragic ways possible.
Keeping to the wig theme, while I do like that the wigs are shorter. Thus, hopefully if they take care of them, they should last til the final night and not be a tragedy. HOWEVER, with short wigs comes difficulty with keeping hair in said wig. I have this problem all the time when I wear super short wigs. And it's a distraction to me, seeing their real hair stick out from the back of their wigs. But, naturally this is a nitpick on my part, as I'm the only one who honestly cares about the wigs.
On the subject that is the nurse's outfits. While I'm 100% on board with the pink bra being shown, and would be one of the first to completely defend the nurse outfits, I'm completely okay with the bras being covered, as they are still the sequenced bras. I cant' stand those bras at all. Plus, it's not really all that modest. I foresee more complains about the costumes in MSoRR than this year's costumes. So I'm a fan of them covering up. Besides, with the way they were dancing, I highly, highly doubt you should be concerned about not seeing their breasts.
So at the end of the day, Fiends is a fucking train wreck. And the only way to save it is to go back to 2012 Fiends. It has completely lost all it's charm as a campy, risque show. It's trashy. It's not funny. It's not cute. And I'm so severely disappointed and disgusted.
I was beyond thrilled to find out that the 2012 doctor was coming back for Fiends this year. Only to feel sickened that he had to go through the absolute shit dialogue that is 2013 Fiends.
The vampire I actually enjoyed a lot for some reason. I'm not sure why, to be honest. Maybe it's because last year's vamp was a bit too Edward Cullen for me, and the previous year I couldn't get past that trash they called a wig on that man's head.
Igor absolutely terrifies me. Like not haunted house scary, but legit "You need to stay the fuck away from me" scary. I don't understand why he was constantly wide eyed and smiling, and sticking out his tongue. It was terrifying. I felt physically uncomfortable watching him. And I have no idea if they told him to be this creepy guy or that's just his take on Igor, but it is awful.
The Werewolf, I'm not sure if it was an improvement or not. I legitimately cannot tell. While on the one hand, I'm thankful that that awful fur suit is gone. But, gluing fur to your legs, and having fuzzy wrist cuffs, while trying to "be sexy" is far from appealing. I can't stand how they continue to keep "Hungry Like the Wolf" as the 'sexy' song. You cannot be sexy with fake fur glued to your legs. You just can't.
I did like Simplicity better this year, than last year. But I'm sure just about anything was better than last year's Simplicity. So I really can't say if it was an improvement or not. I do see how PK saw how she went back to the ditsy girl, rather than keeping the 'strong woman' trope, after "Eye of the Tiger". Overall though I do like her.
Swampy really didn't have that good of comedic timing. Combined with Igor's general creepiness, it made that whole sequence painful to watch.
why the hell did they put the creation in a wig. More importantly, why did they put him in a generic, trashy, Party City wig.
That's what he wore basically. (It's late and I'm tired and bitter, so my google searching will only get me so far tonight. But, trust me when I saw I've seen that wig many times before.) It's absolutely awful. If they were trying to make him look like Rocky from Rocky Horror, they failed in the most tragic ways possible.
Keeping to the wig theme, while I do like that the wigs are shorter. Thus, hopefully if they take care of them, they should last til the final night and not be a tragedy. HOWEVER, with short wigs comes difficulty with keeping hair in said wig. I have this problem all the time when I wear super short wigs. And it's a distraction to me, seeing their real hair stick out from the back of their wigs. But, naturally this is a nitpick on my part, as I'm the only one who honestly cares about the wigs.
On the subject that is the nurse's outfits. While I'm 100% on board with the pink bra being shown, and would be one of the first to completely defend the nurse outfits, I'm completely okay with the bras being covered, as they are still the sequenced bras. I cant' stand those bras at all. Plus, it's not really all that modest. I foresee more complains about the costumes in MSoRR than this year's costumes. So I'm a fan of them covering up. Besides, with the way they were dancing, I highly, highly doubt you should be concerned about not seeing their breasts.
So at the end of the day, Fiends is a fucking train wreck. And the only way to save it is to go back to 2012 Fiends. It has completely lost all it's charm as a campy, risque show. It's trashy. It's not funny. It's not cute. And I'm so severely disappointed and disgusted.
I'm still amused everyone focuses mainly on the nurses....
OMG I died at this year's creation. HE CAN SHAVE HIS LEGS BUT NOT HIS CHEST. And he had to be 30+ years old, it's supposed to be the Dr.'s son, not his Dad. And that wig. *shudders*
Party Rocker said:
Which makes it 100x worse. Knowing that it came from that show.
I personally have never liked speedo-man. But that's because I genuinely believe nobody looks good in a speedo. So there wasn't much of a point to bring him up other than his atrocious wig.David said:I'm still amused everyone focuses mainly on the nurses....
And PR, that makes me like that fugly wig even more. It is awful plain and simple. It's a Party City wig, and it's an abomination.
I talked to a guy while I was at Blood Banquet Friday and he told me he was friends with last year's Igor. He said last year's Igor is now at BGT...playing Igor.
So I guess if he comes back to BGW next year he'll have come full Igor-Circle
So I guess if he comes back to BGW next year he'll have come full Igor-Circle
If that has any ounce of truth to it, then it'll be a severe improvement to Tampa's Fiends, but it doesn't solve our Fiends problem.