We are only looking at one episode of Arthur this week. I should say you are looking at one episode because you are writing this blog post. So go on...
[7 Weeks Later]
Rude. Fine, I'll the blog post. Today's episode of Arthur comes from season 5 it's episode 5b of Season 5 and it aired on October 23rd 2000. (For the United States) Today's episode gets creative.
Monologue: Arthur's reading "Treasure Island" in bed and says that is one of his favorite books. He likes to imagine himself as a pirate with buried treasure. Arthur says that one of the fun things is imagining to be someone else and how much fun that would be if you really do that. Then he imagines himself as Mr.Ratburn. Then he gets a big idea: We get to imagine would it would be like to be him and he imagines what it's like to him. (So he's going to finish this blog post, good). This is going to be some switching is it?
They should have done this in 3D/ Copyright WGBH
Now the episode: You wake up and notice that you have ten fingers and toes. Alright this episode is taking an interesting approach that you won't be seeing Arthur instead you will be seeing everything from Arthur's perspective. I'm going to say what Arthur does as Arthur because this post is already strange enough. So, Arthur is training to be in 3K race for the library and new children's reading room. Arthur decided to run to prove "The Brain" that he can do it. Now Arthur trains.
Since D.W overfeeds him he starts feeling queasy. Now I am feeling queasy with these close up shots of characters, and Buster starts to tap on the screen trying to break the 4th wall. The race starts. Arthur takes the lead and he has time to imagine if he wins the race. (He has time for this) Muffy falls down because she wasn't paying attention and Arthur helps her up. (such a gentleman) Eventually he makes it to the finish line.
Being Arthur is strange/ Copyright WGBH
We now have everything back to normal , and Arthur has made it to the front page of newspaper for helping Muffy. Then he tells us next time we should run the race and he'll watch us on TV .(Well now I'm scared.)
This is quite an interesting episode mostly for it's gimmick of the viewer seeing everything from Arthur's point of view. It's not something you see much and they took a risk with the idea. The plot of the episode is simple where Arthur runs a 3k race and that's pretty much the episode. We kind of just experience the things Arthur does before, during , and after the race. So for this episode you kind of just come for the experience and not the show but the plot fits for what they want to bring into the episode.
This episode reminds me of the 1947 movie "Lady in the Lake" where it was shot from the point of view of the main character and where you could feel like you were seeing what the detective is seeing from their view like you are the detective. Now I've done a film noir mention in the middle of an Arthur look, well then.
Tune in next time, when we become you and force you to write the next post for you. Wait what?
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