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Was anyone else as a kid unable to understand...

posted 16 years ago by roximunro
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...the fact that Fraggles could go down one tunnel and end up in Doc's House and then go to another tunnel and end up in a fantasy land with the Gorgs? I didn't grasp the sci-fi/concept of interdimensional portals or worlds living side by side (or at least them being so close and not crossover - unless did the Gorgs ever meet Doc?). No wonder I didn't read The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe until I was in my teens. lol

Then a few years later I saw Dr Who with his TARDIS which was bigger on the inside than the outside and that just BLEW my mind. Took me several episodes just to grasp that concept too. hehe

[–] rocketXpert 15 years ago

This confused me as well. I thought the Gorgs had to be practically living in Doc's backyard. I don't think it was until I was an adult that I grasped the truth; that Fraggle Rock was basically a bridge between universes.

[–] Thomas-FordJr-1 15 years ago

The Gorgs and the Fraggles were all in the same universe/dimension, or whatever. The Gorgs truly did live above Fraggle Rock.

The tunnel to Doc's however, was a bridge to our world(different universe), like was said above....

[–] kav2001c 10 years ago

Way overthinking it

For all we know the down was other side of the world (after all it is far enough away that most Fraggles never go to outerspace, just hear about it from adventurers)

[–] DeceptiveFox 10 years ago

Like I've been posting when I reply to questions on here, I've just finished the entire series, so I don't have to go on distant memories.

They are in the same universe as in the second to last episode, Junior Gorg throws his crown (yes he becomes king) into the sky. While Doc is out walking Sprocket he sees what he thinks is a meteor, and when they go to investigate the crash site, they see it's a huge crown.

Which finally answered my question as to how big a human is compared to a Gorg. The answer, about half a Gorg leg high.

"Well...I've seen enough. Come on Charlie, we're going home."

[–] regulus7000 9 years ago

I thought that too, but I think it's likely more of a mistake of the series, really. The series never took it's own rules seriously. After all, Wander McMooch was to the scale of the Gorgs in his first appearance, but was the size of a Fraggle in his second appearance.

I'm pretty sure there are only two world: Earth, and the fantasy world, often referred to as "the universe."

Based upon Wander McMooch's statements, it sounds like Fraggles are all over "the universe" and different Fraggle groups are all over the place, probabaly without even knowing about each other's existance.

But it gets even more crazy, as Doc found a Doozer Helmet in the woods once, Sprocket fell through a hole in the forest and ended up in Fraggle Rock, etc. So while the two worlds are not directly connected, they must influence each other in strnage ways.

Maybe there are "doorways" all over the place, but the only one we really see is the hole in Doc's basement.

If the crown wasn't a mistake of the series, then he must have thrown it into a doorway and it ended up on Earth, because they are clearly two separate worlds.

This is made all the more clear in Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series. The cartoon shows a lot more of the Grog's world, and it is clearly not Earth.

[–] Nevuela 9 years ago

I was little when the show first aired (born in 1980), and it was actually my mom who first started watching it. I remember her telling me that she once thought Fraggle Rock was two different shows. The scenes involving the Gorgs made her think that some other show had interrupted Fraggle Rock. Since she would usually change the channel in frustration at that point, it took a few episodes before she realized it was all the same show. XD