Abby Cadabby
Jan. 26th, 2007 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
orangerfulI haven't watched Sesame Street in a long time but I found this very interesting. Last "season" they added a new character, little Abby Cadabby. She's the first "girlie-girl" Muppet on Sesame. But not in a bad way, they wanted to make a character that was both feminine and fun. I read this article from the New York Times explaining how tricky it was to create a character that would work and why it was so hard to work a female character into the show. (As they point out, if you turn some of the main characters into girls, you end up with other issues - Elmo may be cute and silly as a little boy, but if you make him into a girl, suddenly he's sort of a ditz etc..)
Anyhoo, I just watched this clip and she doesn't seem so bad. I like her voice, it's not too high pitched or grating - I think she sounds like a 3 year old. I haven't seen her in action on the show, interacting with the other muppets. Has anyone here watched Sesame recently ?
I'm tempted to set the DVR up and see if I can watch one or two shows with her. She is adorable, I will give them that. I'm usually not one for pink things or faeries, but she looks like fun. Her little pigtails give her some spunk but she's easily identifiable as a girl (Zoe is cute, but she's clearly more "average" looking when it comes to Muppet fashion and, if I remember, a bit of a spaz).
Most of the blogs I'm seeing when I google her name are before she was even on the show, so I'm not sure what the response has been since her physical debut. I hope they gave her some personality to go with those wings (which are so adorable they way they flap back and forth!). I'm not pro-girlie-girl, (I'd rather cut myself than give someone who had a baby girl anything pink) but some people like to do that. Some girls enjoy wearing pink and being cute and I that's okay as long as they also enjoy being smart and learning (and being that Abby is only 3, she should be learning all the time).
Anyhoo, I just watched this clip and she doesn't seem so bad. I like her voice, it's not too high pitched or grating - I think she sounds like a 3 year old. I haven't seen her in action on the show, interacting with the other muppets. Has anyone here watched Sesame recently ?
I'm tempted to set the DVR up and see if I can watch one or two shows with her. She is adorable, I will give them that. I'm usually not one for pink things or faeries, but she looks like fun. Her little pigtails give her some spunk but she's easily identifiable as a girl (Zoe is cute, but she's clearly more "average" looking when it comes to Muppet fashion and, if I remember, a bit of a spaz).
Most of the blogs I'm seeing when I google her name are before she was even on the show, so I'm not sure what the response has been since her physical debut. I hope they gave her some personality to go with those wings (which are so adorable they way they flap back and forth!). I'm not pro-girlie-girl, (I'd rather cut myself than give someone who had a baby girl anything pink) but some people like to do that. Some girls enjoy wearing pink and being cute and I that's okay as long as they also enjoy being smart and learning (and being that Abby is only 3, she should be learning all the time).
