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The Moomins
Opowiadania Muminków
1978 · TV series · 1 season
AnimationFamilyScience FictionFantasy
The series is based on the famous series of novels by Finnish author Tove Jansson. It follows the adventures of strange creatures called Moomins and their equally strange friends. The series features a continuous narrative within individual installments, which do not always align with the 13-episode division. The series is realized using the semi-flat puppet technique, with commentary.
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I loved Moomins as a kid, and was so surprised when I talked with my wife about it, she thought they were so scary and "off" feeling.
I'm watching them now with our son, and I guess I was just born with a strong appreciation for melancholia.
I changed my mind, when I was a kid I thought they were good, now I think they are great!
In many ways, what makes moomin dark is that it shows us what we already know, the world _just_is_ and in the big picture, does not care about you, you might die, someone you care about might go away, and everyone is, fundamentally, alone, and what makes a person who they are, is partly how they deal with, if at all, being alone in this world of loners.
Moomin is very real and very direct in its dealings with the pain of the meaninglessness of life.
Snufkin, as a child, I took him for a cynic and disliked him, but he taught me something about the world, I think he is a stoic and a nihilist, and I very much like him now, he simply _IS_ in the world, and he accepts, and so appreciates that which also simply is, and which he cannot control.
Yeah, Moomin is dark, but life is dark, life is pleasure and pain, and we will all die, everyone we ever loved will suffer and die, but they will also experience pleasure and life, one could chose only suffering and death, one cannot chose only pleasure and life, and must come to terms with the fact that the underpinnings of pleasure and life is indeed suffering and pain. That's it, the world just is, and we're just in it.
I feel like a lot of the cartoons and tv shows of my childhood was like this, life.. it kinda has bad parts.. and back then, they showed them to kids, and what do I know.. maybe it prepared us to take it on ?
There are actually six different TV series:
1959: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Muminfamilie
1969: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin_(1969_TV_series)
1972: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Moomin
1977: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moomins_(TV_series)
1990: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin_(1990_TV_series)
2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moominvalley_(TV_series)
I don't think there's any reason to gatekeep this so strongly. The original anime and it's sequel, maybe, but both Tove and Lars Jansson were heavily involved with other series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moomins_(TV_series) :
> It is, in contrast to the 1990s series, widely believed to be the most faithful TV adaptation of Tove Jansson's stories, and much closer to her vision. Tove herself had a great deal of involvement during the series' production and was very happy with it (as revealed in an interview with Anne Wood in Simon Sheridan's 2007 book The A to Z of Classic Children's Television). The scripts for each episode were translated from Polish into Swedish and sent to Tove and Lars Jansson, who, if they felt that anything needed to be changed, corrected the script, expanding or rewriting it; afterwards, the scripts were sent back and only then did production of the particular episode begin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin_(1990_TV_series) :
> Tove and Lars Jansson were also involved with the screenplay by doing certain changes in scripts.
Moomins - the 90s version especially. Most of the episodes are suitable for toddlers and at least our kids have been enjoying it.
I saw the Moomins when I was at university. I should probably have been studying.
I happened across some episodes on Youtube a couple of years ago, and my opinion of it was that it was "enchanting". Although aimed at kids, there's something distinctly magical about it. Drop your adult mind, and think like a child again.