Fridays Talkback - The Life & Times of Juniper Lee [5/12/06]

[Freedom Fighter]

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The Life & Times of Juniper Lee continues with its second season! The 11-year old girl with superhuman abilities and a need to consider taking anger management classes resumes her duties as the Te Xuan Ze, protector of Orchid Bay!


Last Time: #23 (?) "June's Egg-Cellent Adventure: Juniper Lee Meets the Easter Bunny" Talkback (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=164492)
This Week: #22 "I've Got You Under My Skin"
Premieres Friday, May 12 at 9:30 pm
Encores Sunday, May 14 at 11:30 am
Summary: June tries to create a body-double when she needs to be in two places at once.
It's been a few weeks since the last new 'Juniper'... watch and review!

[Kagetsu]

Very funny Monroe making RayRay into a brain. A transmorgrafacation spell with a stone. I like how they seem to be adding more magical objects and encantations. Junes jimjams are the same green as her shirt, I expected something different but ok, she's not a "flowers and butterfly" girl. Loved the mustache gag with her brother. The accents were the real funny part though. Great VA work.

[One Radical Dude]

I thought that this was a pretty funny episode. I enjoyed Ray-Ray and Monroe trying to act as "Juniper" and "Ray-Ray" respectively. Great work by the VAs. Loved the ending, also. I give it a B+.

[trayguy]

I like the Juniper Lee series and I would like for it to go on for a few more years.:D

[Freedom Fighter]

I didn't find myself all that enthralled with this episode. I'm still trying to piece together how this turned from a 'body double' episode to an 'experiencing life in another person's body' episode.

Predictably, Ray-Ray makes June look like an idiot, while Monroe makes Ray-Ray a genius. And what is it with boys in girls' bodies saying the best part is that their hair is so free?!

The only truly enjoyable part was the ending, where 'June' and 'Ray-Ray' manage to beat down that goblin without the real June's help. That, and the stone not changing them all back to normal at the end, but instead all three of them become Monroe!

A paltry 5.5 out of 10 for "I've Got You Under My Skin." Sigh... I wish there was another new episode this week. I feel terrible having to wait a few weeks to wash this one out of my mouth.

[JuniperLee]

MAN, i wish we had more new eps! And i wish they'd stop flipping the days and times around. My TIVO can barely keep up.

I thought this was another awesome episode. i could listen to Monroe's voice coming out of Ray Ray's body all day. TOO funny.

God, I hope they let Juniper continue. It seems like they don't advertise it at all. And when i see fun show's like this past one, my heart breaks a little.

SUCH a great show....

[USSManhattan]

As someone who's not a big fan of Ray Ray (more like at all), I find it telling there was literally a scene where nothing can happen without Ray Ray being there...

As for the ep entire, it was all right, if not a paint by numbers scheme.

I'm noticing a problem with the series. There seems to be a lack of character development in lieu of characters like Ray Ray or Monroe yelling their heads off to chew up screentime. Especially June's friends. Marcus is probably the worst example of this, as we've only seen him four times with only two of those times being the real June and Marcus. I'd also like to know more about Jody and Ophelia (the Wizard of Oz ep was good in this regard).

Despite these comments, I do enjoy the show and I hope it improves, as I've noticed a slight uptick between S1 and S2.