even with my bad command of English, I´ll try to give a personal feedback:
I think the PPS was better than the last years back, but the Show on EF 12 is still my personal favourit
cause of one reason:
I don´t like lovestories
The Show on EF 12 was filled with comedy
but after EF 12 it seemed to me, that the shows only focused on lovestories anymore
this year, the lovestory was just a side-story....and I liked it (just my personal opinion!)
I liked the idea behind the Story and I liked the pawpets
but there are some things I didn´t like:
biggest problem (for me)
The waiting time during the stage-reconstruction
I know, that it is nearly impossible to reconstruct the whole backdrop in such a short time (only solution would be, that all backdrops are already fastened above the stage and just get moved down when needed)
like last years, you "covered" this reconstruction-time with videoclips, but you didn´t even came close to fill the whole "waitingtime" with those vids
I know, that it is nearly impossible for you to plan those backdrop-changes, so you can´t know the exact time you have to fill
but this year, it took minutes between the end of the videos and the start of the next scene (and this at every "change of location")
Next problem (for me):
The swearing
for example as the dragon cursed his wife with "motherfucking bitch" I thought 2 things:
1. does it make sense to call a female person a "motherfucker"?
2. that wasn´t funny, it was embarrassing
next point (which was already mentioned in this thread)
in a lot of shots you´ve seen the pawpeteers
and not just those pawpeteers who had to lift their arm that high, that it is impossible to hide their heads
Next thing:
The scene with the regaining memory didn´t worked out (for me)
Cause of 2 points
1. the backdroppaintings with the fluorescent colours were seen on screen all the time like "wet spots" (there was always a heart shown on the screen
![Tongue :P](https://forum.eurofurence.org/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)
)
2. the colours didn´t worked well even as the blacklight was on
the effect was a good try, but in my opinion, it failed (again! just MY opinion!.....if all the others say "it was perfect", I´m wrong)
and one last thing, which is just a little detail
Some characters yelled at each other
so far no problem but....
If an actor got a microphon placed in front of his mouth, he shouldn´t scream
Cause if he/she yells into this micro, it doesn´t sound like an angry yell
it just sounds like.......how can I explain that?.....it sounds like a combination out of "ouch! not that loud! now my ears hurt" and "what have you said? I couldn´t understand a word"
It´s like somebody screams directly into your ear
a possible way to avoid that (even if it is complicate):
Get a stagehand with hand-microphone
and at the one moment the char has to yell, shut down the headset of this person and place the hand-micro in about 1 meter distance to the yelling person
Now everyone will hear, that the person screams, but will still understand what he´s saying
Don´t know if this realy works, but yelling into the headset didn´t work eighter
![Tongue :P](https://forum.eurofurence.org/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)
and a last time
this is just my opinion
you did a great job with the PPS and I enjoyed it
and as long as it´s imposible to please all of your audience, it´s great to see, that you still try it year after year after year
thank you for that