The Dark Crystal

>netorare

mmmmmmmmH?

>Would a human have an essence? Could the skeksis drain each other? Could they drain the mystics?
It's probable only creatures of Thra have essence. However, it's likely that only Gelflings actually produce usable essence.

We're understaffed, people keep dying.

Only things of Thra produce essance. And only the beings closest to Thra- gelflings- produce essance that's usable.

Slave master is the kinkiest of the skeksis and you can't change my mind

Gelflings are closest to Thra, so their essence is best. If podling essence is already kinda shit, landstrider essence must be worthless.

You just need a different gelfling

TASTY
TASTY

skektek was getting drained by the crystal, but we don't know what would happen since skeksil saved him

BASED AND HUPPILLED

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you....you should be emperor!

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He looked like he was straight up disintegrating not being drained. Chances are the Crystal would have just yeeted his ass inside, split him into chunks, and then spit him out again. If it bothered to spit him out at all.

Not even the crystal likes Skektek

>skeksil saved him
a foolish mistake, hmmmmmmm

My god, he is the most tragic creature.

Deet

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Scientist literally solves all their problems, twice and still gets treated like a bitch

deet can yeet

yes but he's a NERD

Skekok must have felt disappointed when he learned Seladon wasn't an intellectual like Brea.

Yes but he's a fucking nerd

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It's because his main area of expertesis is stashed away inside the castle away from plain view and immediate benefit or gratification.
SkekSil had the same problem, it's only his backstabbing ruthlessness and straight up Machiavellian power plays that kept him so high on the ladder. He literally spent weeks planning, plotting, acting, and double crossing just for the /chance/ to shank a bitch over a chair.
SkekTek moans about his fate, SkekSil kills the motherfucker responsible and then pisses on his ashes.

The soundtrack shouldn't be overlooked
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chamberlain's a slut
he likes it up the butt
he's icky
he's sticky
and look he has a hicky

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All his roomates and his boss are shitty cokeheads. They have huge egos and only really value him for providing their fix.

>Goes through days upon days of work to find ways to keep the Skeksis alive

>Fellow Skeksis constantly bully him and call him a weakling despite everything he does for them

>Gets his eye eaten because of the Chamberlain's screwup

>Dies minutes before the Great Conjuration where the Skeksis and Mystics get to recombine into urSkeks

Being SkekTek is truly suffering.

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Daniel Pemberton made the jump from techno-inspired superhero music in Spider-Verse to sweeping fantasy score in this series flawlessly. Seriously hope he returns for more seasons.
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He deserved everything he got because he was too stupid to realize he could straight-up force the others to make him the Emperor because he's the only scientist they have and no one else could give them Essence.

We're all looking for a season 2 and a possible 3, but just in case do creators have a plan B if this shit gets canned?

why did they make the Skeksis cute?

;-;

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He was so excited at the prospect of getting to fight, had upgraded their armors and weapons and everything, and SkekSo and SkekVar just throws it in his face and shits on him for being a nerd.

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They said they'll reveal all the plot and everything they had in mind if the show gets cancelled. In what format, I don't know.

Well fuck, then they don't have any intentions of airing it on another platform.

The Virgin Greg Weisman vs. The Chad Kermit the Frog

Pemberton is fucking dope and immediately elevates whatever work he's a part of

>could straight-up force the others to make him the Emperor because he's the only scientist they have and no one else could give them Essence.
He can't force shit. They'll just use the tail dangler on him or whatever else they got.

Started strong, jumped the shark HARD when the Skeksis went "why even bother pretending to be benevolent rulers? We're like a dozen dudes, we can easily beat all other forms of life, with our bare hands if necessary!"

Even to the extent that it's true in-universe, it was retarded for them to shrug off losing the allegiance of ARMIES.

We all know the reviews were fantastic and merch is selling pretty well, but what are the chances of us getting a season 2 at this point? I hope normies won't fuck us all.

Because birds irl are cute

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The budget had to be staggering. It would need to be a massive draw to get renewed.

Henson was only able to afford his artsy fartsy projects (which I adore) because he had the money from shilling crap Muppet Babies merch.

>I call it
>Gotham!!!

Well that’s it, game over for the rebellion everyone they’re fucked because once the scientist starts mass producing these bad boys Thra can suck it

Normies will fuck us all because even though the "most" of the reviewers were positive, actual big magazine reviews like Time or Guardian didn't enjoy the puppet stuff very well.

Drug addicts aren't known for their rational decision making

Let's be honest: The Emperor was NOT the best ruler.

>wants to genocide all Gelflings rather than trying to drug them or keep the facade up a little longer to gain as much essence as possible (Gelflings can't produce any essence when dead)

>is cool with getting wasted all the essence they can rather than trying to save it just in case

>mocks and humiliates Seladon rather than taking advantage of her loyalty to gain more essence

His Mystic counterpart is no better, what with him deciding to tell Jen about his destiny and what he needs to do minutes before death.

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Chamberlain tried to stop it. They didn't listen.

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If it's not for the budget, I'd say that'd be pretty high, but I honestly don't know at this point. Only Netflix ratings will tell.

I think any second season will have much MUCH lower overhead. Most of the sets and characters are already made.

A few extra Garathim. A few more Mystics and Skeksis. A few Gelfling. A few new locations. But nothing compared to the whole castle, Ha'Rar, Stone in the Wood, Grottan, 10ish Skeksis, 30ish Gelfling, etc. They said they built nearly 70 sets I think. That has to be a massive jump ahead for a second season.

The Emperor was a moron, but The General made him look like Einstein. Honestly, them tricking Aughra all those years ago had to be The Chamberlain somehow convincing them all to shut the fuck up and let him do the talking. "My compatriots have all taken a vow of silence, yes?"

SkekSo is a highly impatient and rashful skek. He wants that gelfling juice NOW and he very much believes his own and skeksis hype.

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>Lost got a horrible ending
>GoT got a horrible ending
>most of the media is now SJW pandering trash
Dark Crystal was one of my childhood favorites and I dont want it to see it cancelled just right after a fresh reboot. I don't know if I can take it.

they weren't senile and cancerous yet, or junkies. They were in their prime, graceful flitting charmers and nudists.

OH user!
You got transported to the world of dark Crystal! But you are on the body of one of the Gruenak slaves!

What you do?

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That, and SkekTek is kind of a beta to begin with. He doesn't stand up for himself well. SkekSo would wreck his shit completely.

I would imagine comics. Dark Crystal is starting up it's third 12 issue maxi series and has three graphic novels. Comics seem to be doing alright for the franchise.

Kill myself so I don't burn to death or get my head bashed in by a skeksis with anger problems

Jump into the pit.

It really puts him claiming "It should be me," in the original Dark Crystal movie when they're trying to choose a new emperor into perspective. I hope when they introduce SkekUng later, they'll show him as a really shrewd strategist to be a genuinely strong foil and rival to the Chamberlain, someone he can't dispatch like he did the last General. That can set up their rivalry in the original movie and the fact that they both survived to the point where they can vie for the top spot.

well, at least it has an ending already. Worst that'll happen is we have to fill in the gaps with our imagination.

>they anonymously publish the plot in a txt file named FUCK YOU REED

I think the darkening got to his brain at this point. The guy was literally rotting away, and hardcore addicted to essence. Junkes don't make good decisions.

He did take on the darkening himself and didn't force another Skeksis to do that, even if it meant rotting, so that speaks for him. And if Creation Myths is still canon he was a very effective ruler. Ruling through fear doesn't have to be all bad.

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But, what will happen to HER?

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End it swiftly.

Why do we allow (((critics))) to publish reviews in magazines to begin with? The idea that anyone's opinion of something should matter enough for them to get paid to share it is ludicrous.

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It's definitely about creative freedom. There's a reason they went to Netflix first, they will fund fucking anything and give a lot of creative leeway. I highly doubt the other services would be as open to a risky show like this. Maybe Amazon would, but not the others.
Really good honestly. It surpassed Carnival Row in interest on the internet by a wide margin in the same weekend (Which many thought wouldn't happen due to that show's celebrity appeal) and it was only behind Stranger Things and Thirteen Reasons Why in interest (Understandable given how big those shows are.) #SaveTheOA whining turns out didn't matter at all.
It's a remarkably strong start for a niche IP and could be really lucrative in things like merch potential and expanded content. In that case I don't see why Netflix WOULD cancel it, it seems like a pretty valuable property right now.

Yeah I'd jump into the pit, I don't want to be beaten to death or worse turned in to a fucking monstrosity

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I fell like it's not going to be easy to get more Arathim corpses for production. Maybe someone will have to go into the caves of Grot to get the ones who died there in order to bootstrap the production. Maybe that's what SkekUng will do when he gets introduced, and that's why he'll get the position of "Garthim master".

He really is beautiful.

Anyone else notice that he said that to the Ritual Master? I think they showed their small political factions in the movie that were described in the books.

>Ritual Master, Gourmand, and Treasurer
>Garthim Master, Scientist, Slave Master
>Chamberlain, Scroll Keeper, Ornamentalist

SkekSil is for bullying!

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>"nyyaaaaaa--"

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uguuu hmmmmhhh

I'd pamper my skesis masters. I'd be their footstool. I'd dress the emporer every morning, and tend to his every need. I would be called to give emergency foot massages. I'd scrub their backs during bath time. Then I'd get my tiny skull bludgeoned in and die alone, but happy knowing I had fulfilled my life purpose.

If 13 Reasons Why can get another season I don’t see why AoR can’t, especially with most of the puppet work done.

you fall into the fire when you get what you desire

>in the role separation, volunteer for hard technical stuff when you had the chance of being another fat ass like gourmand without any responsibilities
>geez why does this happen to me

she gets loved tenderly

jk she gets brutally killed by her own kind

noble suicide when she realizes she's completely Darkened and a threat to Thra

They already had a noble suicide. You don't get to do those more than once per story.

They likely wanted to make an example by utterly crushing the first opposition and demoralising the others

If Season 2 happens (and I hope it does) then I'd like to see SkekSa appear. Not only to see her in full puppet glory but she seems like she'd be a neat candidate for a more morally gray Skeksis.

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Why all these threads for Netflix's newest #WOKE SJW pandering abortion where they rape a beloved franchise?

Cause people like the show. Also what makes you think it's woke SJW trash?

gotta kill off all the skeksis that don't appear in the movie so it's very likely

Because he didn't watch it and wants to shit post because "WAAAAH NETFLIX"

It's made by Netflix. The ONLY animated series they make are woke SJW trash.
See: Voltron reboot, Dragon Prince, Carmen Sandiego reboot, Love Death & Robots

Netflix didn¨t make it you ding-dong.

>TASTY

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Honest question, Would you like to see Deet as a soulless slave like movie podlings?

why he be like dis

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>girl power, girls have wings you silly boys!
>all main characters are girls, Gandalf is a girl
>good guy society is run by girls
>girls take care of throngs of gibberish speaking podlings who eat shit but soimehow cleaning up the shit of little brown morons is a good task for a pretty white girl
>all bad guys are male, except for the one mariner who let me guess is somehow more noble than other skeksis
>also old and wealthy and patriarchal, that's all bad btw you bigot
>the Darkening is a blatant metaphor for climate change
>Emperor denies there's a Darkening, scientists cowers and goes along even though he knows better
>war is bad mkkay
>has antifa slogan "Resistance" right in title FFs, orange man baaad
There's lots of stuff you could point out

No. Gelfling are for essence. Just get on with it.

But it's puppets, not animation. And maybe you should watch it before you pass judgement and then you'd realize it's nothing like you say.

>projecting his biases on all media
is that way

Most of the stuff you listed was already established in the movie and novels.

But crystal castle would explode if skeksis try to drain deet and unleash the darkening energy inside of her.

What a chad

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Bro like 90% of this is from the original movie idiot, at least hate it all for being ''''''sjw'''''' rather than pretending only new media is '''liberal'''

Deed will end up being what powers the Gratlings

Climate change is a serious issue you fuckwad, what that has to do with SJW?

>The Hunter was off hunting
>The Mariner is off marinating
>The Slave Master is probably subjugating species further out from the castle, SkekUng possibly with him

What the fuck are the Satirist and Treasurer off doing?

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>the emperor decides to drain Deet and drink all of her essence by himself eventually going super sayian

The 2016 election mindfucked the typical chantard into being one step away from believing the Earth is flat at most.

>marinating
Fuck you, I laughed.

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Thank you, that gag is 40% of why I wanted to make that post

It's downright bizarre that the Heretic wasn't just the Satirist. There was no need to create a Conqueror.

>implying Deet’s darkening infused essence doesn’t equate as drinking sulphuric acid

>how is it leftist propaganda?
>point out obvious ways it is
>reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee it was always leftist propaganda tho
don't ask questions you don't want responses to then. IDGAF about the politics but the liberal bias and pandering is hamfisted and obvious, denying it makes you the morons.

>nyaaaaaa

It's like they didn't even try.

Especially with his apparent knack for storytelling

/pol/ would make “infographics” about why a flat earth would be possible and how science is a global conspiracy right after the moment Trump says Earth might be flat just to cut NASA’s budget.

Exactly, in a last act of insane "heroism" the emperor will drink it to become Sauron and then subsequently rot alive into the husk seen in the movie

>I am incontrovertibly the most abused creature in all of Thra!

SPLIT YOUR LUNGS WITH BLOOD AND THUNDER
WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITE GELFLING

I think it's better as the conqueror, it implies he went through some heavy development to reconnect with his other half

Satirist is off creating a printing press so he can share his wit with all of Thra
Treasurer is off collecting gems and rare objects
>conflating leftist with liberal
Lmao
Go back to or shit up the Yea Forums thread.

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>Drinking Deet will result in pic related

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>maybe you should watch it before you pass judgement
>implying I should subject myself to propaganda
Nah. I prefer to hang on to my absolutely correct """"biases"""" and keep rightfully insulting this trash

>the moment Trump says Earth might be flat just to cut NASA’s budget
>T. Mind-broken chantard

>morally grey Skeksis
But why and how

This genuinely looks like a corpse, the puppetry is still incredible to this day

>skeksil is surrounded by the other skeksis, picking at him and laughing
>skeksil,the chamberlain, is on the verge of tears
>they begin their ritual cheerleader squad chant
CHAMBERLAIN'S A SLUT
HE LIKES IT UP THE BUTT
HE'S ICKY
HE'S STICKY
I BET HE HAS A HICKY

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What exactly was he conquering anyway?

>”j- just don’t catch the purple ones!”

What a way to go...

Cool story. Why are you in this thread if it upsets you so? I'm not against a dissenting opinion in a thread, but it helps for that opinion to be coming from someone who's at least seen the thing and is informed.

>The last thing he heard was Chamberlain¨s HmmmHHHmmmm

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Don't do drugs, kids

My ass

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Gruenaks I suppose

Because the Skeksis did nothing wrong

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The Gruenaks were supposed to be strong and mechanically minded. If the Skeksis could exterminate them down to two, it's no wonder they were cocky when it came to the Gelfling.

A small mercy.

>Why are you in this thread if it upsets you so?
Because that's what Yea Forums is about: shitting up threads about things you don't like, and telling others they don't deserve to exist for daring to like things you don't.

I wonder if Hunter and Archer are still around in Aughra's head, trying to make themselves heard over her batshit insanity

>When people still shit on puppetry
>Yet Jim Henson created the most authentically real looking corpse in a puppet movie

So which Skeksis did he kill and wear the skull of? That's another one down.

Doesn't look like a skeksis skull, there's no beak and the teeth jut forward.

Most of this isn't SJW. You're just a touchy bitch.

Fuck it, none if it is. An important element of something being "sjw" is the harpy screeching nonsensical in your face bullshit way they go about things. AoR was subtle about what it needed to be subtle about. You are a touchy bitch.

Probably isn't a Skeksis

>>all bad guys are male
The Gelfling got IMMENSELY fucked over because Mayrin, Fara, and Seladon were stubborn shitheads who didn't act when they needed too.
EVERYTHING went wrong because Aughra checked out and spent centuries looking at the sky

Oh I didn’t know there was a comic adaptation for the movie.

this art is not really good

There is literally nothing all that bad about it and it's been blown up to like three times the size you should be viewing it at.

The Mark Hamill Skeksis naming the spider/Gruenak monster Gotham was a really weird casting gag that disrupted my immersion.

Are we just ignoring that the most despicable character in the show is one of the princesses? And that each gelfling clan is openly racist against podlings and eachother?

You know you could also say its the perfect /pol/ show because its about a handful of psychotic rich assholes with huge noses who have made it heresy to so much as question them and keep the world oblivious to their corruption by keeping the races at odds with eachother.

GARTHIM, you ninny

Also they're immigrants.

Man they needed to dial back Seladon giving Tavra shit in the cells. That really needed to be where she started to break down and accept the truth. It made her later turn not as fulfilling as it should have been.

Oh. What? Oh.

It's funny that the guy mentioned Voltron though

>Lotor is charismatic Prince/Emperor who had a planet of elf people who adored him as a god that he harvested individuals from under the pretense of taking them to a new colony but instead locked them in tubes and sucked out their life force to use for his own ends

It's just kinda funny

Im of the belief that Seladon did not deserve being forgiven, she fucked up massively by being the worst kind of lawful neutral possible.

Gruenak + Arathim = Garthim.

Yeah it's a bit sloppy, but the Skeksis aren't exactly poets.

I get the arc they were going for and I really liked most of it, but her realization just didn't get the right push to really shine as a character moment. She needed more than "oh shit I'm gonna die". She needed to be shown to SEE what those bastards are.

Yeah Seladon kinds just sucked shit the entire time - they didn't even have a proper moment talking about how she was never mothered properly which I thought was being set up. It wouldn't make it good per say but at least its something rather than her being a total bastard until the very last second and then doing nothing to actually help the problem she caused.

I don't think you needed much more between her and her mother. She was always set up to be the All Maudra with all the pressures that would entail. She never had any freedom to pursue her own interests like Tavra and Brea. She felt resentment about that, especially towards Brea, who's interests were far outside of immediate use to a royal family. Tavra at least wanted to be a soldier type, which has obvious gain and function. Brea getting to be a scholar locking herself away while Seladon is forced to do every damn boring annoying thing wears her down. She knows her mother loves her, that's not so much the question, but damn it let her do her own thing too.

If she DID anything of note afterwards, like being a figure for the gelfling to rally around, it'd be another matter, but you basically just get that with Rian

Basically all Seladon actually does upon being saved is get Fara killed

Context?

Seladon's redeeming moment should have been dying to save Farah. Then Farah's sentiment turning around to call her the All-Maudra would have held a lot more weight. It made no sense for Farah to take a bullet for Seladon after all that shit and then to talk with all that high respect, because she didn't actually DO anything to make up for the absolute bullshit she pulled on Farah.

Yeah another bit of the problem.

If she's a good manager for the war effort's logistics in season 2 or such that can help her character along.

Hell the All Maudra question wasn't ever really answered. It was left in a weird spot. The whole thing got a bit awkward.

Again, I do like the idea of Seladon's arc quite a bit, it just lost too much focus after she got thrown in the cell to really come full circle properly.

In fairness, having Mark Hamill be the one to say "Garthim" first was asking for trouble.

Not trying to be rude, but I think you're the only one to hear 'Gotham'. Have you seen the film before? The Garthim are in the film, and I figure a lot of film first people were waiting for them to show up, especially once skekTek started talking about reworking the Arathim.

Are we ignoring that she gets redeemed and accepted back with open arms?

Fireling fucks up crystal again and the skeksis are spit out onto Thra. They immediately try to blame someone for their predicament and settle on skeksil for the time being.

thing is due to this being a prequel and we know what happens to the gelfling rebellion means no one gets a happy ending and her death is inevitable and just a matter of time like all the gelfling characters

That wasn't me, but I've never watched a prequel first before and wanted to see what it felt like.

she'll probably get her turn to sacrifice for the cause next season

ahem
FUCK GELFLINGS
FUCK PODLINGS
FUCK AUGHRA
AND FUCK THRA

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HmmmMMMMMmmmmm!

dude looks like hup

>Could the skeksis drain each other?
If they could they would never allow each other.

Don't think they can, you have to have a connection to thra and the crystal

>Hell the All Maudra question wasn't ever really answered. It was left in a weird spot. The whole thing got a bit awkward.
Yeah, that's why I think Seladon dying for Farah would be the best way to succinctly close out her arc.
Imagine the dialogue going more like:
>Seladon! Are you okay? What happened?!
>Farah... I'm so sorry... for everything...
>No, stay with me! You'll make it out of here!
>It's... okay...
>Seladon... what will the people do without... their All-Maudra?
>They'll have you...
It's rough, I'm not a writer, but that's the gist of how it could have gone. Seladon sacrificing herself for Farah and apologizing restores Farah's respect for Seladon, and Seladon is able to let go and make peace with all the shit that happened. It would have still been slightly rushed, but it would feel much more earned than what actually happened.

That sounds dumb. Didn’t the urSkeks leave?

Man, skekvar looked more like a boar than a bird

This is why we don't talk about the sequel comic...

>Seladon will never be your All Mommy and leave smudged black lipstick marks all over your body

I got money on Gurjin being the first victim of the Garthim

Here lies Gurjin
He died a virgin

Why do you expect that?

Yeh the sequel comic sucks

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Why is there no Deet rule 34 yet.

Because Deet is pure.

He survived the draining and is too happy and easygoing for what's to come

It could not happen of course but we all know Rian has lost his family, his love and only has one thing to lose before he must suffer again and lose Deet

If you want to fuck a puppet you have to win the Trial By Foam. Can you handle the plushest rumps and lewdest protruding puppet proboscises?

Pure-ly for sex, yes.

Rian+Brea = jen
Deet dies and is reborn as kira

I'm thinking Seladon is going to step down as All-Maudra and abdicate it to Brea. Except Brea is a third born daughter and was never really trained for this, so she convinces Seladon to come back as an adviser. Seladon will then die saving Brea from the Garthim towards the season finale.

>tfw no tiny gefling dom gf to ride your dick and call you a clumsy dumb brute

IT'S MY ESSENCE AND I WANT IT NOW!

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I want skekMal to clap my cheeks!

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Threadly reminder if you have not already done so to support Deet in the Miss Yea Forums 2019 qualifier.

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They're a great metaphor for fucking boomers, they're literally sucking the life force out of the world to keep themselves alive a little longer.

Just did it.

Bernie is The Heretic?

We most likely won't make the top 50, but I'll be damned if I said I didn't go to bat for my waifu.

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skekmal is a edgy fag bottom
slavekeeper is the true leather daddy

He does talk loudly at all times and gesticulate wildly.

Man if he picks a really sedate vp that'll be weeeird.

I don't know why anyone thinks the winner could be anyone but Spinel. Pointless endeavor.

It's not about winning, it's about loyalty.

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chamberlain best girl.

Think we'll see a living example of what SkekMal used as a mask?

Based

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because it would look like cp and get you banned

SkekMal is a power bottom and I will not have you dragging his name through the mud

Goddamn the image from the movie below 'do'. That puppet looks fucking evil.

I LOVE DEET

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I guess?

>Show Skektek genuinely cares about his pets, especially the fuzzy little bird, and comforts them after the Emperor threatens them
>Movie Skektek is apparently abusive towards his pets since the moment they get free they want to attack and kill him
What the fuck happened to science boy?

I would do anything for her. Anything.

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Keep dreaming.

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yeah i could really tell how he cares for them by trapping them in tiny cages they can barely move around in
what is this shit, is this the same people that see a hideous hell hound get killed in a video game or movie and go "poor doggos ;_;:?
Skektek is literally the worst Skeksis, everything bad that is done to the crystal is done using his science.

Birdbro is doomed, user. I'm sorry I have to tell you this.

>implying that harlot Kira didn't make them turn on him for her own malicious purpose

Inb4 Birdbro’s death leads to the creation of the Crystal bats.

How based can one Skek be lads?

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Your mistake was assuming scalie daddyfags have a shred of common sense

Easy

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SkekTek is the Skeksis version of the crazy cat lady, hoarding animals and neglecting if not outright abusing them.

It's autism. Autistic people take everyone's actions at face value. In the early days of these threads there was a guy complaining that the skeksis in the show weren't true to the movie because they were kind, benevolent rulers. You know, since they pretended to be nice when visiting the gelfling to steal all their hard-earned crops and shit for no reason.

>everything bad that is done to the crystal is done using his science.
Skeksil is the one who came up with the idea of using it to drain gelflings. Skektek warned the Emperor that fucking around with the crystal and draining the gelfling en mass isn't a good idea and will spread the darkening, but got shot down.

How long until we get scenes of skeksil dubbed with lines from Simon Pegg's other stuff

Who is best skeksis:
>strawpoll.me/18642023

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Wait, did an user actually say that?

SKEKMAL IS A SLUT
HE LIKES IT UP THE BUTT
HE ICKY
HE STICKY
I BET HE HAS A HICKY

Yeah, and he still went along with it anyway. What an absolute fucking patron saint that guy was.

Yes, I'm not exaggerating. He said, "In the movie, the skeksis were evil, but in the show they start out as completely benevolent rulers who love the gelfling!" He just couldn't wrap his head around the duplicity.

That's sad, but not surprising.

Skesil being the idea guy doesn't change facts: Skektek makes the things that do the bad stuff. he is the most directly culpable because without his tech none of the things could happen. no essence draining, no Garthim. He sits around cooking speed made from baby adrenaline and manufacturing bioweapons using genocidal spare parts, instead of trying to directly research a way to stop the Darkening.
he's the worst because he can't claim ignorance. he knows better and yet remains a bad actor.

I only think he cares about the fuzzy green bird. And I think it's being set up so he will kill it in some fit. It's interesting to note that the bird doesn't seem to like him very much, might even be afraid of him. When he's being attacked by the gruenaks, it's cautiously watching, and when he's beating the gruenak, it's shaking with fear.

There is but one Gruenak left.

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Can we drain it?

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If she doesn't drain you first.

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>NONONONONONONOOOOOOOOO THIS CAN'T BE REAL HE'S A PRECIOUS SOUL WHO LOVES HIS BIRB FRIEND HOW COULD THE HENSONS DO THIS I'M LITERALLY SHAKING AND CRYING RIGHT NOW

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What’s she going to do without the Crystal.

Not the original user, but what is he supposed to do? Say no? He is being commanded by the Emperor and the slightest fuckup, or someone else fucking him over, leads to having his eye gobbled out while the rest of the gang stands around and laughs.

Obviously not a 'good' character, they're all evil demon bird monsters, but one of the only skeksis you see caring for a lesser being and arguing against mass draining, also the lowest in the pecking order of a bunch of bullies.

SQUEEEEEEEEEZE

>>all bad guys are male, except for the one mariner who let me guess is somehow more noble than other skeksis
They said "She" when referring to the snotty one who got Deeted. The ugliest, whiniest, most uselss of the Skek's was a girl.

The Garthim army in the film used to be bigger but Nanalan wiped out most of them avenging her fallen brothers

The Skeksis paid for wiping out her "peepo" alright

skekfuckers begone

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Shit, Skektek is "the Owl" of the skeksis.

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He killed millions...

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This shit is all Raunip's fault

Who? What?

>TFW watching this for the first time.
>Episode 7 so far

Truly this is puppet kino!

He's so invaluable to them that they can't really afford to let him get uppity. If he ever figures out how to leverage his skill set then they'd have to give all kinds of concessions to him, and there is no way they will let that happen. He has nowhere else to go, so bullying him and keeping him cowed is the logical thing to do.

fuck off netflix

I recommend Farscape if you enjoyed this. Favorite scifi series of all time, no contest. I don't think it's been on Netflix for roughly a decade, unfortunately.

it seems to go on and off netflix at random

All seasons and the movie are on Prime Video

God damn it, Bezos.

Raunip is Aughra's son from the Creation Myth comics. He's sort of paranoid, sort of a trickster, and he sort of fucked a few things up as a result of his own inferiority issues. Also because as Aughra would neglect Thra, she kind of didn't pay enough attention to his issues.

Farscape's fucking great.

I like playing with the theory that the Thra system is in the Farscape universe. It's goofy, but Farscape has enough wacky energies doing things that it's not impossible.

Also, if you needy fucks want to see real bad comic art, look at the Farscape comics. Man, those were rough.

negro why are you even here if all you're going to do is screech when people talk about the dark crystal in a dark crystal thread

Thra would definitely fit right in. They made a Scorpius miniseries so I had to endure those comics. God, that was 8 years ago.

The Scorpius mini was really just the side story to the main series for that period.

It kind of sucks that those comics went a bit mad killing main characters. Well. A bit madder than the series. Art aside, they were very close to really nailing a sequel season concept and if I recall answering a few questions knocking around from the show.

I guess I'll have to dig those up when I finish my rewatch. Henson needs to stay on the air in whatever form they can get.

>What the fuck are the Satirist and Treasurer off doing?

skekShod The Treasurer has been spending the last six hundred trine trying to sway Gelflings on the idea of a standardized currency.

He's finally had some success with the concept of a system based on riddles and word puzzles which should hopefully be widely used in just a few dozen trine.

It's not like anything is going to happen to the Gelflings any time soon.

I still long for one dumb easter egg in this show that confirms all the Henson properties take place in the same universe
It doesn't have to obvious, just enough for me to chuckle a little.

Rockne O'Bannon, the series creator, was involved with the comics. It's been so long I forget if he wrote them himself or if he passed off concept notes or did a full treatment or I don't know what. But he did work on them. it wasn't one of those cases where he'd have no damned idea what they were if you showed him.

WAIT WHAT IT'S BEEN ON PRIME THIS WHOLE TIME
I was devastated when Netflix removed it

Might be the same user who was reeeing at the posters in the other thread for the same reason. Couldn't comprehend that people legitimately enjoyed the show and just tried to pick fights with anyone who expressed enjoyment of the show.

I rewatched Cracker's a month ago. It holds up. God bless Ben Browder teaching us all the joys of hitting the puppet.

(Actually, the AoR people talked about how much fun they started to have throwing the puppets for shots, so it started to happen more as the season went on. It reminded me of how Browder would just go up to Rigel and twist an eyebrow, strangle him, wack him, whatever. Good times.)

Netflix's inability to hold on to rights kind of sinks their entire business model, but this new era of every network wanting its own streaming service is even worse and it's just taken us back to cable but every channel requires a full service fee of its own.

There are some retards who unironically think Yea Forums is just for hate. How far we've fallen.

Now I’m thinking about a possible future plot point in the show where Skeksis like skekShod and SkekSa have jobs that involve Gelflings and they become super pissed when the Emperor’s antics cause the Gelflings to no longer give them business.

I CHALLENGE!

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Can you really blame them though?

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Anybody know how that Tactics game is shaking up? Last I saw was the E3 reveal. I'm not expecting a new benchmark in the genre, I'm just hoping for competent with some FFT charm.

Trial by stone

He's going to use his spoon to scoop out his eye

To a degree, yes. Not only are there examples of people liking things all over, but it's also just so tiresome. Yeah we bitch a lot, but for fucks sake that's not the raison d'etre. Being able to call dumb shit dumb and then MOVING ON is an important bit.

TRIAL BY STONE!

You'd think that they'd like watching a show sequel to a great movie that came out when they were kids.

Heck. You're making me want to repurchase them. I sold mine off, but find myself sort of missing having them. Thinking of making a massive Henson box with my Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and maybe Storyteller stuff on top of it.

Trial by stone! SLAVES!

>The Satirist has finally finished his magnum opus; a masterful tour de force about the travails of several generations of rival Spriton families. All he just has to do now is find just the right Gelfling actors to portray these roles.

Is this a joke about Deet's parents?

>YOU RUINED MY BANK, YOU BASTARD
>*cue Skekso stomping skekshod's throat*

That sounds like an excellent idea.

It's a joke about hup being stuck with urgoh and skekgra

Is it gay if it's yourself?

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Hot

Isn't The Dark Crystal a movie from the 80's? Why am I seeing it pop up recently?
>pic totally not related haHA

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recent netflix series and comics. They're actually pretty good overall which is a rare thing to see these days whenever something old is dug out for profit.

In what world do you care enough to have saved Skeksis porn on your computer but NOT enough know there's a new Dark Crystal series out?

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Guessing they're monster fuckers.

New Netflix show. Is really good. The mass of people who have always wanted to fuck the rotting vulture monsters are now running wild.

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>What the fuck are the Satirist and Treasurer off doing?

treasurer was at the synagogue

>Skeksis porn screenshot
>Doesn’t know about Age of Resistance

What.

Hup and Seladon are for mutually hatefucking each other

>No.

Yes

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uhhhh
NO

even lick her unwashed muff?

>Arathim hivemind is a reference to Nobody/Limbo youtu.be/Rc4z9U-5LL0

Nice

>tonight
>You

Is that Jim Henson's voice?

Starting to think we need to post that comic satirizing the original movie and the Skeksis saying "guess we shouldn't voted Republican" while talking about how the world is falling apart.

mmmmmmmmMMMMMmmm

what did netflix mean with this scene?

>"Why would I wash my..."

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>You would not believe the shit I've seen, man.

They showed that even rotten skeksis are more cleanly than filthy grottans.

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Skektek should suck it up, the show alludes that Skekna already lost his eye.

>Voltron reboot
The show that hinted Shiro was gay in one episode for ten seconds then showed him with his husband in the last ten seconds of the series? And that's enough to make you shit yourself retarded?

>Monster Essence

Probably lost it in battle or something cool.

so Yea Forums do I start with the old movie, or straight into the netflix thing, since it seems to be a prequel?

movie first

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As much as I'd prefer people to start with the film, a lot of people get turned off by it before watching the series. Series first is generally the safer option for newcomers.

Movie
Comics
Netflix Series
What else is there to consume?

It's not a very good movie on its own and the series actually makes you capable of appreciating it a lot more because it fills in all the gaps left by the movie's shortcomings.

Series first because it's better, then the movie. If you wanna catch all the little nods and references you can watch the series a second time after the movie.

Am I retarded for not being able to remember all of the Skek's names?
The only ones i can remember are Skeksil, SkekMal, and SkekTek yet everyone in these threads seems to tell them apart easy peasy

I use their titles instead.

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They use them interchangeably with their titles, so yes it does get confusing. I always see them as Chamberlain, Scientist, General, etc because having half of a name for everyone is fucking annoying. It's like naming all your sons Jimmy, Jimbo, Jimba, Jimbae, Jimmi, Jimm and Jim, then giving them distinctive nicknames to tell them apart.

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Yes you're dumb

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That unlike Podlings, even Skeksis take baths

The J.M. Lee novels. They aren't really canon now, since the show diverted from them during the adaptation process, but they still laid the groundwork for a lot of the worldbuilding for the show.

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It took me until the last couple episodes to even realize they were names. When the Hunter is dying they refer to him as skekMal A LOT and that's when it dawned on me that when they were saying skek-whatever they were actually calling each other by name. I thought, for example, that "skeksil" was some kind of pronoun in the skeksis language or something and not that skekSil was the true name of the Chamberlain.

So do gerontophilic scalies always use twitter memes or

I only remember the two general's names because of the meme picture, and aside from the ones you mentioned and Skekso I just call the others by their titles. Ornamentalist and Collector is pretty easy to remember.

Who is worst skeksis?
strawpoll.me/18642725

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>Vote for a dem
Wait, I thought skeks were the opposite of suicidal?

Collector can fall off a cliff. With all the podlings.

Snotnose

SkekLach, no question.

I legit thought the general was the same one from the movie, and it made the moment when he died a really cool surprise.

He's said they're being considered a different point of view. Not having read them, I don't know what level of bullshit that is.

Do they only deviate in a few parts, with the main thrust being okay, or is there nothing plausibly canon in them anymore?

So are each of the seven clans supposed to represent different parts of the UK? i.e Vapra are London, Stonewood are Cockney, Sifa are Irish, Dousan are Scottish etc.

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Well one is desert and one lives in caves, so I fucking doubt it.

I figured they were seven biomes. Mountain, desert, cave, forest, plain, swamp, and ocean.

Dark Crystal Minecraft resource pack when

You get used to it once you have done enough repetition

there are lots of significant differences. I'd say it doesn't work as a different POV, but as an alternate universe.

Where the fuck did you get that idea from?

They do share some of the major story beats with some timeline skewing, but stuff like the Tavra and Arathim storyline are handled a lot differently.

Like Tavra got possessed and then mindswapped into her spider puppeteer's body before they even have the big "Shared Dreamfast in Dreamspace" scene in the books. Spends a lot of time giving a crash course in swordsmanship to Amri, a Grottan boy that joins Naia's party, since someone's gotta pick up the slack with her inability to actually fight.

The accents

Love to be able to build one of these fellas one day. Its a considerable undertaking but if 3 professionals can build one in just 3 solid days then presumably its not some impossible undertaking for an amateur (though it would doubtless take months more so than days).

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It sounds like some of that could have happened "off screen". Tutoring the kid a bit in the caves if they want to bring him in later. ... But why/how a Grottan kid?

And actually I think it makes sense moving the spider thing to later. I mean if she was already merged with the Arathim, then shouldn't they know who their real enemy is much, much sooner?

Yeah I don't know how much was corporate "we don't give a fuck how story works, buy our shit" speak, and how much Lee just sort of defending his work, trying to work with everything, whatever you want to say.

Does it all work with Rian, Brea, and Deet? They seem to be show characters. Tavra, Onica, Gurjin, and I don't know who seem to be the book cast. But really those four don't do a ton in the show. So are they the heroes of the era in the books or are they always dancing around the rarely seen TV cast?

A whole modpack would be neat

>And actually I think it makes sense moving the spider thing to later. I mean if she was already merged with the Arathim, then shouldn't they know who their real enemy is much, much sooner?
Tavra wouldn't have known that the Skeksis were expecting the arathim to all die in the infected caves. It's only after Deet and Rian speak to them that they decide to go against the skeks, and even then they keep up the charade a little longer to help get the gelfling out of the castle

I want dirty Deets done dirt cheap.

one example is the Arathim and Tavra. In the books, there is no ascendancy, instead there are individual Arathim called Crystal Spinners that can take over your mind and puppeteer your body. No hive mind, just one spider controlling one Gelfling. It was also much smaller and didn't alter her voice, so it could actually use her to infiltrate.

It was actually a well executed twist when it turned out Tavra was a mind-controlled agent.

Also, the Gelflings are a bit more magical in the books. Each maudra has her own magic, like healing magic, or dream etching (imprinting words with your finger tips onto various surfaces). Kylan uses magic to swap consciousnesses between Tavra and the Arathim crystal spinner when Tavra's body is dying. She then is trapped in the spider body, but can use it's ability to puppeteer other Gelflings, so when they need some of her soldier skills, she can take over.

Is the movie on Netflix? i might consider subbing again if this is worth checking out

If she was already infected, then the Arathim would be riding shotgun to that vision, and they would know how duplicitous the Skeksis are. I think it would make them more suspicious of the whole alliance. I mean granted you can also say that way would explain them so easily believing Deet and agreeing to an alliance.

So. I don't know. I guess it's narratively neater in the show, but the layers of the book could make their changing alliances make more sense.

Huh, interesting

Are there just the spinners/threaders or do the big arathim still exist in the book? How does their society function without the hivemind?

Dream etching is in the show
Yeah

Dream Etching was mentioned in the show. I wonder if they do have that magic, but it just never came up. Still, how would a Maudra and only a Maudra get that magic?

And is Tavra dead by the end of the books? I sort of suspected she'll show up in season 2 as a voice in the Ascendancy or such.

Don't talk about my wife like that.

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He could just be a Jojo fan for all we know

So, are they worth reading? Being YA, I'm assuming brisk reads? I get the feeling the bits that don't contradict happened somehow in overall canon. At the least, Lee got to invent a lot of Gelfling culture that made it into the show. It sounds like the normal EU media sort of mess. Annoyingly, I've been dealing with this bullshit for goddamn 25 years or so now, so I guess I'm used to these properties not bothering with proper editorial.

>1-555-top-skek
cute

I don't remember if there were any big Arathim in the books.

The arathim getting the caves of Grot is orchestrated by skekLi the satirist, who is doing this of his own accord to prove his worth. A lot of the specifics of why characters are doing things, or when they meet each other, is different in the books.

I think everyone involved in tertiary media tie-ins understands that they will get violently kekked the moment a new primary media is greenlit.

I want to fuck Becky so bad bros

There's really no valid reason for it to be that way other than laziness. So shitsucks.

In the books, Naia and Kylan go to the Caves of Grot to find a legendary flute made from the bones of a now extinct bird in the Tomb of Relics they can use to dream-etch the story of the Skeksis's betrayal onto the blossoms of the Sanctuary Tree to spread the word all around Thra. Amri gets assigned to guide their way to the Tomb and joins their quest as he's had an interest in traveling the surface.

Spider'd Tavra destroys the flute and its revealed that Tavra's only barely alive because of the spider puppeting her dying body, fight ensues and the body switch happens. They end up making another flute with the same capabilities out of fossils from the bird, which helps the Grottans briefly escape from an Arathim raid in the caves. Also, the current website timeline (which hasn't been updated since Song of the Dark Crystal came out two years ago) seems to suggest that this flute is the one that got passed down to Jen.

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What she stuck her hand up your bum and worked you just like the puppets?

It's not laziness. The true owners of an IP should not be constrained by the whims of licensed fanfiction authors.

Rofl

The maudras can train other gelflings who have the gift. The sog maudra, who is Naia and Gurjin's mother, is trying Naia. Kylan is being trained by his maudra.

I picked them up before the show, and it was the first Dark Crystal expanded universe content I'd consumed other than Creation Myths, and I enjoyed them. But a big part of that was all the lore it introduced me to. I'd be a lot more annoyed if I read them after the show, since so much doesn't line up. But if that kind of mental gymnastics doesn't bother you, then go ahead. It has some cool stuff we might not get to see in the show, like skekSa the mariner's behemoth.

Huh. Yeah that's not the same at all then. Naia and Kylan are practically just cameos in the show. Especially Kylan. And obviously they get word out by using the shard of the Crystal in the Duel Glaive to make magic fire internet. In the show that basically relied on every Gelfling just believing Rian. It sounds like the books put a magic spin on it, magical memory engrams, so there could be no debate.

The site has annoyed me with how it treats everything as neatly canon even when utterly incompatible. I wonder if the flute stuff could be retooled into a season 2 plot in some way.

They approved that "fanfiction" you utter dunce.

And yet the story they wanted to tell through the real deal evolved from that form.

Also, when Naia goes to rescue Gurjin from the castle, they are already using the reflector and have created zombified slave Gelfling and Podlings.

But plenty of the UK hail from a desert these days.

It sounds like it just can't be a weird take on a few events with a lot that's still loosely canon. Which kinda sucks. Still, like you say it may be an interesting font of Lore. Maybe future plot ideas.

Do the books lead any further than the show? Or do they too demand more to link up with the film?

Which means they were lazy.

I was wondering that on my rewatch of the movie
Why did they switch from zapping the Crystal to just reflecting its light?

I was wondering when the reflector and the poor husk Podlings would show up.

They have the magic fire internet in the books too, though each clan's flame of resistance comes with an etching telling the story of how its lit and when they all get lit and the clans come together at Stone in the Wood to battle the Skeksis, the Wall of Prophecy gets etched into being there and that's what scares the Skeksis into a retreat after Hunter gets killed.

Probably skekNa the slave master's idea to get usable slaves instead of poofing them.

More like the showrunners really wanted to do more with the three princess sisters and wanted to pull Tavra's story into that.

I hope skekNa comes back to the castle just pissed as fuck about the eye

Bold Gurjin!
>*sob* Bold Gurjin, I love it *sob*

Brave Hup!
>Hup!

Wise Brea!
>i-if you think so

Sweet Deet!
>awwww~

Cool Naia!
>hm *stares off into distance*

Literally Who Kylen!
>*nods* accurate and fair

Fun Tavra!
>Heck yeah!

Bitch Seladon!
>Uh... excuse me?!

Bland Rian!
>i r hero

I was originally going to draw this but nah

Ahhhh so the prophecy site is Stone in the Wood. I was wondering about that too. I hope they don't forget that in the show.

It seemed to me that the Stonewood symbol got replaced with the unified Gelfling symbol as well as the back wall getting the prophecy. Now I wonder how that'll happen in the show. If it happens. Dunno why, I just thought of Lore carving it out for some reason. Heck, other than that method how do the Gelfling even learn of the prophecy? The Mystics?

So what's the relation between Dreametched blossoms and the fire signal?

based and Accadaccapilled

I would think big fancy pants professional writers and show runners who are used to working with a dozen people could work with their hired lore and book guy to weave those stories back and forth more neatly.

You probably should have, it doesn't work well in text. It'd make for a cute sketch though.

Maybe the flute shit, Tavra as a spider, Amri, the prophecy, and some other things can be remixed into a new plot for season 2.

>You know you could also say its the perfect /pol/ show because its about a handful of psychotic rich assholes with huge noses who have made it heresy to so much as question them and keep the world oblivious to their corruption by keeping the races at odds with eachother.
Holy shit...

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>That's it! I'm taking your skin!

I haven't read the fourth book, which came out just days before AoR dropped. But the third book ends when the all-maudra is killed, so I don't imagine the books will go much further than the show.

I get the feeling the Prophecy Wall could definitely be a Season 2 premiere episode thing.

That’d actually be hilarious to see one of them confront The Emperor about losing support and business because of his bull crap.

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It makes me think Lee knows something we don't. Like his missing plot threads get addressed in season 2, and that could let his "version" be sort of like an in universe myth of those days. Eventually.

It's not like he was kicked out of the show or anything. He still works on lore, the Podling language, and I have no idea what else. He seems happy enough from the making of doc.

I think he's just happy he played a role in developing a lot of the lore that got used in the show.

>hhhMMMmmmmm

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You know they already have how Tron Uprising ended, right?

They do?

I wonder if Chamberlain dealing with the locksnake was a callback to people thinking SkekSil in the original movie had hypnotic powers when he was pleading with Jen

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was.

Around Skeksis...uh, what rhymes with skeksis?

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turn your backsies

>Ung gets the help of the most competent skeksis by being the only guy who isn't an asshole to him

>Ends with main villain summoning the fleet

Um, yeah?

Thay are.

You aren't.

Or better yet she put you into bondage and moved your arms and legs around like a puppet

You just have to get used to them. It's easiest to just learn the second half and think of the "skek" as a honorific.

skekSo is The Emperor.
skekSil is The Chamberlain
skekUng is The Garthim Master/Emperor
skekZok is The Ritual Master
skekVar is The General
skekTek is The Scientist
skekShod is The Treasurer
skekAyuk is The Gourmand
skekOk is The Scrollkeeper
skekLach Ts the Collector
skekMal is The Hunter
skekEkt is The Ornamentalist
skekNa is The Slavemaster
skekGra is The Heretic
skekLi is The Satirist
skekSa is The Mariner

Slept well, user?

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I finally watched the original movie yesterday and the Netflix show started playing immediately after. Being that its a prequel series, why do the Skeksis exist? Aren't they and the UrRu two separate halves of a whole that came to life when the Crystal broke in the first place? Why the fuck did they choose to make a prequel instead of just adapting the sequel that's been in development for more than a decade?

>Being that its a prequel series, why do the Skeksis exist?
... Because it happens after that?

Because the sequel had a really forced way of bringing the Skeksis and Mystics back that felt like a copout, so doing a prequel made more sense in terms of being able to tell a story with them still around.

Also, the show gets to the truth of the urSkek split about halfway in. The opening narration of the show is an unreliable one.

>spoiler
Because that was already made into a comic and its plot is kind of shit

From what I heard, the sequel comics were kind of dumb. I don't know all the lore, but in the show some ayy lmaos promised to babysit the crystal while Augrah explored the universe, but they fucked around with the crystal and got themselves split in half.

The crystal breaks a good thousand trine before the series/movie take place. The Skeksis have been around for ages.

They're not doing the sequel because the sequel script was fucking garbage.

Almost like they should have dealt more with the Split than harping on things we already knew.

>... Because it happens after that?
What?

>Also, the show gets to the truth of the urSkek split about halfway in. The opening narration of the show is an unreliable one.
Ahhhhhhhhhh, okay. I was going to watch it anyway I was just confused.

That's a shame, but the movie did have a really nice ending.

I was until you all decided to stand there and watch me sleep.

Gra-chan is my favorite

Me too
He is a wondrous boy

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Some guys are already trying to build some for cosplay purposes

Are you just going to stand there or are you going to raw me?

So who replaces skekSo after skekSil lost the trial by stone?

SkekUng is TRIAL BY STOOOOOONE skek

skekUng

Can we all take a moment to appreciate the sheer stupidity of the Skeksis throwing Seladon away so quickly? It wasn't even normal for their moral alignment to tell the truth that much.

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What is an All Maudra to a God?

At that point they were too hopped up on crack-cum to care

What a savage bookworm

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Kylan made broth.

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You heard the man, it was time to harvest the herd. Who gives a shit about "political correctness" or manners. It's time to /bathe/ in essence and if that means strapping each and every one of the little midgets to the milking chair then that's just what they're gonna fucking do.

Work in the library system for about 3 years. Trust me, you'll get to the point where you just want to start stabbing motherfuckers, especially when they don't put the books back in order.

>tfw essence is yet another codeword for hollywood sex parties sacrificing children so they can bathe in innocent blood

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They don't need Gelflings when they're high on essence, and now Garthim are going to do all the heavy lifting for them. Gelflings are more useful as delicious essence.

I heard they had a island for that. Shame the guy in charge tripped and fell into a sheet necktie before he could give out the guest list. Simply strange coincidences I'm sure.

>tfw no scene where Gelflings and Poldlings are sitting and standing around the library reading and every so often a Gelfling screaming in terror runs by followed by him yelling about putting the book back where it came from and he's going to use their skull as a date stamper

I feel like he was gonna be a more important character than he ended up being but they just ran out of a space to really use him.

more like
>tfw no scene where the Scrollkeeper constantly has to chase away homeless podlings who just hang out in the library all day to jack off to the ancient pornographic tracts

>tfw he will never bond with Brea over rare texts

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Ah It's nice to see a fellow user from the library sector. You've never worked in the library until you've broken your first homless orgy or had to smell the sun dried shits of an asshole you camped out near the air conditioning unit and didn't have the damn decency to go out and do it in the fucking trees.

He's a book character. Was he more important there? Could he do his book plotline in s2? Was he just a weird cameo?

>"What do those freaks see in these things, the proportions are hideous and the style is so Gelfling"

He's going to regret that when he's reunited with his mystic.

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The worst thing, the picture implies he regrets it /now/.

What do you mean?

Don' t know why I thought it was skekVar. Haven't seen the movie in literal decades. Although Kira was one of my first boners ever as a wee tyke, so Deet and Brea are bringing up old repressed weird tingly feelings in my no-no place.

>No I'm not looking through the nudie books why do you ask I'm feeling very put-on and attacked right now!
>I was going to ask if you wanted some coffee.

they're very similar characters. the physical differences are there as well as the names but unless you pay close attention I don't fault someone for not noticing

You know, he's pretty sexy for a Gelfling. It's the Asian face.

skekUng The Garthim Master.

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He's staring at the essence with regret. Not the glee that he would have taken it before. Hell he guzzled the stuff down without a care or thought, but right here and now, he's actually thinking of the gelfling it came from. He's considering the fact that he killed someone in order to get it, not someTHING, someONE.

She was probably the first Gelfling he's met in a long time that was just so damn enthusiastic about his work and yet so eager that she wasn't in fear of him. To him it was probably the same way SkekTek felt about his bird, a friend that wouldn't judge him or betray him for power.

And then he killed her just to live a little bit longer.

but essence extraction wasn't a thing in the screen cap user posted.

I was talking about the picture posted by the previous user

...Nuthin' but vexes

That even the most repulsive creatures on Thra bathe

The secret was already out. What use do they have for puppets anymore? They'd be nothing but middlemen.

The little bird dies and that's when he snaps

>most repulsive creatures
But podlings don't bathe unless made to.

those retardville ones didn't

Hup and Aughra's housekeeper clearly kept themselves in order

That is why Podlings are below even the Skeksis, they are barely creatures

They established that with Scrollkeeper getting hugged by Brea, by Aughra sticking her eye in to check him out, and by Skekekt crying on his shoulder, that he's incredibly attractive by Skeksis standards

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SkekOk is the non-threatening nice guy everyone latches onto
SkekMal FUCKS

I thought Aughra was just washing her eye

Nah she wanted to see dick and so did I

Those swords are great

Getting a good eyeful of the good stuff after staring at the stars for so long

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Did he even have any junk down there, or do i have to rewatch that scene in slowmotion to look for a giant bird dick?

Loosen a chain on the crystal. When the scientist goes to check it out, push him down the hole.

This is essence enhanced Scientist. He'd just turn around and bitchslap you senseless until he pulled off a handle from his machine and finished you off with a savage beating that started with your anus and ended out of the back of your skull.

Nothing definitively visible on any of them in that scene

Hot

Seduce SkekTek

Nothing to see, unfortunately. Headcanon says that all genetalia is internal.

Was he supposed to be gay? He felt gay.

They probably dont even have "genitals". They are most likely genderless AYY bird monsters that cant reproduce. They at most have something down there that lets them pee 3 streams of piss, and maybe a butthole.

I imagine that if they could have sex, they'd be having giant orgies constantly. But they dont seem to ever do anything sexual whatsoever. They probably find sexual reproduction disgusting, and something left to the lesser races.

canon/art world book says they're an "uncomfortable mix of male and female"

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Was the blinking and facial expressions all done with the actual puppets, or was it CGI? Sometimes Deet blinked or smiled and it looked like CGI.

Or am I just retarded.

The "making of" special said they did use CGI for blinking. They showed a clip of the old movie alongside an version with the eyeblinks edited in for comparison to people when pitching the show to help get an idea of what the series would have been like.

I don't work at one, i just volunteered with a D and D camp for a couple summers that used a room at the local branch. I was shocked at how much the library was just a nasty hobo shelter during the day.I'm glad we found somewhere safer for the kids to play desu. They need a bouncer at the library. the worse part is in pinko Cali, you can't even throw them out for looking at porn as long as they use headphones and don't openly fap. So you have every public terminal occupied with some seedy hobo on a headset looking at (surprisingly often gay) porn.
even if you don't go into full tinfoil territory, anagathic treatment using young blood and organs is already well underway research wise. Pituitary glands are also being explored for such purposes. But lore wise, the essence is shown to have limited and short lived restorative powers, so for all we know, it just mostly feels good. Old guys love coke for similar reasons: a brief feeling of restorative youth.

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No wonder some of them wanted to wait for him to get back before fighting.

It's a 5 hour old post, but my name is Jeremy, and my younger cousins names are James, Josh, Justin, Jessie, Johnny.

Creative family

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SONO CHI NO SADAME

>zombified slave Gelfling and Podlings
Hold on, I thought you can't zombify a gelfling.

I don't think we know for sure. The extractor or whatever it's called in the movie is an upgraded version of the one from the series. So it could be possible podlings would get poof'd like gelflings if they got put into the old extractor or that gelflings could get zombiefied like podlings if put into the new extractor.

What happens if a gelfling drinks essence? What happens if you drain a gelfling thats had lots of essence? Do you get super essence?

Let's look at what is essence is which in this case is pure life force. So I imagine it'd have the same restorative effects om gelfling as on skeksis or other living things.

Skeksis had zombified gelfling slaves in books. It's not a low possibility that we might see them in Season 2.

Birdbro will be used to make crystal bats

>What the fuck happened to science boy?

Wow, the sentient animals hes been experimenting on and kept locked in tiny cages for years on end want him dead? Who da thunk it!

Someone made amazing Garthrim cosplay

Then how come the Skeksis never tried absorbing Aughra's essence since she's the physical manifestation of Thra?

I take it you didn't watch all the episodes

Haven't seen the series desu, only seen the movie and read the genesis and sequel stories, plan to watch the series later on

your question will get answered in the series

It's a major spoiler issue in the show. I'd suggest you'd better leave these threads and come back after you've done watching it.

UrSkeks should've minded their own business and not used Thra as a prison world

Wait till everyone is gone then run for my fucking life and fake my death

Fresh bread.

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