The Dark Crystal Prequel Series Coming To Netflix
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In case you weren't impressed enough by the sheer scale of this production...
So, how much of the Gelfling genocide is going to be up on screen?
The writing is pretty much on the wall from the original film.
For all intents and purposes, this is a Holocaust prequel. Which is interesting for what is, technically, a children's series.
I recently re-watched the original film, 35 years since my last viewing. It was a beautiful looking piece (stunningly so, when it came to the Skeksis council sections), but the tiny sliver of the world. its mythos and the characters, it showed really does undermine it.
Having never explored the larger world, since built in the comics etc, I hope that the series helps add the depth to the original it always desperately needed
Hugo - mmmmmmmmmm?
The writing is pretty much on the wall from the original film.
For all intents and purposes, this is a Holocaust prequel. Which is interesting for what is, technically, a children's series.
I recently re-watched the original film, 35 years since my last viewing. It was a beautiful looking piece (stunningly so, when it came to the Skeksis council sections), but the tiny sliver of the world. its mythos and the characters, it showed really does undermine it.
Having never explored the larger world, since built in the comics etc, I hope that the series helps add the depth to the original it always desperately needed
Hugo - mmmmmmmmmm?
I imagine it took a while for he Skeksis to exterminate the Gelflings. They first need to make the Gartham, which are their shock troops, since there are only a dozen or so Skeksis at this time (ten at the start of the film). Plus this Darkening has turned the countryside around the Crystal into a wasteland. In this current show, their is still green grass, trees, and flowing water. The War lasted over a hundred years as it started around 800 years after the Crystal was cracked, and Jen and Kira were still relatively young when they became the last of their kind reuniting in the 1,000th year after the Crystal was Cracked.
Age of Resistance seems to be the prelude to the Gartham War.
Age of Resistance seems to be the prelude to the Gartham War.
Anyone senses a Demolition Man vibe with the idea that the Skeksis were benevolent acting just like Cocteau from that movie and Rian is like Edgar Friendly who can see there is greed, corruption, abuse of power and all that to the so called benevolent leader and the gelflings are like the scraps from that movie?
True, but it varies with each writer. Beth Elderkin is certainly the one I trust the most among them.
Take a listen to the gorgeous main title theme!
I'm afraid I don't like it much. It doesn't have a clear melody -- it's mostly just two back-and-forth notes very richly orchestrated. It's well-done wallpaper, rather than a real theme. I got bored with it halfway through and stopped listening. I'd have preferred it if they'd kept Trevor Jones's unforgettable motifs from the original.
IGN has given it an 8.6, their biggest complaint is that they thought it went to big compared to the movie
And even a prequel is still a sequel; even if it's set earlier, it's still a subsequent piece of the narrative and builds on what the earlier work established. So there's no reason to expect it to be smaller.
Netflix also likely gave the show a comparatively larger budget than the original movie ever got (in adjusted dollars). It makes perfect sense that they would “go bigger” in every respect possible.