Thanks man!!

That’s really cool! I must have Skeksis in my blood! Not sure how my parents would feel about that though! ;)

LOL Maybe you should play the Slave Master in Season 2 or something, that'd be pretty cool

@@gord.w.p i would sell half my organs to be involved in season 2. I love puppetry and have a couple of muppets around... so yeah, sign me up!

I wish I, myself, _was_ able to sign you up, but sadly, I am not The Jim Henson Company, lol

Gordwhimlpattes such is life. I guess I’ll just have to start a hugely successful muppet KZfaq channel and get their attention that way.

the two definitely make a wonderful team. the series complements the film beautifully.

Amen

David Pizzo ? Not sure what that refers to?

The Dark Crystal Conjunction happy to throw ideas up!

it surely was! Fingers crossed for a second season!

@@darke2099 yeah

agreed, i did kind of wish that some more elements of the original score had been used. Or just referenced more heavily. I do like the new soundtrack, but maybe in a second series we might get a bit more of the original flavour back?

Carly Crays Honestly, grab one and give it a go! You may find a new hobby to boot! The sculpting is pretty good!

@@darke2099 any good tutorials?

Amyable Antics yeah! The detail is great but totally wasted!

ok, i can do that! well, everything NOT currently in storage.

James Andersen thanks man!! Love ya work!

Thanks very much! the more the merrier! Glad you enjoyed the video!

Hup is wonderful, initially i thought he was going to annoy me, but then he really grew on me.

AKSBSU oh absolutely, I feel pretty certain that Jim would have been incredibly proud of the team making the series and would have been fascinated by the technological advances. He was always ready to embrace new tech, and develop it if it didn’t exist.

It makes me so sad to think about all the people who aren't around to see Age of Resistance.

Magnus Danger Magnus thank you mate! And honestly no bullshit, I learnt a tonne if the style and flourish and showmanship from you! Your energy and sense of style is magnificent! Sometimes I worry that these videos are a bit too serious.

@@darke2099 Aw! Thank you Quinny! You flatter me. On the point about seriousness though, not at all! It's very rare to find earnest talk about this business that gets into the grease-soaked gears of the matter. There are a hundred videos and articles that never get past the "do your best and never give up" platitude level of explanation and advice. I love talking and hearing about the hard graft, occasionally ugly nuts and bolts part of this business and these discussions are rare. Don't change a thing. Great stuff. I'd be a fan of this content even if I'd never met you.

Eric Nierstedt cannot argue at all. The film is fantasy tropes and relatively simplistic storytelling. The series gets time to be nuanced and allow characters to grow and develop.

Phoenix Dawn it’s a long way above average isn’t it?! Such a spectacular show! So much imagination!

@@darke2099 Yes and realised that imagination with sheer technical brilliance from props to sets to puppets to puppeteering to voice acting. So much went into this!

RedwoodTheElf pretty sure the 50 year/trine time period was mentioned in official publicity stuff. But yeah the ruins do seem to challenge that idea. Maybe time is different there? Or maybe the prophecy is already hidden there? Hard to know.

we can only hope that they have gotten the numbers they needed to, to greenlight a second season. it would likely be cheaper to do it now as the characters, props and sets are all buily, so hopefully they cna recognize that a s bonus and push forward!

Provided they take their time to make it perfect I don't want another GOT ending to fuck another of my beloved worlds.

I just hope we get at least one more season. I would love that story to be told in full. It’s so good it deserves all the time it needs!

I certainly loved it and i can only hope there's more to come!

Fair call, though i have to take the film as a product of its time. Remember its a fantasy coming out in 1982, just on the tail of the 70's where film-making was often quite slow and ponderous. This one is definitely all about being a think-piece more than an action spectacle. That said, i really loved the new series. Its got a heap to love about it, great characters, amazing sets and "locations", a wonderfully complex and engaging plot… It's a pretty much perfect companion piece to the film, and i imagine it will bring in a bunch of new fans to the world of thra

The Dark Crystal Conjunction they absolutely smashed it! Creative, beautiful and inspiring!

it all comes down to different tastes, i though Pegg and Isaacs were great. i thought Aughra was spectacular. For me it doesn't QUITE match the really somber tone of the original movie, but i thought it brough it to life and added so much to the world that i didn't care. If you tried to do 10 hours of the level of heft that the original movie had you'd be bored to tears. its very very slow and ponderous. This, to me is a more modern approach to storytelling and something that is telling a story about life, about war and about fighting back. The movie is about prophecy, rituals and survival. different strokes for different folks.

Andrew Malcolm I think the voice actors are spectacular, all of them

You are really a minority in thinking this way or you haven’t seen it and trying to troll.

I barely noticed any fizzgig, and there was only one scene of a Skeksis urinating to show how disgusting they are. The voice cast was amazing imo and the puppetry was even better than the original. Are you sure you watched the same series as everyone else?

if this is anything to go by, yes. www.amazon.com.au/Daredevil-Season-Blu-ray-Adam-Kane/dp/B01NBB73O7/ref=asc_df_B01NBB73O7/?tag=googleshopdsk-22&linkCode=df0&hvadid=341743456695&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8276886079711049460&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9072340&hvtargid=pla-745991357451&psc=1 not sure on how long they wait. but yes, likely this will be on DVD eventually. or you could pay MUCH less, and get netflix, download them all and watch them at your leisure.

Yeah, I do need 4k HDR bluray of this!

Michael Dunn 1.2.1.3 that’s fair enough that you feel that way, I love them both for different reasons. The original is a dark beautiful standalone story, the series is dark, emotional and world building on a grand scale. Different strokes for different folks.

@@darke2099 yeah you are a I was really disappointed when they didn't have the original theme song and some of the scenes I didn't like I wish they had to be like this scenes from the original like they should show the spider taking the scientist I out instead of having a black screen I don't like that kind of stuff it's pouring you need action and the sacred chamber was a little bit different and the throne room was a little bit different to and what I noticed it didn't have a centerpiece along that that pyramid above the curtains and had at entrance frame it looked exactly like the one from the sacred chamber so you can tell from there that was a big mistake

@@darke2099 I've already watched all of the Netflix series of the Dark Crystal it was okay that I really didn't like the part when the scientist got punished they really should have made the scene felt like this scene from the original same with some of the other scenes

Michael Dunn 1.2.1.3 Ive got the last episode yet to watch. But I still enjoyed it all! I think there’s a lot of great moments throughout and I love that the gelflings got a chance to show what their cultures were like. I would love another however many episodes, to tell even more of the story! Ok it isn’t going to be to everyone’s taste, but I thought it was a LOT better than I was afraid it might be!

The movie is better for sure but the show was good, they should have done 8 episodes instead of 10, definitely some time killers in there. And some stuff didn't make much sense but still pretty good

I'm fully with you there. the first half season i have seen didn't feel like it was going to leave time for a complete end to this chapter. I feel like we could have a few more seasons…or "Ages of" before the ultimate fall of the Gelfing empires. And i'd love that. I'd love this to be an ongoing story that chronicles the end of that proud people and the slow destruction of Thra. I also love that quote from Bird. I do believe that the method used to tell a story isnt the genre at all. Animated films can be drama, horror, comedy, action…whatever. and i'd love to see puppetry treated the same way. Have you seen any of the singaporean Puppet action shows? They're amazing! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iduHa7CX1pjNZKc.html

@@darke2099 OMG, yes! Thunderbolt Fantasy is AMAZING!!! I have been waiting for someone to localize/redub this for American audiences, and every year at anime conventions I look for it, but it seems that it's not going to be released here anytime soon. I wish more series would be made like this, but the ultimate factor is how accepting would the audiences be? Niche fandoms can and do exist and allow some IPs to flourish for a while, but I can only imagine the budgets of things like Thunderbolt Fantasy and even this recent Dark Crystal effort, being a bit out of reach for a lot of would be creators to attempt.

I skipped Dumbo, it looked really weird and unpleasant. i have no desire to watch it at all. I loved the Lion King animated so this film really bugged me at how completely empty and useless it felt. It's pretty and as a technical achievement, impressive. but as a story and as musical its a really empty experience. Aladdin was better, but still felt like it missed the mark by a wide margin. And now we get Lady and the Tramp coming soon, 101 Dalmations again, how long until it's the live action remake of Sword in the Stone?

it certainly feels like something that has been made with love and care for th original. Its large, expansive, challenging and surprising. It's not just a "lets expand on the ideas of the original and tell an obvious story based on some of the plot points" thing… its about making a huge world and letting it breathe. its building up a whole ecosystem and society, so you know how much we have lost by the time the film rolls around. I really REALLY dug it.

and yes, i'm a huge fan of all things Henson, i adored both the storyteller series, Love all the Muppets and also was a huge fan of the Creature Shop just as creative place! Love me some Turtles (1990 movie especially) and am just sad i never got to act in Farscape, that show was SO underrated!

@@darke2099 I also dig Muppets, Fraggles and Dinosaurs

SpiderPig2904 hmmm 8 or more? No Garthim master in the first 5 eps. Not sure on the treasurer. But new Skeksis and Ur Ru are introduced. There’s an least 8 I can recall. Scientist, collector, General, emperor, chamberlain, and more?

@@darke2099 Damn. I liked the treasurer. But I know that the gourmand, my favorite skeksis, is appearing, and was his voice actor, I think it was Harvey Fierstein, loyal to his original voice in the first one?

Its pretty good, maybe not as pompous, But Harvey does a good job of embracing the character… also as these characters are 50 years younger maybe their voices will age? He's good. I dont recall seeing the treasurer at all in the first 5 eps sorry.

Glenn Saunders it’s nice and fairly understated, I might have liked a little more of the original score referenced, but I think it’s appropriate for the world. It doesn’t have quite the same sense of weirdness, but it’s still beautiful in its own way?

Thanks guys! Its something i'm getting more and more comfortable with. I know it aint the prettiest face int he world, but hopefully the opinions and thoughts behind it are enough to keep people watching… :)

shadowseer07 it really is amazing! I can’t wait for next week so I can watch the last 5 episodes! I’m So damn impatient for it! There’s a few incredible things I didn’t mention in here that I want everyone to see for themselves! :)

If anything the series goes much, much darker than the film.

As T Electronix said, yea, they went darker and more adulyt than the movie did, which i thinkis smart, because they know their audience is mostly going to be the adults who saw the original film. they dont need to keep it too kid friendly.

Its Tarantino at his most self involved, He's self referential, navel gazing inot the Hollywood lifestyle, and then re-writing history to achieve some level of self satisfaction at changing the world. I honestly cannot think of a person less well suited to making Star Trek films...

definitely way WAY too long. The tension built in some scenes is great and really palpable, but then it gets let back out again and eventually you're just left feeling tired and bored.

Thats really not cool. And it wouldn't be the first time that Hollywood has just straight up ripped someone off. It sucks that its so blatant though!

That really is the heart of what i found so underwhelming about it. Why? What was the point of making it again exactly the same? why not follow Sarabi or Nala's story more? Why not explore a different aspect of it. But in doing it basically shot for shot, it makes it a weird lifeless beautiful nature documentary with a 90's Elton John soundtrack.

I'm glad that it did work for an audience, and i'm glad you found that nostalgic hit in it. It just never quite caught me and i wish it had.

a succinct summation of my feelings. Its beautiful and technically astonishing. but entirely pointless and feels a bit meaningless.