I get that it's an action scene with puppets and all, but I'd enjoy the show a lot more if the camera would be still during the action scenes, it hurts my eyes and gives me a headache with the camera operator jumping up and down with a handheld!
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (TV Series)
By Gelfling Hand... (2019)
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Seladon's protest vote
tamsin-parker-262-53892527 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Seladon faces the fallout of her mother's murder at skekVar's sword and chooses to side with him, either in fear of facing the Skeksis' wrath or because she doesn't know their true nature or both, skekSil returns to the Castle of the Crystal in abject humiliation, and our heroes finally come together with the common goal of stopping the Skeksis and end the spread of the Darkening. Not my favourite episode. The scene of the Gourmand, skekAyuk, taking a leak in a corridor was nauseating, although Louise Gold's puppetry is terrific. We barely got to know her character in the original film and she really shines, here. I can't believe I'm saying this but I almost pity skekSil here. Usually skekTek is the one who has it hard, but ever since he got rewarded he went full Dr. Birx and ignored the consequences in favor of being included. All this for a bird. However, skekTek would be aware of the danger of a Gelfling uprising, but since he hates skekSil for getting his eye gouged out, his jeering is understandable.
It is so good, Yes?
matiasbockerman22 September 2019
It All Falls Apart Here
jstorm-5259416 December 2023
Without a doubt, the potential here for something moving, something beautiful and something unique was immense. However, bit by bit, things don't make sense and it starts to come apart and this episode was the turning point where it all goes into the toilet, literally.
If the Gelflings are not able to even injure even one of the Skeksis during a so called "uprising" at the castle, then what they were doing there as guards in the first place? What was their plan? To just go charging into the main chamber and take them all out at once? Wouldn't it make more sense to lour one away and overwhelm him/her and then have a plan for when they send someone to see what happened to the first one? Nope. All we know is that there was an uprising and all the castle guards were drained. Wow, what an epic battle and a heroic effort- yawn.
If the producers had put half as much thought and effort into the storyline making any sense as they did with their little gross-out scenes, maybe they wouldn't have been cancelled.
Give the audience some credit next time. The Skeksis are easily recognized as repugnant by their behavior alone and their philosophy. There is no need to make us watch them urinate on walls to show us they are disgusting. This program is like watching a classic film after some college kids got their hands on it and edited in some scenes from Animal House. Total and complete disrespect of the audience, that's what that is.
Footnote to any competent and caring parents out there, this show is NOT intended for children. No one under the age of 13 or 14 should be permitted to watch this.
If the Gelflings are not able to even injure even one of the Skeksis during a so called "uprising" at the castle, then what they were doing there as guards in the first place? What was their plan? To just go charging into the main chamber and take them all out at once? Wouldn't it make more sense to lour one away and overwhelm him/her and then have a plan for when they send someone to see what happened to the first one? Nope. All we know is that there was an uprising and all the castle guards were drained. Wow, what an epic battle and a heroic effort- yawn.
If the producers had put half as much thought and effort into the storyline making any sense as they did with their little gross-out scenes, maybe they wouldn't have been cancelled.
Give the audience some credit next time. The Skeksis are easily recognized as repugnant by their behavior alone and their philosophy. There is no need to make us watch them urinate on walls to show us they are disgusting. This program is like watching a classic film after some college kids got their hands on it and edited in some scenes from Animal House. Total and complete disrespect of the audience, that's what that is.
Footnote to any competent and caring parents out there, this show is NOT intended for children. No one under the age of 13 or 14 should be permitted to watch this.
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