if only i have looked after my first edition better.
(to be fair, it has been through many years of neglect/house moves etc .. )
― mark e, Thursday, 18 May 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
and its only the back sleeve page thats bent, the book itself is not that bad actually.
― mark e, Thursday, 18 May 2017 20:16 (six years ago) link
i will totally hunt for a messed up 'reading quality' copy
― fish louse (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 18 May 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
I will buy all this book
http://io9.gizmodo.com/a-look-inside-the-definitive-book-on-bringing-the-dark-1796466091
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 23:44 (six years ago) link
Oh my god yes. My Henson library is gonna need its own shelf soon.
― President Buttstuff (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 03:48 (six years ago) link
Okay so...
https://io9.gizmodo.com/dark-crystal-age-of-resistance-releases-first-photos-a-1831144382
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 December 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
Game of Thrones’ Emmanuel is playing Deet
No word on who’s playing Deep Woods Off though
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 17 December 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
I'll reserve judgment until I've actually seen it, but my general feeling about this project is 'no'.
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Monday, 17 December 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
10 parts seems a little much
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 17 December 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
Update
http://www.animationmagazine.net/top-stories/netflix-dates-dark-crystal-age-of-resistance-premiere-new-images-released/
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
I mean...visually, it seems pretty close to the mark. Not crazy about all of the celebrivoices. I dunno, man, I just don't think I need this.
― 5 favrite kind of animal. jaguar. giraffe. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link
If nothing else, the money is all there on the screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSV42j8lccg
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Thursday, 30 May 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
A little heavy on the fan service, but looks very nice
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 30 May 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
Anyone else started this yet?
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 31 August 2019 01:35 (four years ago) link
started tonightflippin gorgeous, hard not to just float into pure nostalgic glee
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 August 2019 05:55 (four years ago) link
Two episodes in and have to say it's excellent so far, if a little dark for my nine year old.
Looks absolutely stunning
― groovypanda, Saturday, 31 August 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
peeper beetle D:
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 31 August 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
guys i’m OBSESSEDit’s really really good, super dark, the story is really well crafted and i think everyone should watch italso my GOD there is some creepy shit in this
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 September 2019 04:18 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I'm watching it sans kids now
― groovypanda, Sunday, 1 September 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
I can’t stop looking at their tongues.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 1 September 2019 23:49 (four years ago) link
Just rewatched the movie for the first time since, uh, 1983 I guess - all I remembered was the jump scare with the little dog. Was expecting something shonky and dated, but it’s so fabulous! What a great surprise. Still can’t quite believe this passed for mainstream entertainment when I was a kid.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 2 September 2019 00:12 (four years ago) link
xp one episode in the can and that's all i can think about. i haven't watched the movie in forever but i feel like that wasn't there?
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 2 September 2019 05:05 (four years ago) link
it was thereyou need to get over the tongues imoit will free you
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 September 2019 05:22 (four years ago) link
rewatched the movie today & goddamn the original score is a thing of beauty. the worst part is still poor Jen, stuck describing everything we already see happening in the most awkward way :( but Kira sprouting wings is still one of my fave moments. and the intro of Aughra. also Oz’s puppetry of Aughra & Chamberlain is incredible when you study it. all these subtle movements that create such an incredible canvas for the voice actors to go to town. Dennen’s Chamberlain is still amazing to memade me appreciate how much the new series ties so much together. like filling in the backstory on the scientist’s light-up eye, the machiavellianism of the chamberlain, and the mystic/skeksis schism; or expands on ideas - like the gelfling throne Kira sits on, or podling culture, the origin of the garthrim.and man i see even more how great a job Pegg does with dovetailing into Dennen’s original voicework as Chamberlain. It’s really something.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 September 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
and all that natural-looking light! ugh. the staging & production has so much depth you just fall into it even when you try to hone in one a detail
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 September 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
goddamn the original score is a thing of beauty.OTM
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 00:53 (four years ago) link
also Oz’s puppetry of Aughra & Chamberlain is incredible when you study it.
As much as I deeply love Jim Henson and all of his work, Oz was the true savant of that crew.
― Time to Make a Pizza Pact! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 11:50 (four years ago) link
I have to say, y'all itt are doing a solid job of undercutting my skeksisism re: this undertaking.
― Time to Make a Pizza Pact! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 11:52 (four years ago) link
you really should give it a shot
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 14:26 (four years ago) link
I’m really enjoying this (7 eps in, I think). Probably enjoying it more than the film, which I never had as strong nostalgic links to as, say, Labyrinth.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
Hello parasite carrying an eyeball, why am I sympathising with you?
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
don't mess with skexis
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
i fancy watching this. not a huge fan of the film (although top marks for terrifying me as a child) but it's just nice to see some good old fashioned puppetry on the go in this world of cgi muck
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
xpost lol
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
Lookit, when it doesn't land I'm generally content to let it lie but my unheralded coinage of 'skeksisism' upthread was solid imho
― Time to Make a Pizza Pact! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
rewatched the movie today & goddamn the original score is a thing of beauty. the worst part is still poor Jen, stuck describing everything we already see happening in the most awkward way :(
Watched the movie with my 7 year-old the other night (well most of it, got a little too creepy for him) but that was his thought as well, "is he going to narrate everything we already know the whole movie?".
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
What's wrong with being skeksy?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
xpost lol, yeah it’s like you find yrself saying to the tv “HEY JEN: WE KNOW”
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
I'm Skeksy and I Know It
― Melon Musk (Leee), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
let's talk about skeks
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
Bringing skeksi back
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
twitter took that through to its logical conclusion
While watching #DarkCrystalAgeOfResistance I rewrote the lyrics to SexyBack from The Chamberlain's perspective. As you do. #DarkCrystal pic.twitter.com/rlUjHBiQpW— Sarah Doran (@sarahisnothere) August 31, 2019
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 01:49 (four years ago) link
I was kind of iffy until the third episode, but I'm definitely draw in now. Hup + Deet are my favorites so far, and I think part of my fondness for Deet in particular is how poorly Missandei was treated as a character in GOT.
― Melon Musk (Leee), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
HUP SPOON 2020
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
OMG!!!! I know a lot of you have mentioned how dark the series gets, but I didn't expect all the feels.
― Aphex Twinge (Leee), Friday, 6 September 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
right? v emotional
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 September 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
The Heretic!
BTW one reason I love Deet is how bright eyed she is, and how, because Grottans live in caves, their pupils are perpetually dilated, and so she is also literally bright eyed because everything is bright to her.
― Aphex Twinge (Leee), Saturday, 7 September 2019 08:10 (four years ago) link
yes! that was such a specific & beautifully realized detail
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 September 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
the season is so rich with detail storywise & it is clear by the end that there’s so much more to tell, the idea of more seasons is v exciting & i did not expect to feel that way going in
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 September 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
Get that season 2 confirmed, Netflix!
― Johnny Grottan from the Skeks Pistols (Leee), Monday, 9 September 2019 05:36 (four years ago) link
*too
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
yeah I learned a lot of cool stuff from that!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 12 September 2019 02:03 (four years ago) link
it was enthralling!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 12 September 2019 02:47 (four years ago) link
i love that the whole Froud family is involved
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 12 September 2019 03:27 (four years ago) link
Something to be Froud of.It's nicely done anyway.I think I need to give the original a watch again. & hope there's more or similar coming.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 12 September 2019 06:27 (four years ago) link
Just finished watching this last night, over about a week. I am a big fan of the original's charm despite its slowness; my wife could take it or leave it, but we both LOVED this. This is fantasy world-building like you rarely get to see in entertainment of this nature, and the puppetry and set building is unbelievably gorgeous. If there isn't a season 2 it will be a crime!
I also don't think that I have ever seen another actor take over a role that had originated with someone else 35 years prior and knock it out of the park the way Simon Pegg did here. The whole voice cast was great but his performance was next level.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 13:17 (four years ago) link
otm
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
Mostly, I loved this. It’s flawed, a few too many forced references to the original for my tastes, and the skekses said the word “essence” about 50 times too many, but damn.. beautiful. I have a fair amount of insider knowledge on sets and props, and I can tell you that these people knocked it out of the park. Really, the first time in a while I felt like I was seeing something new and surprising in the classic fantasy genre.
― Manitobiloba (Kim), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
Fucksake ☹️
netflix: hey guys here's the dark crystal age of resistance hope you like itcritics: holy shit this is goodfans: holy shit this is goodemmys: here's a fukken awardnetflix: it is with regret we cancel the show 😔— 𝙳𝙰𝙽 [♥️] 𝙴𝙽𝚃𝚆𝙸𝚂𝚃𝙻𝙴 (@Garcian_Smith) September 21, 2020
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 05:06 (three years ago) link
assholesassholesassholesso mad about this
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 05:15 (three years ago) link
I guess it was fairly expensive to make?
But such a shit fucking decision when you know they're going to bankroll a plethora of awful shows and have already renewed dumb shit like Another Life
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 09:25 (three years ago) link