The Puppet Show Within A Puppet Show Scene | The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance 

It's all about money. They called Age Of Resistance "an expensive failure." If it had a larger audience (like that of Stranger Things), I'm certain that it would have been renewed. Stranger Things is exceptionally popular and nigh impossible with which to compete.

it's sad because they won an emmy too

Hbo discovery needs to get this

Apparently it was super-expensive and difficult to make with all the puppets. Still, it was amazing while it lasted

@@Maldoror2112 Fuck Stranger Things, i have never been so obsessed with something like The Dark Crystal that it made me want to create a story based on the series!!!

Brother knows how to sell an action shot.

He's been waiting hundreds of trine to debut his first puppet, he's gotta leave an impression.

What a nerd, I love him

That’s Barnaby Dixon and Dan Chick!

@@TiboFPS Dabchick ^^

YES!! I believe that when they don’t show or just tease it’s so much better. The imagination will always be better than what ever they show this is just enough for the mind to work and imagine it happening haha

i expect it to be more like marionette puppet tbh

Sillymation Studios well they were designed by Barnaby Dixon, it’s his style and honestly I think it would’ve been a hassle and a half if they had to use string puppets

Tetsu Hatano i am expecting like the got a small stage etc but i think it’ll be weird

@@Jevyyy_18 Instead, UrGoh acted as the stage itself. These two had a long time to rehearse this show for a singular audience, yet they still caused an unexpected fire. Oopsie! 😆

Clever foreshadowing.

I like it even better that The Heretic first made the puppet try to stamp it out.

I love how Yup just got Dropped like a sack of potatoes haha

I'm pretty sure it was unscripted and Barnaby just realized he could do it

@@maritimebard probably

GraGoh

@@BronzetheGolden I think his title as an Urskeks would be the Explorer, as it it ties the terms of Conqueror and Wanderer together

And here I just thought he was a pot head...

Even using shadow puppets

Now I see it. Hahaha!

The heretic is so immersed in their puppet show, it’s his puppet that looks down and is shocked that there is a fire. The puppet then tries to stomp the fire out. That was great comedy.

Joe they’ve probably practiced this show for hundred of thrine and didn’t want to break character over some sparks until it really got put of hand!

Greater Grievobeast 55 Even as it does get out of hand, he still uses the puppet, the following scene shows the puppet jumping up and down in shock using the sword now to extinguish the fire. The Heretic is just Loony.

Joe it’s why I love him XD

I was like "puppetry? Oh! of course!!!" That is how good the effects are in this series.

The moment when Gurjin hugs the Arathim after the battle is a close second.

Lisa Henson: THIS IS FOR YOU, DAD!

@mjkalasky Not Deet, she was the only one like YAY! xD

That 4th wall break lol

what an amazing story about their past-life before the darkening corrupted the Crystal of Truth.

And the puppeteering of barnaby Dixon just made it even more brilliant

Yea, this 2 characters are basically the funniest part of the series

Yup, so Henson-meta, it's brilliant.

It was phenomenal!

Agreed his daughter and team have done brilliantly with this show! I want merchandise posters now!

The puppeteer controling the 'mini puppet' is a guy called Barnaby Dixon, once you've seen some of his creations you can spot his style. ☺

@mjkalasky - Only Brea and Rian are annoyed, Deet loves it.

Because these were the only two who desired to return to their original form. The other Mystics feel the same, but their counterparts don't.

so cute

@Leo Jansen yeah

Daniel Ramsey I think it’s because of the psychedelics altering their consciousness. Heretic should have snuck a ton of it into the castle and seen what effect exposure might have had on the other skeksis; maybe some would have seen his perspective.

Elder, could also be the screw in the Heretics head, lol. Hope we learn how he got that.

I knew the moment the Gelfling puppet appeared, that style is just unmistakable!!

I thought the same when I saw the Gelfling! That's amazing.

So awesome Barnaby did this seen, it seemed familiar

THEY BROUGHT BARNABY?!??!! *WHY HASNT HE MENTIONED THAT ON HIS CHANNEL??!*

It first recognized it when the Gelfling puppet appeared. I was so happy!

I hate to say it but I think the series almost (almost!) surpasses the film.

T Electronix it surpasses it in terms of pacing. I love the film, but it has quite a few expository scenes that this show didn’t need give its...well...a multi episode show

@@stingerjohnny9951 Do you think this show surpasses the movie as it expands on the film's universe and gives us some answers? And what do you think of Henson's other fantasy film Labyrinth?

Johnlindsey289 oh absolutely. As a fan of the movie and subsequent media around it (books comics etc.). It’s amazing to see things from the expanded lore (hehe lore) on screen. As for Labyrinth...DANCE MAGIC DANCE!!! It’s a classic for me as well, less of an epic world and more of a beautiful, cheesy, but heartfelt film.

Yep it's 3 more years later, still sad about it

Eternal Sadness

Ohh.. I has forgotten this comment and now I remember it still hurts 😭

yumezaka He is the only Skeksis so far to genuinely respect Aughra and honor her. I wonder if he always did that or did he only do it after realizing the truth.

I guess they all did in the beginning (although it might have been a front), but yes I agree that the only one to genuinely do that now is SkekGra.

@@WorldWar2freak94 It seems like at first they liked her and meant well, but time exacerbated their worst traits. The scientist seems to have a genuine moment of hesitation before he brushes it off as "another time another world".

@@ryderninja Especially when Mother Augra reminds him that they used to be friends. You can just imagine them back in the day, the Scientist wanting to understand Thra and everything in it, Augra knows Thra, but she knows it from a mystical perspective and he wants to understand the science, of how everything works, so Augra encourages him to pursue his search for his truth, maybe even helped him with it sometimes

we do not deserve skekGra

BEHOLD HIS WONDER!!!!

He still has typical evil traits skeksis bare, it's just he has redefined them. you can tell its there still under the surface. It's just he stresses self control. His laugh, impatience, willingness to rebel against his fellow skeksis., over the top, self of pride, all these things are seen in other skeksis. He just chooses not to embrace it too much.

@@AngelEmfrbl I totally agree! This is seen a lot in the first meeting of SkekGra, where he even refers to Hup as a slave, multiple times. He was inherently created to show that he indeed has these negative aspects that all the Skeksis are known for, but acts differently on them. It kind of reminds me of when you meet a seemingly nice, intelligent person, and they turn out to be socially impolite at the worst times, showing their true feelings and colors. Whether or not this is because he's a junkie is up for debate, but I wouldn't put it past him. Overall, his character feels more life-like than the other skeksis, because he accurately shows how people can have both good, and bad opinions about their situation, and society around them. At the end of the day, it's even hard to decipher if he's a "good guy" or not. Sure, he stands behind the Gelfling Revolt, but his Skeksis way of thinking is very obviously embedded in his brain, which could stand for another social commentary on Nature vs. Nurture!

@@HijackTheJackal same mentality that dubiously divided the 7 clans is in him. But you see it come out against the skeksis.

Well, they already did a puppet peeing green explosive urine on Farscape. They are always geniuses

@@ChibiHoshiDragon wow!

a puppet show in a puppet show in a puppet show? Go all Russian nesting doll with it.

@@ryderninja whoa!

I’m sorry to say; if the show follows movie canon, something will have to happen to them since the opening narration of the movie says there are only ten skeksis/mystic pairs left. But I hope it won’t.

@@mondenkindqueen Chances are, they are probably dead.

@@manuelalbertoromero9528 or, if we're lucky, maybe they became whole

We never saw them at the convergence, when the urgo and skeksis were made while again. I don’t think they’ll live to see the end of the show :( my biggest question is how and when everyone will die

That's the trouble with a prequel. Maybe they get a noble death though. Like archer who sacrifices himself by killing his counter.

¿and? ¿Who is the voice of Who?

@@entretemaximoschile7032 Samberg does the voice for skekGra (the Skeksis Conqueror) and Hader is urGoh (the Mystic Wanderer).

And thank Barnaby Dixon (2:28 onward) ru-vid.com

Andy Samberg (heretic) and Bill Hader (wanderer)

Because it was prophetic. Just look what's happening now.

Money for the Jim Henson puppeteers for being Galflings, Skesis, Aughra, and maybe one Mystics to make or use

Its Dixon* lol.

@@sheriffsunshine916 I think that was the joke?????

Dabchick :)

Small correction - it's "when single shines the *triple* sun." The Great Conjunction is when all three of Thra's suns line up, remember? :)

@@NansJns oh yeah. my bad. sorry

​@@NansJns yes, and a little known fact is that the conjunctions are when the 3 suns of thra unite and shine a beam of light into the crystal. Another is that in thra's history there've been 3 great conjunctions set apart every 999 trine, the first was when the urskeks arrived in thra, the second was when the urskeks tried to purify themselves with the crystal and corrupted it which ended in them becoming urru and skeksis, and the third was when Jen reunited the fractured shard of the crystal with the crystal which purified it and reunited the urru and skeksis into urskeks

jkrfan7 they should be in a movie together

They have.

@@carlopannone5281 so you also want a Laser Cats movie?

I like to think that if there had been a second season, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry would have voiced SkekLi the Satirist and UrLii the Storyteller respectively. In my humble opinion, they would have absolutely rocked those roles!

It’s a badge of honor for anyone to be enlisted by the Jim Henson company to be part of a huge movie or TV series project!

That’s actually exactly who I thought of when I watched this, but I didn’t know it was actually his work

Yeah, barnaby is one of the best hand puppeter's i've ever seen.

Barnaby Dixon designed and did a few of those puppets, and thats one of his most famous designs. His original in that style was a glow in the dark insect puppet! But yeah its awesome and I love all his puppet work.

Leon Mallow pretty sure the original was Manu actually, the bug is the refined design.

@@inkyfingers317 ahhh true, true! I forgot about our little Tribal dancer friend. Yes, Manu came first, followed by the dancing bug.

Mostly some people who saw the movie was scared from the Skesis and what they did or saw the death of the Empore (crumble and turn into dust and Mystic burst into flame when the Skesis scientist fell to his death in the furnace)

The backstory presented in the show was a little too close to earths true history and the reptilians in charge of Hollyweird didn't like that it portrayed resistance and rebellion against their counterparts in the show (the skeksis obviously).

Do a search for "The Crystal Calls" on Netflix. You're welcome.

@@thedudeabides2531 I have already watched it. :D I just want a physical copy with tons of extras that I can watch and hold in my grubby little paws!

Sony will release it on blu-ray eventually

I would pay for a series release on dvd

@@Johnlindsey289 I certainly hope so! We've all been waiting for it for quite some time!

Apparently, it is.

@@slynthehedgehog8061 It *definitely* is, he's the puppeteer.

For me, that showed that the Skeksis weren't inherently evil - they CHOSE to be evil. Which is kinda worse tbh

@@BitterFlower I think it was in their nature. In a way though, it's more than being evil; it's the fact they are extremely egotistical and utterly self-absorbed. The Skeksis believe their lives are worth more than anyone else's.

Yeah! Go Wanderer, you're on fire! Wait...

😭

My second and third faves after Hup

@@Johnlindsey289 Hup's awesome too! I hope to see more of him if we get season 2

Yup it's more for teens and adult for it's complexity, dark themes, political intrigue of kingdoms and more

@@Johnlindsey289 I know six-year-old me would have loved it. That's how old I was when the movie came out and I made my parents take me to see it three times.

@@christophermoonlightproduction Really? you saw the movie in theaters as a kid and enjoys this series?

@@Johnlindsey289 Yes, I did.

Agree

I think that would be the general direction of the second season I think. I MEAN WHAT ELSE? HOW TO DO YOU CURE DEET? I WANT THE ROMANTIC SUBPLOT OF THE LOVE TRIANGLE TO BE RESOLVED GODDAMIT! By fixing the crystal it may cure the darkening. IT CAN SAVE DEET AND RIAN CAN FINALLY--

Kermichil Herbieto the second season is going to be the start of the Garthim War, and one plot is going to be the prophecy and to accept it

There's so much story to explore in the second season and beyond, and thats before we get to the Dark Crystal timeline.

Laura K yeah

Jason May that’s because it is Barnaby Dixon!

I’d add Mad Max Fury Road to that list although the original movie came out in 1979.

@@shelbyvillerules9962 that too

Top gun maverick too

Absolutely agreed.

Andy Samberg did a great job with the Heretic, as did Bill Hader with UrGoh

I thought the same

Sounds more like Gonzo to me

Yup even in Dinosaurs

I friggin hate prequel-itis. Its already taken out the hunter and the archer, General and collector grunaks etc. and we all know what’s gonna happen with the gelflings.

@@GreaterGrievobeast55 The trope you hate here is "Doomed by Canon"

J.M. Obyx could have sworn it was prequelitis but either way the point gets across. Its been a while since I’ve checked the trope wiki out anyhow.

@@GreaterGrievobeast55 That site is so broken. Tvtropes, I mean.

I'm gonna cry so hard when that happens. I just hope that they are together when they go